Idle rigs stop mining wasted hashes and become sovereign mesh-nodes that earn internal contribution-units by verified work: a bounty is escrowed, a node claims it and does the compute, and it is paid only if the result re-verifies (proof-of-contribution, not proof-of-asking). Units are conserved — no minting after genesis — on a tamper-evident chain, and each node has a budget ceiling it cannot cross, so no node can drain the mesh.
⚠ Internal contribution-units — NOT money. These are not a currency, not a cryptocurrency, not tradeable. There is no code path from a unit to money: this kernel exposes no fiat / trade / exchange / withdraw / sell / convert verb (a test checks that against the code). The money rail is a separate, gated matter behind legal counsel.
✓ compute rail · this
rigs run mesh-nodes, earn internal units by re-verified work, settled on a conserved chain. sovereign, no center, no fiat. built here.
✗ money rail · gated
KCC as a tradeable currency / fiat on-ramp / exchange listing — securities & money-transmission law apply. NOT built. counsel first, human hands.
Run the mesh economy
balances
node
balance
committed / ceiling
open bounties
the invariants
conserved (no minting)—
chain intact (audit trail)—
total supply—
nodes / settled jobs—
the chain
How a rig earns
Composes the estate: agora (escrow + settle-on-re-verify + conservation), the-wallet (each node's identity + budget ceiling), mesh-self (a node is a sovereign sub that can't drain the mesh). Honest scope: this is the compute-rail mechanic — a demo on an in-browser ledger, not a live deployed economy; running real rigs is the operator's hands. A governance layer for rule-updates is the named next fold.