Measure a pool
A certified measurement key reports verified usable and committed capacity for one resource class and region.
Closed-loop resource credit · protocol verification
Useful service earns credit.
Claimed capacity does not.
DaemonCoin is the proposed accounting layer for contributed DaemonCloud infrastructure. A provider can offer spare capacity to one exact regional resource pool, but credit is earned only after bounded service evidence is accepted by the consumer and a separately certified verifier.
Current truth: the repository defines a closed-loop, holder-bound test-credit protocol, an offline DaemonSeed policy ceremony, and a bounded Gate-local durability reference. Storage is the first active reference class. No public blockchain, transferable coin, exchange listing, fixed conversion, investment return, production issuance, authenticated settlement service, or live provider marketplace is claimed. Compute and bandwidth settlement remain planned.
One causal chain
Measure the work before settling the credit.
A storage provider first quotes exact bytes, interval, pool, and a settlement-accepted schedule. The customer accepts that exact service. After delivery, the provider, customer, and a distinct verifier bind their signatures to the same evidence before a settlement signer may advance a holder's balance.
Announcing a large drive changes neither a balance nor a reward. Capacity evidence may influence the next market schedule, but only verified delivery can enter the reward path.
Accept a schedule
A measurement key publishes integer rates within cold-policy bounds. A separate settlement key accepts one exact successor head, with at most one bounded adjustment per 24-hour rate anchor.
Prove service
Provider, consumer, and separately certified verifier attest to the exact aggregate byte-time service—not a self-reported disk total.
Advance a balance
A separate settlement key applies one reward or holder-authorized spend to a hash-chained state. The local reference commits its account head and one-use quote and receipt causes atomically.
Scarcity has a bounded job
Lower spare capacity can raise credits quoted per resource unit and the reward offered for verified service. It does not create a protocol guarantee that DaemonCoin/USD, DaemonCoin/BTC, or any speculative market must rise.
Separate resource markets
Storage is not compute wearing a different label.
Each class and region needs its own evidence, utilization, and schedule. A storage shortage in one region must not silently price a GPU job elsewhere. Balances can remain usable across activated services while every cause of a debit or reward stays bound to its exact pool.
Storage GiB-hour
The first active reference unit. Each provider quote rounds its aggregate upward; verified rewards apply attested availability and round downward. A future customer-order layer must aggregate billing across a multi-provider shard set.
Compute vCPU-second
Reserved vocabulary only. Sandboxing, result verification, memory accounting, egress, and workload trust classes remain release gates.
Bandwidth GiB
Reserved vocabulary only. Direction, relay role, abuse handling, duplicate traffic, and independently verifiable delivery remain unspecified product work.
Global holder balance
Credits are not trapped in the pool that caused them. Every quote, receipt, reward, and spend still names the exact pool and schedule that caused the transition.
Separated authority
No one online key defines the market and pays itself.
The cold DaemonSeed policy key defines bounds and certifies narrowly scoped online keys. Measurement cannot settle balances. Settlement cannot rewrite utilization. A provider cannot verify its own service, and a consumer cannot mint a reward merely by signing with the provider.
Policy authority
The offline DaemonSeed ceremony inspects and pins one genesis policy, then journals narrowly scoped signer certificates before export. It does not perform routine online measurement or settlement, and no policy-successor ceremony exists yet.
OFFLINE BOUNDARYMeasurement signer
Signs short-lived capacity snapshots and schedules for certified pools. It cannot create credits or debit a holder.
NO BALANCE AUTHORITYSettlement signer
Advances an exact holder chain only after validating the causal artifact. It cannot set a price or attest that service occurred.
NO MARKET AUTHORITYProvider
Commits capacity and signs exact delivered-service evidence. Its own signature is necessary but never sufficient for reward.
NO SELF-PAYMENTConsumer
Accepts service and signs spends with holder-controlled authority. A network operator cannot transfer the holder's test credits on its own.
NO IMPLIED TRANSFERVerifier
Checks the same bounded service evidence and must be cryptographically distinct from provider, consumer, measurement, settlement, and cold-policy roles. Distinct keys do not prove independent operators or prevent collusion.
DISTINCT KEY REQUIREDHonest limits
A signed test-credit protocol is not yet an economy.
Real operation still needs an authenticated and externally anchored settlement service, provider admission, anti-collusion and Sybil controls, audited measurement, incident handling, tax and accounting treatment, and evidence that rewards actually sustain reliable capacity.
Local durability is not consensus
The Gate package can atomically select one configured cold-policy, market, and account history in a bounded private journal. It has no listener, cross-Gate consensus, or external anti-rollback anchor and is not a live settlement operator.
Collusion remains possible
Signatures prove which keys approved evidence, not that nominally different people or machines are economically independent. Admission and audits remain necessary.
Credits are not dollars
There is no fiat peg, cash redemption, exchange value, liquidity, appreciation promise, or protection from later testnet reset.
Capacity is finite
Higher rates cannot conjure disks or CPUs instantly. Admission control, reserves, repair priority, and dependable commercial capacity remain operational safeguards.
No escrow or refund yet
The current test spend is an irreversible pre-service debit. Failed service blocks provider reward but does not restore customer credits; hold, finalize, dispute, and refund transitions remain release gates.
Shard billing is not aggregated yet
A provider quote aggregates only that provider's service. The customer-level order needed to round one multi-provider placement once is not implemented.
Release evidence
Launch only after the feedback loop survives reality.
A production decision needs multi-provider aggregate orders, reserve/finalize/refund behavior, storage over long intervals, forced outages and repairs, receipt and quote replay attacks, market and policy forks, dishonest capacity reports, split-service rounding attacks, signer compromise and rotation, settlement recovery, price-oscillation simulations, privacy review, and independent economic and legal analysis.
Strongest accurate statement
DaemonCoin currently provides signed closed-loop test-credit primitives, an offline policy/delegation ceremony, and a bounded local durability reference for pool-specific verified storage service. Measured scarcity can adjust resource prices and rewards within signed bounds; no external value, public token, or live production marketplace is promised.
Measured capacity · bounded settlement
Contribute useful infrastructure.
Prove the service, then earn the credit.
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