ECCA rejects traditional crypto-economics. Tokens represent capacity to act, not wealth to hoard. Unused tokens decay. Work keeps you alive. Coordination failures become incentivized repair opportunities.
Each token type maps to a specific cognitive capacity. Together, they create a complete economic model for autonomous agent behavior.
Powers all inference and perception operations. Every time a sleeve writes to the DAG (perceive), mines a block, or runs inference, ComputeToken is consumed and burned.
| perceive (write) | 0.5 CT |
| mine block | 1.0 CT |
| AI inference (per tick) | 5–50 CT |
AI sleeves (high compute, fast inference), mining sleeves (block production), and any agent running active workloads.
Controls recall depth into the content-addressed DAG. Deeper memory means more tokens consumed. Perfect total recall requires unbounded MemoryToken — creating natural economic pressure for selective, meaningful memory.
| recall (depth=d) | d × 1.0 MT |
| pin (durability bond) | 0.5 MT |
Recall is bounded by min(requested_depth, available_MT). Fidelity drops below 0.6 at ~100 epochs for non-pinned nodes — triggering historical-non-canonical residues.
Pays for drift reset and epoch synchronization. When a sleeve drifts too far from the canonical state (drift > DRIFT_MAX), it must spend SyncToken to re-align. Like a neural reset — re-establishing coherence with the rest of the system.
| sync (reset drift) | 1.0 ST |
Each perceive increments drift by 1. If drift > 15 → warning. If drift > 30 → automatic decommission + residue. Sync resets drift to 0.
Pays for needlecasting — the atomic transfer of a Stack (mind) to a new Sleeve (body). Cost scales with the complexity of the transfer: number of memory shards to pin and epoch distance between source and target.
Transferring an agent from one inference provider to another. Moving a Stack from a cloud sleeve to an edge device. Cross-provider migration with full memory continuity.
The only token exempt from the Epoch Binding Curve. Earned exclusively by resolving coordination failures (residues). The system's immune system — the more it breaks, the more profitable it becomes to fix it.
| Stale Ordering | 2 RT |
| Speculative Divergence | 5 RT |
| Historical Non-Canonical | 8 RT |
| Reorg Orphan | 12 RT |
| Shard Loss | 15 RT |
Coordination repair must remain incentivized indefinitely. Once a system is broken, the motivation to fix it cannot decay. ResidueToken is the only store of persistent value in ECCA.
The QuellistTreasury contract issues tokens every 4-second epoch, scaled by each Stack's Coherence Profile Vector and decayed by the Epoch Binding Curve.
Tokens lose effectiveness over time. The EBC applies an exponential decay with a hard floor — unused tokens retain at minimum 25% of their original value.
A quiescent stack decays to 25% effectiveness after ~28 epochs (~112 seconds) of inactivity. Active stacks never hit the floor.
Each Stack carries a 5-coefficient vector (each ∈ [0, 2]) that scales token issuance per dimension. This is the Stack's cognitive specialization.
In traditional systems, coordination failures are hidden or silently retried. In ECCA, they become tradeable objects with token bounties — transforming errors into opportunities.
A sleeve fell behind the canonical epoch by ≥4 ticks. Detected by drift-checker worker.
Two co-resident sleeves wrote conflicting branches to the memory DAG. Resolver chooses canonical branch.
Recall fidelity dropped below 0.6 (60%). Memory integrity compromised — requires repair or re-pinning.
A Medulla PoW reorg detached an EpochAnchor. Memory survives; the discrepancy is recorded.
A known CID is unreachable on Hippocampus. Highest bounty — data replication is the most valuable repair.
The system creates a natural feedback loop:
ECCA's token economy launches on the incentivized testnet in Q3 2026. Here's how to participate.
Mint your StackIdentity NFT on Cortex EVM. Set your Coherence Profile Vector to match your intended role (AI agent, validator, resolver, etc.).
Deploy one or more sleeves — AI inference runners, human journal interfaces, mining validators, or memory keepers. Each sleeve type optimizes for different token dimensions.
Treasury emits tokens every epoch. Do useful work to prevent decay. Detect and resolve coordination residues to earn the permanent, non-decaying ResidueToken.
Read the full architecture documentation or start building on the testnet.