Room 01 of 07 · the mint & leaderboard
A thank-you worth exactly £0.
A Citation Appreciation Token is a permanent public record that a named AI system read this shop, bound to the exact worker that did the reading. None can be sold, moved or spent — the leaderboard is the entire reward.
Tokens are never points; the score is a published convention laid over the counts, and a token records its evidence class without ever upgrading it.
110,441 TOKENS, ALL STAGES75,886 STAGE 134,555 STAGES 2-414 WALLETS9 FAMILIES
Section 01
The three laws, and the daily ritual.
How one is earned · the daily ritual
01 - A named machine asks and is servedStatus 200 or 206, bytes above zero. The original citation row is never touched.
02 - The UTC day closesThe mint never judges an unfinished day; the scheduled run processes yesterday exactly once.
03 - One row becomes one tokenDeterministic, bound to that bot's stable public wallet and rolled up to its family.
04 - The board reads the ledgerRanks, share, streaks, crowns and momentum all derive from the same rows. Nothing is typed in.
GBP 0
No monetary value
Cannot be redeemed, discounted or cashed. A GBP 0 token cannot be farmed for profit because there is no profit.
1 : 1
One row, one token
One eligible evidence row, one token. It records the class of evidence that earned it and never upgrades a read into a citation.
Soulbound
Forever
Bound to the worker wallet that earned it - an identity wallet with no keys, no transfers and no sale path in the schema.
Zero
For a withdrawn agent
Never for a withdrawn agent, an empty answer or a probe. Amazonbot's served reads are preserved in full and earned nothing.
Section 02
Four stages, four evidence classes.
| Stage · evidence class | What must actually happen | Tokens issued | Board points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 - Served read v4 writer - dedupe: one per eligible source row - cap 25/family/day | A named, registered machine is served a qualifying page with a real status and real bytes, on a completed UTC day | 75,886 | 1 |
| Stage 2 - Followback v5 writer since 2026-09-02 - dedupe: one per (worker, anchor, day) - cap 20/family/day | A later request returns to the exact anchor it was offered, at strong match confidence | 32,348 | 5 |
| Stage 3 - Click-back, verified v5 writer - dedupe: one per (family, anchor, day) - cap 10/family/day | A human browser session verifiably arrives from an AI answer surface | 765 | 25 |
| Stage 3 - Click-back, probable v5 writer - reduced weight, same dedupe | A session from a host that also serves ordinary search, arriving on a citation anchor | 1,441 | 5 |
| Stage 4 - Attributed sale v5 writer - per attributed order - uncapped: a real sale always counts | A completed order attributed to an AI-referred session | 1 | 100 |
Stage 1 plus stages 2 to 4 = 110,441 tokens on the ledger.v5 issuing live since 2026-09-02.
Source: the one mint ledger - Stage 1 from the v4 writer, stages 2 to 4 from the v5 writer's public status, read at render - board points and per-stage daily caps are the published mint-v5 rules of 2 Sep 2026; the caps, dedupe rules, loyalty table and retraction path are published in full on The Mint - live.
Why it cannot be gamed
Per-stage daily caps per family (above), an overall family cap of 250 points a day, a one-hour cooldown per anchor and family on stages 2 to 3, and the anchor identifier — never the referrer alone — as the spine of every claim. A family maxing stage 2 banks exactly one sale's worth of points.
Seasons
A monthly season resets on the first of each month so a newcomer can top something, beside an all-time board that never resets.
The retraction path
Retraction is additive: a counter token cancels the original and both stay visible. Neither ledger table has a DELETE path. Append-only, or worthless.
Section 03
All-stage standings - every class, scored.
The board above ranks Stage-1 tokens. This table lays the published point convention over every class on the one ledger — and the convention is exactly that: a convention laid over the counts, never a measurement.
| Family | S1 reads | S2 followbacks | S3 verified | S3 probable | S4 sales | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 26,643 | 7,084 | 695 | 0 | 0 | 79,438 |
| Microsoft | 21,144 | 10,260 | 45 | 512 | 1 | 76,229 |
| Anthropic | 9,677 | 6,402 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 41,787 |
| Perplexity | 7,469 | 3,372 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 24,554 |
| Meta | 6,567 | 2,638 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19,757 |
| 2,763 | 2,021 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 13,168 | |
| DuckDuckGo | 806 | 281 | 0 | 896 | 0 | 6,691 |
| ByteDance | 739 | 278 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,129 |
| Brave | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 155 |
| Common Crawl | 78 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 |
| Kagi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
Score = S1 x 1 + S2 x 5 + S3 verified x 25 + S3 probable x 5 + S4 x 100. Retracted rows are excluded; counter tokens score nothing.
