Glossary
The terms used across Deference, in one place.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Activation | Burning INFERENCE to add service credit after the activation fee |
| API key | A secret that starts with sk-df- and authenticates requests |
| Available credit | Your credit minus what running requests hold |
| Claim | Receiving reward INFERENCE, in your wallet or as credit |
| Credit | The dollar balance on your account that pays for requests. It cannot be sent or withdrawn |
| Launch token | DEFERENCE, whose trading fees fund INFERENCE for eligible holders |
| Free credit | A balance you get from the Setup checklist on Home. It pays for open-weight text models, expires, and is spent first |
| Hold | Credit set aside while a request runs. It is released when the request is charged. A non-streamed timeout keeps it until the cost is reviewed |
| INFERENCE | The ERC-20 on Ethereum that you buy with USDC and turn into credit. The sale sends its fee to the treasury and the rest of the USDC to the funding wallet |
| Model id | The author/name string that picks a model, such as anthropic/ |
| Payout | One flush of the DEF pool's fees: the USDC it sent the treasury and the INFERENCE it bought or minted for holders |
| Funding wallet | The sale's destination for purchase funds; Stats shows its observed USDC balance |
| USDC | The dollar stablecoin you pay with on Ethereum |