6 XYO Token Economy
Oracles stand as a significant portion of the power and infrastructure needs for decentralized
applications, with most of the focus revolving around the connectivity and aggregation of
authoritative oracles. We believe that the need for a fully decentralized and trustless system
of oracles is needed for decentralized applications to reach their maximum potential.
6.1 XYO Network Cryptoeconomics
We use XYO Tokens to incentivize the desired behavior of providing accurate, reliable
location heuristics. XYO Tokens can be thought of as “gas” needed to interface with the
real world in order to verify the XY-coordinate of a specified object.
The process works like this: A token holder first queries the XYO Network with a query
(e.g. “Where is my eCommerce order package with XYO Address 0x123456789...?”). The query then gets sent into a queue, where it waits to be processed and answered. A user can set their desired confidence level and XYO gas price at query creation. The cost of a query (in XYO Tokens) is determined by the amount of data required to provide an answer to the
query as well as market dynamics. The more data needed, the more expensive the query
and higher the XYO gas price. Queries to the XYO Network have the potential to be very
large and expensive. For instance, a trucking and logistics company could query the XYO
Network to ask, “What is the location of every single car in our fleet?”
Once the XYO Token holder queries the XYO Network and pays the requested gas, all
Diviners working on the task call out to the relevant Archivists to retrieve the pertinent
data needed to answer the query. The data returned is derived from the Bridges, who
originally gathered the data from the Sentinels. Sentinels are essentially the devices or
signals that verify the location of objects. These include entities such as Bluetooth trackers,
GPS trackers, geo-location tracking built into IoT devices, satellite tracking technology, QR-
code scanners, RFID scanning and many others. XY Findables has pioneered and launched
its consumer Bluetooth and GPS business, which has allowed it to test and process real-
world location heuristic. All efforts in developing the XY Findables consumer business have
served to help significantly in designing the XYO Network Blockchain Protocol.
If the data provided by a Sentinel device (such as a Bluetooth Beacon) is used to answer
a query, then all four components involved in the transaction receive a portion of the XYO
gas paid by the token holder: the Diviner (who searched for the answer), the Archiver (who
stored the data), the Bridge (who transmitted the data) and the Sentinel (who recorded
the location data). The distribution of the gas between 3 of the 4 components of the XYO Network is always given in the same proportion. The exception is that of Diviners, whose involvement in the process of providing an answer is more extensive. Within each component, gas gets distributed evenly.
6.2 Rewards for Independence
Location-gathering devices are the atomic blocks of the network, and a single device may act
as one or more of the four components of the system. However, it would be rare, especially
in a large XYO Network, that devices would be more than two of these components. Fur-
thermore, a blockchain ledger that has more independent Proof of Origin will hold higher
regard, so there is a cryptoeconomic penalty for a device acting as multiple components.
6.3 Rewards for Stationarity Integrity
Sentinels in the XYO Network are assigned a stationarity coefficient for their quantity of
movement throughout their lifecycle. The less a Sentinel moves in a period of time, the more
its data can be trusted. Archivists keep track and analyze these stationarity coefficients when
considering which Sentinels to route queries to.
6.4 Incentivizing Token Usage
A system in which token holders are encouraged not to use their tokens creates a long-term
problem for the underlying economy. It creates an ecosystem with very scarce stores of
value and triggers a natural impulse to invent reasons for not using the token, instead of
boosting utility and liquidity.
The problem most cryptoeconomic incentives have is that the focus is placed too strongly
on the token miners (e.g. Sentinels, Bridges, Archivists, Diviners), and not at all on the
token users. The XYO Token takes both into account.
The XYO Token model incentivizes the miner to not just provide accurate data, but to
also know when to not provide data at all. The end user is rewarded to transact more when
network liquidity is low, compared to when network liquidity is high. Thus the ecosystem
of the XYO Token has the ability to remain well-balanced, fluid and robust.