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10.1 Who can join

The six tiers of the partner structure, their seat caps and price ranges, and the admission test. A node is an accountable position with four duties, not a fee that buys a title.

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10.1 · Who can join

Admission tests what an applicant will bring and bear, not what it can pay.

A node in the Web3 Capital Network (WCN) is an accountable position, not an identity bought with a fee. The structure has six tiers, each with a seat cap and a price range. Admission tests one thing: can the applicant bring resources, advance collaboration, submit evidence, and comply. Partner tiers bind those duties to rights in a single contract.

Core questionWho is admitted to a node seat, and on what terms?
Admission testBring resources · advance collaboration · submit evidence · comply
You will learnThe six tiers, their seat caps and prices, and the four duties of any node

The six-tier partner structure

The structure holds six tiers. The first four are partner tiers, where one NFT binds rights to responsibility. The last two are participation tiers.

TierKindSeat capPrice (USD)Role
FoundingPartner100500,000Global, permanent governance seat; never re-issued
CountryPartner50–6550,000–500,000One partner per country; exclusive coordination; 5–10% of that country's protocol-layer revenue
CityPartner150–30020,000–100,000One partner per city; local Deal Flow
TrackPartner20–2550,000–300,000One partner per track; global representation across geographies
Service ProviderParticipation200–50030,000Twelve classes of professional service node
StandardParticipationopen5,000Open application for base participation
A partner NFT is a partner contract. It binds rights — governance, revenue share, Deal Flow priority — to responsibility: bring resources, advance collaboration, submit evidence, comply. The participation tiers provide service or base participation and hold no governance seat.

Country pricing by tier

Country seats are priced by market. The price range above resolves through five bands.

BandRepresentative marketsPrice (USD)
SUnited States, mainland China (handled separately)500,000
ASingapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany300,000
BSouth Korea, France, Canada, Australia, India, Brazil200,000
CMexico, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey, the Philippines100,000
DOther emerging markets50,000

The four duties of any node

A node is not an ordinary account. It is the unit that routes resources, advances business, and carries risk. Every tier accepts four duties.

Bring resourcesRoute capital, delivery capacity, distribution, or regional reach into the network, where others can find and act on it.
Advance collaborationMove an opportunity from a contact into a structured workflow, then toward an observable outcome.
Submit evidenceLeave a verifiable, reviewable record of each step. Without evidence there is no verification, and without verification no settlement.
ComplyAccept permission boundaries, conflict disclosure, and the review that governs a seat. Anti-money-laundering and sanctions screening cannot be bypassed.

Who is not admitted

Connecting a wallet or filing a form does not constitute admission. Four cases fail the test: an applicant that cannot show where its resources come from; one that seeks only exposure or speculation, with no intent to enter a real outcome; one that refuses evidence, KPIs, or review; one that conflicts with a sanctioned jurisdiction or a restricted-industry list under compliance review.

A seat is a position, not a purchase

A seat is non-permanent. Renewal depends on contribution and compliance. A node that brings nothing faces review and exit.

The admission test reduces to two questions: what verifiable resource can the applicant bring, and what auditable duty will it accept.