Cost to Mint Schema

The Cost to Mint record is the economics readout for the Pain-in-the-Shed “Cost to Mint” segment — the per-artifact accounting of what a defendable asset actually cost to produce, in dollars.

Canonical-shape / roadmap

This is a declared economics schema, not a deployed field on any receipt. DefendableCloud receipts carry a single compute_usd transparency figure (on cook receipts); the full Cost-to-Mint breakdown below is the canonical spec for the show’s published ledger, not a wired API field today.

Schema

{
  "compute_usd": 0.0,
  "human_review_usd": 0.0,
  "validator_usd": 0.0,
  "storage_usd": 0.0,
  "energy_usd": 0.0,
  "retries_usd": 0.0,
  "repair_usd": 0.0,
  "deed_issuance_usd": 0.0,
  "total_usd": 0.0,

  "hyperscaler_equivalent_usd": 0.0,
  "human_only_equivalent_usd": 0.0
}

Field	Type	What it carries
compute_usd	USD	GPU / inference cost.
human_review_usd	USD	Operator review time, costed.
validator_usd	USD	Referee / curator pass.
storage_usd	USD	Object-storage cost.
energy_usd	USD	Energy is the receipt.
retries_usd	USD	Cost of re-runs.
repair_usd	USD	SwarmFixer repair lift.
deed_issuance_usd	USD	Cost to seal + issue the record.
total_usd	USD	Sum of the eight inputs.
hyperscaler_equivalent_usd	USD	What the same artifact would cost on a hyperscaler.
human_only_equivalent_usd	USD	What the same artifact would cost human-only.

Reconciliation with the deed economics proof

The deed’s five_proofs.economics.cost_to_mint carries a reduced subset (compute_usd, human_review_min, storage_kb) — not the full eleven-field record above. The Cost-to-Mint schema is the complete economics record; the deed seals a trimmed pointer to it. (See Deed Schema.) When the deed economics proof is wired, the canonical home is the full *_usd shape above.

Source of truth

The canonical home for the Cost-to-Mint segment spec is brand/painintheshed in the defend-A-pedia--vocabulary repo (the show’s published-ledger spec).

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🐝 Energy is the receipt · what did the run cost in dollars and watts · to the shed.