Principles
- $XNY is protocol fuel: submission gas, task launch payment (to protocol treasury), staking as confidence, ownership exchange.
- Stablecoins are the default royalty currency via TNPL and usage-based payouts.
- Open & integrable: any app or protocol can launch tasks, access metered assets, and plug into payouts.
One-glance flow
Walkthrough
- Clients call an API for data lookup or license a dataset for batch access. Metering records usage units of downstream AI products empowered by the accessed data.
- The royalty engine converts usage into revenue and splits it to owners — providers, validators, or backers — plus the task developer who defines the schema or taxonomy, and the protocol treasury.
- Contributors submit data with a small $XNY gas and may stake $XNY to boost confidence. The Content Fingerprint can mint fractions or proofs of ownership.
- For clients to launch a task, they pay $XNY to list the task and may deposit $XNY into a reward pool to activate the task and attract knowledge contributors.
- Payouts are distributed in stablecoins by default; policy can allow alternatives if mutually opted-in.
Core math
- Unit revenue =
usage_units × price_per_unit - Royalty pool =
unit_revenue × royalty_rate - Payout to holder i =
royalty_pool × owner_fraction_i × quality_multiplier_i
If a holder owns 2% with multiplier 1.1 →
300 × 0.02 × 1.1 = 6.6 USD.