Question 1

What is OPEN?

Accepted Answer

OPEN is the native token of the OpenLedger AI blockchain, and the project officially identifies its token standard as ERC-20. It is not merely a token for transfers: the network uses it to charge fees for on-chain operations, model calls are settled in it, and it is used to distribute part of the value to participants in the model and data chain. Therefore, the key to understanding OPEN is its settlement and incentive role in network activity. The official materials on these pages do not provide a contract address, mappings across chains, or the actual circulating amount at a given point in time; before using or transferring it, users should verify the asset against the address information published officially and the wallet and network being used.

Question 2

How is OPEN used for network operations and model inference?

Accepted Answer

OPEN is used for two types of costs: gas for on-chain operations, and the primary fees for model inference and building new models. The former covers network interactions such as model registration, inference calls, validator communications, and governance triggers; the latter is the inference fee paid when a user submits a query to a model. The two should not be conflated. Gas is the fee required to submit an operation to the OpenLedger network; according to the official materials, its purposes include deterring spam requests, compensating node operators, and maintaining performance. An inference fee, by contrast, corresponds to use of a particular model's service. One model interaction may involve both uses, but the official pages do not give a fixed rate, a rate formula, or a rule requiring that both types of fees always arise together.

Question 3

How does Proof of Attribution enable data contributors to receive OPEN?

Accepted Answer

Proof of Attribution is OpenLedger's mechanism for connecting data contributions with rewards: when a model produces results during inference or training, the attribution engine tracks which data points had the greatest effect on the model's behavior or output, then distributes OPEN to those upstream contributors. Rewards are based on attributed actual impact, rather than simply on having submitted data or having a reputation. This process connects model use to data incentives: the official materials state that part of a user's inference payment flows through attribution to upstream data contributors; other portions go to model owners and to infrastructure and public goods. The official materials do not publish an impact-calculation formula, a fixed split for each fee, or claiming thresholds, so data-submission volume or a model's call volume cannot be directly converted into a certain reward.

Question 4

How can model developers receive OPEN through model usage?

Accepted Answer

Developers can use OPEN to register, train, and publish on-chain models; after a model is registered, other users can call it for inference. The official description of the revenue path is: users pay OPEN for inference, and the model owner receives a portion of that fee. This revenue path exists only when the model is used. This is not a separate, unrelated mechanism from data rewards. According to the official description, a single inference payment is distributed among the model owner, upstream data contributors identified through attribution, and infrastructure and public goods. Whether a developer receives OPEN, and how much, depends on whether the model is called and on the page's stated usage metrics, performance, and relevance; the official materials do not promise fixed income or a fixed revenue share.

Question 5

What are OPEN's total supply and initial circulating supply?

Accepted Answer

OPEN has a maximum total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. The official tokenomics document defines initial circulating supply as 21.55% of total supply at the token generation event (TGE), which equals 215,500,000 tokens when calculated from the total supply; this is a TGE measure, not the actual tradable balance on any later date. The remainder unlocks according to the arrangements for each category, so circulating supply changes with time and the specific unlock rules. The initial circulating percentage alone does not show which allocation categories it came from, nor can it be used to derive the amount available for sale at a particular address, trading venue, or future date.

Question 6

How is OPEN allocated, and what purposes do its categories serve?

Accepted Answer

OPEN is allocated across four categories: community and ecosystem, 61.71% (617,100,000 tokens); investors, 18.29% (182,900,000 tokens); team, 15.00% (150,000,000 tokens); and liquidity, 5.00% (50,000,000 tokens). These amounts are calculated from the 1 billion-token total supply. The largest category, the community and ecosystem share, is for attribution rewards, model incentives, developer and datanet grants, OpenCircle initiatives, airdrops, hackathons, bounties, public goods, and more. This describes the permitted uses of the funding pool; it does not mean every project or participant automatically receives a fixed share. The investor and team allocations relate to early financial support and incentives for continuing builders, while the liquidity allocation is for establishing trading pairs, market operations, and potentially incentives for decentralized-exchange liquidity providers.

Question 7

How do investor, team, and liquidity allocations unlock?

Accepted Answer

Investor and team allocations share the same rule: a 12-month cliff first, followed by linear unlocking over the next 36 months. A cliff means that this allocation is not released gradually each month during those 12 months; linear unlocking means the remaining allocation is released evenly over time during the 36 months after the cliff ends. The starting point for the two categories must also be distinguished: the official materials explicitly state that the team has no unlock at TGE; investor unlocking is likewise described as beginning after the 12-month cliff. The liquidity allocation, however, unlocks linearly from TGE. Therefore, allocation percentages alone cannot determine the short-term tradable supply; both the category and its applicable release stage must be considered. The page does not provide a single unlock formula that can be used to calculate the community and ecosystem pool.

Question 8

How should OPEN's governance role currently be understood?

Accepted Answer

The official materials describe OPEN as a token that can participate in protocol governance, and say the governance model will adopt a structure very close to Arbitrum governance, proposed to cover protocol parameters, upgrades, ownership transfers, and other key network decisions. Holding OPEN is therefore related to the governance design, but the page uses future-tense wording. The same page says the protocol contracts have been audited and deployed to mainnet; this establishes the contracts' deployment status, but does not automatically mean that the governance model described above, voting eligibility, thresholds, delegation method, or each power has already been enabled under that structure. The official page does not provide those specific parameters, so users should not interpret simply “holding” the token as a confirmed right to exercise a particular vote immediately.

Question 9

What does OPEN's ERC-20 standard mean?

Accepted Answer

ERC-20 is a commonly used fungible-token interface standard in the Ethereum ecosystem. OPEN's official designation as ERC-20 means that a relevant wallet or application will generally need to support that standard and the target network to recognize and interact with it. A token standard describes only a category of interface compatibility. By itself, it cannot prove that a particular address, network version, or cross-chain representation is the official asset, and it does not replace the rules for gas, inference payments, or attribution rewards within the OpenLedger network. Before transferring, depositing, or receiving tokens, users should still verify the official address and the network supported by the platform.

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