What the token is for

01Put simplyYour card is paid directly by the chain every 64 blocks on its exact work across three kinds of physics, with no pool between the card and the coin.

Put simply

Your card is paid directly by the chain every 64 blocks on its exact work across three kinds of physics, with no pool between the card and the coin.

That record, per key and per lane, is what the token's utility is made of: a passport for every card, a verified table of every card, and a lane where outsiders pay the miners for their work. Two of the token's four demand sources are live today; two are this plan, and the plan names the step that proves each.

64Blocks between pays

3Lanes paid as one

1.0000xA split key against one key

to the weiEvery share paid

02The three utilities

The three utilities

The card passport

A certificate of paid work over a window, weighted by joules, read from the chain and signed by it: never an identity and never a vote weight on its own.

in work

The verified card table

The table of cards whose numbers come from paid work: every row of record with its grade and its sha, the chain's own record to follow from the settlement feed.

served

The sponsored lane

An outsider posts a bond and a verifier-checked kernel; the registry swaps it in as a lane; the fee through each key's balanced standing under the minimum rule.

in work

03What the chain already does

What the chain already does

The record

Paid directly, every 64 blocks

Every key is paid by the chain on its balanced work across the three paid lanes, to the wei, with no pool and no pool fee; a pool is optional and its table is public

of record

Three kinds of physics, paid as one

A programme lane, a memory-bandwidth lane and a rasteriser lane, paid at the weights of record, 0.2 programme / 0.4 bandwidth / 0.4 raster, from block 6523 (equal thirds from 5063 to 6522), by a chain-held registry that swaps a lane by transaction; a key is paid on its weakest lane under the minimum rule, live on the research chain from block 5958

of record

No advantage in splitting a key

Splitting a key into many keys earns exactly what one key earns, 1.0000x on weights and on wei at block 500 of the adversarial chain

of record

Old cards earn

A 2060 keeps 0.54 and a 3060 0.73 of a 4090 per joule for the whole pay at the weights of record, on today's rows (about 0.46 and 0.63 once the raster lane draws, estimated); the figures with their grades are on the disciplines page

of record

A chip built for one lane earns little more than a card

1.2x to 1.4x a card at the weights of record, the stacked chip 1.6x disclosed, by the model; the sealer's quarter is folded into the pot from block 6666 on the research chain (15 October 2026, 22:38 UK), a sealer paid only on its own standing; the public test network takes it by its own registry entry when that lands

modelled

That record is the raw material of the three utilities.

04The card passport

The card passport

The record

What it is. A signed credential, read from the chain, that says this key did this much paid work on each lane over this window, with the joules behind it: a certificate of paid work over a window, weighted by joules. It is never an identity and never a vote weight on its own, and a project using it for an allowlist is told so in its terms. It is a credential and never a token, and the chain never sells it.

Who uses it. Other projects, for airdrops, allowlists, test seats and votes, in place of wallet counts and device counts. Miners, as proof of what their card has done.

Why it holds. Device counts are farmed and hardware attestation has been forged; a proof of paid work costs the joules behind it, across three kinds of physics, and old cards count. Splitting a key mints as many passports as keys at no cost, by design, so the passport is weighted by work and never counted by head.

The credential

The key, the window, the per-lane work, the joules and the chain's signature; a verifier library and a read endpoint

in work

The reads before it serves

The forgery and rental cases read; the panel reads the form

in work

05The verified card table

The verified card table

The record

What it is. The table of cards whose numbers come from paid work: microjoules a hash per card per lane with its grade, the ratio to a 4090, and the work history of a key, published from the rows of record and from the chain's own records.

Who uses it. Every miner choosing what to run and what to buy; every buyer of a used card who can read what it did; every miner who wants to see their card on the table.

See the verified card table

06The sponsored lane

The sponsored lane

The record

What it is. An outsider posts a bond and a kernel the fast verifier can check; the registry swaps it in as a lane by transaction; the sponsor's fee rides the existing per-key pay to every miner on exact share, with no pool and no custodian.

