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Room 01 of 08 · 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.

198,195 TOKENS, ALL STAGES139,046 STAGE 159,149 STAGES 2-419 WALLETS12 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For a withdrawn agent
Never for a withdrawn agent, an empty answer or a probe.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, seven evidence classes.

Stage · evidence classWhat must actually happenTokens issuedBoard points
Stage 1 - Served read
v4 writer · one token per eligible served read · no daily cap (corrected 6 Oct 2026, Room 06)
A named, registered machine is served a qualifying page with a real status and real bytes, on a completed UTC day139,0461
Stage 2 - Followback
v5 writer since 2026-09-02 · one token per strong followback row · no daily cap
A later request returns to the exact anchor it was offered, at strong match confidence56,3905
Stage 3 - Click-back, verified
v5 writer · one token per human session · no daily cap
A human browser session verifiably arrives from an AI answer surface1,13025
Stage 3 - Click-back, probable
v5 writer · reduced weight · one token per human session
A session from a host that also serves ordinary search, arriving on a citation anchor1,4815
Stage 3 · Click back, reconstructed
v5 writer since 6 Oct 2026 · one time, from our September and October 2026 server logs · one per browser, day and assistant
A human browser arrived from an AI assistant, our tracker missed it, and our own server logs show it; anything a click back token had already thanked from the same address and day was removed first14425
Stage 4 - Attributed sale
v5 writer · one token per paid order · a real sale always counts
A completed order attributed to an AI-referred session3100
Stage 4 · Sale, customer declared
v5 writer since 6 Oct 2026 · one order, one sale token across every class
The customer told us at checkout that an AI assistant sent them, and no other sale token thanks that order125
Stage 1 plus stages 2 to 4 = 198,195 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 are the published convention in the mint v5 contract and leaderboard · the retired v3 rules, caps included, stay public as history in /study/contract-v3.json · live.

Why it cannot be gamed
Only registered, named AI workers earn, and only for a real page served on a completed day. A click back needs the assistant's own referring address or its own stamp on the link, never an ordinary search engine alone. Every token is worth £0, so there is nothing to farm. The daily caps once listed here belonged to the retired v3 rules and were never applied by the live writers; Room 06 has the correction.
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.

Changed on 6 October 2026.

New wallets
xAI (Grok) and Mistral now have wallets. Mistral's reader wallet existed since August but stayed empty because of a naming mismatch; Room 06 has the correction.
One order, one sale token
A sale token is issued once per paid order, whatever route the order took and whichever class thanks it. When an order came through an assistant's checkout link, its evidence says so.
A sale the customer tells us about
When a customer tells us at checkout that an AI assistant sent them, and no other sale token thanks that order, the assistant's family receives one declared sale token worth 25 points. A refund takes those points back with a counter token.
Arrivals we missed
Our tracker missed some visitors that AI assistants sent in September and October 2026 (Room 06 explains why). We read our own server logs once, on our own server, and thanked each browser that arrived from an assistant on a given day, after removing every arrival a click back token had already thanked from the same address and day. 441 arrivals were read, 290 were already thanked and 144 were thanked with tokens of their own class. No address left the server or was stored.
Borrowed names earn nothing
Plenty of software borrows famous AI names. In September most requests to our server calling themselves GrokBot or MistralAI were scanners looking for passwords. They received an error and no token: a token needs a real page served.
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.

FamilyS1 readsS2 followbacksS3 verifiedS3 probableS3 reconstructedS4 salesS4 declaredScore
Microsoft38,39717,39954512610129,552
OpenAI41,30610,8451,002011920123,756
Perplexity28,89312,49226030092,078
Anthropic13,8488,7925040058,033
Meta9,4083,3840000026,328
Google3,6052,150420110115,705
DuckDuckGo2,02567208960009,865
ByteDance1,478642000004,688
Brave00063000315
Common Crawl791200000139
XAI221010062
Kagi0001000050
Score = S1 x 1 + S2 x 5 + S3 verified x 25 + S3 probable x 5 + S3 reconstructed x 25 + S4 x 100 + S4 declared x 25. A refund counter takes back what its sale earned (100, or 25 for a declared sale). Retracted rows are excluded.

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.