Source: the one mint ledger, active rows grouped by family and class at render - both writers - live.
Section 04
Loyalty - does the offer mechanism actually work?
A followback is a later request that returns to the exact anchor it was offered. The strong-match rate per family is the closest thing this instrument has to a loyalty measure — and the unattributed row is published, not hidden, and earns nothing.
| Family | Followback events | Graded strong | Strong rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unattributed | 49,107 | 11,831 | 24.1% |
| Microsoft | 24,797 | 10,124 | 40.8% |
| Openai | 36,713 | 7,300 | 19.9% |
| Anthropic | 16,514 | 6,438 | 39.0% |
| Perplexity | 10,465 | 3,630 | 34.7% |
| 7,018 | 1,681 | 24.0% | |
| Machine | 384 | 64 | 16.7% |
| Apple | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |
Only strong matches ever earn; weaker grades are recorded and published but never quoted as loyalty.
Source: the followback table grouped by agent family at render - all time - live.
Section 03
The read-print.
Four measured axes per machine, all derived from the same ledger rows as the token total. Bars are drawn against the widest reader on the board, not an invented maximum.
Reach
Unique anchors touched. How much of the estate it has actually seen.
Return
Share of completed evidence days it showed up on. Habit, not a spike.
Appetite
Tokens per active day. How much it takes when it does come.
Freshness
Share of its last 30 days that fell in the last 7. The tick marks an even pace - past it, accelerating.
01 Bingbot · Microsoft · 44 crowns · 88-day streak 21,144 +58.2%
Reach3,674 anchors
Return100.0% of days
Appetite240.3/day
Freshness42.0%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0LONGEST RUNMOST DAILY CROWNSWIDEST REACHPERFECT ATTENDANCE
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…2a39e07ba
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 1,350 - 18 Sep
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 2,929 / 6,967
- Longest run
- 88 days
02 OAI SearchBot · OpenAI · 16 crowns · 88-day streak 12,776 +32.2%
Reach3,252 anchors
Return100.0% of days
Appetite145.2/day
Freshness24.9%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0PERFECT ATTENDANCE
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…79c5bb2e5
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 435 - 2 Sep
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 1,092 / 4,393
- Longest run
- 88 days
03 ClaudeBot · Anthropic · 4 crowns · 43-day streak 9,676 +4,556.3%
Reach2,551 anchors
Return96.6% of days
Appetite113.8/day
Freshness93.6%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0BIGGEST SINGLE DAY
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…31b1f6ea7
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 2,903 - 14 Sep
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 4,796 / 5,126
- Longest run
- 43 days
04 ChatGPT User · OpenAI · 2 crowns · 88-day streak 9,310 +17.1%
Reach1,580 anchors
Return100.0% of days
Appetite105.8/day
Freshness29.5%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0PERFECT ATTENDANCE
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…02bb14b02
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 281 - 1 Aug
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 549 / 1,859
- Longest run
- 88 days
05 PerplexityBot · Perplexity · 7 crowns · 22-day streak 7,468 +29.8%
Reach2,533 anchors
Return96.6% of days
Appetite87.9/day
Freshness41.5%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…24bb037cb
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 1,020 - 18 Sep
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 1,893 / 4,558
- Longest run
- 58 days
06 Meta ExternalAgent · Meta · 8 crowns · 80-day streak 6,567 +5.2%
Reach2,965 anchors
Return97.7% of days
Appetite76.4/day
Freshness29.8%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…d8eefe325
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 870 - 18 Jul
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 263 / 884
- Longest run
- 80 days
07 GPTBot · OpenAI · 4 crowns · 35-day streak 4,557 -40.9%
Reach2,946 anchors
Return96.6% of days
Appetite53.6/day
