Building a non-profit digital treasury for European civil society
Introducing AST — a Solana Devnet utility token for funding and governing civil-society work, built with transparent treasuries and community support pools. Not financial speculation — an infrastructure for NGO funding
For over 30 years, SEYEU and FECAS have worked across Europe with migrant, refugee and civil-society communities.
Our biggest problem has never been motivation or legitimacy — it has been financial infrastructure.
Bank accounts are frozen.
Payment processors block NGOs.
Grants are political and slow.
Grass-roots communities are forced into street fundraising just to survive.
So we are building something different:
Arcadian SEYEU Token (AST) — a Non-Profit Civil Society Utility Token.
AST is not a speculative crypto asset.
It is a digital membership, funding and governance instrument for civil society.
What is Arcadian SEYEU Token (AST)?
AST is a blockchain-based utility token that represents:
Participation in the SEYEU civil-society network
Community support and contributions
Access to publishing, voting and projects
Transparent funding of NGO activities
It is designed to work like:
NGO membership fees
Donations
Event tickets
Advocacy credits
…but on a blockchain, with full transparency and no banking gatekeepers.
Why Solana Devnet?
We are building AST first on Solana Devnet because:
It is fast and low-cost
Developers can test freely with airdropped SOL
It supports DAO-style treasury systems
It scales for real-world use later
Nothing here is speculative.
This is infrastructure development.
The Treasury & Pool Model
AST is the unit of account inside the SEYEU Digital Treasury.
Instead of one opaque bank account, we use Support Pools — smart-contract vaults that represent real budget lines.
Examples:
ICT Support Pool – pays developers and system administrators
Legal Fund Pool – supports legal and advocacy work
Hosting & Web Pool – pays for servers and online tools
Community Aid Pool – supports refugee and civil-society projects
Supporters allocate AST to the pool they want to support.
When a pool reaches its target:
SEYEU converts the amount to fiat
Pays the real-world supplier
Publishes invoices and blockchain receipts
This gives us:
Transparency
Accountability
Community-driven budgeting
without depending on banks or political gatekeepers.
How AST is governed
AST has:
A fixed supply
No profit or yield
No speculative promises
No redemption for money
It is a utility token used only inside the SEYEU ecosystem for:
Voting
Funding
Publishing
Participation
This makes it legally comparable to:
NGO membership cards and donation systems — just on-chain.
How developers can participate
We are building this openly on Solana Devnet.
Developers can:
Connect with Phantom wallet
Get free SOL on Devnet
Test AST minting
Interact with Treasury and Pools
Help build DAO-NGO tooling
This is a real-world use case for Web3:
Digital civil society.
Why this matters
Millions of people across Europe depend on NGOs, migrant associations and civil-society groups.
But those groups are still forced to operate with 20th-century financial tools.
AST is our attempt to give civil society:
A transparent treasury
A censorship-resistant funding system
A digital governance layer
This is not about speculation.
It is about institutional survival and dignity.
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