🤝 GCF — Global Community Friends

From "audience" to "co-creator."

Matsuri Coin's vision of "from competition to co-creation" cannot be realized by technology and tokens alone. It takes people — passionate locals and internationals who connect culture and travelers in their own cities and give the ecosystem a pulse. That layer is GCF (Global Community Friends), the community and partner organization of the Matsuri ecosystem, led by Jon Anders Jensen (Director, GCF) at Jon & Coo Inc.

The ring of co-creation — GCF members grow the ecosystem from the ground up.

Who GCF members are

GCF is not a fan club. Members are the operators of the cultural economy described in the rest of this whitepaper — the people on the other side of every booking, stream, and shipment.

Guides

Claim official tours from the GuideSlot marketplace, lead travelers through Golden Gai, tea ceremonies, and sacred sites — and earn commissions and tips.

Hosts

Create and run tours, events, meetups, and classes on the platform, with an AI creation assistant and multilingual listings.

Creators

Stream live, publish media, and sell — from one-of-one crafts to digital goods — through Matsuri's shop and live-commerce rails.

Ambassadors

Grow the network as official agents: every person they bring in strengthens their 縁 (En, the ties that bind people) — and pays them for it.

🏅 Membership structure

The GCF ladder runs from free participation to a capped, numbered co-owner class. Higher tiers are scarce by design: Gold and Platinum are numbered memberships — Gold is capped at 300 members, Platinum at 50. When you join, the lowest available number is assigned automatically and stays yours.

1. PlatinumNo. 1–50 · on-chain SBT
   Co-owner certificate as an on-chain SBT, all-event access, 2.0× CF cashback, 72h early access
2. GoldNo. 1–300
   Gold-only events, 1.5× CF cashback, priority booking
3. GCF Startself-serve, yearly
   Seller entry path — per-category add-ons for experiences, shops, restaurants, crowdfunding
4. GCF Member
   50% off GCF events (min ¥500), 48h crowdfunding early access, 1.2× CF cashback
5. Free
   Full app access — earn MTC through mining, media, and referrals

GCF began as an invitation-based community, and the numbered tiers keep that character: a Gold or Platinum number is a finite seat, not a subscription you scale infinitely. GCF Start, introduced in 2026, added a self-serve yearly path for people who primarily want to sell — it unlocks listing rights per category (experience / shop / restaurant / crowdfunding) as add-ons.

Platinum goes one step further: membership is certified by an SBT (soulbound token — a non-transferable NFT) minted on Solana into a dedicated Platinum Collection. It is a verifiable, on-chain co-owner certificate — not a loyalty card in a database.

GCF Platinum — numbered No. 1–50, certified by an on-chain SBT.

GCF Gold — numbered No. 1–300.

One shared ladder underneath

Across apps and gates (live-archive access, premium drops, members-only chat), all plans map onto a single canonical Bronze → Silver → Gold → Platinum ladder. See Levels & Tiers for the full disambiguation.

Member benefits

Benefit	GCF Member	Gold	Platinum
GCF event discount	50% off (min ¥500)	50% off (min ¥500)	50% off (min ¥500)
Priority booking	✓	✓	✓
Crowdfunding early access	48h window	48h window	72h window
MTC cashback multiplier (CF)	1.2×	1.5×	2.0×
Exclusive events	—	Gold-only events	All-event access
DAO voting (from 2027)	Planned	Planned	Planned

The cashback multiplier applies to the crowdfunding MTC reward: 1% of your contribution × your tier multiplier × the campaign multiplier (disaster-relief campaigns can be approved at up to 3.0×).

No prices in this chapter — deliberately

Membership and enrollment fees vary by channel and evolve over time. This whitepaper does not print them; see current in-app pricing for the live figures.

Membership fees feed the token

25% of GCF membership fees are committed to MTC market buyback and liquidity-pool injection — alongside 20% of Matsuri HQ sales (guides & events). Details in Tokenomics.

The agent program — mining 縁

Ambassadors can become official GCF agents, turning community growth into a career. The referral engine is called En-Mining (縁マイニング) — mining the ties between people.

Direct (L1) commission

20% on sales generated by people you introduced directly

Network (L2–L4) commission

5% per level, three levels deep beyond L1

Referral registration

Every sign-up through your link earns MTC (app campaign: 100 MTC per new registration)

En-Mining score

raw score × Toku (徳) staking multiplier (1.0–10.0×) × (1 + permanent title boost, up to 50%)

Settlement today

Off-chain oracle phase; the on-chain leg is on the roadmap

Toku (徳, "virtue") staking lets agents lock MTC to raise their En-Mining multiplier — long-term commitment amplifies rewards. Parameters finalize with the on-chain phase; see Mining.

What members actually do

Membership is a license to operate, not just a discount card. The flagship flow is the GuideSlot marketplace:

1. HQ publishes an official event

   A Matsuri-official tour or event goes live on the platform.
2. First booking opens a guide slot

   The moment a traveler books, an open GuideSlot appears on GCF dashboards.
3. A GCF guide claims it — first come, first served

   The system checks time overlaps, then assigns the guide.
4. Guide leads, earns, gets tipped

   Commission is revenue-share % and/or a fixed JPY amount; afterwards guests can tip via Stripe or MTC (presets ¥300–¥5,000).

Beyond guiding, members:

• Host tours, events, meetups, and classes — with the AI event-creation assistant and content in 6 languages. See Experiences.
• Sell through the marketplace: one shop per seller, KYC approval plus Stripe Connect onboarding, escrow-protected orders. See Shop.
• Run restaurants on the real table-booking engine, or list experiences via GCF Start add-on categories. See Restaurants.
• Launch crowdfunding campaigns — with a GCF-members-first early-access window on the backer side. See Crowdfunding.
• Stream on the in-house live infrastructure, with drops and tips in five rails (JPY / MTC / SOL / USDC / MLC). See Live.

📱 The GCF Admin app

GCF members run their business from a dedicated native iOS app — one of the ecosystem's 3 released iOS apps, all live on the App Store — with a companion web portal at gcf.works.

Operations dashboard

Member management

Revenue at a glance

Dashboards, member management, and revenue tracking live in one place — a guide can claim a slot, a host can watch bookings, and an agent can follow commissions from the same app.

Governance path — toward the 2027 DAO

The numbered memberships and the Platinum SBT are not just perks — they are governance primitives being laid down in advance. A capped, on-chain-verifiable member set is exactly what a DAO needs to vote credibly.

DAO voting is planned from 2027, aligned with the Grand Unlock of the community pool. The mechanics — what is voted on, and how membership tiers participate — will be specified as that phase approaches. Follow the timeline in the Roadmap.

warning

MTC is a utility token and GCF membership is a service membership. Nothing in this chapter is a promise of profit or investment return — see the Disclaimer.