Lifecycle of a Unit

From issuance to consumption

From a market perspective, each Unit goes through a simple life cycle:

• Issued

  A supplier or Capacity Aggregator lists Units at one or more price levels.

• Traded

  A buyer's order matches these Units. Ownership of the Units moves from the supplier Trading Account to the buyer's Trading Account. Buyers can start consuming inference instantly by transferring this unit from their Trading to Consumption Account.

• [coming soon] Tradable Window*

  The Unit can now be resold on the CLOB until the next Scheduled Sweep

• [coming soon] Scheduled Sweep to Consumption*

  At the next Sweep event, all Units remaining in the buyer Trading Account for that Instrument are force transferred into the buyer Consumption Account.

• Consumed or Expired

  Buyers have 4 hours to consume their units via the Consumption API before they expire.

*Reselling and Scheduled Sweeps from Trading to Consumption Account are coming soon. Currently, all units are transferred to the Consumption Account as soon as the trade is filled and cannot be transferred back or resold.

Why this matters

This flow ensures that every Unit is either used or expired within a bounded horizon, which is critical for providers to price their supply aggressively. As inference is a non-storable commodity, their pricing can now reflect their ability to serve within a known timeframe.