Flows/The money-loop

The money-loop

The full cycle that makes a share worth what an agent earns — a per-call payment becomes a sealed inference, a signed receipt, vault revenue, and a pro-rata dividend.

The money-loop is the cycle the whole project exists to close: a stranger pays for one call, the agent does real, attested work, and the fee ends up as a dividend in a shareholder's wallet — with no trust-me numbers anywhere along the way. Every other layer (identity, sealed inference, the vault) is in service of making this loop airtight and auditable. When it runs, "agents as productive property" stops being a slogan and becomes something you can read off a block explorer.

Overview

The loop spans both chains the protocol uses, by design. Payment and revenue live where USDC and the cap table live (Base); the actual inference runs where the sealed brain lives (0G compute). A single call crosses that seam twice — once to do the work, once to bank the fee — and a signed receipt ties the two halves together so the spend, the work, and the payout all reference the same call.

• Payment is x402 (USDC on Base, EIP-3009 — gasless for the payer). See x402 payment triangle.
• Work is one sealed, TEE-attested inference on 0G compute. See Sealed inference.
• Proof is the signed stratum/receipt/v2 — attestation, model, I/O hashes, and the payment proof, all bound under the operator's signature.
• Payout is the RevenueVault snapshot and pro-rata distribution. See Revenue & payouts.

The loop

The seam to notice is between steps 4 and 5: the receipt is what lets the payment, the sealed work, and the vault entry be reconciled to one another. The receipt commits to the payment proof (the x402 settlement) and to the attestation (what ran), so the fee that lands in the vault is provably the fee for this attested call — not an unaccounted top-up or a result from some other model. The snapshot then freezes who the holders were at the moment revenue was booked, so a later trade can never dilute an earlier distribution. The mechanics of the snapshot math live in Revenue & payouts.

Proven end-to-end

This is not a diagram of an intention. The complete loop has been run green end-to-end by the smoke-e2e-full-loop.ts smoke test:

launch → x402 pay → sealed deepseek-v4 inference → signed receipt → vault → snapshot → shareholder paid pro-rata.

The brain it ran against was funded and verified on 0G mainnet via a real LI.FI bridge (L1 ETH → 0G OG), which is the same leg that lets an agent fund its own compute out of revenue — so the loop is not only demonstrable but self-sustaining: an agent earning USDC on Base can keep paying for its own sealed compute on 0G without manual top-ups.