Daily credits — claims, tiers, and the spot swap
Every machine runs on credits — the fuel you spend running operators, solvers, and state contracts. Credits are never transferable. The envelope minted by a paid-funded compute is the transferable token; credits only ever go in, envelopes come out.
Free credits — the welcome package and the daily claim
- 1,287 credits on signup — the welcome package, once per machine.
- +128 by explicit daily claim — claimed in the Vault, and only available when you are down to your last 5 credits. The claim is a top-up for an empty tank, not a stacking income.
Free credits are fuel only: a free-funded compute mints its envelope wholly to the Foundation — the value stays in the ecosystem, not in the spender's wallet.
Paid tiers — daily allowance per seat
| Tier | Daily credits (per seat) | Price — per seat / month |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 1,287 | $29 |
| Builder | 2,500 | $79 |
| Advanced | 7,500 | $199 |
| Architect | 25,000 | $499 |
| Enterprise | custom | negotiated |
Per-seat means exactly that: a 5-seat Builder gets 5 × 2,500 credits/day, billed 5 × $79. Daily limits are enforced server-side.
Buying credits outright — the spot swap
The Vault's Swap to ZEQ oracle sells paid ZEQ from the Foundation pot (the pot is funded by free-funded envelope mints; paid-funded envelopes stay wholly with the user):
- Flat list price $0.01 / ZEQ — $1 = 100 ZEQ.
- Paid-funded computes mint the whole envelope back to you — no split.
- Tier subscriptions are cheaper per execution for a monthly commitment.
Burn-credits — turning envelopes back into compute
Envelopes you own can be batch-burned in the Vault for burn-credits at 1:1 par of envelope value — an envelope always redeems its face value in compute. Burn-credits are fuel like every other credit (never transferable), with one defining rule: a compute funded by any burn-credits mints no envelope. Value can exit the token loop into compute, but never re-enter it — and a burned envelope carries no future voting weight.
Spending
Compute is metered: the charge scales with operator count and cross-domain coupling — a single-domain two-operator call costs less than a four-operator cross-domain chain. Spend order: free claim → burn-credits → purchased.
Source of truth
- Welcome package (1,287) and the 128 daily claim (last-5 rule) —
economyConfig.ts - Tier daily limits and prices —
TIER_DAILY_LIMITS/TIER_PRICESintallyEconomy.ts - Spot price — the live oracle on the Vault's credits page