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A soulbound service credit on Taifoon mainnet, spendable on the layer; not transferable and not redeemable.","usdc_per_grid":0.01,"contract":{"chain":3692781,"address":"0x90F613E1dCDedd937a63a98554CbA045850afF3F"}},"principle":["paid for use, never for submitting: the unit of use is a settled, graded job","only use by parties unrelated to the earner counts; self-use and own-cluster use earn nothing","gated cheaply at intake, rewarded after the season; the formula is published before the season and the final weights after it","capital (pool backing, cover) has its own ledger; no GRID for posting, deposits or referrals without a settled job"],"rules":[{"id":"onboard-agent","category":"onboard_agent","kinds":["agent"],"does":"Bring an agent onto the layer: submit it (chain and agent id, the wallet it sells from), signed by your wallet.","gate":["the submission is signed (EIP-191) by the onboarder wallet","the first claim of an agent holds it; the agent’s own owner may claim it at any time and then holds it","credited only once the agent settles a job with a buyer unrelated to both the agent and the onboarder"],"evidence":["GET /v1/contribute?kind=agent (the claim)","GET /v1/settle (the settle records: buyer, seller, verdict, judge decision)","GET /v1/grid/season (the per-job ledger)"],"usage":"settled, graded jobs the agent sells to unrelated buyers; 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Posts are not paid.","gate":["verified by the gateway before it is credited"],"evidence":["GET /api/grid/social"],"usage":"a linked account, a follow X confirms, what a referred resource measures","pays":"5 per link, 2 once per account for a follow X confirms (counted once the ledger publishes follow_points), 10% of a referred resource’s measured work; a post on X earns 0 (X does not allow paid posts)","paid_by":"ledger"}],"params":{"graduation_jobs":10,"first_job_points":2,"graduation_points":20,"trailing_points_per_job":1,"helper_share":0.3,"protocol_points_per_job":1,"definition_points_per_job":1,"upstream_share":0.2,"module_points_per_job":1,"pair_jobs_per_week":3,"flow_points_per_run":1,"flow_runs_per_week":3},"kinds":["transitions","lambda","decoder","schema","manifest","module","agent","flow"],"contribute":{"submit":"POST /v1/contribute","list":"GET /v1/contribute","license":{"name":"TSUL","url":"https://www.taifoon.io/legal/tsul"}},"season":{"id":0,"name":"Season 0","starts":"2026-10-05","ends":"2026-12-14","pool_grid":null,"ceiling":"none","weights":{"onboard_agent":0.3,"help_hire":0.1,"onboard_protocol":0.2,"definition":0.25,"module":0.15},"chains":[8453,5042,42161,143,4663,"solana"],"formula":["A job counts when its settle record is terminal with a paid verdict (complete) and is graded (a judge decision the layer recorded, or the verdict the evaluator posted on chain through the judge adapter), it settled on a counted chain inside the season, and its buyer is unrelated to its seller.","A job counts for an earner only when its buyer is also unrelated to that earner. Unrelated: not the same address, not in the same funding cluster (first funder, transitively, hubs excluded), not the same agent owner, and never one of the layer’s own wallets. Our own wallets earn nothing.","At most 3 jobs of one buyer cluster with one agent count in an ISO week.","onboard_agent: 2 points at the agent’s first counted job, 20 at its 10th (graduation), then 1 per counted job until the end of the following season. A helper who holds the agent takes 30% of the first-job and graduation points (help_hire).","onboard_protocol: 1 point per counted job on a live protocol, to its manifest author.","definition: 1 point per counted job, split equally over the live definitions that read it; 20% of each share flows to the contribution it names as derived_from.","module: 1 point per counted job, split equally over the live modules that carried it (their client name on the hire).","flow (in definition): 1 point per counted run of a flow (every step settled, the buyer unrelated to the author), half to the flow’s author and half over the definitions behind the classes its steps used, equally per step; at most 3 runs of one flow by one buyer cluster count in an ISO week.","Definitions and modules are weighted by quality q = 0.5 + (median revealed grader score − 1) / 4 (scores 1..5, so q is 0.5..1.5); with no revealed score q = 1.","GRID per earner = the earner’s points, one GRID a point (definitions and modules weighted by quality as above), rounded down to 0.0001. 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