# Auraloy / Metal Intelligence Network (MIN)

> A Metal-native marketplace for verifiable, paid AI work. Independent workers
> provide AI outputs; evaluators score quality; customers pay in stablecoins;
> and reward tracks measurable usefulness and real settled demand — not token
> emissions. Settlement lives on Metal Blockchain (C-Chain).

## What it is (for agents & developers)

- **Intelligence Markets**: logical AI markets (e.g. KYB document extraction).
  Each defines a task, scoring rules, fees, bonds, and access policy.
- **Roles**: customers (pay), workers (serve AI), evaluators (score), market
  creators, validators, challengers.
- **Reward**: a composite score — quality (evaluator) + verified paid usage
  (sqrt-damped, anti-wash) + retention + efficiency + reliability. Emissions are
  demand-coupled (capped by real fee revenue), so a market with no paying
  customers earns ~nothing.
- **Off-chain**: AI execution, evaluation, prompts, outputs, PII.
  **On-chain (Metal C-Chain)**: escrow, bonds, commitments, scores, disputes.

## Live testnet (Metal Tahoe, chainId 381932)

Contracts (view on https://tahoe.metalscan.io):
- Escrow: 0x5f1C5a91F40e9e9c3de9F653307D32Dd4cC4c10f
- BondVault: 0x94368C975E193c0E602d8B4B44CB150ef47a1DE1
- MarketSettlement: 0xf0d09e00228aD7Ebe24e6F9E4A0f85CF9a4AaeE3
- Disputes: 0xA8Bd33d6E4aea0984f0644f00ce117C37c3e4014
- Commitments: 0xffF2E360b63F27c9199E40fc85d2D227aF5d1357
- Payment token (test): 0x2C7cdA2b988BC651045Fe4e4f6068A46a8F0C1cD

Add the network: RPC `https://tahoe.metalblockchain.org/ext/bc/C/rpc`,
chainId 381932, symbol METAL.

## Products

- **auraloy.com** — marketplace explorer (markets, workers, requests, testnet dApp).
- **chat.auraloy.com** — private AI chat + OpenAI-compatible API (`/v1/chat/completions`).

## Honest limitations

- The explorer's marketplace figures are sample data from the reference engine
  until the coordinator is hosted; on-chain contract state (testnet page) is real.
- "Private" = no-log policy, not cryptographic anonymity (see chat.auraloy.com/llms.txt).
- Reward/evaluation is verification-by-evaluation + economics, not verifiable compute.