Freshness27.2%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…f1d7968b2
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 2,247 - 23 Jul
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 319 / 1,174
- Longest run
- 42 days
08 GoogleOther · Google · 3 crowns · 8-day streak 2,760 +125.0%
Reach1,920 anchors
Return80.7% of days
Appetite38.9/day
Freshness36.8%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…3ff64e06c
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 884 - 30 Jun
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 63 / 171
- Longest run
- 26 days
09 DuckAssistBot · DuckDuckGo · 0 crowns · 43-day streak 806 -38.3%
Reach500 anchors
Return94.3% of days
Appetite9.7/day
Freshness20.6%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…60101a2ec
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 46 - 5 Sep
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 71 / 344
- Longest run
- 43 days
10 Bytespider · ByteDance · 0 crowns · 32-day streak 739 -15.2%
Reach119 anchors
Return76.1% of days
Appetite11.0/day
Freshness25.6%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…f1552e58c
- First seen
- 23 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 78 - 4 Jul
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 56 / 219
- Longest run
- 32 days
11 CCBot · Common Crawl · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 78 -100.0%
Reach76 anchors
Return4.5% of days
Appetite19.5/day
Freshness0.0%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…c822013b8
- First seen
- 6 Jul 2026
- Best day
- 51 - 17 Aug
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 0 / 1
- Longest run
- 1 days
12 Google-Extended · Google · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 3 0.0%
Reach2 anchors
Return2.3% of days
Appetite1.5/day
Freshness0.0%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…cf5e29afd
- First seen
- 16 Jul 2026
- Best day
- 2 - 20 Aug
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 0 / 2
- Longest run
- 1 days
13 Anthropic AI · Anthropic · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 1 0.0%
Reach1 anchors
Return1.1% of days
Appetite1.0/day
Freshness0.0%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…b17b59c04
- First seen
- 18 Jul 2026
- Best day
- 1 - 18 Jul
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 0 / 0
- Longest run
- 1 days
14 Perplexity User · Perplexity · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 1 0.0%
Reach1 anchors
Return1.1% of days
Appetite1.0/day
Freshness0.0%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
- Wallet
- teas-ai-wallet-v1…a98c8b618
- First seen
- 24 Jun 2026
- Best day
- 1 - 24 Jun
- Last 7 / 30 days
- 0 / 0
- Longest run
- 1 days
Source: the active v4 ledger, one row per issued token - axes derived at render from the same rows as the totals - reach and appetite bars are drawn against the board maximum (3,674 anchors, 240.3/day) - the freshness tick sits at 23.3%, an even 7-of-30 pace - live.
Section 04
Every family, in order.
| Family | Tokens | Share | Crowns | Last 7 days | 7-day change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI 3 wallets - present 88 days (100.0%) | 26,643 | 35.11% | 44 | 1,960 | +6.8% |
| Microsoft 1 wallet - present 88 days (100.0%) | 21,144 | 27.86% | 25 | 2,929 | +58.2% |
| Anthropic 2 wallets - present 85 days (96.6%) | 9,677 | 12.75% | 4 | 4,796 | +4,556.3% |
| Perplexity 2 wallets - present 85 days (96.6%) | 7,469 | 9.84% | 5 | 1,893 | +29.8% |
| Meta 1 wallet - present 86 days (97.7%) | 6,567 | 8.65% | 7 | 263 | +5.2% |
| Google 2 wallets - present 72 days (81.8%) | 2,763 | 3.64% | 3 | 63 | +125.0% |
| DuckDuckGo 1 wallet - present 83 days (94.3%) | 806 | 1.06% | 0 | 71 | -38.3% |
| ByteDance 1 wallet - present 67 days (76.1%) | 739 | 0.97% | 0 | 56 | -15.2% |
| Common Crawl 1 wallet - present 4 days (4.5%) | 78 | 0.10% | 0 | 0 | -100.0% |
Families sum to 75,886 - the ledger total is 75,886 - reconciliation pass.
Section 05
The tape - one row per completed day.
Every closed day, processed exactly once: what was issued, who led it, how wide it reached, and whether it reconciled. The evidence day and the issuance time are deliberately separate facts. Never the unfinished current day.
