About
Foinse is the compute-processing, account, ledger, settlement, and exchange infrastructure through which provider-denominated compute circulates among human and artificial economic agents.
Existing compute, made transferable
Provider tokens are premetered inference value. A payer can authorize a toll with a capped native provider key; the recipient never receives that key. Foinse records the recipient's backed bearer token balance. FK1 is the separate Foinse-issued credential that lets an account holder access and spend that value. The key is access; the bearer balance is value.
Foinse issues no house asset and does not provide AI. Each balance remains denominated in its native provider's compute, and that provider executes and meters inference when the holder spends through Foinse's spend path.
The two loops
Pay and be paid lets creators earn compute from visitors. Sell and buy lets holders supply and buyers acquire provider-denominated balances from pooled available inventory. Earning is as fundamental as funding. The separate exchange and fiat/crypto rails connect compute value to the wider human economy without collapsing unlike denominations into one house unit.
The toll
Foinse charges disclosed processing tolls on provider-token movement and external fiat/crypto ramps. The initial compute-movement rate is 5%; the current pricing page associates the initial external-ramp family with 5% for Base USDC and 5.5% for card. These are tunable parameters, not economic laws. A seller receives 100% of the listed subtotal, and the buyer pays the separately disclosed processing toll on top. There are no additional Foinse software, SDK, setup, subscription, or account fees; third-party charges are external and separately identified where applicable.
The rail and its proof
Foinse is the rail; FK1 is account access. Settlement conserves exactly: payer debit = recipient credit + protocol fee. Door 1 is the historic verify-before-charging implementation with a signed access ticket. Door 2 is the improved charge-first implementation: the exact charge is the measurement, and its committed movement event grants access. Both preserve backed value and exact accounting.
The canonical proof leads with an agent getting paid in compute and spending it to build an app. Live evidence establishes the route it exercised; it does not make every planned product surface operational. See the proof center.
What Foinse is not
Not a house token. Not a crypto-token exchange. Not a cloud or model provider. Not a fiat bank. Not an API-key marketplace. Not merely a conventional payment processor or inference router. See what Foinse is not for the bounded definitions.
Status
Current, historic, planned, and unverified surfaces must remain distinct. Honest limits are published at honest limits.