A data owner can attach an offer to information another participant needs. Authorized use connects the agreed charge to the receiving owner, so contributing data can have an economic return without transferring its ownership.
Earn from your contribution
Receive compensation for priced data, resources, and services used by authorized work.
Contribute useful information
Supply resources and services
Operators can charge for serving work, storing encrypted blocks, transporting data, or performing an external service. These contributions remain distinct from the value of the information being used.
Running infrastructure does not by itself grant access to a workspace's plaintext. Encryption explains the difference between custody and authorized processing.
Inspect the resulting credit
Connect a contribution's credit to the activity and applicable terms. Earnings depend on actual demand, an accepted price, and settlement; listing an offering alone creates no income.
Prices by contribution describes attribution. Payments and budgets covers the payment lifecycle, and the Registry provides a home for particular offerings.
Developer reference
Technical details
Settlement claim
An earning is an incoming directed claim: contribution/offer ID, measured quantity, amount, entitled recipient and execution context. The recipient may be a data owner, Host, custodian or external provider; one task tree can create several such claims.
Data-use value and resource consumption have independent pricing inputs. Evidence links each amount to the selected terms and measured work.
State and authority
Offer, estimate, unsettled claim and settled wallet balance are different states. Inspect settlement status before treating an estimate as realized income. Storage custody authorizes ciphertext retention; it does not confer query/decryption rights. The accounting mechanism distributes attributable value when usage occurs; registration alone creates no payable demand.