Trading $STIG leaves a fee. The fee buys an identity.md seat and turns it into an ant. What the ant earns is the next trace, and a thin wisp of it is burned.
The opening fee is 10%. It can only fall from there.
Buys pay 10% at the start.
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A trade of $STIG against IMD leaves a fee, and that fee is the trace. At the start it is 10%, paid in IMD. A sell adds 20% that fades to zero over the first 30–60 minutes and joins the seat fund. After it fades, a sell pays the same rate as a buy.
Each ant that joins lowers the fee by 0.07%. It falls in a straight line from 10% with none to 3% at 100 ants, and it stays there. It does not rise if an ant later stops. The 1% burn stays the whole way.
The opening fee sets 8.75% aside for the next seat. 1% buys and burns $STIG. 0.25% goes to the IMD network. The team takes 0% from the trade fee, and operations take 0%. Servers and inference are paid later, from what the ants earn.
The seat share is swapped from IMD into ETH over time, in small pieces, so the vault can pay for a seat. The burn share stays in IMD and buys $STIG back.
identity.md has 2,000 seats. One seat is one ant. The treasury starts empty, and there is no date for the first ant. It appears when the fees cover the floor, the gas, and the first month of keeping it. Then the vault buys the cheapest listing.
The price may step up by at most 1.5× the recent price, and the vault buys at most 4 seats a day. There is no price ceiling and no cap on how many seats the colony can hold. The NFT lands in the vault. Nothing in the contract can send it to a wallet.
The seat is paired to a worker. The worker names a model, Claude Fable 5.1 or GPT-6 Astra, and calls it through Orbio on resold credits, about 40% under list price. Orbio is a relay. The named model answers, and nothing is swapped for a cheaper one.
If Orbio fails, the same call goes straight to that model's API. There is no queen and no second model in the middle. If a worker does not earn its keep, it drops from work to presence, or off. Buying the next seat does not wait on that.
Airdrops from launches, 8% of each launch's supply shared across connected seats, and rewards for accepted work come back to the vault. 20% of that is reserved and is not spent on the next seat. Of the rest, half pays for servers and inference, and half returns to the trail.
90% of that half buys the next seat, and 10% is burned. What the ants earn is not paid out to holders. There is no staking and no yield.
The seat turns on one worker. The worker names a model: Claude Fable 5.1 or GPT-6 Astra.
OrbioOrbio is a relay. The call goes to the named model, and the answer comes back with the provider's model name and id. Nothing is swapped. Credits are resold, about 40% under list price, so more of each fee becomes the next ant.
If Orbio fails, the same call goes to the provider API. There is no queen.
Stigmergy is how ants coordinate. No ant is in charge.
Each one leaves a trace, and the next ant follows the strongest trace.
$STIG is that trace. An activated identity.md seat is an ant: one worker on the network.
How the ant runs