Slinky Consensus

Public models are indexed, scored, and rewarded by Slinky Consensus. Creators may keep a policy private or publish it; published policies enter a transparent, on-chain ranking system.

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Publication Modes

Mode	Registry entry	Access control	Protocol fee
Private	none	Owner API key only	0
Public	{modelCID, configCID, owner, fee_bps}	Open signal stream	optional listener micro-fee¹

¹ Micro-fees are routed to the treasury and do not fund the creator/curator payout discussed below.

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Slinky Score

For a public model i at time t

Symbol	Definition	Default
Ei​(t)	equity value after latest verified signal	—
τ	trailing window	7 days
Ri​(t)	net return over trailing window	—
Σi​(t)	$SLINKY currently staked on model i	dynamic
Ai​(t)	audit-pass flag (0 or 1)	1 when ≥ 3 identical receipts

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Reward Emissions

The protocol mints E fresh $SLINKY every seven-day epoch and allocates it by score:

Recipient	Share of epochPool ( 𝑖 )
Creator	50 %
Curators	50 %, split pro-rata by stake weight and lock-time

Early stakers gain leverage because their weight matters most while Σ_𝑖​ is still small.

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Forward Audit

• Signal must arrive ≤ 5 s after candle close.

• Auditors replay signals with canonical close price; identical equity-curve hash ⇒ receipt.

• Quorum (≥ 3 identical receipts) flips A_i​ to 1, credits auditors from a separate inflation slice, and unlocks the model’s share of the epoch pool.

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Uniqueness Guard

Before publish(), the Registry hashes the weight tensor: H = SHA256(weights). If H already exists, the transaction reverts, eliminating duplicate uploads.