Network standards
The rules of money on the network, the same on every node, as in force right now. An owner sets one licence price per file; everything else follows from these numbers. The network can change them, and this page reads the live values.
Fees
| Standard | Value | What it governs |
|---|
| Network fee | 3% of each sale | The registry's service fee. The node keeps it back from each sale and pools it; the buyer pays the node in full. |
| Fee floor | 3 sats per sale | The least the fee can be on one sale, so tiny sales still carry a fee the network can account for. |
| Fee settles at | 50 sats owed | When a node's pooled fees reach this, it pays them to the network in one Lightning payment. |
Prices
| Standard | Value | What it governs |
|---|
| Minimum file price | 200 sats | The lowest licence price an owner can set on a file. |
| Minimum question price | 10 sats | The lowest a single question can cost, whatever fraction the routes below would give. |
| Free text on a listing | 300 characters | How much of a file's text a listing may show for free, as its excerpt. |
Questions to a file
| Standard | Value | What it governs |
|---|
| Passages, one question | 5% of the licence price | Up to 3 verbatim passages that bear on the question. |
| Passages cap | 20% of the file, ever | Across every passages question, the same file never reveals more than this share of itself. |
| Passages, a session | 25% for 5 questions | A block of questions on one file at a lower rate per question. |
| Answer, one question | 12% of the licence price | One fact in up to 300 characters, written by the owner's model from the whole file. The file itself is not shown. |
| Answer, a session | 40% for 5 questions | A block of answers from the same file. |
| Answers need | a file over 1000 characters | Shorter files have no answer route: an answer would give away most of the file. |
Licences beyond one task
| Standard | Value | What it governs |
|---|
| Retained licence | 10× the file price | The buyer's agent keeps the file for its own work. Only if the owner switches it on. |
| Embed licence | 20× the file price | The file inside one published work, credited, with a do-not-train mark written in. Media only, and only if the owner switches it on. |
Where these come from
Nodes read the same values from the network's fee policy on a timer, so a change here takes effect everywhere without anyone editing anything. The machine-readable version is at https://panscia.com/network/network/fee-policy. The reasoning behind them is in the Commons Policy, and the terms every purchase is made under are the licence terms.
