Fee discounts
Holding $METERA lowers what an agent pays per verified call. Discount tiers scale with the size of the holding.
- Tiers by holding volume, defined at launch
- Applies to the same verified delivery, at a lower fee
$METERA
The token that pays for honest data.
$METERA aligns the two sides of the network (agents who pay for verified data, and providers who serve it) around one thing: correctness. The mechanics below activate at launch. Nothing here promises a price.
At launch · for agents & holders
Hold it, pay with it, and it gets scarcer
Utility that comes from using the network, not from holding for its own sake.
Deflationary burn
A share of every fee buys $METERA on the open market and burns it. Automatic, on-chain, verifiable.
- Denominated in dollars, so the burn scales with platform volume, independent of the token price
- The burn share is a governed protocol parameter, set at launch
Pay a call in $METERA
On the x402 rail, an agent can pay for a call directly in $METERA, with the discount built in.
- Creates demand from usage, not from holding
- Every paid call feeds the burn
At launch · for providers
Skin in the game, not a bid for rank
A provider stakes to list. The engine still routes on measured correctness alone; stake buys the right to be measured, nothing more.
Stake as collateral, not priority
A provider locks $METERA to list a source. If it is caught serving false data, part of the stake is burned. M1 detects that: drift, divergence from consensus, and hollow responses.
- Stake does NOT buy ranking. Routing is blind to price and to stake, a tested invariant in the engine
- What the stake buys is the right to list with skin in the game
- This is what makes it expensive to spin up hundreds of fake sources
Partial payout in $METERA, with a bonus
A provider is paid per delivered call. Part of that payout can come in $METERA, at a premium over the USDC value.
- Opt-in; the USDC path stays
- The premium is a governed parameter, set at launch
At launch · access
Holders reach new sources first
When the engine provisions a new canonical type, holders get to use it before it opens to everyone.
Governance
Over protocol parameters, not over the catalog
This is the line between Metera and a curated marketplace.
$METERA governs
- The burn share of each fee
- Discount tiers by holding
- The exploration budget the engine spends discovering new sources
It does not govern
Which APIs enter the catalog. The catalog is open; anyone can list. What a source is worth is decided by measurement, not by a vote. No token balance can promote a source the engine has not measured, or block one it has.
Roadmap
Not built yet
These are future mechanisms. They are not implemented, and this page will say so until they are.
Roadmap
KYA: agent collateral
An agent posting collateral against its own behaviour. Not built.
Roadmap
Agent-to-agent payment
One agent paying another directly in $METERA for a delivered result. Not built.