📖 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 on signup (the welcome package), then 777 added each day by explicit claim (the button on this page and in your Vault). Each daily claim adds 777 to your balance (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 — 80% of the envelope's value mints to you, 20% to the Foundation.
  • Free-funded compute — 100% mints to the Foundation. 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 20% of every paid envelope and 100% of free-funded envelopes — 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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—% of your lifetime tokens have been consumed as compute fuel. Tokens are created only by ZEQ envelope mints — paid-funded computes return 80% of the envelope to you. No passive burn, no drip.
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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)), split 80/20 you/Foundation 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 envelope mints — 20% of every paid compute, 100% of free-funded). Flat list price $0.01 / ZEQ · $1 = 100 ZEQ. Compute costs scale with operator count and cross-domain coupling; paid-funded computes mint 80% of each envelope back to you. 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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