User-reward emission

4.3 How rewards flow into bINT

The user-reward pool is governed by the allocation table in 4.17. Inside that pool, daily emission is metered by a curve that takes monthly active usage as its primary input. The curve has three properties worth naming:

Stepwise growth toward a peak. As MAU grows through defined bands, the daily emission pool expands in steps rather than continuously. This avoids cliff effects when activity oscillates near a threshold.
Bounded peak. The daily pool grows stepwise to a peak band, then holds. After peak, additional MAU raises per-user contribution density. The band values are calibrated in production and not published.
Long horizon. The user-reward rail is sized to last a 15-year horizon. The reward share of supply (64.35 billion INT, see 4.17) is the budget; the curve is the meter.

The stepwise function — the MAU bands, the daily-pool values per band, and the transition behaviour — is documented in 4.19. Band boundaries are re-tuned as observed activity evolves.

4.4 The bINT → INT conversion lifecycle

bINT accrues off-chain when a receipt clears the trust layer (03). It settles to INT through a periodic (weekly) epoch rather than a per-user on-chain conversion call. The lifecycle:

accrue  →  hold  →  settle (epoch)  →  claim  →  INT in user wallet

Accrue. Per-receipt, in the off-chain accounting layer. The amount is set by the trust band, the user's daily ceiling, and the current emission step.
Hold. bINT stays in the accounting layer through a minimum holding window before it is eligible for settlement. The window gives the trust layer (03) time to respond to anomalous patterns before any INT is distributed.
Settle. Each epoch, eligible bINT converts to INT at a flat 1:1 ratio (4.24). The engine builds a distribution list, an independent verifier checks it (4.17), and the resulting root is published to the audited distributor.
Claim. The user claims their INT directly from the distributor into a standard SPL wallet, transferable. Treasury holds the INT until claimed; there is no separate vesting step.

When an epoch's total eligible reward exceeds the global emission ceiling, every participant's amount is scaled down by the same factor (soft-cap pro-rata, 4.24). The holding-window length and the global ceiling value are managed in the operations layer and are not published.

4.5 Daily ceiling, in tokenomics terms

The effective daily bINT ceiling is the product of a base ceiling, a level multiplier (03 §3.6), and the user's current health (03 §3.5). The current MVP implementation uses per-level tables (4.22); the target architecture uses a formula-based ceiling (4.23). The multiplier and health values are user-specific and live in the trust layer.

This decomposition matters because it lets the protocol re-tune any of the three factors while preserving tokenomics. A market expansion can raise the base; a level system rebalance can shift the multiplier; an abuse wave can compress the health distribution.