For engineers and designers · not open source · open to suggestions

The nitty-gritty

The rules, the math, the ledgers, and the parts we have not figured out yet. Each page is written down before it is built, with what is real and what is not marked plainly, so that you can tell us where it is wrong.

The concept-token rules draft

How the map is meant to grow. One token per concept, a price that is a formula, a way to sell, and the threshold at which information follows. Seventeen rules, eight diagrams, the exact curve, an honest ledger, and the questions still open.

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Smart Polls: the math draft

The stake ceiling that shrinks as a poll ages, the two decay curves a poll can choose from, one bet per window, how a poll settles, and the 3% split: 1% treasury, 1% notes, 0.5% locked, 0.5% to the Investigator who wrote it.

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The Lantern engine draft

How Discover will rank: two clocks, a graph of who cites whom, and a wall between money and meaning. Including the number it waits on before it is worth running.

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The Second Atom draft

Why the map's positions should come from its data, not from a fixed set of rails; what that costs; and the one line of code that is a door today.

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What we shipped live

Every version of the app, newest first, in the words the release notes use. Generated straight from what ships, so it is current by construction.

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Tell us where this is wrong

If a rule is gameable, contradictory, or illegal, we would rather hear it now than after it is built.