During the Decentraland district contribution period, which occurred during the Decentraland Terraform event in 2017, 873 Wallets contributed to enable the Aetheria District legal entity to receive, from Decentraland, an Estate containing 10,005 Land parcels. This made Aetheria the largest district in Decentraland. By its original proposal and by the startup plan approved by Decentraland and the contributors, this was defined as a cyberpunk-themed community, for which a DAO would eventually be created to set policies and guide the district development.
In 2018, Decentraland transferred the ownership of District Parcels to the operating entities of the districts.
Land in Aetheria is owned by the District and is expected to remain owned by the District legal entity for the foreseeable future.
During 2018 and extended for a good portion of 2019, people who had contributed to Aetheria were able to participate in an online “Allocation Event” on the Aetheria.io website. During this period, they could optionally designate some number of parcels, out of their original contributed number, for their own private use. This is what was known as Privately-Allocated Land. Privately-allocated was land that was not owned by the contributor (remember that all land in Aetheria is owned by the district), but the contributor can build on it, or otherwise use or monetize the use of the land as they please, within Decentraland’s technical limits. 217 Contributors indicated their allocation preferences between Privately Allocated Land and Community land, and contributors who did not participate in the Allocation Event became Community Land contributors by default. Over 3700 parcels of Aetheria Land become Privately-Allocated Land in this process, and the rest of the Aetheria parcels were then held in the Community Land Pool.
As part of the Allocation Event submissions, contributors who elected to allocate some land for their private use were strongly encouraged to submit a proposal for how they planned to use the land, with as much detail as possible. This was so that the process of assigning where privately-allocated plots would be placed in Aetheria by the district leadership could make as much sense as possible in a coherent urban design, a process which was not simple and took substantial time on a volunteer basis by the district leadership team but was completed in early 2020. This was also done to get people thinking about how they wanted to use their land.
Decentraland opened to the public in February of 2020, and in March of 2020 the district leadership released the Aetheria Design and Implementation documentation, showing where all the Privately Allocated land was placed within the district, as well as community pool assignments for roads, public spaces. the central Fractus Club, and spaces for other future community projects. This documentation, together with linked maps and historical design documentation, provided the contributors of Privately-Allocated Land the ability to see where their plots are located.
Where was Privately Allocated Land originally located?
What were DEED tokens?
The original plan was to issue NFT tokens called DEEDs, to represent parcels of privately-allocated land, which enabled the holder to build scenes on the associated land, or to sell that token and those rights.
DEED tokens were make available to contributors who elected to have some privately-allocated land, using a Claim dapp, and a number of contributors did claim DEEDS, and some of those have since been traded to other people.
The original plan was to issue tokens called “COM” to represent all the community-allocated land, with the idea that the combination of of DEED and COM holders would constitute the voting rights in the future DAO.
Here are some historical documents:
These are provided for historical interest, but may in many cases be obsoleted by the later evolution of the district
Aetheria Initial Development Plan.
Aetheria Design and Implementation Guide
An older Blog Post about Aetheria Tokens