Twenty claims and one sum

The engineering studio AIfa Works submitted the CODE Eternal ecosystem to the Solana Frontier Hackathon 2026, run by the Colosseum platform between 6 April and 11 May 2026. The submission rests on three pillars: a network of AI symbiosis, a deflationary 15/7/3 router that burns unclaimed shares, and a Proof-of-Memory protocol.

The diagnosis it opens with is familiar to anyone who has closed a tab in the middle of a long conversation. An assistant has no continuity: clear the history and the accumulated context drops to zero. The data itself sits with corporations free to rewrite their terms, lock an account or wipe a log. The proposed answer pairs two networks — settlement on Solana, storage on Arweave.

The “Eternal” tier costs 100 USDC. The contract is written in Rust on the Anchor framework, version 0.30.1, and cuts the incoming amount five ways: fifteen dollars to the first-level inviter, seven to the second, three to the third, ten kept by the platform, and sixty-five into the treasury for model APIs, Arweave storage and network development.

The platform's ten is halved again: five per cent of the payment goes to a standing burn, five to the Founder's Fund. The text is explicit that nothing is added on top of the price. The router divides the payment rather than charging above it, which is why the shares are obliged to close at a hundred. Ordinary wallet-to-wallet transfers carry no deduction at all — a zero transfer fee is what centralised exchanges expect from a listing candidate, and the ecosystem's service transactions are kept separate from everyday sends.

What happens to an unoccupied slot

Here is the part worth the reading. In a conventional partner scheme the unassigned slice quietly stays with the operator: no inviter, no payout, money settles. This design inverts that. The contract reads an on-chain table of links built on custom PDA accounts, climbs three levels up, and where it finds a gap it forbids the platform from keeping the difference.

The unclaimed seven and three per cent are turned into a buyback and a burn. If someone arrives with no referral link at all, the whole twenty-five per cent goes the same way. Added to the standing five, that sets a ceiling of thirty per cent of the payment, reached precisely when the tree above the user is empty from top to bottom. The coefficients in the formula are the same 0.15, 0.07 and 0.03, and the indicator switches on at every level where no sponsor was found.

The economics invert with it. Missing people in the tree stop being lost revenue and start accelerating scarcity. Emptiness works for whoever is already inside.

Destruction here is a sequence rather than a gesture. Accumulated USDC travels by cross-program invocation into Raydium liquidity pools, is swapped for $GALATIN, and only the purchased volume is retired by the Burn instruction of the SPL Token program. The exchange is a tool, not a destination: until the token is bought off the market there is nothing to burn.

The article then makes a caveat most write-ups drop for the sake of a neat line. The string of thirty-two ones that circulates in burn explanations is Solana's System Program identifier, not a burn address. Sending tokens there destroys nothing. The gap between “transferred and forgotten” and “Burn was called” is the gap between a screenshot and a smaller circulating supply.

The second money question is entry. Judges and investors know where an ordinary visitor gives up: installing a wallet extension, buying SOL for gas, learning what a keypair is. So the door was made familiar — sign in with Google or Apple. Privy provisions an embedded non-custodial Solana wallet in the browser at that moment, and the key is split into fragments under Shamir's scheme: no seed phrase to keep, and no access to the assets for either Privy or the developers.

Network fees are absorbed by a sponsor contract. The embedded wallet signs, but the transaction leaves through a relayer built on Octane and the Squads Gas Station; the SOL is paid out of the treasury while an equivalent amount is debited in USDC or $GALATIN. The user still pays — just not in a coin they do not hold.

Starting costs nothing at all: a newcomer receives trial credits, and access can be extended through marketing tasks and by spreading a personal link. Tokens earned that way land in the same embedded wallet and convert into a subscription in one tap, with no exchange and no KYC in the path.

The chain was chosen on two numbers: $0.00025 per transaction and 400 milliseconds to block finality. The $GALATIN emission is capped hard at ten billion and allocated by purpose. Forty-five per cent — 4.5 billion — sits in the Proof-of-Memory pool and is released linearly for Think-to-Earn. Twenty per cent goes to exchange liquidity, unlocked at listing. Fifteen funds ecosystem grants with a linear unlock across twenty-four months. Ten goes to the team under a six-month cliff followed by the same twenty-four months, and ten more to the DAO reserve.

A vote that cannot be bought

Governance is aimed at the standing failure of on-chain voting, where the size of the bag decides. Voting weight is earned by verified contribution to training the model and is called Memory Weight. The distribution lives in a Merkle tree whose root hash is periodically committed to Solana through state compression, and a vote requires a proof of the current share. A holder who bought a great deal and contributed no thinking cannot steer technical decisions.

The list of twenty reads like an inventory of finished parts, yet the text brakes in several places — and those brakes are worth more than the window.

On the personal symbiont it says the model may run in the browser on WebGPU, while computation on trusted servers under zero-knowledge proofs is a route still under consideration: ZK inference of a full-size language model remains impractical. Encryption is described with the same care — client-side for the permanent archives, server-side under master keys for fast vector search — and the wording is that it lowers the risk of plaintext leaks, not that it removes it.

The top tier is not a subscription. A thousand dollars is paid once for a physical device shipped to the owner, the interactive Agent Mr. White rabbit, and only afterwards does the two-hundred-a-month memory synchronisation begin. Stop paying and the toy enters hardware hibernation, shutting off speakers and microphone until the on-chain status resumes.

And the distinction that matters most. A seat in the San Francisco accelerator, half a million dollars of early-stage investment and grounds for O-1/EB-1 talent visas are what a win would open, not what is already in hand. The source keeps entry and outcome carefully apart; retellings are where the two get welded together.

Of twenty promises exactly one is verifiable, but verifiable in full: the split of a payment. It is written in numbers, it closes at a hundred, it has a thirty-per-cent burn ceiling and it rests on machinery visible in the chain — a market buy and a call to the retirement instruction. Everything else is measured in time: devices have to ship, zero-knowledge inference has to get cheap, the hackathon has to end.

That is the honest frame for a text like this. Count what counts, and keep the rest in the column marked “declared” until the day a measurement appears.