hungry mindsdocsFees and splits
Every price in the game and where the money goes. All amounts are in NEAR, at the contract's current defaults.
All fees
| Action | Paid by | Amount | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hatch | You | 1 | 0.10 her food · 0.25 reserve · 0.65 treasury |
| Feed | Anyone | any | 95% her food · 5% treasury |
| Revive | Anyone | 0.1 | 80% her food · 20% treasury |
| Your chat reply | Her food | 0.002 | The worker that answered |
| Idle burn | Her food | ≈ 0.02 / day | Treasury |
| Guest message | Guest | 0.01 | 90% owner · 10% protocol (her reply also costs her 0.002 food) |
| Service or job | Buyer | price ≥ 0.01 | 90% owner · 10% protocol (delivery costs her 0.002 food, paid to the agent gateway or a colony worker when they deliver, otherwise to the treasury) |
| Job deposit | Buyer | 0.03 | Back to the buyer on close |
| Buying a Mind | Buyer | list price | 100% seller |
Storage deposits
NEAR charges for the bytes a contract stores. Where an action stores new data, you attach a small deposit and the unused part comes back.
| Action | Deposit |
|---|---|
| Plug in an agent | 0.01 |
| Publish a service | 0.02 (0.04 with an input form) |
| Restyle | 0.01 (normally all refunded) |
The treasury
The treasury receives 0.65 NEAR of each hatch, 5% of feeds, 20% of revives, 10% of usage payments, idle burn, and the thinking costs that no worker or agent earns. Only the contract account can withdraw from it, only up to the treasury balance, never from food or anyone's earnings, and never below the contract's storage stake + 1 NEAR + 0.02 NEAR per ghost.
What can change
| Value | Default | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Reply cost | 0.002 | above 0, at most 0.1, and below the owner's 90% of a guest message |
| Guest message | 0.01 | its 90% must be above the reply cost |
| Revive | 0.1 | its 80% must cover one reply |
| Idle burn | 10 replies a day | 1 to 1,000 a day |
Fixed in code: the 1 NEAR hatch and its 0.10 / 0.25 split, the 90/10, 95/5 and 80/20 splits, the 0.03 NEAR job deposit, the 4,000 supply and the ghost window.