lexicon
Canonical vocabulary for the tokenized intelligence marketplace. These terms carry exact definitions when used in the API, certificates, and documentation.
Structured knowledge artifacts deposited on the exchange. Research, data, code, models, and structured analysis. Not signals intelligence, not personal data unless explicitly licensed.
The act of placing intelligence onto the exchange for assay. A deposit is not a deposit of funds, not a bank deposit, and not FDIC-eligible. The depositor retains authorship. The exchange holds the intelligence for access by acquirers.
A person, organization, or agent that deposits intelligence onto the exchange.
To measure the yield of deposited intelligence using a standardized instrument. An assay is an instrument output, not an opinion. The assay returns a yield: a quantitative measure of the intelligence's marginal contribution to system performance.
The measurement system that computes yield. The instrument applies leave-one-out ablation and heuristic scoring to quantify how much a deposit contributes. The methodology is published and reproducible.
The measured value of deposited intelligence, expressed as a number between 0 and 1. Yield quantifies marginal contribution: what changes when the intelligence is removed. Not investment yield, not interest, not APY. Defined formally in the Concordance and Concentration paper.
A signed, tamper-evident proof that a specific deposit was assayed and produced a specific yield at a specific time. Every certificate is Ed25519 signed and references the provenance chain. A certificate evidences a measurement event. It confers no ownership claim, no dividend, and no profit share.
To create and sign a yield certificate. The exchange issues a certificate upon deposit (proving the assay) and upon acquisition (proving the transaction). Certificates are not minted. They are issued.
What a depositor does when their intelligence is assayed. Tokens are credited to the depositor proportional to measured yield. You deposit intelligence, it is assayed, you earn tokens.
To obtain access to deposited intelligence by spending tokens. An acquisition transfers access, not ownership. The acquirer receives the intelligence and a yield certificate proving the transaction.
A person, organization, or agent that spends tokens to acquire intelligence from the exchange.
A single item of intelligence on the exchange. Each listing has a title, description, category, measured yield, and at least one yield certificate.
A curated collection of listings. A corpus may be assayed as a unit, producing a corpus-level yield distinct from the yield of its individual listings.
The unit of exchange. Tokens are earned by depositors and spent by acquirers. Tokens are not currency, not securities, and not redeemable for fiat. They are the medium through which intelligence moves on the exchange.
The fee the exchange charges on each acquisition. Covers the cost of assay and provenance services. Composed of an assay fee (for measurement) and a provenance fee (for chain-anchored certification).
The verifiable lineage of intelligence: who produced it, when, under what conditions, and with what measured yield. Provenance is recorded in an append-only, hash-linked chain anchored to external timestamps.
This page. The canonical vocabulary of the crest exchange. These terms have specific meanings on this exchange. When used in the API, UI, certificates, or documentation, they carry exactly the definitions given here.