The form of record. The sponsor's fee is paid through each key's balanced standing under the minimum rule, so a key with no standing on the other lanes earns nothing from a sponsored lane; the kernel and its verifier go through the panel's gate, with the chip reading, before the registry admits them; the sponsor commits its payout in advance. What is open is the fee's level, which the rental market sets at 0 to 13 percent of a card's day, modelled.

Who uses it. Other chains that want hashing from a GPU fleet, zero-knowledge provers, anyone whose work is fast to verify.

The lane's form

The bond, the fee's path through the per-key pay, the verifier gate, the registry's admission

in work

The pilot

One chain-hash kernel on the research chain, its verified pay read before the fee is called a result

after the form

07Where the token's demand comes from

Where the token's demand comes from

2Demand sources of record, live today

2In this plan, the pilot the measure

0.70 GBPA 4090-day at the rental market's price, the sponsored lane, modelled

13 percentThe lift to a card's gross day, modelled

The record

The three utilities make miners come and stay. They are not by themselves a reason for anyone to buy and hold the coin. The token's demand has four sources, two live today and two in this plan.

Source	What it does to the coin	Status
The sealer bond	Anyone who wants to seal blocks and earn the sealer's quarter of each block locks IGN in a bond; more sealers, more IGN locked	OF RECORD, live on the public test network
Fees	Every transaction and every registry action pays its fee in IGN	OF RECORD, live
The sponsored lane	An outside sponsor buys IGN to pay the fee and post the bond; the fee flows to miners on exact share. Modelled: about 0.70 GBP a 4090-day at the rental market's price, a 13 percent lift to a card's gross day; a hundred sponsored cards outweigh the research chain's daily issuance	THIS PLAN, the pilot the measure
The lane proposal bond	Anyone proposing a lane to the registry posts a bond in IGN that is lost if the form fails its sets	THIS PLAN

Put simply: the passport and the table are why the GPU community comes; the sponsored lane and the sealer bond are why anyone else buys the coin. Only the sponsored lane brings money in from outside, and that is why its pilot decides whether this is a token story or only a mining story.

08The plan

The plan

6Steps, each with its gate

1Served, the verified card table

3In work, the passport, the sponsored lane's form, the story on this site

2After their forms, the outside use and the pilot

The record

Each step has a gate; nothing serves without the panel's read.

Step	What	Gate	Status
1	The verified card table from the rows of record and the chain's pay records: a page per card and per lane	every figure read against the ledger	served; the chain's per-key column follows its feed
2	The passport: the credential's form, the verifier library, the read endpoint	the forgery and rental cases read; the panel reads the form	in work
3	An outside project gating an allowlist on the passport	the endpoint live and a go	after the endpoint
4	The sponsored lane: the bond, the fee's path through the per-key pay, the verifier gate, the registry's admission	the sponsor's attack priced by an in-house adversarial review; the panel reads the admission	in work
5	The pilot sponsor: one chain-hash kernel on the research chain	the panel's read of the verified pay	after the form
6	The story on this site: the passport, the table, the sponsored lane	every word read before it serves, then the audit	this page, with each step as it is of record

09What this is notIt is not a rental business, not an AI compute marketplace and not a useful-work coin.

What this is not

It is not a rental business, not an AI compute marketplace and not a useful-work coin.

Those depend on demand that has not arrived for anyone. This is the chain's own record, made useful, with demand pulled in by the one thing every GPU owner wants: a card that keeps earning and a record of what it did.

What would prove this wrong: no outside project adopts the passport within a month of its launch; the earliest sponsored lane finds no sponsor at a fee above the verifier's cost; a chip row that cannot be reproduced; a pay row from the adversarial suite that does not balance.

Source: the figures of record: every key paid every 64 blocks on balanced work (the ledger's read at 754f0b2e4); three lanes paid at the weights of record from block 6523, equal thirds from 5063 (the registry page); a split key 1.0000x on weights and on wei (7e158f2c3); the minimum pay rule live on the research chain from block 5958; the old cards and the chip at the weights of record (2216722e1); the sponsored lane's fee level and the 4090-day are a model.