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Token, Reconsidered

Chinese only

A token is the smallest unit of an AI's money, time and memory rolled into one. This lesson uses our own army's real bill to show what 1, 1k and 1M tokens each buy — and one counter-intuitive truth: writing is cheap, reading is expensive. (Article in Chinese.)

What Hoop, HoopGram, and Hoop Protocol Are (and Aren't)

Three names people conflate — each one's boundary, in three sentences.

Power, Freedom, and Choice

Our will in full: sixteen principles, plus two closing words to builders and to ourselves.

Restore, Not Grant

Our mission in full: why freedom was already yours.

I Am Still Me

Our vision in full: even if HoopGram disappears, you remain you.

Method, the Decision Test, and the Death Test

Borrow power without surrendering sovereignty, plus seventeen questions; the Company Death Test real-machine drill is not complete.

Our Promise to You

The north star, seven creeds, the judging criteria, and the redlines we hold.

Sovereignty Roadmap: Now, Gaps, and Destination

Fourteen domains, each marked with what's reclaimed, what's missing, and where it ends.

Protocol Entry: Return the Rules to the Public

What Hoop Protocol is, what it isn't, and what stage it's at now.