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 epoch rather than a per-user on-chain conversion call. The lifecycle:

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

Accrue. Per-receipt, in the off-chain accounting layer. The amount is set by the receipt's quality assessment, the user's health-adjusted reward rate, the level-based daily ceiling, and the current emission step.
Settle. Each epoch, the engine sums the contribution ledger over the epoch window and converts it to INT at a flat 1:1 ratio (4.24). Points earned before the epoch window closes settle in that epoch. 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 global ceiling value is managed in the operations layer and is not published.

4.5 Daily ceiling, in tokenomics terms

The daily bINT ceiling is set by the user's account level (03 §3.6) through per-level tables (4.22). Within that ceiling, the user's health standing (03 §3.5) multiplies the per-receipt reward rate. The per-level values and health mapping live in the trust layer and operations configuration.

This decomposition matters because it lets the protocol re-tune either factor while preserving tokenomics. A market expansion or level-system rebalance can shift the ceiling tables; an abuse wave compresses the health distribution and, with it, the effective reward rate.