PROCESS

How an alliance becomes official

There is exactly one path, and it runs through PIVX governance. No announcement, press release, or tweet ratifies anything.

Prepare the vetting sheet

Complete all ten fields — legal name, jurisdiction, entity registration, litigation history, purpose, envoys, deliverables, duration, financial terms, reversibility. Incomplete sheets do not reach a vote.

Post the alliance proposal

Propose it in Budget & Governance Proposals on the PIVX forum with the sheet attached. The proposal names its envoys, itemizes deliverables per party, and declares its term — twelve months maximum.

Win the masternode vote

Masternode owners decide. A passed vote is the only signature a DAO can give, and the vote record becomes the alliance's birth certificate.

Registry entry

On ratification the alliance is entered in the register with its term, envoys, deliverables, and expiry date. Quarterly status reports keep the entry current until it expires.

Renew by fresh vote

Continuation past expiry requires a brand-new proposal and a brand-new vote. Nothing runs quietly forever.

If a claim has no record

THE DISAVOWAL BANNER

When an entity publicly claims a PIVX partnership and no ratifying proposal exists in governance, the registry puts an UNDER REVIEW banner on the entry immediately — the review is opened by any community member and resolved only by governance. No waiting on a cycle, no quiet ambiguity. This is the mechanism January 2018 lacked: the answer to “is this partnership real?” is always one public page away.

Registry maintenance (adding ratified entries, opening reviews, publishing quarterly status reports) is funded by the alliance registry proposal — partners receive no treasury funds; any partner seeking funding files its own proposal.