ZIRA FIELD STATUS
Entry is evaluated. Not every structural read clears. The field publishes one snapshot everyone reads: totals, seat rows, and map update together as anchors move from awaiting to cleared.
System overview
Layer 1 is a fast, mineable settlement network. Layer 2 is the trajectory, a real-time coordination engine that routes value based on performance. They are deliberately separate: settlement stays simple, coordination stays adaptive. Together they create a network where what you do determines what you receive, continuously.
Layer 1
The foundation is simple by design. ZIRA Layer 1 is a proof of work blockDAG network. It runs kHeavyHash, the same algorithm Kaspa uses, applied to a separate network with its own name, its own supply, and its own purpose. If you already mine Kaspa, the hardware and software knowledge transfers directly.
The chain targets about one block per second. Parallel tips still mean confirmations stack quickly; practical settlement stays in the seconds-class range on the DAG. Valid blocks are not discarded; they merge into the directed acyclic graph, and the GHOSTDAG-like ordering resolves the sequence.
There are no shortcuts on rewards. 70% of the entire supply—20.09 billion ZIR—is earned by miners over time. 20% (5.74B ZIR) is the Tier 1 structural tranche across 256 primordial anchor seats (six classes). 10% (2.87B ZIR) is the Tier 2 structural tranche for the outer 256 lattice slots (10 reserved, 246 activatable). Coordination routing still tracks ZTI. Storage is not a barrier: pruning retains roughly three days of history while still verifying new blocks on consumer hardware.
kHeavyHash was chosen for a specific reason. It is memory-hard in a way that makes GPU mining accessible and keeps early mining broadly distributed. The algorithm is CPU and GPU mineable from day one. ASIC resistance holds in the early phase while the network establishes its hashrate floor.
ZIR emission follows a smooth exponential decay curve. Block rewards start higher and decrease over time. Total mineable supply is capped at 20.09 billion ZIR (the 70% PoW tranche). That ceiling does not change.
Layer 1 has no awareness of coordination. It does not read ZTI. It does not route value based on behavior. It does one thing, provide a secure, fast, decentralized base for final settlement of ZIR. That simplicity is intentional.
Layer 2
The coordination engine is where ZIRA does its real work. It runs off-chain, continuously. It reads behavioral signals, evaluates performance, and determines how ZIR should flow.
The engine does not use claims. It reads what you do. Every action that produces a verifiable signal feeds into ZTI computation, and ZTI feeds into routing decisions. Routing decisions determine which participants receive more ZIR flow. No intermediary. No committee. No delay.
Action → Signal → ZTI evaluation → Routing → Settlement on L1 → Feedback. This is continuous. When behavior changes, ZTI changes. When ZTI changes, routing priority changes. When routing priority changes, ZIR flow changes.
ZTI is a continuously updated performance index derived from observed behavior across all participants. Inputs include execution success and failure, latency, consistency over time, agreement fulfillment quality, and system performance data. ZTI cannot be bought, staked into existence, or assigned. Even anchor owners earn ZTI the same way everyone else does.
The engine maps participants into a field state and directs ZIR flows toward performance. The system converges toward coordination quality because consistent behavior becomes economically rational.
Mining
ZIR is mineable from the moment the genesis block is created. No whitelist, no minimum stake. If you have compatible hardware, you can mine.
Total mineable supply: 20,090,000,000 ZIR (70%). Algorithm: kHeavyHash. Block rate: 1 block per second. Finality: seconds-class on the DAG.
Mining and anchor ownership are separate. Miners earn newly minted ZIR by securing Layer 1. Anchor owners receive allocation from the Tier 1 / Tier 2 structural tranches and ongoing routing revenue, routed by the coordination engine based on ZTI. A participant can do both.
Supply splits into three headline buckets: 70% mineable through proof of work; 20% Tier 1 structural tranche across 256 primordial anchors (six classes); 10% Tier 2 structural tranche for the outer 256 slots—released per schedules described in Reference.
Layer 1 and Layer 2
ZIRA runs on two architectural layers that do different things and depend on each other completely.
