Living handbook · v1.0.0

The MARCO Handbook.

A living product guide. Interactive, visual, and honest — MARCO explained in under ten minutes.

MARCO Paper · Users · community · partners · investors

The public explanation of MARCO. Readable without engineering knowledge.

Technical documentation
  • MARCO vision
  • Ecosystem role
  • Passport
  • Connect
  • Pay
  • M-Credits
  • Multichain model
  • Utility
  • Security principles
  • Ecosystem applications
01

What is MARCO?

Identity, payments and rewards for the Melega Ecosystem.

MARCO is the identityand payment layerof the Melega Ecosystem.

Identity
Payments
Rewards
Growth
02

The Four Pillars

Identity. Payments. Rewards. Growth.

  1. Identity

    One Passport recognised across every application.

  2. Payments

    MARCO accepted natively, without a crypto checkout.

  3. Rewards

    Eligible payments return M-Credits automatically.

  4. Growth

    Rewards bring people back, and the ecosystem compounds.

03

MARCO Passport

One subject. One Passport. Every application.

  1. Passport
    Issued once
  2. Identity
    Handle, credentials
  3. Applications
    Connected, not duplicated
  4. Benefits
    M-Credits and access
04

Passport Levels

Explorer. Silver. Gold. Platinum.

  1. Level 01

    Explorer

    Your identity exists. Every Passport starts here.

    Open your Passport. Nothing else is required.

    Graphite
  2. Level 02

    Silver

    You participate in one part of the economy.

    Any 1 of: hold $50 in MARCO · pay $25 with MARCO Pay · recirculate 500.00 M-Credits · engage 1 ecosystem destination.

    Titanium
  3. Level 03

    Gold

    You participate in the economy in more than one way.

    Any 2 of: hold $250 in MARCO · pay $150 with MARCO Pay · recirculate 2,500.00 M-Credits · engage 3 ecosystem destinations.

    Gold
  4. Level 04

    Platinum

    You hold, use, recirculate and participate.

    Any 3 of: hold $1000 in MARCO · pay $600 with MARCO Pay · recirculate 10,000.00 M-Credits · engage 6 ecosystem destinations.

    Platinum

Levels are earned by participation, never purchased. MARCO is never locked. Holding is measured at its USD-equivalent value, sustained across 30 days, with a 14-day grace period before a level changes.

05

MARCO Connect

Your gateway to the MARCO Economy.

Connect once.Enter the economy.

The widget below is the live SDK, not a screenshot.

The Connect Economy Layer.

MARCO Connect is a Passport connection, not a wallet button: it opens identity, engagement, rewards and community in one installation.

Identity

A Passport and an optional @username.

M-Credits

An ecosystem balance, visible inside your product.

Signals

Partners speak directly to their users.

Quests

Task-to-earn participation, verified server-side.

Transfer

Instant Passport-to-Passport movement of M-Credits.

Activity

An append-only ledger of everything that happened.

06

MARCO Connect Premium

Your product. Your surface. Your identity.

Upgrade your MARCO Connect experience.

A premium identity experience for projects building with MARCO.

Community
FreeForever

For individuals and early projects.

  • MARCO Connect widget
  • Standard configuration
  • Standard themes
  • MARCO Passport attribution
Premium
$29One-time payment

For commercial usage.

  • Remove attribution signature
  • Premium configuration
  • Advanced widget customization
  • Commercial entitlement
  • Future premium features access
Enterprise
Let's talkContact required

For larger organizations.

  • Everything in Premium
  • Dedicated onboarding
  • Custom agreements
  1. Discover
    Community vs Premium
  2. Choose Premium
    $29 one-time
  3. Ⓜ Pay
    Paid with MARCO Pay
  4. Activated
    Entitlement on your Passport

Premium gives projects a fully branded MARCO Connect experience — not simply a footer removed.

The entitlement lives on your Passport: product, purchase date, status and receipt.

Get Premium
07

MARCO Pay

Every payment gives something back.

  1. Customer
    Pays in MARCO
  2. Merchant
    Receives payment
  3. Rewards
    5% user · 1% partner
  4. Ecosystem
    Activity returns

The payment flywheel · it never stops

08

M-Credits

Earn. Store. Spend. Earn again.

  1. Earn
    On eligible payments
  2. Store
    In your Passport
  3. Spend
    Across Melega
  4. Earn again
    The loop closes

↺ The loop closes

09

Rewards

5% to the user. 1% to the Partner.

5%
The user

M-Credits returned on eligible MARCO payments.

1%
The Partner

M-Credits returned to the project that brought the user in.

Rewards are calculated server-side from stored payment truth. Nothing is ever computed in the browser.

10

Partners

Grow your community. Grow with it.

  1. Partner
    Installs MARCO
  2. Community
    Connects with one click
  3. Rewards
    1% M-Credits
  4. Growth
    Users that return
MARCO Partners
11

Builders

Two products. One installation.

MARCO Connect

Identity in one click.

Available
MARCO Pay

Accept MARCO.

Available
Merchant Kit

Payments, orders, rewards.

Available
SDK

One runtime, every framework.

Available
Widgets

Drop-in, no build step.

Available
12

Roadmap

Now. Next. Then.

  1. NOW
    • MARCO Connect
  2. NEXT
    • MARCO Pay
  3. THEN
    • SmartDrop
    • Melega DEX
    • MAIORA
13

Machine Readability

MARCO is readable by people and by machines.

JSON

Every public truth has a machine copy.

SDK

One runtime for every framework.

Widgets

Identity without a build step.

Public APIs

Read MARCO without asking anyone.

OpenAPI

Described, versioned, discoverable.

Technical documentation lives in Developers. The Handbook explains the idea.

/api/public/handbookDevelopers
14

The MARCO Ecosystem

One centre. Many surfaces.

PassportConnectPayPartnersSpaceSmartDropDEXBLACKMAIORAAI ServicesMARCO
  • Passport
    One identity across the ecosystem.
  • Connect
    The embeddable entry point.
  • Pay
    Payments that reward everyone.
  • Partners
    Projects growing with MARCO.
  • Space
    Where the community gathers.
  • SmartDrop
    Distribution, done properly.
  • DEX
    Native ecosystem liquidity.
  • BLACK
    Community launches.
  • MAIORA
    The premium tier of Melega.
  • AI Services
    Melega AI, from your Passport.
15

Questions

Every common question, answered here.

MARCO is the identity and payment layer of the Melega Ecosystem — a token, a Passport, a connect widget, a payment widget and a reward loop that ties them together.