Pressure test 16 · external
Landseed PBC itself fails
Landseed PBC runs out of capital, faces a legal judgment, or otherwise winds down as a corporation before the Methodology Foundation is fully operational and before all buffer pool custody has been transferred.
Scenario
Landseed PBC runs out of capital, faces a legal judgment, or otherwise winds down as a corporation before the Methodology Foundation is fully operational and before all buffer pool custody has been transferred.
Cost / impact
Methodology stewardship interrupted; registry function stops issuing new credits; coalition entities go offline. Deployed DAOs do NOT fail — they retain their NRD-lites, their treasuries, and their governance — but stop receiving new measurement attestations.
Prevention
Not the architecture's job to prevent the corporate failure itself. The architecture's job is to make corporate failure non-catastrophic for deployed DAOs.
Mitigation
Methodology IP licensed into the Foundation (Test 8) makes long-run continuity possible. Wrapper entities are independent legal entities; they survive Landseed. Open-source measurement substrate means the registry function can be reconstituted. Buffer-pool fiduciary structure (bare trust or escrow with named successor trustee established before any issuance) prevents Landseed PBC bankruptcy from reaching pool credits.
Residual risk
Real but bounded once the fiduciary structure is in place. The most fragile period is Months 0–18 of execution, between first issuance and Foundation IRS determination plus IP transfer. Buffer-pool successor-trustee/escrow is the primary instrument for this window.