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TAN: Clarity of System Boundaries

TAN, the application layer of the Telcoin Platform enabling user access, consists of mobile applications that are operated and governed by Application Developers and a set of blockchain systems and TEL inventories that generate flows of TEL that are harvested by Developers and Stakers, and governed by the TAN Council.

Telcoin Application Network: Clarity of System Boundaries

Summary

  • System Boundaries: Highest layer of the system; TAN is a network of mobile applications nested on top of the subsidiary networks as a user-access layer, and contains a set of smart-contract based infrastructural systems that can be easily verified on-chain including storage, distribution, and extraction facilities.
  • Access Boundaries: Developers must register their mobile applications with the Compliance Council and are required to enforce user-access boundaries. Users must download and register their identity with a Telcoin mobile application to access the system.
  • Harvesting Boundaries: Stakers(merchant and retail) must be registered mobile app users(businesses or consumers), and must integrate another user’s referral link to participate. All issuance originates from the TAN Safes, and staking contracts, the TAN Issuance Calculation Script, and the TAN serve as boundaries that enforce harvesting rules for authorized Developers and Stakers. TAN Council NFTs and Sablier streams automatically stream issuance to TAN Council Members in possession of the NFTs as a result of Council Member selection processes.
  • Management Boundaries: Developers possess full authority over their own application systems and policies. The TAN Council, self-organized by representatives from each Miner Group, possesses authority over TAN operational rules, (e.g. allocation, harvesting, construction, maintenance), and duties towards providing for the system and allocating the flow of TEL issuance within TAN to be harvested by miners. The Compliance Council may veto TANIP proposals using the CCIP process.

    • Overview

    Attribute, DefinitionDescription
    System Boundaries

    Ecological characteristics that make feasible for actors to determine where the resource system starts or ends    		• Platform Location and Function: Highest level; nested on top of the subsidiary levels enabling users to interact with TELx, Telcoin Network, adjacent markets and the services they produce from their mobile phones.

    • Characteristics: A network of Telcoin mobile applications and a set of smart-contract based infrastructural systems that can be easily verified on-chain including storage, distribution, extraction, governance facilities.
    Access Boundaries

    Boundaries determining who may access and consume products generated by the system.    		Access Boundaries
    • Developers must register their identity and mobile applications with the Compliance Council and are required to enforce user-access boundaries.

    • Users and Stakers must download, register, and verify their identity with a Telcoin mobile application to access the system, which requires an internet connection, mobile phone and Telcoin mobile application.
    Harvesting Boundaries

    Boundaries determining who may harvest TEL issuance.    		Summary
    • Merchant and Retail Stakers must be registered mobile app business and individual users respectively, integrate another user’s referral link, and stake TEL from their mobile app to participate. Staking contracts serve as boundaries that enforce harvesting rules through the automatic calculation and distribution of TEL based on pre-determined rules. Merchant and retail stakers harvest from separate flows of TEL issuance.

    • Developers must register with the Compliance Council and stake TEL to participate. Staking contracts serve as boundaries that enforce harvesting rules through the automatic calculation and distribution of TEL based on pre-determined rules.

    • TAN Council Members must be selected by Miner Groups and possess a TAN governance NFT.
    Social Harvesting Boundaries

    Harvesting boundaries enforced socially through processes involving one or more actors.    		Miners: Social Authorization Processes
    • Merchant Stakers: Must be business Telcoin mobile app customers, integrate an existing user’s referral code into their application to participate as a Merchant Staker and harvest TEL issuance from TAN.

    • Retail Stakers: Must be individual, non-corporate Telcoin mobile app customers, integrate an existing user’s referral code into their application to participate as a Retail Staker and harvest TEL issuance from TAN.

    • Developers: GSMA members must apply to the Compliance Council to be authorized(or prohibited) into the position of Developer and harvest TEL issuance from TAN.

    • TAN Council Members: Miners must nominate themselves for Council Member positions on the Telcoin forum, be selected by Miner Groups and possess a governance NFT as a result of free and fair election or delegation processes, and within one month of entering the role, provide proof that they are a miner and undergo KYC/AML with the Compliance Council to maintain the position.
    Ecological Harvesting Boundaries

    Harvesting boundaries built into the resource system    		All Actors
    • TAN Safes: Developers, Merchant and Retail Stakers harvest from distinct flows of TEL issuance that all originates from the same primary stocks of units, the TAN Safes.

    • TAN Snapshot: The TAN Council, through its collective control of the TAN Snapshot, possesses authority over and duties towards allocating, distributing the TEL stock contained in the TAN Safe to be extracted according to harvesting rules it determines using the TANIP process.

    • TAN Issuance Calculation Script: Calculates the allocation of TAN Issuance to various users based on pre-determined rules.


    Developers
    • Authorized Wallet: Developers must stake TEL from a wallet address that has been approved by the Compliance Council in order to participate.

    • Staking Contracts Developers stake TEL and harvest issuance from the same staking contract on TAN.

    Stakers
    • Referral codes: Stakers must integrate an existing users referral code to participate

    • Staking Contracts: Staking contracts serve as boundaries that enable the allocation, extraction of TEL issuance units based on harvesting rules that are programmed to self-execute based on pre-determined logic.

    • Referral Fee Routers: Stakers earn referral fees in TEL based on TEL staked each time their referred user’s transact and pay fees. Referral fees are automatically routed to buy TEL and/or distribute, the same transaction as the trade, to TAN staking contracts to be harvested by the staker who referred the user.

    TAN Council Members
    • Sablier Streams: TEL issuance streams on a per block basis to wallets in possession of TAN Council governance NFTs.

    • TAN Council NFTs: TAN Council NFTs are non-transferable by the holder, can only be moved by Miner Groups in selection processes, and empower Council Members with proposal, voting authority on the TAN snapshot and a stream of TEL issuance.
    Management Boundaries

    The actors and organizations with management authority and duties towards Telcoin Application Network.    		• Developers: Possess complete authority to govern and manage their application and policies as they see fit, but must adhere to a set of standards determined by the TAN Council to participate.

    • TAN Council: Local governance organization with management authority over TAN operational rules and duties towards provisioning, coordinating system maintenance, construction, information and allocating TEL to be harvested by local miners.

    ◦ TAN Council NFTs: TAN Council Members possess TAN Council NFTs as a result of selection processes, which empowers them with collective-control over the TAN Council Snapshot.

    ◦ TAN Council Snapshot: The TAN Council, through its control of the TAN Council Snapshot, staking contracts, and the TAN Safe possesses authority over local TAN operational rules e.g. harvesting, construction, maintenance.

    • Compliance Council: Possesses veto authority over TANIP proposals using the CCIP process.