MayflowerOS

MayflowerOS is the platform layer of the Mayflower design. It exposes the Assured Value Machine so that a company can launch and operate its own reserve-backed market rather than listing into someone else’s.

The operator supplies the product, brand, customers and distribution. The platform supplies the pricing curve, the reserve accounting, the credit machinery and the integration surface beneath it.

What an operator configures

• The reserve asset. Any token on the host chain can back a market, including derivatives and tokenized real-world assets.
• The fee schedule across issuance, redemption, cash advance origination and option execution.
• Market sensitivity, meaning how steeply price responds to supply.
• Floor-raising policy.
• Which optional features the market enables. Call options and floor investment are per-market choices rather than universal behaviour.
• Revenue dispersal.

Access control

The design describes two tiers. A platform-level administrator manages the deployment; an operator-level administrator manages a single market and cannot reach into another operator’s market. Markets are siloed from each other by construction.

Integration shape

The Mayflower program is designed to sit behind another program rather than in front of a user. An operator typically wraps it with a proxy program that carries the operator’s own business logic, and treats the market as a backend.

Open questions

The knowledge base does not resolve who controls a market’s parameters once it is running. The platform notes describe operators as having complete control over their own fee schedule, while the protocol-level notes treat the same fees as governed parameters. Those two positions cannot both hold, and the answer decides how much autonomy an operator actually has.

Launch sequencing is also unsettled. The notes mention staged market openings and an optional dynamic fee intended to deter sniping at launch, without specifying either.

Relationship to the live platform

The markets running today under the Samsara brand serve a similar purpose through a different issuance model. See Build on Samsara for what is currently possible, and navTokens for the asset those markets issue.