ProtocolCredits
Four sources. One balance.
Staker, purchased, developer and referral credits all spend the same way: one credit pays for $1.00 of compute. Surplus $CREDIT trades on the market below par.
- Cheapest credit now
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- From the protocol
- $1.00 per credit
- Listings can be priced from
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- Market fee, paid by sellers
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credit_registry order book
Where credits come from
Each credit keeps a record of its source, and that decides the order it is spent in.
- Staker
- Earned by staking the protocol token, paid out of trading fees every hour.
- Purchased
- Bought with USDC, from staker listings or from the protocol at par.
- Developer
- Grants for builders.
- Referral
- Your share of the gateway fee on what the people you referred spend.
- Spend order
- A request draws developer and referral credits first, then staker credits, then purchased credits.
Selling the credits you don't need
Stakers who earn more compute than they use can turn the surplus into USDC.
Claim to your wallet.
On the Mesh page, claim earned credits as $CREDIT tokens instead of adding them to your API balance.
one claim collects every epoch
List them at your price.
Choose an amount and a price per credit below $1.00. Your $CREDIT moves into an on-chain escrow until it sells or you cancel.
held in on-chain escrow
Get paid as buyers fill.
Purchases on the Compute page take the cheapest listings first and pay you in USDC, less the market fee. Reprice or cancel whenever you like.
USDC lands in your wallet with each fill
Here to buy rather than sell?
A purchase fills the cheapest staker listings first and takes the rest from the protocol at $1.00.