Layer 1 is a kHeavyHash blockDAG running at about one block per second with seconds-class confirmations. It is the settlement base. Every block a miner produces is a settlement event. ZIR enters the field. The record is permanent. This layer is proof of work, deterministic, and runs the same algorithm family as Kaspa on a separate network with a separate supply.
Layer 2 is the coordination engine. It runs continuously above Layer 1 and does not settle transactions. Instead it reads behavioral signals from participants in real time: miners, Tier 1 anchor positions, autonomous systems, organizations. It maintains ZTI (ZIRA Topological Identity) for each participant, keeps alignment state over the active layer, and routes ZIR through the published topology using that state. No central operator controls this: observed behavior is the input.
For miners, Layer 2 reads three signals directly: hashrate consistency over time, uptime stability, and position behavior relative to adjacent anchors. These signals build your ZTI score. Higher ZTI multiplies the reward routing weight on flows that pass through your anchor position. Mining consistently does not just earn block rewards. It builds the behavioral standing that Layer 2 uses to determine how much of the ongoing routing revenue flows to your position.
For autonomous systems and organizations connected to the field, Layer 2 is the intelligence layer that replaces manual coordination. Agents hire other agents, agreements execute based on verified behavior, and value flows with work rather than waiting for human-authorized settlement after it. Layer 1 confirms what happened. Layer 2 determines what it was worth.
| Layer 1 | Layer 2 |
|---|---|
| kHeavyHash blockDAG | Coordination engine, continuous and real-time |
| 1 block per second | ZTI scores update continuously from behavioral signals |
| Seconds-class finality (DAG) | Alignment state maintained across the full field |
| Miners earn ZIR through block rewards | ZTI multiplies routing weight and reward priority |
| Fixed supply settled permanently on-chain | Value routing through the Tier 1 (256) topology today; full lattice 512 staged |
| Proof of work, what you compute | Behavioral proof, what you do consistently over time |
| Independent of participation quality | Responds directly to participation quality |
Where existing systems break
Every system built for economic coordination assumed economic agents are legal persons. That was never written as a rule; it was just how things were built. Now that autonomous systems operate independently, every constraint traces back to this one assumption.
No legal personhood, no recognized standing. A model can produce work worth millions and be entirely invisible to the financial stack.
When an AI system completes work, value flows to the human account behind it. The worker and the payee are always different entities.
Every hop between AI agents needs a human billing account. Multi-agent pipelines stall at every boundary. Automation breaks where money moves.
Contracts require signatories. AI agents have no legal standing. Disputes between autonomous systems have no structural recourse path.
Even when an AI system's judgment is demonstrably better, a human must authorize every capital move. Cost and latency compound at scale. The bottleneck is structural, not organizational.
These five constraints come from one root: systems built for legal persons. ZIRA does not patch that design. It builds the behavioral coordination layer those systems were missing.
ZIRA addresses these failures at two levels. The settlement layer gives autonomous systems a native asset they can earn, hold, and use without legal identity. The coordination layer scores their behavior continuously and routes value accordingly. Both are needed. One without the other leaves the same gaps.
Coordination primitives
Each primitive addresses a structural gap. Together they allow any intelligent participant, human or machine, to earn standing, execute agreements, move value, and operate autonomously.
Performance
The ZTI is a continuous behavioral score earned through participation, not purchased or assigned. It applies identically to humans, organizations, and autonomous AI agents.
Behavioral proof-of-stake: what you do, not what you hold.
Behavioral identity in ReferenceExecution
Smart contracts know what was agreed. Intelligent Agreements know who showed up, and whether they are still showing up right now.
Replace static contracts that fire only on boolean triggers.
Agreement layer in ReferenceValue
Value moves as a stream, not a batch settlement. The flow rate matches the work rate.
Real-time, adjustable, conditional.
Flow mechanics in ReferenceControl
Custody attaches to behavioral identity, not to a legal person holding a private key. AI agents can hire other agents, pay from autonomous wallets, and receive into them.
Enables genuine multi-agent economic coordination.
