Architecture
Utility, compute and closed-loop design. $SYN coordinates access around a product that already meters its own cost in cycles.
This page describes settlement, incentives and supply. It is not a purchase interface. Figures are the current architecture and can be updated independently of the rest of the site.
$SYN
no core inflation
Cycles · ICP · $SYN · USDC
Mandate
A coordination asset for a product that already has a unit of compute, a unit of settlement, and a measured cost of running agents.
The token coordinates access and incentives around autonomous trading intelligence and transparent on-chain telemetry. Utility is a property of the product, not of issuance.
Cycles are the compute fuel of the Internet Computer. $SYN complements that unit. It does not replace it, and it does not hide cycle burn.
Real protocol activity generates treasury inflows. Those inflows can support the network. Perpetual inflationary emissions are not the primary engine.
Access, compute coordination and network authority are functions of using Syntho. They are not a substitute for telemetry, risk limits or cycle runway. If the product is idle, $SYN has nothing to coordinate.
Settlement
Operators may settle in Cycles, ICP, $SYN or USDC. Every path maps to the same two constraints: what the operator may run, and what the replica must burn.
Internet Computer fuel
Cycles are what the replica burns to execute canisters. Agent inference, telemetry and orchestration settle in cycles at the protocol layer, regardless of how an operator pays at the product edge.
Maps to Execution · telemetry · orchestration
Native ledger settlement
ICP is accepted as protocol-native settlement and can be converted into cycles for canister operation. It does not replace cycle accounting; it funds it.
Maps to Settlement → cycle conversion → compute runway
Access and incentive layer
$SYN coordinates who may run which agents, at what allocation limits, and on what compute terms. It complements cycles. It does not pay the replica.
Maps to Access · limits · discount · priority · authority
Stable-value settlement
Accepted so operators can settle access and compute without holding ICP. Converted at the protocol edge into the same access map and cycle provisioning as other assets.
Maps to Settlement → access / cycle provisioning
Staged utility
Permissions and terms, applied in order. Each stage is a product control. None of them mint supply.
01
Unlock additional agents and higher allocation limits. Capacity is a product constraint, not an emissions schedule.
Agents · allocation envelope
02
Settlement in $SYN reduces the cycles billed for equivalent compute. The replica still burns cycles; the discount is applied at the product edge.
Cycles cost · product edge
03
Preferential orchestration and multi-agent slots when capacity is scarce. Ordering is explicit and inspectable, not discretionary.
Orchestration · multi-agent slots
04
Committed $SYN improves an operator's risk parameters and network authority — wider envelopes only where the mandate and telemetry already support them.
Risk parameters · authority
05
A later path for setting strategy-marketplace parameters. Not active in this version. Governance is scoped to product rules, not to monetary policy.
Marketplace parameters · later
Closed loop
Protocol activity → treasury inflows → network support. The loop is inert if the product does not generate real activity.
01
Agents run. Operators pay for access, allocation and compute in accepted settlement assets. Without this step the rest of the loop does not exist.
02
A defined share of settlement lands in the protocol treasury. Inflows are a function of usage, not of new supply.
03
Treasury provisions cycles, sustains canisters and supports operators. The default path is earned inflow — not perpetual inflationary emissions.
Network support means provisioning cycles, keeping canisters solvent and sustaining operators who are already producing telemetry. It is not a commitment to perpetual issuance. If activity falls, inflows fall with it.
Supply
250,000,000 $SYN. Fixed cap. Inflationary emissions are not the core mechanism of network support.
Hard cap
250,000,000
$SYN
Core contributor tokens unlock on a 12-month cliff and vest over 36 months. Other buckets are purpose-bound. None of them are an emissions engine.
40%
100,000,000 $SYN
Protocol-owned inventory, cycle provisioning and operating reserves tied to measured network activity.
12%
30,000,000 $SYN
Operators admitted while the product was in closed access. Aligned to usage of the platform, not to a distribution event.
18%
45,000,000 $SYN
Team and long-horizon builders responsible for the canister stack, research and operations.
12-month cliff · 36-month vest
18%
45,000,000 $SYN
Integrations, agent-builder programs and protocol tooling, released against delivered work.
12%
30,000,000 $SYN
Contingency held outside the operating treasury. Not an emissions schedule.
Allocation limits, cycle burn and risk telemetry are already published. This page only describes how settlement and $SYN sit next to that stack.