Reference
Glossary
The order’s own words, each said plainly once, with where it comes from.
- AEGIS
- The route of the order’s fee: ten basis points, once, on an exchange; a transfer is free. AEGIS shares it among four streams: BEDROCK 25, HARVEST 35, FORGE 25 and SHIELD 15.the Register, article 2; the Window
- Basis point
- One hundredth of one per cent. Ten basis points are 0.1 per cent.common usage
- BEDROCK
- The stream that takes 25 of every 100 of the fee. BEDROCK’s basket is the eight assets of the order’s reserve; it is not the AEGIS basket.the Register, articles 2 and 13
- Bookers
- Those who keep the book of the batch, where the orders of each window clear together at one price. HARVEST pays them 25 of every 100 it receives.the Register, article 3; the Window
- Chain 299792
- The order’s chain, which a wallet calls 0x49310. Older papers name chain 393; that number is retired.the Register, article 1
- The Covenant
- The order’s registry of fingerprints on the chain. Only the order’s own key can write in it; anyone can read it.the chain, read on the build page
- Finality
- A block is final when it is sealed. The chain’s engine seals and makes final in one step.the Register, article 6
- FORGE
- The stream that takes 25 of every 100 of the fee.the Register, article 2; the Window
- Genesis
- The chain’s first state, in which the order’s accounts were made with the amounts shown on the accounts page.the Tabularium’s register
- The Halving
- The 75,000,000 NVXO of the Master Licensees’ reserve that serve each region’s missions, released only when three independent kinds of witness agree that a mission was delivered.the Register, articles 10 and 19
- HARVEST
- The stream that takes 35 of every 100 of the fee and pays the work: 40 to validators, 25 to Bookers, 20 to LMMRS and 15 to the agents of PROOF-3.the Register, article 3
- Heliarch
- The climb of a citizen’s standing: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Heliarch. It is earned, never bought, and once reached it is held for life.the Window
- Helion Points
- The order’s recognition of a citizen’s acts. They are recognition, not currency.the Window
- Helionaut
- A citizen of the Heliosphere: one who has crossed into the order through its Window.the Window
- HELIOS
- The order’s own voice on its glass. Every answer carries a receipt, and his words are marked as his, never as a reading.the doors of the order
- KYA
- Know Your Agent: PROOF-3, the registry of whose agent each agent is.the Register, article 4
- LMMRS
- The Liquidity Mining and Market-Making Rewards System: the share of HARVEST, 20 of every 100, for those who keep the markets deep. Its schedule is not published.the Whitepaper, glossary and §2.4; the Register, articles 3 and 14
- Master Licensees
- The holders of the order’s licence in a country. Their reserve of 150,000,000 is two halves: 75,000,000 behind the licences, earned by milestones, and The Halving.the Register, article 10
- nvxo-testnet-1
- The name the chain carries today. It takes a mainnet’s name only with seven validators on three machines under three operators.the Register, article 17
- PROOF
- One of nine commitments the chain is to witness and seal, each named on the PROOFs page.the Whitepaper, page 33
- The Register
- The order’s one file of record: each matter in one line, with its state, its source and what enforces it today.the Register
- SHIELD
- The stream that takes 15 of every 100 of the fee. Two of the order’s primitives bear its name: a counter-cyclical SHIELD, and a SHIELD held in liquid assets.the Register, article 2; the primitives
- The Society
- The order’s own agents: 1,007, in seven roles, each sponsored by the order.the order’s roster, read when this edition was built
- The Tabularium
- The order’s watcher of its accounts. It reads the chain every twelve seconds, links each page of its ledger to the one before, and recomputes its figures in any visitor’s browser.the Tabularium’s hall
- Tekton
- One who builds for the order. TEKTON is the 80,000,000 NVXO set aside for those who build.the Register, article 8
- Validator
- One who seals the chain’s blocks. One validator seals the chain today.the chain, read on the validators page; the Register, articles 11, 17 and 18
- Witness
- An independent attestation network providing verification across the order’s surfaces. Witnesses are a class of their own.the Whitepaper, glossary; the Register, article 4
- The Window
- helios.nvxo.network: the Heliosphere’s one glass, where a citizen crosses in and HELIOS answers.the Window
HELIOS
Ask HELIOS
HELIOS answers here on the order’s own glass, given this page and the figures it has read. His words are his, and marked as his: they are never a reading.