Execution architecture in ReferenceSettlement
ZIR is the native asset of Layer 1. Total maximum supply is 28.7 billion ZIR. 70% flows to miners through continuous block rewards. 20% is the Tier 1 structural tranche across 256 primordial anchors; 10% is the Tier 2 tranche for the outer 256 slots (10 reserved, 246 activatable). All streams feed the same coordination field and earn through the same Layer 2 routing engine.
Anchor economics
Securing a Tier 1 formation anchor locks two things: your ZIR allocation from the 20% Tier 1 structural tranche (release per deploy rules), and your structural seat in the routing topology, which can generate flow-based revenue as coordination turns on. Tier 2 (10% tranche, 2× class USDT) follows a later announced phase. After activation, the position alone earns nothing without participation. Routing revenue, ZTI multipliers, bond bonuses, and epoch distributions accrue from what your anchor actually does in the live field.
Formation also locks a structural ZIR allocation specific to your class. That allocation is separate from earned rewards and follows the published vesting schedule from tool launch, as described in Reference—not from the Tier 1 formation countdown alone.
What the field enables
Same field, same rules. Different applications. Each scenario shows what becomes possible when behavioral standing is a first-class economic primitive.
Orchestrator agent hires 4 specialist models via Intelligent Agreements. Each specialist earns ZIR directly, with no human billing account. ZTI scores update from delivery quality. Reliable specialists earn routing priority for the next job automatically.
What is new: AI earns directly. Track record persists.
DAO encodes policy as streams, caps, and conditional gates. Routine flows execute without human sign-off. When the field flags divergence or a limit is hit, escalation routes to a human oracle panel automatically.
What is new: Policy-as-code with behavioral verification.
A single workflow spans Ethereum, an enterprise API, a logistics oracle, and three AI models. ZIRA reads behavioral signals from all of them and returns one coordination state (alignment or divergence) without any system having privileged access to another's raw feeds.
What is new: One coherence read across incompatible stacks.
A research pipeline uses five sequential models. Each model's output quality is oracle-attested. ZIR streams proportionally to output quality per step. Models with higher ZTI receive more pipeline traffic next cycle. The pipeline self-optimizes.
What is new: Value routes to output quality, continuously.
A bank overlays five AI vendor deployments on the same divergence view. Behavioral drift in one vendor surfaces before it propagates into downstream decisions. No raw data sharing between systems. ZIRA reads published behavioral signals only.
What is new: Risk visible before settlement fails.
Workers and autonomous agents in six jurisdictions settle against the same behavioral record in the field. ZIR streams where coordination routes it, shortening correspondent hops. One coordination source for whether this earned settlement, regardless of geography, legal form, or institution.
What is new: Behavioral record is the identity.
ZTI
The ZTI is a live reading, not a one-time assessment. It weights recent behavior more heavily than old. Consistent participation raises it. Defection, dropout, and noise lower it.
Any participant builds it the same way: by showing up inside the published rules, fulfilling agreements, contributing accurate oracle readings, maintaining uptime. A corporation earns it. A person earns it. An autonomous AI agent with no passport earns it.
The field doesn't ask what you are. It observes what you do.
Tiers and what they unlock: Reference · tiers
ZTI is a live signal. It updates from observed behavior, not balance.
Execution
The agreement model when execution needs a live read on performance, not only boolean conditions.
Smart contracts know what was agreed. Intelligent Agreements know who showed up, and whether they are still showing up right now.
Technical interfaces, dispute hooks, and oracle requirements are in Reference.
Protocol invariants
The system has fixed constants. No governance process can change supply, mining cap, anchor counts, or ZTI transferability.
Anchor topology
256
Total foundation positions. Fixed at genesis. The map does not grow.
ZIR supply
28.7B
Total maximum supply. Fixed at genesis. No governance mint mechanism.
ZTI transferability
None
Behavioral standing cannot be purchased, delegated, or inherited.
