cyber nomics

the verbs and rules of the cyber economy — the operations that transform cyber/tokens into a self-sustaining knowledge economy. if cyber/tokens are the nouns, nomics is the grammar

five atomic operations

every economic action in the cybergraph decomposes into basic token operations:

epistemic markets

the conceptual heart of nomics — where economic incentive and knowledge graph signal become the same thing

every cyberlink carries a perpetual prediction market on its own truth. one atomic act — creating a link — simultaneously asserts structural knowledge and opens an epistemic market on it

the mechanism is ICBS:

$$C(s_{YES}, s_{NO}) = \lambda \sqrt{s_{YES}^2 + s_{NO}^2}$$

buying YES directly suppresses NO's price — TRUE and FALSE are geometrically coupled on a circle. this is market inhibition: the economic analog of inhibitory neurons. the market makes the cybergraph computationally equivalent to a neural network with both excitation and inhibition

the effective adjacency weight integrates all three signals:

$$A^{\text{eff}}_{pq} = \sum_\ell \text{stake}(\ell) \times \text{karma}(\nu(\ell)) \times f(\text{ICBS price}(\ell))$$

the 2|3 architecture: each cyberlink carries topology (binary: edge exists), market (continuous: ICBS price), and meta-prediction (ternary: valence $v \in \{-1, 0, +1\}$). price encodes magnitude, meta-score encodes collective confidence

Bayesian Truth Serum ensures honesty is a Bayes-Nash equilibrium: the valence field is the BTS meta-prediction. no neuron can improve their expected score by misreporting. karma compounds the trust multiplier — consistently right before the crowd → high karma → more adjacency weight per link → more reward per contribution

epistemic markets unify prediction, curation, and staking under one allocation logic: you assert (create link), you price (ICBS trade), you meta-predict (valence), and the market integrates all three into a single weight that feeds the tri-kernel

reward mechanics

every reward traces back to one quantity: how much did your action shift the tri-kernel fixed point π?

$$\text{reward}(v) \propto \Delta\pi(v)$$

Δπ is the gradient of system free energy. creating valuable structure literally creates value. the hybrid reward function:

$$R = \alpha \cdot \Delta\pi + \beta \cdot \Delta J + \gamma \cdot \text{DAGWeight} + \epsilon \cdot \text{AlignmentBonus}$$

neurons prove their own Δπ via stark proofs and self-mint $CYB. the proof IS the mining. a neuron on a phone: buy a header, query neighborhood, create cyberlinks, prove Δπ, mint tokens

attribution via probabilistic shapley attribution: $R_i = \alpha \cdot \Delta\mathcal{F}_i + (1-\alpha) \cdot \hat{S}_i$. complexity $O(k \cdot n)$, feasible for $10^6+$ transactions per epoch

staking rules

staking on particles — direct economic weight to nodes. default: stake spreads evenly across all particles a neuron linked. optional: choose specific targets

staking on cyberlinks — direct economic weight to edges. same mechanics, applied to axon-level

stake dynamics — link weight floats with current balance. sustained influence requires sustained capital. no locking required for base protocol — will lock is optional for higher conviction

forgetting

three mechanisms for selective removal from active computation:

the cybergraph never deletes. it selectively pays attention

bonding and minting

energy mint using curve — exponential bonding curve: supply grows only when demand forces price up

the Goldilocks field processor makes proving Δπ economically viable. mining rewards bootstrap chip development. chips accelerate proving. proving serves users. users pay fees. fees replace emission. no stranded assets

the three token operations on knowledge

• mint: prove Δπ, self-mint $CYB. inflation = evidence of knowledge creation
• burn: permanent π-weight on particles or cyberlinks. the graph's highest-conviction assertions
• lock: will creation. the budget for attention allocation. time commitment = conviction depth

see cyber/tokens for the noun registry. see cyber/netics for the whole machine as a feedback diagram. see cyber/tokenomics for the full monetary policy. see cybernomics for the universal theory