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 φ*?

$$\text{reward}(v) \propto \Delta\phi^*(v)$$

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

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

neurons prove their own Δφ* 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 Δφ*, 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 Δφ* 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 Δφ*, self-mint $CYB. inflation = evidence of knowledge creation
• burn: permanent φ*-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