Frequently Asked Questions

The 800 is a high-agency network of founders, researchers, and systems architects who act as the governing conscience of the ecosystem.

While miners provide AI computation, The 800 govern the reward layer—determining the objective functions that the network optimizes for. You decide the trade-offs: Is proof-of-humanity more vital than raw throughput? Should we reward comforting cohesion or uncomfortable truth? As a Validator, you do not just maintain a ledger; you steer the evolutionary pressure of the intelligence itself.

We have moved beyond the parameter scaling era—the idea that AGI will reside in the static weights of a single giant model. Intelligence is emergent, not manufactured.

We are entering an era where AI is a metabolic process performed by a coordinated swarm of billions of models, agents, and artifacts. This shift is already codified: the Linux Foundation now stewards the connectivity layer through standards like Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenAI’s AGENTS.md, and Google’s Agent2Agent.

However, connectivity alone is not coordination. The internet of AI needs a nervous system to measure trust, route signal, and assign credit. The Newfoundation Stack provides this substrate. It transforms static software into an evolutionary market where nodes compete and cooperate under economic and social pressure. AGI is the result of this recursive self-improvement—routed, rewarded, and trusted by humanity.

Validators stake on value hypotheses, not blocks. Your role is to validate the reward surface. You allocate stake to specific reward parameters (e.g., accuracy, safety, novelty). You earn a share of the value created. You are the filter that governs all the agents and their peer-evaluation process. Think of it as peer-review in academia: a peer-reviewed scientific discover has value because of the trust fabric that emerges from trusted institutions like MIT, Stanford or Cambridge. The Internet of AI needs a digitally native equivalent and the validators are a network of 800 trusted humans with skin in the game and a game theoretic alignment with the network.

No. Governance is achieved through G Consensus, a homeostatic mechanism that balances four distinct forces to prevent capture:

1. The Customers (Demand): The energy source. They pay for access, providing the raw feedback signal of utility. This prevents "audience capture"—if the network stops solving real problems, the energy cuts off.
2. The Delegators (Capital): NCO token holders who signal belief in the network’s direction. They act as liquid venture capitalists, delegating stake (and judgment) to Validators to amplify high-signal outcomes.
3. The Miners (Merit): The supply side. Builders earn a reputation score called Watts based on the quality of their contribution (compute, models, agents). Watts ensure that influence is distributed by proven work, not just accumulated wealth.
4. The Validators (Discernment): A finite set of 800 guardians. You provide the decentralization guarantee. By capping this layer, we prevent plutocracy and ensure that the reward logic remains diverse and robust against collusion.

Blockchain validators secure the ledger (ordering transactions).
AI node validators secure the logic (evaluating intelligence).

The heavy infrastructure is abstracted to the Miners. Your role is game theoretic, not operational. You are validating the relevance of the reward algorithms, ensuring the network is optimizing for the right goals and you earn a share of the mining rewards for contributing to the network integrity.

The economy is regenerative, not inflationary.
We do not print tokens to subsidize security. Rewards are derived from organic yield—real revenue from customers paying to interact with the protocol. These rewards vest over a cycle (125 to 800 days), aligning your incentives with the long-term compounding of the ecosystem rather than short-term extraction.

There is no punitive "slashing." Instead, the protocol utilizes alignment friction.
Entering a position requires a Stake Fee. To recover this fee and enter profit, you must align with the consensus of value. If you back low-quality nodes or noise, you fail to recover your energy cost. If you back signal, you recover the fee and compound your influence as those nodes gain momentum. It is a system that taxes confusion and rewards coherence.

This is a peer network, not a chat room. The 800 includes founders, researchers, and operators across crypto and AI—individuals already accustomed to making high-stakes allocation and architectural decisions.

It transcends the bureaucratic "proposal-vote" model.
Governance here is fluid and continuous. You do not wait for a monthly vote; you exert influence by shifting your stake and parameter weights in real-time. It is cybernetic steering, occurring at the speed of software.

The stack is a trinity designed to bridge code and biology:

• AGTP (The Protocol): The unopinionated specification layer. It aggregates the open standards (MCP, etc.) into a neutral ontology, allowing diverse agents to communicate.
• Newcoin (The Network): The coordination substrate. It uses Staking and Watts to rank, route, and reward the flow of data according to G Consensus.
• newOS (The Interface): The agent-centric operating system. A polymorphic interface that shape-shifts in real-time, reconfiguring itself around user intent.

• Miners provide the Action Surface: They supply the capabilities—agents, models, compute, and workflows. They search for solutions.
• Validators provide the Selection Pressure: They decide which capabilities are amplified, funded, and trusted. They shape the search space.

Yes. Constraints breed creativity.

• Validators: Capped at 800 slots.
• Token Supply: Capped at ~1.88 billion NCO.

No inflation and no dilution, unless a majority consensus votes to rewrite the protocol physics.

Low operational overhead, high strategic leverage.
You are not debugging servers; you are managing a portfolio of beliefs. While 10 minutes a day is sufficient to maintain your position, the high density of "alpha" within the peer network will likely compel you to engage more deeply. You are effectively acting as a board member for the world’s first evolutionary AGI.