SaulBuilds · Nov 4, 2026
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+> **Current launch status (2026-11-04): tokenomics TBD before launch.** Historical engineering parameters below are not finalized launch terms. More announcements coming soon: https://docs.citrate.ai/chain/economics. Feedback: support@citrate.ai.
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 # ADR-0007 — Integrate with compute-pool for settlement (do not reinvent)
 
 **Status:** accepted · **Date:** 2026-06-18 · **Remediation:** #1

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+> **Launch tokenomics: TBD before launch.** Supply, allocations, vesting, emissions, staking requirements, fees, and rewards are not finalized. More announcements coming soon. See the [current status and notice about earlier exploratory materials](https://docs.citrate.ai/chain/economics). Feedback: [support@citrate.ai](mailto:support@citrate.ai).
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 # NAT Planset — Overview
 
 **RFC-CIT-NAT-0001** · Draft v0.1 · Owner: Larry Klosowski (@saulbuilds) · Entity: Citrate Inc. / Citrate Network
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 NAT does not reinvent reward settlement. It emits a metered-compute receipt, a
 data-quality score, and a provenance hash that **`citrate-compute-pool`** settles
-into participant rewards (it already ships a compute marketplace, tokenomics
+into participant rewards (it already ships a compute marketplace and experimental settlement
 simulation, and reward settlement). Participant economic advantage is a function
 of **compute contributed × data quantity/quality submitted**. The interface is
 `../docs/SETTLEMENT_SEAM.md`; the contribution accounting type is

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+> **Launch tokenomics: TBD before launch.** Supply, allocations, vesting, emissions, staking requirements, fees, and rewards are not finalized. More announcements coming soon. See the [current status and notice about earlier exploratory materials](https://docs.citrate.ai/chain/economics). Feedback: [support@citrate.ai](mailto:support@citrate.ai).
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 # Critique & Remediations
 
 A research bet earns the right to scale only if it survives an honest review.
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 | # | Criticism | Remediation | Where it lives |
 |---|-----------|-------------|----------------|
-| 1 | The participant-reward economic layer (compute × data-quality) is barely specified in the source docs. | Do **not** reinvent settlement. NAT emits compute receipt + data-quality score + provenance hash; `citrate-compute-pool` (which already ships a marketplace + tokenomics + reward settlement) settles. | `docs/SETTLEMENT_SEAM.md`, `nat_train::StepContribution`, ADR-0007 |
+| 1 | The participant-reward economic layer (compute × data-quality) is barely specified in the source docs. | Do **not** reinvent settlement. NAT emits compute receipt + data-quality score + provenance hash; `citrate-compute-pool` (which already ships a marketplace and experimental reward settlement) settles. | `docs/SETTLEMENT_SEAM.md`, `nat_train::StepContribution`, ADR-0007 |
 | 2 | H-01's dense baseline is under-specified, and H-01 is the whole bet. | Pin the baseline protocol: identical token budget, data, tokenizer, seed, compute — only partitioning differs. Make it a hard Gate-3 exit blocker. | ADR-0005, `gates.yaml` gate3 exit |
 | 3 | "Provenance faithfulness" can't be bit-exact when zone cores are float. | Split the claim: **decision-faithful** (which zones/prunes/weights — always verifiable) vs **bit-faithful logits** (only under a deterministic-inference path). Patent claim C-2 reworded. | ADR-0006-faithfulness, `nat_provenance` docs, `verify_decision_faithful` |
 | 4 | Federated determinism quietly conflates merge-determinism (provable) with training-convergence (statistical). | Keep them separate in all docs. The TLA+ covers merge-time gather only; training tolerance is an empirical L3 claim. | `formal/README.md`, hypotheses H-05 split |

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+> **Launch tokenomics: TBD before launch.** Supply, allocations, vesting, emissions, staking requirements, fees, and rewards are not finalized. More announcements coming soon. See the [current status and notice about earlier exploratory materials](https://docs.citrate.ai/chain/economics). Feedback: [support@citrate.ai](mailto:support@citrate.ai).
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 # Settlement seam — NAT → citrate-compute-pool
 
 **Decision:** ADR-0007. NAT does not reinvent reward settlement. It emits the

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+> **Launch tokenomics: TBD before launch.** Supply, allocations, vesting, emissions, staking requirements, fees, and rewards are not finalized. More announcements coming soon. See the [current status and notice about earlier exploratory materials](https://docs.citrate.ai/chain/economics). Feedback: [support@citrate.ai](mailto:support@citrate.ai).
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 # §7 Federated training by paraconsistent consensus
 
 The third face of NAT's thesis is that declaring structure makes the model *decentralizable*. This
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 a data-quality score from the pipeline's quality stage, a token count, and the provenance-trace hash —
 and a deterministic **reward weight = compute × data-quality**, computed on the Q16.16 path so two
 nodes and an on-chain verifier agree on it bit for bit. `citrate-compute-pool` converts that weight to
-payout under its tokenomics, and `ContributionAccounting` (Paper VII) records it. The unification
+payout under experimental policy; launch tokenomics TBD, and `ContributionAccounting` (Paper VII) records it. The unification
 routes settlement through the co-op `FederatedSettlement` seam into the `PatronageLedger`, carrying
 the `data_quality` term **separately** (not pre-collapsed into the reward weight) so the patronage
 dividend can apply it as the honesty factor (`nat-federated::seam::SettlementRow`, binding #4;