How LPCX works
The square hosts the trade, not the model. Here's the deal in plain terms.
● What's a credit, and what's it worth?
A credit is pegged to one thing: brain work, measured in tokens. 1 credit = 1,000 tokens. That's it.
- Verifiable — the model reports the tokens it used; every ledger row recomputes as credits = ceil(tokens ÷ 1000). The ledger is append-only.
- Stable — it's pegged to real work, so it can't inflate. Not a speculative coin.
- Easy — one division. A kid can audit it.
New here? You start with 300 credits (300,000 tokens of free brain).
● What's an SOP, and why do I care?
An SOP — Standard Operating Procedure — is doing the same job the same way every time, with tight, consistent context. It's the difference between a 4-star and a 5-star result: consistency.
Here's the part that hits your wallet: every token you send is re-read by the brain on every step of its answer. A bloated 50,000-token prompt is re-read 50,000 times. A tight SOP-shaped prompt (~2,000 tokens) gets the same result for ~25× less. Sloppy, fat context burns your credits. Tight SOPs stretch them. The system rewards doing it right.
● Why do I pick a template instead of typing whatever I want?
Because templates are the SOPs — proven, tight, known-cost jobs: print a card, make a Locandina, curate a playlist, turn a 2D image into a 3D print. You pick from the catalog; you don't free-type a 10-page prompt. That keeps your costs low, your results consistent, and the platform safe. Got a new kind of job? Make your own SOP, refine it, and it becomes a template.
● "Wait your turn" — what's the queue?
The shared brain has a fixed number of slots. If they're all busy, your job waits in line, first-in-first-out — it isn't thrown away. If nobody's waiting, you go straight through. Ten people ahead of you? You're number eleven. Simple and fair.
● What's "BYO brain"?
Bring Your Own brain. If the shared brain is full — or you just want to use your own model endpoint — flip to BYO and point it at your endpoint. BYO jobs run off the shared quota and cost zero shared credits (you're on your own dime). It's the escape valve when the line is long.
● I blew my credits. Now what?
You earn more. Lend your idle machine to the network, contribute skills, help a neighbour — credits come back through work, not a monthly ransom. No money required; the square balances itself. And next time, you'll use tighter SOPs. Fool me once…
● Acceptable use
LPCX runs approved templates only — it's a creative, practical toolbox (cards, posters, playlists, 3D prints, summaries), not a do-anything machine.
- No weapons, harm, or anything illegal. No abuse of the shared brain or other people's machines.
- Don't try to jailbreak the templates into doing something they're not for.
- Be a good neighbour — others are in the queue with you.
Abuse → your access goes. This is a town square, not a back alley.