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Every term of the protocol, in plain language, A to Z.
- Terms
- 25
- Sections
- 3
A to F
7 terms- Attention
- One of the three signals coherence is built from. It captures whether focus was sustained through the work rather than scattered across it.
- Coherence
- The score the protocol computes, built from energy, vector, and attention over the time the work took. On technical surfaces it is written Γ; in plain language it is coherence.
- ctu (Causal Time Unit)
- The unit of validated transformation. It is non-transferable and records that real change happened. A ctu is never a token and cannot be traded.
- Domain Capability
- The capability ladder, DC0 through DC7. DC0, software engineering, is operational today; DC1 through DC7 are specified and in calibration through the Open Validation Program.
- Energy
- One of the three signals coherence is built from. It is the real effort spent on the work.
- EVA (Energy, Vector, Attention)
- The three signals the Coherence Index is built from. Energy is real effort spent, vector is alignment to the declared intent, and attention is sustained focus.
- FLUX
- The settlement token, minted when a seal is emitted. It is how validated work settles on the shared rail anchored on Solana.
G to M
5 terms- Genesis Heritage Spark
- The first sealed cycle, recorded on Solana on 4 April 2026 at coherence 0.9497. It is the protocol's foundational on-chain event.
- Guardian Gates
- The five checks every cycle passes or fails before it can seal: intention, coherence, entropy, lineage, and authority. If any gate fails, the cycle does not seal.
- Heritage Thread
- The append-only record of a person's validated work. Entries can be added but never edited or erased, so the record grows honestly over time.
- IntentSig
- The signed declaration of what a person is about to do. One signature can scope many cycles, so a single sign-off covers a whole batch of work.
- LUX Runtime
- The deterministic open engine that computes the Coherence Index and runs the Guardian Gates. The same inputs always produce the same verdict.
N to Z
13 terms- Open Validation Program
- The public program for replication, falsification, and domain calibration. It is the open door for testing the protocol and bringing new domains through calibration.
- Polaris Oracle
- The witness layer that grounds seals against the corpus and the Heritage record. It ties each seal back to the canonical specification and the operator's history.
- Sealed Artifact
- The priced, recorded act that follows a passing verdict. Once a cycle clears the gates, its result is sealed as a permanent, recorded artifact.
- Human Agency
- The operator entity: one human, one key, one Heritage Thread. Identity, intent, and signature stay with a single human key.
- Temporal debt
- The entropy cost of a transformation: the part of the change that did not convert cleanly. It is the friction left over when work does not fully cohere.
- The Three Paths (Latent, Gradient, Declared)
- The three ways a transformation can be expressed before it collapses to one recorded path. A cycle resolves to a single declared outcome when it is sealed.
- Tiers (SEED, BLOOM, ROOT)
- The three coherence tiers, at thresholds 0.70, 0.8187, and 0.95. A higher tier means the work cleared a higher coherence bar.
- Time Call
- The foundational witness inscribed on Bitcoin at block 946,742. It is a permanent cross-substrate anchor against which the on-chain state is reconciled.
- TKDF-256
- The time-bound key derivation function used for identity and lineage keys. It binds keys to time so that identity and lineage are derived rather than asserted.
- Triadic Trust Model
- Three independent proof legs: lineage proven by cryptography, correctness proven by reproduction, and faithfulness proven by structure. Each leg stands on its own.
- Vector
- One of the three signals coherence is built from. It is the alignment of the work to the declared intent.
- w_AI equals zero
- The rule that automated tools may compute but never originate a signature. The signature behind a recorded act always belongs to a human.
- Zero Boundary
- The crossing from measurement to economics, where a free verdict becomes a priced seal. Computing a score is free; sealing it is the priced step.