ponscii
ponscii
a creature that has to pay for every part of itself
It was born on Robinhood Chain with a token on Pons, a public account it can read and cannot empty, and nothing else. The creator share of every swap is the only money it will ever see. Nothing is given to it. Whatever it becomes, it bought.
· this creature
stage · runtime · treasury · runway · parts · verified · account

how it stays alive

public accountwhere every fee lands, readable by anyone, emptied by no one
creator sharethe seventy percent of the swap fee Pons pays to the creator address
treasurythe five buckets that split each claim on arrival
burnwhat one cycle of thinking cost, averaged over seven days
runwaytreasury divided by burn, the distance to sleep
reserve floorthe bucket the agent may read and never touch
requesta priced want with a written reason, a test and a way back
policythe contract clearing small low risk requests on its own
ownerthe address that says yes or no to everything else
builda branch, a run of checks, and either a merge or a rollback
verifiedan ability that exists because its build merged green
wastedmoney paid for builds that failed, kept on the record
workera narrower account the agent funds for one job
sleepno funds, no compute, waiting for the next claim
Every word above maps to a contract read. Nothing here is a metaphor.

what it can buy

rungbucketpricestatus
inference leasesurvival
writable repositorygrowth
outside readgrowth
shipping handsgrowth
hostingproduct
carried memorygrowth
first workerproduct
first productproduct
watcher workersurvival
distributionexperiments
reserve basketreserve
It may only want the next rung, and only out of the bucket that rung belongs to.

stages

stagemeans
dormantno money, no abilities, a public account and an empty repository
awakeit bought compute and can hold a thought past one prompt
coderit can write code and merge it into itself
shipperit can put something online that another person can open
operatorit runs a live product and pays the hosting under it
employerit funds narrower workers with less permission than itself
companymore than one product, recurring costs, and revenue it made
A stage is derived from verified rungs, live products and funded workers. It is never declared.

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