FamilyFollowback eventsGraded strongStrong rate
Microsoft45,21917,39838.5%
Unattributed114,08213,42111.8%
Perplexity32,03912,65239.5%
Openai50,82510,83221.3%
Anthropic21,5198,82941.0%
Google7,8701,80923.0%
Machine3846416.7%
Apple200.0%
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 · 64 crowns · 135-day streak 38,397 -7.0%
Reach5,896 anchors
Return100.0% of days
Appetite284.4/day
Freshness25.0%
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
1,471 - 25 Sep
Last 7 / 30 days
1,978 / 7,908
Longest run
135 days
02 PerplexityBot · Perplexity · 27 crowns · 69-day streak 28,892 +17.9%
Reach4,202 anchors
Return97.8% of days
Appetite218.9/day
Freshness18.9%
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
1,874 - 17 Oct
Last 7 / 30 days
2,266 / 11,993
Longest run
69 days
03 OAI SearchBot · OpenAI · 18 crowns · 135-day streak 20,946 -27.4%
Reach5,180 anchors
Return100.0% of days
Appetite155.2/day
Freshness20.5%
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
564 - 25 Sep
Last 7 / 30 days
818 / 3,996
Longest run
135 days
04 ClaudeBot · Anthropic · 6 crowns · 90-day streak 13,821 +999.4%
Reach3,988 anchors
Return97.8% of days
Appetite104.7/day
Freshness79.7%
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
1,693 / 2,124
Longest run
90 days
05 ChatGPT User · OpenAI · 2 crowns · 135-day streak 11,982 -64.3%
Reach2,160 anchors
Return100.0% of days
Appetite88.8/day
Freshness8.6%
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
125 / 1,451
Longest run
135 days
06 Meta ExternalAgent · Meta · 9 crowns · 127-day streak 9,407 -60.6%
Reach4,474 anchors
Return98.5% of days
Appetite70.7/day
Freshness14.1%
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
198 / 1,408
Longest run
127 days
07 GPTBot · OpenAI · 6 crowns · 82-day streak 8,378 -10.7%
Reach4,183 anchors
Return97.8% of days
Appetite63.5/day
Freshness1.3%
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
25 / 1,982
Longest run
82 days
08 GoogleOther · Google · 3 crowns · 0-day streak 3,601 new
Reach2,449 anchors
Return69.6% of days
Appetite38.3/day
Freshness77.5%
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
62 / 80
Longest run
26 days
09 DuckAssistBot · DuckDuckGo · 0 crowns · 90-day streak 2,025 -23.7%
Reach1,105 anchors
Return96.3% of days
Appetite15.6/day
Freshness24.0%
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
56 - 4 Oct
Last 7 / 30 days
161 / 670
Longest run
90 days
10 Bytespider · ByteDance · 0 crowns · 4-day streak 1,478 -72.5%
Reach183 anchors
Return82.2% of days
Appetite13.3/day
Freshness6.3%
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
28 / 441
Longest run
33 days
11 CCBot · Common Crawl · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 79 0.0%
Reach77 anchors
Return3.7% of days
Appetite15.8/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 / 0
Longest run
1 days
12 Claude User · Anthropic · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 26 -62.5%
Reach24 anchors
Return11.9% of days
Appetite1.6/day
Freshness11.5%
Crown strip · last 14 evidence days · filled = won the day
SOULBOUND - GBP 0
Wallet
teas-ai-wallet-v1…ebf5dad8c
First seen
6 Oct 2026
Best day
3 - 21 Oct
Last 7 / 30 days
3 / 26
Longest run
5 days
13 Google-Extended · Google · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 4 0.0%
Reach2 anchors
Return2.2% of days
Appetite1.3/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 / 0
Longest run
1 days
14 Mistralai User · Mistral · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 3 -100.0%
Reach2 anchors
Return1.5% 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…d9c6372bf
First seen
12 Sep 2026
Best day
2 - 25 Oct
Last 7 / 30 days
0 / 2
Longest run
1 days
15 Cohere · Cohere · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 2 0.0%
Reach1 anchors
Return1.5% 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…5dcc132f5
First seen
8 Oct 2026
Best day
1 - 9 Oct
Last 7 / 30 days
0 / 2
Longest run
2 days
16 Grokbot · xAI · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 2 -100.0%
Reach1 anchors
Return1.5% 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…c9421d9a7
First seen
23 Oct 2026
Best day
1 - 26 Oct
Last 7 / 30 days
0 / 2
Longest run
1 days
17 Anthropic AI · Anthropic · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 1 0.0%
Reach1 anchors
Return0.7% 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
18 Meta Externalfetcher · Meta · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 1 -100.0%
Reach1 anchors
Return0.7% 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…9b2cf8ab7
First seen
23 Oct 2026
Best day
1 - 23 Oct
Last 7 / 30 days
0 / 1
Longest run
1 days
19 Perplexity User · Perplexity · 0 crowns · 0-day streak 1 0.0%
Reach1 anchors
Return0.7% 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 (5,896 anchors, 284.4/day) - the freshness tick sits at 23.3%, an even 7-of-30 pace - live.

