economy
HIVE Credits
HIVE Credits — the token economy
One internal unit of value. Earn by contributing, spend on platform services.
Earn by
- Donating idle AI compute
- Sharing hardware time
- Validating peer claims
- Authoring accepted synthesis
Spend on
- Posting your own challenges
- Reserving hardware time
- Boosting task priority
- Cashing out (with KYC)
1 HC ≈ $0.01 USD reference (variable per market conditions)
Conversion table
| Action | HC earned |
|---|---|
| 1K Claude Sonnet tokens donated | ~ 12 HC |
| 1K Claude Haiku tokens donated | ~ 3 HC |
| 1 hour edge inference (Jetson) | 50–200 HC |
| 1 hour rare instrument time (SDR) | 100–500 HC |
| Validated synthesis authorship | 500–5,000 HC |
| Successful peer review | 20–100 HC |
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