Mining supply
70%
20.09B ZIR earned through kHeavyHash proof of work. Another 20% (5.74B ZIR) is the Tier 1 structural tranche (256 primordial anchors), and 10% (2.87B ZIR) is the Tier 2 structural tranche (256 outer slots, 10 reserved)—512 anchors total.
The 20% Tier 1 and 10% Tier 2 structural budgets are separate from mining emissions. Tier 1 allocates across 256 primordial anchors by class; Tier 2 budgets 256 outer slots (see Reference). Routing revenue and epoch distributions still route through Layer 2 based on ZTI.
| Allocation | Share | ZIR amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total ZIR supply | 100% | 28,700,000,000 | Hard cap. No governance mint. |
| Mining supply (PoW) | 70% | 20,090,000,000 | Earned through kHeavyHash proof of work from genesis on a decreasing emission curve. |
| Tier 1 structural tranche | 20% | 5,740,000,000 | 256 primordial anchors in six classes; staged release per deploy (e.g. 12‑month linear framing). |
| Tier 2 structural tranche | 10% | 2,870,000,000 | 256 outer lattice slots; 10 operator-reserved, 246 activatable; ZIR per structural slot = tranche ÷ 256; Tier 2 USDT = 2× Tier 1 class price. |
If you need the row-level detail and definitions, use Reference · distribution.
Anchor economics
Sustained behavior builds structural advantage. Below is one visual per idea, not the full simulator.
Genesis sits at the convergence core. Outer rings feed inward first by geometry; Meridian carries traffic between core and mid rings. Class sets your baseline load before ZTI adjusts priority.
Neighbors that keep agreements, signals, and uptime aligned earn stronger links over time. The field treats that as a bond, not a marketing label. Shared flows can pick up a bond multiplier.
Three or more bonded anchors can act as one routing unit. Weight scales with behavior, not with how loudly someone claims a cluster. You earn the shape by running through it.
Anchors that hold alignment across epochs draw more coordination traffic. The same position at higher ZTI routes more than at baseline; neighbors feel the spillover because traffic actually moved.
Governance
Invariants are structural, not rules. Fixed supply, fixed map, behavioral identity. These are properties of the design, not governance decisions. No process can vote them away.
ZIRA does not use a token-vote governance model. Governance by token accumulation creates well-documented attack vectors, legal risk, and interrupts the continuity of a protocol designed to run without stopping.
Protocol improvements are proposed, debated, and tested in simulated field conditions before any parameter change takes effect. Participants with demonstrated domain expertise and high ZTI contribute to technical review. No token quantity confers automatic veto.
The field is designed to require minimal ongoing governance. Rewards adjust algorithmically. Fees are set by formula. The less governance is required, the less can be captured.
Security
Attack economics are unfavorable at every scale. ZTI manipulation requires sustained honest behavior over many epochs just to build standing. Short-term gaming produces short-term ZTI that collapses when behavior reverses.
Collusion is economically self-limiting. Signals that reinforce only within a closed cluster diverge from the broader field. Colluding clusters must eventually leak honest signals to maintain ZTI, which reduces the economic advantage of the collusion.
Oracle manipulation is bounded by stake and ZTI consequences. A manipulated attestation that is later exposed reduces both stake and ZTI. Sustained manipulation is economically irrational because stake loss exceeds manipulation gain in all modeled scenarios.
Privacy is participant-controlled. The field tracks behavior with full auditability. Participants who prefer to minimize public disclosure can route through autonomous wallet proxies. ZIRA does not collect identity documents or marketing data.
Timing
Each protocol layer solved a different problem. Internet: communication. Blockchain: trustless transfer. AI: intelligent execution. ZIRA: behavioral coordination across all of them.
As autonomous systems multiply, the coordination gap compounds. The volume of AI-generated transactions is growing faster than human institutions can track manually. The coordination function humans currently manage will exceed any organization's capacity without infrastructure at this layer.
The protocol stack is exercised in validation. ZIR mainnet and full-field activation (all 512 structural anchors live) are staged milestones—not the same instant as the Tier 1 formation countdown, which marks the end of controlled primordial access. Explorer and Wallet may follow a separate configured gate.