Selected Classification Notes
Service Provision and Collateral. Service Provision excludes the penalty side of participation. Where a token both grants the right to contribute and imposes slashable performance risk, both Service Provision and Collateral may be present.
Passive staking, locking, or deposits. If holders stake, lock, or deposit tokens only to receive distributions, without providing work or assuming slashable performance risk, the functionality is Value Distribution rather than Service Provision or Collateral.
SV-02: Data Availability. Assigned only where the chain or system is used as a data availability layer by other independent execution domains. A base layer does not qualify solely because it publishes its own transaction data for its own execution.
SV-03: Generalised Off-Chain Computation. Can apply where token ownership, staking, bonding, locking, spending or registration is required to supply off-chain compute resources or execute off-chain jobs or workloads. Deterministic on-chain attestation of every compute output is not required where the purchased object is compute-resource supply or workload execution, and the system enforces the order, lease, escrow, settlement, reward or penalty path.
SV-14: Resource and Work Evaluation/Allocation. Assigned only where the token-gated actor performs an evaluation, curation, ranking, signalling or weighting role as a supply-side participant. It is not assigned for governance voting, gauge voting, points allocation, project-allocation voting, generic user reviews, oracle truth statements, data indexing, dispute resolution/arbitration, or block/state attestation.
G-02: Technical Parameter Control. Does not cover changes whose primary purpose is to alter monetary flows. Those belong under G-01 Economic Design/Parameter Control.
G-06: Product/Service Line Decisions. Does not cover tuning existing parameters, risk limits, or asset whitelists for an existing product. Those belong under the relevant parameter or permissioning subtype.
P-01: Native Resource Fee. Can apply to scarce system-controlled resources beyond ordinary transaction gas, including registry entries, namespace slots, subnet slots, market slots, listing slots, service slots or quota units.
P-02: General Medium of Exchange. Requires real counterparty acceptance. It is not inferred from market capitalisation, exchange listings, or trading volume alone.
P-03: Prepaid Credit. Applies where spending, burning or redeeming the profiled token mints or credits a non-transferable closed-loop balance that can be used only for specified future services of the named issuer or system.
VD-02: Burn Entitlement. Is not assigned solely because the token is burned, locked or sent to a vault as part of a prepaid-credit, escrow, refund, settlement or burn-mint cycle. VD-02 requires a consistent and permanent removal of units from supply that increases remaining holders’ percentage ownership.
VD-04: Inflation Entitlement. Applies only where newly minted units are received without ongoing service provision or slashable performance risk. Where issuance compensates validators, sequencers, or other service providers, it is classified under Service Provision and/or Collateral instead.