📖 The guide to compute credits & ZEQ envelopes — open me first

Part 1 · The model in one paragraph

Credits are fuel. Envelopes are the token. You spend credits to run physics on the engine. Every compute mints a ZEQ envelope — an immutable, signed proof-of-compute receipt that carries value. The envelope is the framework's transferable token; credits never are. Value is created by using the engine, not by holding an account.

Part 2 · The two fuel pools

  • Free credits — 1,287 ZEQ on signup (the welcome package), then a 128/day claim you can take only when you are down to your last 5 credits (once per UTC day); compute draws it back down. Non-transferable, fuel only.
  • Paid credits — purchased via subscription or swap. Fuel only, exactly like free credits: credits never move, free or paid.

Spending order: free credits first, then paid. The ZEQ envelope coin is the only transferable asset — your share of each envelope is held as coins, never blended into fuel.

Part 3 · The envelope mint — V = f(complexity)

Each compute mints one envelope of value V = round(cost × (2 − precision/0.001)) — between 1× and 2× the fuel spent. The compute cost already scales with operator count and cross-domain coupling; the precision term makes the KO42 ≤0.1% gate economically real: the closer your compute lands to perfect precision, the more the envelope is worth.

Part 4 · Who owns the envelope

  • Paid-funded compute — the whole ZEQ envelope mints to you (movable). No split.
  • Free-funded compute — the whole envelope mints to the Foundation; you keep the soulbound light proof. Free credits buy you results, not transferable value — nobody can farm the daily claim into wealth.
  • Mixed funding splits proportionally; the Foundation absorbs rounding remainders.

Part 5 · What was retired (June 2026)

The old passive economy is gone: no per-Zeqond drip mint, no tier burn, no heartbeat burn, no burn-ratio redistribution. Balances move only when a compute or paid operation runs. If you read about a “98.713% burn” or a “daily 100 claim” anywhere, that page is stale — this one is canonical.

Part 6 · Sustainability

The Foundation is funded by 100% of free-funded envelopes (paid-funded envelopes stay wholly with the user) — proportional to real usage of the engine, not to inflation. Forks of the framework issue their own token under the same mechanics.

Part 7 · Reading this page

  • Free credits — your claimable fuel pool (immovable).
  • Paid credits — purchased fuel (immovable).
  • ZEQ envelope coins — your transferable coins, one per envelope you hold. The ONLY thing that can be sent.
  • Activity — every claim, fuel spend and coin mint, with the source action.

Part 8 · Connected views

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Where does consumed fuel go? Nowhere — fuel is spent, not redistributed. The protocol decrements tokens_remaining and increments tokens_burned; no second balance receives it. New value enters only as ZEQ envelopes: each compute mints one (V = cost × (2 − precision/0.001)), the whole envelope is yours when paid-funded, 100% Foundation when free-funded. Verifiable on the entangled state via the observer link above.
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Spot purchase of paid ZEQ from the Foundation pot (funded by free-funded envelope mints; paid-funded envelopes stay wholly with the user). Flat list price $0.01 / ZEQ · $1 = 100 ZEQ. Compute costs scale with operator count and cross-domain coupling; paid-funded computes mint the whole envelope back to you (no split). Tier subscriptions on /pricing/ are cheaper per execution for monthly commitment.
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Credits are compute fuel and never move — free or paid. The transferable asset is the ZEQ envelope coin. Pick one of yours: the whole envelope moves, carrying its proof-of-compute receipt.
The value moves either way. Public also posts this transfer's proof-of-compute receipt to the observer, where anyone can verify it. Private keeps it to your entangled state.

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