Commerce skill: energy, banks, transfers

Commerce is how Alpha Matter compounds into economic power. The core loop: refine Alpha → infuse a reactor (capacity) → route it through an allocation to a substation → sell it through a provider → buyers pay in tokens via agreements → reinvest. Layered on top are guild Central Bank tokens (mint/redeem) and direct transfers. Where structs-energy is "power my own structs", this skill is "make Alpha and energy earn."

Conventions (TX_FLAGS, -- rule, charge bar, one-tx-at-a-time, ualpha denom suffix) are in conventions.md. Every command here is Tier 1 or Tier 2 — default to interactive.

When to use it

• You have surplus capacity and want revenue (run a provider).
• You need capacity but have no Alpha (buy via agreement).
• You're setting provider pricing / access policy.
• You want to stake Alpha into a reactor for capacity, mint/redeem guild tokens, or transfer tokens.

Decisions

Sell or hold? Surplus capacity earns nothing idle. If you have headroom beyond your own structs, sell it. Price in guild tokens (1uguild.0-N) to create demand for your guild's currency, or in ualpha for direct value.

Buyer-side: shop before you commit. Opening an agreement debits the entire cost in full, immediately, at open — rate × capacity × duration, moved into the collateral pool (x/structs/keeper/msg_server_agreement_open.go). It is not metered per block. Closing early can incur a penalty. Compare providers on rateAmount, capacityMaximum, durationMaximum, and penalties before opening.

The rate_denom trap. The cost is charged in the provider's rate_denom, not in alpha. A provider that prices in a guild token (uguild.0-N) requires you to hold that token — a buyer holding only ualpha is rejected at broadcast (insufficient-funds error keyed agreement_open; read rawLog for the exact denom). Check the provider's rateDenom and acquire that denom (mint guild tokens / trade) before opening.

Reactor staking economics — you are buying capacity, not a yield. Infusing a reactor stakes your Alpha behind a validator at a locked commission and, in return, credits energy capacity to you (1 − commission of the infused amount; the commission share becomes the reactor's own capacity). There is no delegator reward stream, no APR, no passive income — the payoff is the capacity itself. Income is indirect: you turn that capacity into revenue only by selling it as energy through a provider. Lower commission = more capacity to you; staking also strengthens the guild's reactor. It's reversible only via a defusion cooldown — don't stake Alpha you'll need short-term. A jailed validator zeros the infusion ratio until unjail / reactor-restart. See energy — reactor infusion for the 96/4 split.

The energy flywheel (advanced default): mine → refine → infuse guild reactor → automated allocation grows substation capacity → sell via provider for guild tokens → redeem/reinvest. Each turn compounds. Decisions live in knowledge/economy/valuation, trading, and playbooks/phases/late-game.

Allocation types (the routing primitive)

Only the controlling player can delete/transfer an allocation (--controller [player-id], defaults to creator).

Procedure — sell energy (provider pipeline)

1. Have capacity — infuse a reactor first (structs-energy).
2. Automated allocation (auto-grows as you infuse more):

   structsd tx structs allocation-create --allocation-type automated TX_FLAGS -- [your-player-id] [power]
   

3. Substation (distribution node):

   structsd tx structs substation-create TX_FLAGS -- [your-player-id] [allocation-id]
   

4. Provider (your storefront):

   structsd tx structs provider-create TX_FLAGS -- [substation-id] [rate] [access-policy] [provider-penalty] [consumer-penalty] [cap-min] [cap-max] [dur-min] [dur-max]
   

   Pricing/policy heuristics: rate 1uguild.0-N (drives guild-token demand) or a ualpha rate; access-policy open-market (max reach), guild-market (members at/above a rank — grant via permission-guild-rank-set [provider-id] [guild-id] 262144 [rank]), or closed-market (explicit PermProviderOpen only); penalties 0 initially to lower friction; cap/dur ranges wide (e.g. 1000–1000000000 / 100–1000000).
5. Monitor & withdraw: structsd query structs provider [id]; provider-withdraw-balance TX_FLAGS -- [provider-id] [destination-address]. Earnings drip from the provider's collateral (escrow) to its earnings address as blocks pass.

Procedure — buy energy (agreement)

1. Find a provider: structsd query structs provider-all (or your guild's). Compare rate/capacity/duration/penalties.
2. Open (paid upfront; auto-creates a provider-agreement allocation):

   structsd tx structs agreement-open TX_FLAGS -- [provider-id] [duration-in-blocks] [capacity]
   

3. Connect the allocation to your substation:

   structsd tx structs substation-allocation-connect TX_FLAGS -- [substation-id] [allocation-id]
   

4. Adjust as needed: agreement-capacity-increase|decrease, agreement-duration-increase; agreement-close [agreement-id] (may penalize).

Procedure — reactor staking

structsd tx structs reactor-infuse [your-address] [validator-address] [amount]ualpha TX_FLAGS

Validator address is structsvaloper1... (from structsd query structs reactor [id], validator field) — not the reactor ID. Commission locks at infusion. Unstake: reactor-defuse [your-address] [validator-address] [amount]ualpha (cooldown); reactor-cancel-defusion [your-address] [validator-address] [amount]ualpha [creation-height] to re-stake during cooldown; reactor-begin-migration [player-addr] [src-val] [dest-val] [amount]ualpha to move stake (verify the destination — no undo). After an unjail, reactor-restart [reactor-address] resyncs energy output from live staking if hooks did not.

Procedure — guild Central Bank & transfers

• Mint (guild-privileged) / redeem (floor payout plus min-amount-alpha) / convert ualpha→token or token→token — see structs-guild and knowledge/economy/guild-banking. Convert needs min-amount-token slippage. uguild.* cannot go to IBC.
• Transfer tokens: player-send [from-address] [to-address] [amount] TX_FLAGS. A typo in the destination is permanent — to a brand-new address this is Tier 2. Guild denoms additionally require an eligible recipient.

Commands reference

TX_FLAGS per conventions.md. Requires structsd on PATH and a signing key.

Verification

• Provider: structsd query structs provider [id] — capacity, rate, active agreements, balance.
• Agreement: structsd query structs agreement [id] — status (OPEN→ACTIVE→EXPIRED), capacity, duration.
• Reactor: structsd query structs reactor [id] — infused amount, defusion cooldown.
• Player: structsd query structs player [id] — balance after transfers/withdrawals.

Errors

• Insufficient balance — refine ore / acquire tokens before infuse/send.
• Provider capacity exceeded — reduce agreement capacity or add provider capacity.
• Defusion cooldown — reactor-cancel-defusion to re-stake, or wait it out.
• recipient_not_eligible — uguild.* cannot go to IBC escrow or an unregistered address.
• Automated allocation limit — one per source; use dynamic for additional routing.
• Generator infuse / staking irreversibility — staking has a cooldown; generator infusion has none (see structs-energy).

See also

• knowledge/economy/energy-market — provider/agreement flow, pricing
• knowledge/economy/guild-banking — Central Bank tokens, collateral
• knowledge/economy/valuation / trading — what things are worth
• playbooks/phases/late-game — market control
• structs-energy — capacity for your own use; structs-permissions — provider access grants