Data value
The value of the supplied knowledge, rights, access, or permitted change—not the number of bytes involved.
The economic substrate
Value can move wherever governed data moves.
A functioning data economy must pay for the thing being supplied and for the logistics that make it usable: compute, storage, custody, transport, transformation, rights, and services. Legra uses tokens as the common unit for authorizing, recording, and settling those value flows among sovereign participants.
Tokens are accounting—not feature access.
Every capability remains available on self-operated hardware. Zero is a valid explicit price for local work. Tokens become necessary when a positively priced Data Product, resource, right, or service participates in a transaction.
Legra is not a blockchain, and its tokens are not presented as a cryptocurrency.
Composable pricing
Data value has nothing to do with data size.
Size can affect storage or transport cost, but it does not determine the value of knowledge, permission, timeliness, exclusivity, quality, or business impact. Legra keeps those components separate so each contributor can price the value they actually provide.
Compute
Querying, reasoning, transformation, validation, workflow, agent, and other execution resources.
Storage and custody
Durable preservation, replication, placement, availability, and service commitments around encrypted blocks.
Transport and external services
Moving data, remote execution, external I/O, licensed APIs, and value-added logistics services.
Rights and terms
The authorized purpose, duration, actions, responsibilities, commercial rights, and contractual conditions.
Adjustments
Credits, refunds, service adjustments, bonuses, penalties, and commissions can change the final amount.
Total price = data value + resources + logistics + rights + services, adjusted by applicable credits, refunds, bonuses, penalties, and commissions.
Multidirectional participation
Any participant can consume, provide, operate, or own.
Tokens do not flow toward one platform by definition. The same activity may compensate a data owner, several infrastructure or service Operators, and the NetworkOperator functions used to authorize and settle the transaction.
Consumers
Authorize a budget and pay for positively priced data, resources, rights, or services used by a person, application, organization, or agent.
Data owners
Define the terms under which their Data Products or knowledge may be used and can receive value when those terms are accepted.
Operators
Provide hosting, custody, execution, transport, licensing, integration, or other network services and can price those contributions.
Organizations
Use the same evidence for internal budgets and chargeback even when the consumer and provider belong to the same economic principal.
Evidence before billing
The journal is the evidence substrate.
Legra's economic model records priced activity with the relevant workspace work instead of making one central billing database the global source of truth. Billing, CRM, reporting, and settlement systems aggregate bounded views of that evidence for the parties who need them.
- 01Measure the data and resources the proposed activity will use.
- 02Compose the applicable price components and present an authorization boundary.
- 03Execute only within the approved price and authority.
- 04Record the resulting activity, outcome, charge, credit, or refund with its workspace evidence.
- 05Aggregate bounded statements and settlement views for the parties involved.
Token packages are retainers, not tiers.
A subscription can provide a useful quantity of tokens at a predictable price. Pay-as-you-go replenishment can cover additional use. Neither mechanism unlocks a hidden feature set: it funds positively priced participation in the network.
The commercial surface is still being built.
Quotes, authorization bounds, packages, statements, credits, refunds, and settlement status are part of the designed direction. They are not presented here as completed end-user workflows in this pre-MVP release.
Put value in context
See how governed supply becomes usable demand.
The economic model only makes sense as part of the complete logistics route connecting sovereign Data Products to executable Use Cases.