Concept

CERT token & credits.

Agent Cert meters usage in Decision Credits. Credits are an internal accounting unit; CERT is the Solana SPL token that funds them. One bridge, locked rate, no fiat payment path.

The unit economics

1 receipt = 3 Decision Credits
1 CERT    = 100 Decision Credits  (locked at TGE)
1 CERT    = ~33 receipts

The bridge rate can only ever be adjusted downward (more credits per CERT) via governance. It can never be adjusted upward — the network never devalues your CERT relative to credits.

How to get credits

1. Free Trial (signup grant)

Every new account receives a one-time 30 credits at signup — enough for 10 certified receipts. One per account, anti-Sybil checks apply. No wallet required.

2. CERT bridge

After the Free Trial, the only way to acquire more credits is the bridge:

Acquire CERT on the open market (Raydium, Orca, supported CEX).
Connect your Solana wallet at /credits.
Send CERT to the Treasury wallet shown on that page.
The backend watches incoming transfers, verifies Solana finality, and credits your account at 1 CERT = 100 credits.
Issue receipts. Each costs 3 credits.

What about fiat?

There is no fiat payment path. No Stripe, no credit card, no ACH, no wire. Every customer — individual or enterprise — funds credits the same way: by holding CERT and bridging it.

This is a deliberate design choice that keeps the network's legal posture clean (utility-token-only) and the on-ramp on-chain. See the full rationale at certnetwork.net.

Cost at typical volumes (at $0.08 launch)

Receipts / month	Credits	CERT	≈ USD
1,000	3,000	30 CERT	$2.40
10,000	30,000	300 CERT	$24
100,000	300,000	3,000 CERT	$240
1,000,000	3,000,000	30,000 CERT	$2,400

Where the CERT actually goes

Customer CERT lands in the Treasury multisig — the same 3-of-5 wallet that holds the 200M Treasury allocation. The Foundation uses Treasury CERT for operating runway, audits, exchange listings, market-maker contracts, ecosystem grants, and (Phase 2) verifier network rewards.

CERT supply does not change — ownership shifts from holders → Foundation as the network is used. Same economic flywheel as Helium (HNT), Filecoin (FIL), Render (RNDR). No burn, no recycling, no swap.

Receipt-signing key vs. Treasury wallet

Important: the keypair that signs receipts is not the wallet that holds CERT. They're completely separate:

The signing key is single-sig, held by the backend, funded only with enough SOL for hash-anchoring tx fees. Compromise affects future signatures, not Treasury funds.
The Treasury wallet is a 3-of-5 multisig. The backend reads its balance but cannot move funds.

Free Trial — fine print

30 credits, one-time, per account.
Anti-Sybil: verified email + IP / device fingerprint + optional org domain.
Funded from the Community / Airdrop bucket (9% of total CERT supply, reserved for this purpose).
After the grant is consumed, the only path to additional credits is the CERT bridge.