Building block · Groups
Group tokens
Tokens a Hive issues and governs, with a shared treasury that spends only when enough stewards co-sign.
What a person notices
A group can have its own token, one it actually controls, rather than just relabeling an existing currency inside an app.
New units of the token don't appear because one person decided to create them. Minting can go through the group's own governance vote instead.
The group's shared treasury doesn't move on a single steward's say. Spending needs enough of the group's stewards to co-sign, so no one person alone can drain it.
If too many co-signing stewards leave over time, the treasury tracks that risk directly, rather than quietly ending up locked because it can no longer reach its own signing threshold.
What you get as a developer
Group tokens come with real genesis and minting logic backing them, not a cosmetic rename of an existing token. A Hive can route minting through its own governance vote, and the treasury that holds the token's value uses real multi-party co-signing, including real Bitcoin multisig address construction, rather than a single spendable key.
Real genesis, not a relabel
A Hive defines and issues its own token with genesis and minting logic that actually backs it, so the token has a real origin the chain can account for.
Minting can require a vote
A token the Hive governs can route new minting through the group's governance, rather than any one person minting at will.
Treasury spending needs co-signers
The shared treasury requires multiple stewards to co-sign before it spends, backed by real multisig logic, for example a genuine Bitcoin multisig address.
The treasury watches its own signing health
It tracks whether enough active co-signing stewards remain to still reach the required threshold, specifically to catch the case where a treasury could otherwise get stuck because too many signers have left.
This is the heavier, structured path in NAOMS's token system: real governance gating minting, and real multi-party co-signing gating spending. When a group doesn't need that machinery, personal tokens are the lighter alternative.
How it connects
Governance
The vote that can gate a group token's minting is the same governance system a Hive uses for its other decisions.
Treasury & payouts
The shared treasury a group token can fund is where the co-signing requirement and the signing-health tracking live.
Hives
It's the Hive itself that defines, issues and governs the token; a token doesn't exist outside a group here.
Personal tokens
The lighter-weight alternative when a group doesn't want a treasury or a governance vote attached.