KΣM Guide

aka (“The Society”, “The Human Blockchain Project”)

Table of contents

• Recommended reading

• KSM basic requirements

• Tattoo resources and inspiration

• Step-by-step guide to getting in

• Miscellaneous

This guide provides a few resources:

1. A bunch of reading materials that are recommended to consume before you become a part of The Society

2. Basic requirements; please read these as this section exists to reinforce the recommended reading

3. Tattoo resources and inspiration to give you some ideas

4. A step-by-step guide on how to get accepted as a member through all phases of candidacy

5. Misc: random extras

Recommended reading

Reading all the materials below takes roughly 5-hours

• Kusama guide

• The society pallet

• HackMD from Gavin, rules

• About the Kusama Human Blockchain Project

• Proposal: A partnership between Gilberto Gil and Kappa Sigma Mu

• Upcoming changes to the society pallet re Gavin’s PR

• Kappa Sigma Mu Subsocial account

  • If you’re curious how to create a Subsocial account, there are instructions at the very bottom of this article

KΣM basic requirements

• A valid KSM wallet

  • Best to have a linked on-chain identity and an index

• Join the society Element room

  • Best to introduce yourself but not required

• Currently, there cannot be more than 150 members. Check the total number here in the upper left-most corner

• The tattoo must contain:

  • One or more of:

    • the Kusama network’s canary symbol;

    • the full logo;

    • the typography;

    • or the Kusama genesis hash.

      • The hash must be rendered in full, as a barcode, binary, or in hex

  • AND An identifier of the parent member

    • The parent member, as defined by the society pallet instance’s Head storage item at the time of candidacy. This should be rendered as one of:

      • an SS58 account or index address;

      • decimal account index; binary account ID;

      • or a machine-readable image capable of being recognised by a mainstream Kusama wallet.

Proof-of-Ink requirements

• exists on the body;

• could fit into a circle no smaller than 2.54cm; and

• is permanent

• You can prove this by providing at least two high-quality well-lit photographs and a video of it being done where the equipment is visible.

  • Optional: live witnessing by other members of the tattooing

  • Optional: pre-publication of the location and time that the tattooing takes place in case other members want to gather and witness the event

Tattoo resources and inspiration

• Genesis hash:

  0xb0a8d493285c2df73290dfb7e61f870f17b41801197a149ca93654499ea3dafe
  

  • URL: https://kusama.subscan.io/block/0

• KSM Brand Manual V3

• Gavin's generated code designs

• Additional assets in the KΣM Google Drive

• If you wish to see current member tattoos you can scour previously submitted Proof-of-Ink or challenge submissions in The Society Element room

• Next to each member’s profile in the Society tab you’ll see an icon that looks like an ink pen, if you click it, a set of unique images are generated which represent that member. These images (you only need one) can be used to serve as an indicator of the head of the society (if you select the image for the current head) and also meets the other tattoo requirements, i.e., a representation of the network (Kusama network’s canary symbol).

Step-by-step guide to getting in

All “Optional” items here are highly recommended, especially a wallet index. A wallet index is useful because it means the person after you need only get a tattoo of your index vs your whole wallet address, that’s 5+ characters vs 46 characters; save them the pain!

• Join the Element room

  • Optional: introduce yourself to the group

• Create a wallet a KSM wallet (instructions live here)

  • Optional: add an index to your wallet (instructions live here)

  • Optional: add an on-chain identity to your wallet (instructions live here)

• Create a Subsocial account and follow KΣM (instructions live at the bottom of this article)

• Once the rotation ticker hits less than 24-hours (you can view it here at the top of the page), submit a bid of 0.0 here or have another society member create a vouch for you

• Wait for the rotation to tick, at which point the candidate with the smallest bid

• Once you are a candidate you have until the next rotation hits, which is 7-days, to get the tattoo

  • Optional: share the design of your tattoo with The Society in the Element room before you get it and publicize the location, placement, and time of the tattooing

• Once you have gotten your tattoo, you must provide Proof-of-Ink to The Society via the Element room

• The 10 skeptics that are randomly chosen to vote on new candidates will then cast their votes

• Once a simple majority is reached, a candidate is chosen for the given rotation/cycle

Miscellaneous

• Telegram stickers for KΣM can be downloaded here

• KΣM website

How to create a Subsocial account

• To sign up for Subsocial, make sure you have the Polkadot.js extension with your KΣM account or another wallet added; sign in

• You will need to add Subsocial’s Discord server to request energy so you can follow KΣM and/or make posts

• To obtain energy, go to the energy-bot in Discord, then type !energy followed by the wallet address you have added to Polkadot.js that you’ll be using for your Subsocial account, it should look something like this:

!energy 3ounWAycE7dwV24veG5Jd7sztD68D3f9edhY8uzegmFduLmP

(probably best to use the same wallet as you have or plan to use for KΣM)