Founding Members are GenetixBay's first supporters: people who buy a founding membership before the public launch. Their money funds the first phase of the project alongside hardware deposits.
In practice
Founding Members get first access to the community, the archive and the journal, then early access to the Jardin beta and closed beta features. They carry a permanent Founding Member badge and receive some of the lowest member numbers in the archive, a small thing that matters in a community that values history. Backer tiers grant earlier access, never a higher evidence level or special standing in trials. Founding Breeders, a parallel programme for breeders, get founding terms for their storefronts and verification.
Don't confuse with
- Member / Pro tiers: regular paid memberships after launch.
- Investor: Founding Members buy a membership, not a share of the company.
Pearls are GenetixBay's community points, in two kinds: Wild Pearls earned by contributing, and Cultured Pearls bought as store credit; neither has cash value.A GB-ID is GenetixBay's permanent identifier, such as GB-GEN-0001842-6, for a genetic line, landrace, seed batch, plant, cut, grow, harvest, trial or document, so records never get lost or renamed.Jardin is GenetixBay's grow system in development: a controller and sensor kit for logging and climate control, with per-element custom nutrient dosing.Bay Trials are GenetixBay's member-run controlled grow experiments that test growing claims side by side and publish the results openly.
