✦ Sacred Federation ✦

Nevada City Healthy Community Pilot

Spend Here · It Stays Here · Founding Vendors, Now

Nevada City, California · July 2026

Dear Nevada City Merchant,

On every card sale you make, roughly 2.5–3% leaves your register and your town — routed to Visa, Stripe, or Square, corporations that contribute nothing to Nevada City. That money never circulates here again. This letter is not a pitch and not a study invitation. It is a working tool, already live, that puts that margin back in your hands.

Across every business in town, week after week, that drain is steady and unmeasured — no American city has ever counted it. The Sacred Federation has built a local currency to stop it, and it is already running.

It is a community coin — backed one-to-one, accountable to an open ledger, ring-fenced for Nevada City alone. Customers pay you by scanning a QR code. No card reader. No processing fee. Settlement in three seconds. We are putting it into the hands of 8–12 founding merchants and 100–200 residents now.

What this means for your business:

• Zero processing fees — keep the 2.5–3% you currently lose on every card swipe.
• 3-second settlement — funds land in your wallet instantly, no overnight hold.
• Re-circulation — spend your community coin at other participating Nevada City vendors, or cash out to dollars within 48 hours, guaranteed.
• Public ledger — every transaction is transparent and recorded on the XRPL, the foundation of the study's data.
• No cost to join — we fund it — the Federation puts up the first $2,000: 200 residents get $10 each to spend at your booth, free. You pay nothing. We earn only if it works and you choose to keep it.

This runs alongside your card payments, not instead of them — keep taking cards as you always have, and take SFT for the customers who carry it. There is no cost, no lock-in, and you stop whenever you want. The only thing you risk is the 2.5–3% you keep on every SFT sale.

The coin is pegged 1:1 to the dollar and burned when the pilot ends — a payment tool, not an investment. Nothing to pump, nothing to lose. This is the lineage E.F. Schumacher drew — economics as if people mattered, at the scale of a town.

The merchants who take this seat now are the founding vendors of a national network. Every city that follows pays a licensing fee back to Nevada City in perpetuity — and the founding merchants are the ones the story names first. The study publishes, the Council is briefed, and the data belongs to this town.

Ten minutes and a free wallet, and you are set up — no appointment, no commitment. A Steward can come to your counter. Or sign up directly at the link below and we'll reach out. The seat is open; it does not wait.

As part of our service to the community, every resident who wants to take part receives a free "Start Here" kit — a plain-English walk-through with $10 in community coin to spend at your booth, no cost to them and no cost to you. A real Steward helps them in person. No one needs to "understand crypto" to shop with you. This is the empowerment we offer — and your business is where it lands.