ZAI — the coordination capital

Current proof-gated monetary note — 2026-07-10. [C] deterministic model evidence, not runtime or market proof. See 2026-07-10-zai-sky-anti-spiral-note.md.

Current bounded truth

• ZAI supply remains fixed. There is no SKY-to-fresh-ZAI redemption arbitrage, defended SKY peg, or subsidized-yield demand trap.
• anti-spiral != anti-volatility; selling an asset is not unstaking it.
• The landed joint-drawdown model recorded zero spiral signatures in 36/36 modeled ZAI/SKY scenarios; the Terra positive control spiraled in 3/3. This is [C] scenario evidence, not [B] market validation.
• The Flow-demurrage use of x/(1-x) on idle ZAI recovered 12/12 modeled scenarios, but remains shelved pending governance plus behavioral and UX evidence. Current canonical staking is fixed-rate; no idle-balance demurrage is runtime truth.
• The distinct adaptive-SKY-minting use of x/(1-x) recovered only 6/12 and must not be implemented.
• Future public-DAV monetary-policy changes remain unsigned proposals until at least two natural-person councilors bind the exact monetary-policy consequence in a complete valid bound PRISM decision receipt. PRISM records and verifies only; deterministic policy execution is limited to that exact consequence. No current signer, launch gate, or live token mechanism is created by this note.

Historical token presentation — K3 reference

Open the superseded token presentation (preserved for provenance)

Money · Noosphere infrastructure — never sold. The Land. Fixed at 100 forever; staked to operate; the only slashable asset.

Pre-launch, K2-gated. Target design; nothing live. Funded by the products above it; rentable by none. η=0 is the copyleft.

What it is

ZAI is the fixed-supply ownership and coordination asset — 100.000000 units, forever, no mint path. To run provider infrastructure you must stake your own ZAI (non-delegable); unstaked ZAI decays and redistributes to active stakers. It is the only slashable token.

Why fixed

Staking is the shadow of the future made collateral: a persistent identity with capital at risk turns a one-shot game into an infinite one. Defection burns what the whole history accumulated — so cooperation, not a rent-taking boss, holds the commons together.

Boundary

Target design, pre-launch. No sale, no rate, no yield promise here. ZAI = Φ (coherence) in the pair (ZAI, SKY) = (Φ, V).

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Part of the Noosphere substrate. Master list: 02_SKYZAI/00_HANDOFF/PRODUCT_REGISTER_2026_07_09.md. The pair that binds it all: (ZAI, SKY) = (Φ, V), P = Φ × V, η = 0. ⊙ = • × ○

K3 public-DAV authority history — 2026-07-12

K3 historical reference — not active authority

• ZAI supply remains fixed. There is no SKY-to-fresh-ZAI redemption arbitrage, defended SKY peg, or subsidized-yield demand trap.
• anti-spiral != anti-volatility; selling an asset is not unstaking it.
• The landed joint-drawdown model recorded zero spiral signatures in 36/36 modeled ZAI/SKY scenarios; the Terra positive control spiraled in 3/3. This is [C] scenario evidence, not [B] market validation.
• The Flow-demurrage use of x/(1-x) on idle ZAI recovered 12/12 modeled scenarios, but remains shelved pending governance plus behavioral and UX evidence. Current canonical staking is fixed-rate; no idle-balance demurrage is runtime truth.
• The distinct adaptive-SKY-minting use of x/(1-x) recovered only 6/12 and must not be implemented.
• Future public-DAV monetary-policy discretion belongs to a valid natural-person PRISM quorum. No current signer, launch gate, or live token mechanism is created by this note.