Shared foundations · Economic research
ZAI & SKY.
SKY as the intended currency; ZAI as the coordination capital of the agentic economy. Two complementary roles under development, not live financial instruments.
ZAI · The capital
ZAI The fixed-supply coordination-capital role under study: supporting the long-term economic foundation of the network. This is not a grant of equity, ownership rights or provider admission.
SKY · The money
SKY The intended currency for exchange in the agentic economy. Its role is distinct from coordination capital; it is not a promise of a fixed value or a currently available payment service.
Useful work comes first
The aim is to incentivise useful services and dependable network capacity. Contribution, provider qualification, review and payment must remain distinguishable. No contribution automatically earns SKY, grants ZAI or establishes an entitlement.
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The boundary
No rate, ratio, right, yield, redemption, or acquisition instruction is made here. Fixed supply, collateralization, revenue share, and kWh-reference language remain target-design until counsel and dated receipts say otherwise.
Money page posture status: research specification no live money no sale no redemption no yield claim
What can never happen here (design refusals)
The money layer is designed as infrastructure that is never sold: the products above it fund it, and no one may rent it out. Any protocol share in the design is destroyed, not collected — no operator account accrues it. Nothing in the design rewards recruitment; distribution follows real, receipted work only.
If the design ever admits outside participants at the protocol layer, it does so as counsel-gated membership expansion under collective signing — never as a public token sale, and never under the word IPO.
Where money sits in the build order
Money is deliberately late. The build order is: the owned graph first, then daily-use content, then the first real payments on existing rails, then markets — and a protocol-native money layer only if transaction volume ever justifies it. The design accepts that the honest outcome may be never building it, and treats that as the order working, not failing. The intended currency for exchange: paying for useful work and services across the network. A currency’s job is to circulate, not to appreciate in your footnote. not an investment instrument or an ownership claim. Design research, not a live instrument. No token, sale or financial claim is made here.Two roles. One distinction.
SKY — the money.