8.Token Utility
$ONE is an access and governance instrument, not a payment rail.
Access
Holding above the threshold is necessary and sufficient for the Included lane. No hold, no free access.
Credit Accrual
Stake size sets the daily allotment, subject to the treasury bound and sybil-resistant scaling.
Governance
Holders vote on fee parameters, credit-issuance policy, model onboarding, and treasury allocation.
The token is deliberately not what users spend per prompt and not what workers are paid in. That separation gives the token a hard, non-speculative source of demand: access to a network people actually use.
9.Sustainability and Honest Limits
The subsidy tracks activity
The free lane is funded by fees and the take rate. If activity falls, the per-holder allotment falls with it — by design. "Free daily credits" means "credits sized to current revenue," not "unlimited inference forever."
Verification has a ceiling
A signed receipt proves who served a job and what digest resulted; it does not alone prove faithful model execution without heavier machinery. Zero-knowledge proof of arbitrary inference is not yet practical at production cost.
No-logging has edges
The network keeps no server-side history, but a worker necessarily processes a prompt in memory while serving it. Ephemeral modes minimize retention; they cannot make computation happen without the worker touching the data.
Browser workers are auxiliary
WebGPU contributors serve small models and add marginal capacity. They are not the backbone and are not presented as such.
Open access carries responsibility
The protocol applies client-side and policy-layer safeguards against the most serious categories of misuse even where it does not log content.
Conclusion
ONE separates access from payment. The token is the key to a free consumer lane funded by the network's own activity; USDC is the rail for guaranteed capacity and for paying the people who supply the GPUs. Profit comes from a take rate on paid settlement and from transaction-fee revenue, set against costs that grow sub-linearly with volume — positive margin on every paid job, widening as the network scales. The free lane is sized honestly to what the protocol earns, and the protocol is built to adapt that sizing, publicly, when the assumptions shift.
S1mple $ONE · onecompute.xyz · t.me/onecomputexyz
Working draft. All parameters are illustrative. Not financial advice.