Glossary

Blueprint — immutable versioned reusable simulation/model engine.

Designer — creator of a Blueprint.

World — configured deployment of one Blueprint version; it may use an optional local token.

Launcher — creator/operator of a World.

World Token — category for an optional named token with defined utility inside one World; not a literal ticker.

Season — bounded immutable run/competition/epoch within a World.

Position — one player's entry, strategy/configuration, and optional $SPAWN capital commitment.

$SPAWN — existing token intended for common protocol capital, collateral, settlement, and security functions where production contracts enable them.

Spawn Unit (SU) — internal 1:1 accounting unit corresponding to locked $SPAWN; has no universal physical meaning.

$ETH — native gas asset and planned funding asset for runtime expenses.

Runtime Battery / RuntimeVault — $ETH-funded budget for compute, verification, storage, and related execution costs.

Tick — one authorized state transition or logical execution step.

Checkpoint — compact commitment to simulation state at a defined point.

State root — hash/Merkle commitment identifying a specific serialized state.

Input root — commitment to the exact ordered external inputs consumed over a transition/batch.

Replay — independently rerunning a pinned model with the same state, inputs, environment, and seed to compare output commitments.

Provenance — structured record of datasets, sources, licenses, citations, and sourced-versus-designed decisions.

PENDING / VERIFIED / FINALIZED / SETTLED — result lifecycle stages.

Runtime Provider — entity supplying compute; never automatically has fund-custody authority.

Verifier — independent process/entity checking candidate execution.

Compute Profile — measured CPU/GPU/memory/I/O/data/verification resource profile for a Blueprint configuration.

Economic lineage — immutable attribution path from World to Launcher and Blueprint version/Designer used for fee routing.