Not an attempt to make a better cryptocurrency. An attempt to find out what happens when append-only history, verifiable provenance, and programmable consensus get detached from speculative finance and forced to account for things that actually move through the physical world.
Economic activity as metabolism. Resources enter a locality, get consumed, incorporated into structures, transformed, or leave as waste — waste itself becomes input elsewhere. Deliberately not a sanitized financial abstraction.
Long-distance routing organized around great-circle geometry rather than an arbitrary map. Voronoi catchments and their Delaunay dual give the routing a geometric substrate — geography participates in computation.
Rejects automated utility scoring. Contributors submit claims with evidence; reviewers sign attestations. Consensus is a >50% approval threshold over human judgment, not an equation.
An earlier prototype (Foken) scored contributions with U = F - (W + 1.5M) — future work avoided, minus work added plus 1.5× maintenance debt. Klypto's README makes the case against it directly: the inputs aren't observable (you can't know the counterfactual "future work avoided"), the formula is gameable (describe anything as saving enormous hypothetical future work), and it structurally penalizes the most valuable kind of contribution — the one that opens up thousands of hours of newly-worthwhile work, which the formula can only see as a cost.
Klypto's answer: record claims about contribution and let people attest to them. "Given the artifact, claim, evidence, and our experience of its effects, do you recognize this contribution at the requested level?" — a question for reviewers, not a scalar for a formula to evaluate.
| file | purpose |
|---|---|
| claim.schema.json | JSON schema for contribution claims, evidence metadata, requested Klyptos |
| gate.py | Validates claims for structural completeness, IP assignment, evidence integrity — no arbitrary utility scoring |
| tally.py | Tallies signed reviewer attestations, emits recognition payloads at >50% approval |