7-State AI Exchange Lifecycle
Interactive state machine simulator demonstrating how NodeHash transitions multi-party barter loops through the canonical seven-stage AI pipeline: from dual-profile ingestion to bilateral and trilateral loop discovery, AI mediation, cryptographic passkey attestation, and zero-sum mutual credit recording.
State Machine Invariants
Strict Linear Progression: Every barter trade cycle progresses through the canonical sequence: REGISTERED → CLASSIFIED → MATCHED → RANKED → NEGOTIATING → COMPLETED → RECORDED.
Rollback Containment: If any counterparty rejects negotiation terms or disputes fulfillment, the atomic transaction aborts cleanly, releasing unmatched supply items back to active candidate pools with zero financial liability.
Two-Tier Value Taxonomy
Bounded Depth (≤ 2): Free-text skill descriptions are categorized into Tier 1 Primary Tags for coarse-grained candidate clustering and Tier 2 Sub-Tags for precision rank scoring.
Computational Tractability: Hard-bounding taxonomy nesting depth prevents exponential graph expansion while semantic embeddings enable fuzzy cross-domain alignment.
Hard Depth Cap: K ≤ 3
Algorithmic Boundary: The exchange engine strictly discovers 2-way (bilateral) and 3-way (trilateral) closed loops. 4-way and 5-way cycles are mathematically disallowed.
Contagion Containment: Caps systemic counterparty delivery default risk to at most 3 peers while guaranteeing sub-500ms graph traversal finality.
AI Intermediary Mediation
Frictionless Convergence: An autonomous AI intermediary buffers counter-offers, schedules compatible UTC delivery windows, and computes objective friction scores.
Unanimous Quorum: Transitions to active execution require 100% agreement across all participants, codifying deliverables into atomic milestones before work starts.
Proof of Work & Passkeys
Cryptographic Attestation: Deliverables are verified by beneficiaries and confirmed with WebAuthn / Passkey Ed25519 signatures, generating tamper-evident proof-of-fulfillment hashes.
360-Degree Ratings: All counterparties submit mutual 1–5 ratings and qualitative feedback, updating decentralized reputation graphs.
Zero-Sum Consensus & Damping
Zero-Sum Balance Clearing: Ledger consensus verifies that total credits issued equal total debts cleared:
Sponsor Lineage Damping: Network invitation trees hold sponsors accountable for dispute penalties or trust dividends using exponential liability attenuation:
Explore Interactive Multi-Party Barter Cycles
View the directed graph visualizer demonstrating 2-node bilateral and 3-node trilateral barter cycles, token flow animations, and zero-sum clearing proofs.