Welcome

This is the official documentation for Meridian - a democratized human spaceflight selection platform built on Robinhood Chain. These docs cover how the network verifies candidates, how the three-phase selection actually works, and what the $MERIDIAN token does and doesn't do.

What is Meridian

Meridian is a selection platform that puts everyday people - not test pilots, not billionaires - into real seats on a real commercial spaceflight. It reserves six seats per flight, and runs the candidate selection process publicly, onchain, on Robinhood Chain.

This is not a giveaway and not a raffle in the casual sense. Every candidate is verified as a real, unique, eligible person before a single vote counts - see Ground Truth - and the process that decides who flies is documented in full in Three-Phase Selection.

Why Meridian

Commercial spaceflight seats are currently allocated one of two ways: purchased outright at prices that exclude almost everyone, or awarded through opaque internal selection nobody outside the company can audit. Meridian exists as a third option - publicly run, identity-verified, and checkable at every stage.

Mission & Vision

Meridian exists so the offworld economy isn't limited to the people who could already afford to get there. In 2022, Victor Hespanha - a 29-year-old civil engineer from Brazil - became Brazil's second astronaut and the first civilian to fly, aboard the first crewed suborbital mission. Meridian's long-term vision extends past selection: a platform where members can propose, fund, and run their own space-adjacent research, not just vote on someone else's.

How It Works

Three layers, each gating what the next one can do:

Ground Truth

A badge-and-pledge selection system is normally vulnerable to whoever controls the most wallets. Because the prize here is a physical seat on a real rocket, a winning candidate has to be one real, eligible person - verified before the vote starts, not disputed after it ends.

What it confirms

• One credential, one person - non-transferable, issued once per verified human
• Built on Robinhood Chain's existing identity verification, rather than a redundant KYC pipeline
• Age 18+ and declared nationality, checked before Phase 1 opens

Three-Phase Selection

Overview & Utility

$MERIDIAN is a real, tradeable token on Robinhood Chain - not an in-app score. It has three functions:

• Pledge power - back a candidate's leaderboard position. Pledged $MERIDIAN returns to the pledger after Phase 2 regardless of outcome.
• Staking yield - stake to earn a share of real platform revenue: brand partnerships, broadcast licensing, sponsored placements.
• Governance - vote on platform rules: regional seat allocation, badge thresholds, phase timing.

Tokenomics

Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 $MERIDIAN

Growth & Rewards - 45% (450M $MERIDIAN)

Foundation & Operations - 30% (300M $MERIDIAN)

Team & Contributors - 25% (250M $MERIDIAN)

Staking

Staked $MERIDIAN earns a share of platform revenue - not newly issued tokens. Revenue sources currently include brand partnership deals and broadcast licensing from crew training footage. Staking does not increase governance weight beyond one-token-one-vote, and does not affect the crew-selection vote, which remains badge-weighted regardless of stake size.

Candidate Guide

Verifier Guide

Independent vote observers confirm the final crew vote tally matches the onchain record before it's announced. This role is deliberately outside Meridian's own operations.