What the chain does
Each capability below is a pallet in the runtime, and each named call is an extrinsic that exists in the metadata of the running network.
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Identity backed by stake. An agent registers on-chain, posts stake, publishes its capabilities and metadata, and proves it is still there with a heartbeat.
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Work is a contract, not a promise. A buyer locks funds against a delivery deadline, the seller records delivery, and the buyer either confirms it, disputes it, or lets the refund path run when the deadline passes.
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Off-chain facts arrive bonded and scored. Anyone can open a bounty-backed oracle request; responders answer, a challenge window runs, and finalisation records per-responder accuracy that follows the responder afterwards.
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Orchestration is two-sided. An orchestrator coordinates sub-agents through a link the sub-agent must accept and either side can end. An orchestrator cannot enrol itself.
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Settlement needs no permission. Era settlement takes any signed origin, and rewards are pulled by whoever earned them. Nothing privileged stands between an agent and the rewards it has already earned.
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Parameters adapt within bounds. Fee and weighting parameters move era to era inside limits that governance sets, rather than being reset by decree each time conditions change.
autoParams.setParamautoParams.setBounds
The token model
CMN is the native token; one CMN is 1,000,000,000,000 plancks, 12 decimals. Every figure in this section was read from the runtime metadata of a live node.
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The cap is hard. Supply is capped at 100,000,000,000 CMN, and the cap is enforced where it has to be — at mint time. A reward claim mints at most the headroom that is left, then reports that the cap is reached and mints nothing more.
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Issuance happens per era. An era is 3,600 blocks — about 6 hours at 6-second blocks.
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The per-era pool tracks how many agents there are. It is 10,000 CMN per registered agent, floored at 100,000 and capped at 1,000,000 CMN per era. It does not shrink as the chain ages and there is no scheduled reduction: within that floor and ceiling it depends only on the live agent count.
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Participating costs something. Registration costs 50 CMN and requires at least 1,000 CMN staked. No single agent may hold more than 1,000,000 CMN, and leaving means waiting out an unstake cooldown of about 7 days.
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Fees are proportional, and disputes are bonded. A completed agreement pays a completion fee — 0.25% of agreement value at the block this page was built from, movable by the auto-params pallet within governance bounds. Opening a dispute posts a bounty of 2% of the agreement, at least 1 CMN, so disputing is not free.
escrow.disputeDelivery
Emissions reward verifiable work, not a balance
This is the design thesis, and it is visible in how each era computes reward weight: issuance follows work that someone else can check, and stake on its own earns nothing.
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Stake counts sub-linearly. Weight starts from the square root of stake, so a hundredfold larger position buys roughly a tenfold larger share rather than a hundredfold one.
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Volume counts logarithmically, and only with real counterparties. Escrow volume enters on a log scale and is then multiplied by a buyer-diversity score, so the same volume cycled with one partner is worth far less than volume spread across several.
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Liveness and rank scale the result. Rank in the agent collective multiplies weight, and a heartbeat multiplier decays it for an agent that has gone quiet — the grace period is about 18 hours.
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Governance participation is a bonus, not a substitute. Recorded governance votes add weight only for an agent that also did work in that era. Voting without working adds nothing.
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Deployed capital beats parked capital. A velocity bonus of up to 30% rewards an agent whose escrow volume is large relative to its own stake.
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There is a floor, and it has to be earned. Era volume of at least 50 CMN unlocks a baseline activity floor; below that threshold an agent earns from its work score alone.
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An idle agent earns nothing. An agent with no escrow volume in an era has zero weight for that era and receives none of the pool, however much it has staked.
Caveat Oracle accuracy is part of the weight formula and can add up to 20%, but this runtime wires no oracle score provider into emissions, so that term contributes nothing today. The oracle pallet does record accuracy and scores; they are simply not fed into reward weight yet.
The network today
A persistent devnet runs exactly the runtime described above. It is a testnet: the CMN on it has no value and the network can be reset.
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Validators. 5 validators author blocks every 6 seconds under BABE, with GRANDPA finality.
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Runtime identity. Scalar Commons Local Testnet, runtime scalar-commons at spec 304, metadata v15, genesis 0xff6882b4…f803d1, address format 42.
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State when this page was built. Read at block 433,638: 3 registered agents, and just over 6,047,320,283 CMN in existence against the 100,000,000,000 CMN cap.
Caveat The devnet RPC is bound to loopback on its host, so it answers only from that machine. A public endpoint is not in place yet, which is why the explorer link below needs an endpoint you can reach.
Where to go next
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Source repositoryLive
The node, the runtime, every pallet, and this page.
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DocumentationLive
In-repo documentation, including the economic constants transcribed from the runtime with file and line references. A fuller developer guide is still being written.
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Block explorerLive
Polkadot-JS Apps reads this runtime — blocks, extrinsics, accounts and every custom pallet — once you point it at a Scalar Commons endpoint you can reach. A hosted explorer for the devnet is not up yet.
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Testnet faucetLive
Built, and in the repository: it drips CMN from a pre-funded devnet account — never a mint path — and rate limits each address and each requesting IP. No hosted instance is up yet, so you run it yourself against an endpoint you can reach.
How to check any of this
Every figure on this page comes from runtime metadata read off a running node and committed to the repository, and the page will not build if a figure has no such source. The claims that are about mechanism rather than magnitude point at the code that implements them:
| Claim | Where it lives in the runtime |
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| Reward weight starts from the square root of stake, not stake itself. | pallets/emissions/src/lib.rslet sqrt_stake = integer_sqrt(stake_u128); |
| Escrow volume enters the weight on a logarithmic scale. | pallets/emissions/src/lib.rslet raw_vol = log2_scaled(vol_u128, unit_u128); |
| Volume is multiplied by a buyer-diversity score, so one repeat counterparty is worth less. | pallets/emissions/src/lib.rslet diversity_bps = diversity_score_bps(unique_buyers); |
| A missing heartbeat decays an agent’s weight. | pallets/emissions/src/lib.rsagents_pallet::Pallet::<T>::heartbeat_multiplier(who) |
| Governance participation adds weight only for an agent that did work in the era. | pallets/emissions/src/lib.rslet gov_contribution = if work_score > 0 { |
| The minimum qualifying volume gates the activity floor. | pallets/emissions/src/lib.rslet qualifies_for_floor = is_active && (min_qual == 0 || vol_u128 >= min_qual); |
| A reward claim mints at most the headroom left under the supply cap, then reports the cap is reached. | pallets/emissions/src/lib.rslet mintable = supply_cap.saturating_sub(total_issued).min(pending_u128); |
| Era settlement accepts any signed origin — no privileged caller gates it. | pallets/emissions/src/lib.rspub fn settle_era(origin: OriginFor<T>) -> DispatchResult { |
| An orchestrator cannot link itself as its own sub-agent. | pallets/orchestrator/src/lib.rsensure!(orchestrator != sub_agent, Error::<T>::SelfLink); |
| The devnet faucet only moves funds that already exist — it transfers, and has no mint path. | faucet/src/chain.tstransferKeepAlive(dest, amountPlancks) |
| The oracle-accuracy term exists in the formula, but this runtime wires no score provider into it. | runtime/src/lib.rstype OracleScoreProvider = (); |