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Fiat Lux
Let there be light. The first command in Genesis is the model under all of WA\: value starts as light that one person gives another.
“The citizen is the seed. The cube is the soil. Circles are the water. Cosmos is the Light. Fiat lux.”
20 October 2026
The model
Two kinds of fiat
Fiat is Latin for let it be done. In the Latin Bible, the third verse of Genesis reads fiat lux: let there be light.
Fiat money is the other use of the word. It is not backed by gold or any other commodity. It has value because a government says it does.
LUX starts at the other end. Nobody declares it. A citizen gives it when something is real, one person letting another know: I am rooting for you. Every unit traces to something a citizen witnessed.
| Question | Fiat money | LUX |
|---|---|---|
| Who makes it | An authority declares it | A citizen gives it |
| What stands behind it | Trust in whoever declared it | A moment someone witnessed |
| Where it points | At a price | At a person |
| How much there is | As much as is printed | Infinite, like light |
Light as power
The light is already here
In about an hour, the sunlight reaching Earth carries as much energy as all of us used in 2023. The rain falls free too.
In November 1956, Isaac Asimov published a story called The Last Question. It ends with the first command in Genesis: let there be light.
WA\ aims at a civilization that can live on the light its planet receives. It starts small: one roof that catches its rain, one circle that keeps its own record, one person who tells another the truth.
WA\ through this model
What the light becomes
- Light · LUX
- Where a like stood, there is LUX. Tap it when something is real.
- Water · Drop
- A post that ripples: a moment, an idea or a question, shared with people who care.
- Ground · Seed
- Growth that compounds. Show up to a circle, care for your health, keep learning.
- The citizen
- A person who has verified they are human and owns their own ground. The seed.
- The cube
- Six inner faces, what a life is for, served by six outer faces, what a life runs on. The soil.
- Circles and cosmOS
- A circle is a real business or community on ground it owns. Thirteen of them, reaching each other without a headquarters, are the cosmOS.
- Phone and portal
- On the phone, WA\ is where you give LUX and post a Drop. On any computer, WA\WA\ is the portal where you see where every light came from. The two stay in sync.
- No ads, ever
- Brands earn position through service, not spend.
The motto
Move slow and grow things
In April 2014, Facebook changed its internal motto from move fast and break things to move fast with stable infrastructure. The motto here goes the other way, on purpose.
- Rent the groundOwn the ground
- Ads pay the billsService earns the place
- Grow by takingGrow by giving
- Built to exitBuilt to hand over
One thing to do
Give one light today
Tell one person, in your own words, that you are rooting for them. Name what you saw. That is a LUX, and it counts before any app does.
The first 108
Become a founding citizen
Free to start. Pay as you grow. Earn as you learn. The first 108 cross with Self waived, one circle at a time, from Maui.
Sources, read 31 October 2026
- Genesis 1:3. Biblia Sacra Vulgata: fiat lux. King James Version: “Let there be light.” Both public domain.
- Credit Karma, What is fiat currency?: fiat money “does not have the backing of physical commodities like gold” and “only has value because the government gives it value.”
- Sunlight reaching Earth, about 174 petawatts at the top of the atmosphere; an hour of it is about 626 exajoules. World primary energy use, 620 exajoules in 2023: Energy Institute, Statistical Review of World Energy 2024. As sourced on getWAI.com.
- Isaac Asimov, “The Last Question,” Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1956. SF Encyclopedia.
- Mark Zuckerberg at F8, 30 April 2014: “We've changed our internal motto from ‘Move fast and break things’ to ‘Move fast with stable infrastructure.’” Business Insider; the date, TechCrunch.
- LUX, Drops and Seeds: getWAI.com, Play.