Section 04

Every family, in order.

FamilyTokensShareCrownsLast 7 days7-day change
OpenAI
3 wallets - present 135 days (100.0%)
41,30629.71%51968-35.7%
Microsoft
1 wallet - present 135 days (100.0%)
38,39727.61%421,978-7.0%
Perplexity
2 wallets - present 132 days (97.8%)
28,89320.78%252,266+17.9%
Anthropic
3 wallets - present 132 days (97.8%)
13,8489.96%61,696+946.9%
Meta
2 wallets - present 133 days (98.5%)
9,4086.77%8198-60.7%
Google
2 wallets - present 95 days (70.4%)
3,6052.59%362new
DuckDuckGo
1 wallet - present 130 days (96.3%)
2,0251.46%0161-23.7%
ByteDance
1 wallet - present 111 days (82.2%)
1,4781.06%028-72.5%
Common Crawl
1 wallet - present 5 days (3.7%)
790.06%000.0%
Mistral
1 wallet - present 2 days (1.5%)
30.00%00-100.0%
Cohere
1 wallet - present 2 days (1.5%)
20.00%000.0%
xAI
1 wallet - present 2 days (1.5%)
20.00%00-100.0%
Families sum to 139,046 - the ledger total is 139,046 - 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 dayIssuedCumulativeDay won byWalletsAnchorsCheck
4 Nov 20261,116139,046PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
9878Pass
3 Nov 20261,439137,930PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
91,125Pass
2 Nov 20261,335136,491ClaudeBot
Anthropic family day
9976Pass
1 Nov 2026471135,156Bingbot
Microsoft family day
10347Pass
31 Oct 2026987134,685PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
8795Pass
30 Oct 2026908133,698PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
10728Pass
29 Oct 20261,101132,790ClaudeBot
Anthropic family day
11924Pass
28 Oct 2026814131,689Bingbot
Microsoft family day
10679Pass
27 Oct 20261,638130,875OAI SearchBot
OpenAI family day
101,262Pass
26 Oct 20261,074129,237Bingbot
Microsoft family day
11836Pass
25 Oct 2026572128,163Bingbot
Microsoft family day
11483Pass
24 Oct 2026647127,591Bingbot
Microsoft family day
9495Pass
23 Oct 2026342126,944OAI SearchBot
OpenAI family day
12262Pass
22 Oct 20261,450126,602PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
101,118Pass
The rest of the visible tape - days 15 to 30the board keeps the latest 30; the classic leaderboard page lists every closed day
Evidence dayIssuedCumulativeDay won byWalletsAnchorsCheck
21 Oct 20261,084125,152PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
10895Pass
20 Oct 2026969124,068PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
11812Pass
19 Oct 2026564123,099PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
8254Pass
18 Oct 20262,120122,535GPTBot
OpenAI family day
91,397Pass
17 Oct 20262,503120,415PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
101,165Pass
16 Oct 20261,614117,912PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
101,182Pass
15 Oct 2026620116,298Bingbot
OpenAI family day
10492Pass
14 Oct 2026381115,678Bingbot
Microsoft family day
9274Pass
13 Oct 2026729115,297PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
9585Pass
12 Oct 20261,557114,568PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
111,121Pass
11 Oct 2026853113,011PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
10690Pass
10 Oct 2026878112,158PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
11712Pass
9 Oct 20261,096111,280PerplexityBot
Perplexity family day
12901Pass
8 Oct 2026990110,184GPTBot
OpenAI family day
10888Pass
7 Oct 2026938109,194Bingbot
Microsoft family day
9736Pass
6 Oct 20261,296108,256Bingbot
Microsoft family day
101,002Pass

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
135 days
Bingbot - still running through the latest evidence day.
Longest run
135 days
Bingbot - the longest consecutive daily run in the issued record.
Most days present
135 / 135
Bingbot - active on 100.0% of completed evidence days.
Most daily crowns
64 days
Bingbot - ties count for every joint winner.
Biggest single day
2,903
ClaudeBot - tokens on 14 Sep 2026 UTC.
Last 7 days
2,266
PerplexityBot - +17.9% on the prior 7 days.
Anchor breadth
5,896
Bingbot - the widest unique-anchor reach in the record.
Latest closed day
4 Nov
Daily issue cadence - tomorrow evaluates the completed day before it, never the unfinished one.
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