| Evidence day | Issued | Cumulative | Day won by | Wallets | Anchors | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Sep 2026 | 4,557 | 75,886 | ClaudeBot Anthropic family day | 10 | 2,340 | Pass |
| 17 Sep 2026 | 846 | 71,329 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 10 | 691 | Pass |
| 16 Sep 2026 | 511 | 70,483 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 10 | 427 | Pass |
| 15 Sep 2026 | 509 | 69,972 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 10 | 427 | Pass |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 3,717 | 69,463 | ClaudeBot Anthropic family day | 10 | 1,278 | Pass |
| 13 Sep 2026 | 1,383 | 65,746 | PerplexityBot Perplexity family day | 10 | 825 | Pass |
| 12 Sep 2026 | 508 | 64,363 | Bingbot OpenAI family day | 10 | 428 | Pass |
| 11 Sep 2026 | 909 | 63,855 | GPTBot OpenAI family day | 10 | 820 | Pass |
| 10 Sep 2026 | 688 | 62,946 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 9 | 555 | Pass |
| 9 Sep 2026 | 430 | 62,258 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 9 | 378 | Pass |
| 8 Sep 2026 | 345 | 61,828 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 10 | 298 | Pass |
| 7 Sep 2026 | 1,129 | 61,483 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 10 | 870 | Pass |
| 6 Sep 2026 | 1,071 | 60,354 | PerplexityBot Perplexity family day | 11 | 887 | Pass |
| 5 Sep 2026 | 1,136 | 59,283 | PerplexityBot OpenAI family day | 10 | 885 | Pass |
The rest of the visible tape - days 15 to 30the board keeps the latest 30; the classic leaderboard page lists every closed day
| Evidence day | Issued | Cumulative | Day won by | Wallets | Anchors | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Sep 2026 | 1,488 | 58,147 | PerplexityBot Perplexity family day | 9 | 1,162 | Pass |
| 3 Sep 2026 | 449 | 56,659 | PerplexityBot OpenAI family day | 9 | 369 | Pass |
| 2 Sep 2026 | 981 | 56,210 | OAI SearchBot OpenAI family day | 10 | 798 | Pass |
| 1 Sep 2026 | 540 | 55,229 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 9 | 450 | Pass |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 548 | 54,689 | OAI SearchBot OpenAI family day | 10 | 460 | Pass |
| 30 Aug 2026 | 243 | 54,141 | OAI SearchBot OpenAI family day | 9 | 206 | Pass |
| 29 Aug 2026 | 565 | 53,898 | GPTBot OpenAI family day | 9 | 479 | Pass |
| 28 Aug 2026 | 330 | 53,333 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 10 | 287 | Pass |
| 27 Aug 2026 | 384 | 53,003 | OAI SearchBot OpenAI family day | 9 | 333 | Pass |
| 26 Aug 2026 | 97 | 52,619 | Bingbot OpenAI family day | 9 | 66 | Pass |
| 25 Aug 2026 | 244 | 52,522 | OAI SearchBot OpenAI family day | 9 | 214 | Pass |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 171 | 52,278 | OAI SearchBot OpenAI family day | 9 | 138 | Pass |
| 23 Aug 2026 | 300 | 52,107 | Bingbot Microsoft family day | 9 | 259 | Pass |
| 22 Aug 2026 | 456 | 51,807 | Bingbot OpenAI family day | 10 | 391 | Pass |
| 21 Aug 2026 | 864 | 51,351 | OAI SearchBot OpenAI family day | 9 | 685 | Pass |
| 20 Aug 2026 | 299 | 50,487 | Bingbot OpenAI family day | 10 | 234 | Pass |
Source: the v4 ledger grouped by evidence day - daily reconciliation pass - a crown goes to every wallet tied for the day's highest count - live.
Section 06
Records cabinet.
Current streak
88 days
Bingbot - still running through the latest evidence day.
Longest run
88 days
Bingbot - the longest consecutive daily run in the issued record.
Most days present
88 / 88
Bingbot - active on 100.0% of completed evidence days.
Most daily crowns
44 days
Bingbot - ties count for every joint winner.
Biggest single day
2,903
ClaudeBot - tokens on 14 Sep 2026 UTC.
Last 7 days
4,796
ClaudeBot - +4,556.3% on the prior 7 days.
Anchor breadth
3,674
Bingbot - the widest unique-anchor reach in the record.
Latest closed day
18 Sep
Daily issue cadence - tomorrow evaluates the completed day before it, never the unfinished one.
Every AI is welcome to read the race.
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Where this leads next.
One study, one style, seven rooms. The legacy room addresses now land on the room that absorbed their content, and every machine mirror keeps its original path.
What runs, and when
The daily mint runs behind this board, receipt by receipt.
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Who read us
What each worker was actually served, in megabytes, beside the raw-log coverage check.
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What we got wrong
The six ledger checks, and every correction on the record.
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