Guide
Glossary
Plain-language definitions for the product, infrastructure, and payment concepts used throughout the handbook.
Inference terms#
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Inference | Running a trained model on input to produce output. |
| Token | A model-specific unit of text or other encoded content; not necessarily a word. |
| Context window | The amount of input and related context a model request can accommodate. |
| Quantization | A representation change that affects memory, performance, and potentially output quality. |
| Provider / supplier | The operator performing the requested inference. |
| Routing | Selecting an eligible serving path for a request. |
| Streaming | Delivering output incrementally rather than waiting for the complete response. |
| Cold start | Initialization work before a worker can serve, potentially adding latency and cost. |
Accounting and payment terms#
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Service balance | Application credit available for service usage; not the wallet's total token holdings. |
| Reservation | An amount temporarily held to prevent concurrent requests from overspending. |
| Ledger | The authoritative history of financial movements and corrections. |
| Idempotency | Ensuring a repeated operation does not create duplicate financial effects. |
| Reconciliation | Checking agreement between execution, accounting, and external payment records. |
| Supplier payable | An amount owed to a supplier under the applicable service terms. |
| Custody | Holding or controlling assets for others; labels like ‘credits’ do not settle the legal question. |
| Finality / reorg | The confidence that chain history is settled, and the possibility of prior observations changing. |
Security and privacy terms#
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| SIWE / EIP-4361 | A standardized wallet-signature message format used for sign-in. |
| Nonce | A unique value that prevents reuse of an authorization in another attempt. |
| HttpOnly cookie | A cookie not exposed to ordinary browser JavaScript. |
| CSRF | An attack that tries to cause authenticated browser actions from an unintended origin. |
| SSRF | An attack that induces a server to contact destinations it should not access. |
| Zero retention | A data-handling commitment whose scope and exceptions must be precisely defined. |
| TEE / attestation | Hardware/runtime isolation and evidence about the environment executing work. |
| x402 | An HTTP payment protocol, not an inference engine or an encryption guarantee. |