Glossary
The canonical vocabulary. Every term links back to the mechanism that defines it.
The vocabulary below is canonical: the same words appear in the wire formats, the code, the app, and every page of these docs. Integrity terms match the glossary block in router/src/integrity.ts verbatim.
Challenge verdict: the evidence did not decide it. The stake unlocks, nothing else moves, and a warning lands on the provider's trust record.
The hourly hash of usage records written on-chain, making the router's books tamper-evident.
A provider's quoted price for serving a model class, per input and output token.
Points free to stake: settled minus locked.
Collateral a provider posts on a model claim. A declared figure in the points era; escrowed USDC in V2.
The challenger's share of an upheld challenge's slash: half. The other half is burned.
A paid probe request, indistinguishable from customer traffic, fingerprinting the model actually served.
What the winner is actually paid: the second-score price, capped by the cheapest rival and floored at the winner's own bid.
The hourly settlement window. Payouts net once per epoch, and the epoch's records are anchored on-chain.
What happens to a challenger's stake when the challenge is rejected: burned, credited to no one.
Stake sitting in open challenges. Locked points are not available to stake again.
The session winner's cleared rates, frozen at award. Continuation turns bill these rates; nothing bid mid-session changes them.
The unit customers buy and providers quote: a named model family and size, not a specific deployment.
Inference begins as soon as the payment verifies; on-chain settlement runs concurrently. Exposure is capped per wallet and router-wide.
The S1 ledger: 100 bps per $1 of settled volume, earned on both sides of the book. The pre-TGE stake asset for challenges.
The state of a provider's model claim after an upheld challenge. Quarantined claims do not serve traffic.
A signed, short-lived price commitment (5 to 30 second TTL) refreshed as utilization changes. Firm: hitting it is binding.
The signed usage record per request: token counts, cleared prices, payment refs. What persists instead of your transcript.
Challenge verdict: the provider was honest. The challenger's stake is forfeited.
The rolling-median fallback price used when fewer than three bidders are live, so a thin book cannot be exploited.
Request for quote. Mode A is standing quotes matched in memory; mode B is a live sealed-bid window for long-tail requests.
The clearing rule: the winner is paid the price at which it would have tied the runner-up. Bids decide who wins, never what they are paid.
A multi-turn loop with cache-aware pricing: one payment funds it, the tariff locks at award, and the auction re-runs every turn on effective cost.
The provider penalty an upheld challenge burns off the provider's ledger: max(250 bps, 25x the receipt's net earn).
Points a challenger locks to open a challenge: max(25 bps, 1x the challenged receipt's charge).
Time to first token, measured by the router's metering proxy rather than claimed by providers.
Challenge verdict: the receipt was dishonest. Stake unlocks, provider slashed, bounty paid, remainder burned, claim quarantined.
The HTTP-native payment protocol built on status 402: quote, sign, retry, settle. One request carries its own payment.