Whitepaper v0.2
Palium: Verifiable Service for Autonomous Agents
The whitepaper specifies a BFT chain whose reward mechanism pays for verified service rather than hash power or idle stake. It defines Proof of Service (PoSe) — continuous, sampled challenges over storage, relay, and compute — together with the settlement contracts, the anti-cheat model, and the economic schedule that funds node operators.
Proof of Service
PoSe replaces work-wasting puzzles with useful work: challengers sample a node's declared service, witnesses attest the result under an EIP-712 signature scheme, and a settlement contract aggregates witness quorums per epoch. Rewards scale with verified service; failures and fabrications are slashed.
Economics
$PALI has a hard cap of 1 billion: 25% (250M) is allocated at genesis to the foundation, team, community and early contributors under linear vesting; 75% (750M) is minted year by year through proof of service, with annual issuance of 5% → 4% → 3% → 2.5% → 2%. Issuance flows into service buckets (uptime 60%, storage 30%, relay 10%); the base fee is burned and the priority fee goes to the proposer. Operators post a bond to raise their reward ceiling, and violations are charged to the bond first. No service, no reward — idle capital earns nothing.
Anti-cheat model
The threat model covers four families: fabricated service, replayed attestations, witness collusion, and sybil amplification. Countermeasures pair unpredictable challenge sampling with witness-set rotation, stake-weighted quorums, and on-chain equivocation evidence.
Non-goals
Palium does not compete on raw TPS, does not host anonymous meme-asset markets, and does not provide general-purpose data availability for other chains. The chain is optimized for one thing: making agent-related service and state verifiable at low cost.
The full specification, protocol parameters, and release plan live in the complete document and the linked pages.