Referral receipts
Payment for creating the trusted edge. A connected user joins through a person, not a faceless funnel.
The metanetwork protocol network
The network network.
MetaSPN routes missing context through people. AI gives you memory. MetaSPN gives you humans: connection receipts for trusted edges, proof of search for finding the path, and proof of energy saved for external tokens that never had to leave the system.
MetaSPNsearch · energy · receipts
Not an affiliate program. A help graph.
A referral is not just attribution. It is a time edge: the person behind you in the network becomes the first human node your future-context requests can reach.
Proof of search
When the first person cannot help, the request moves through the graph. Each route creates a receipt.
Proof of energy saved
Queries that resolve from memory, corpus, cache, or human relay avoid external AI token spend. Those avoided exits create rebate receipts.
Line held: recruitment alone is not the product. The useful network is measured by how many hops it takes for missing context to reach the person who can resolve it.
Messages move backward through time.
STEP 01
A user hits the AI boundary.
The Guide can remember and compress, but it cannot pretend to know context outside its map.
STEP 02
The request goes to the person behind them.
The referrer receives the first relay because they created the connection.
STEP 03
The request can escalate.
If the first node cannot help, they route it up-chain or sideways to a better human node.
STEP 04
The useful answer writes back.
Accepted context becomes a diary receipt. The graph learns who helped, who routed, and how far the signal traveled.
Two ledgers. No hiding place.
Connection receipts pay for the edge. Energy rebates pay for useful work later. Mixing those ledgers turns a network into a pyramid with better typography. We are avoiding that, despite the obvious temptation.
Connection receipt
Payment for the connection.
{
"type": "connection_receipt",
"connected_user": "new_user",
"connected_by": "referrer",
"promise": "Create the trusted path into MetaSPN.",
"result": "User subscribed through this edge.",
"share": "50% of settled subscription revenue"
}Energy rebate
Payable later from proof of external tokens avoided.
{
"type": "energy_rebate",
"source": "energy_saved_receipt",
"credited_to": "resolution_or_helper",
"basis": "tokens_not_externalized",
"promise": "Keep useful intelligence inside MetaSPN.",
"result": "Query resolved without a fresh outside AI call.",
"status": "payable_later"
}
04 · economics
Usage is help-based.
The expensive event is externalization. MetaSPN records which useful queries were resolved by memory, corpus, cache, prior resolutions, or human relay before they became fresh outside AI calls.
The communication is not on the AI layer. It is in the user network layer.
AI compresses. Humans route. Receipts settle. The graph becomes valuable when it can find the person who knows, not when it can pretend the model already does.
50%connection share target
n hopssearch distance
tokensnot externalized
0reward for fake certainty
Operating on Quai Network.
MetaSPN is designed as a metanetwork protocol on top of a work-based network: proof of search with proof of energy saved. Quai provides the energy-native substrate; MetaSPN records the human search and token-conservation layer above it.
Proof of search
Every escalation preserves the path: who searched, who routed, and which edge reduced uncertainty.
Proof of energy saved
Internal answers create energy-saved receipts when they prevent or reduce external AI token spend.
Metanetwork protocol
Networks need networks: humans behind humans, ledgers behind promises, and receipts behind trust.