Terms, A to Z
One meaning per word, used the same way on every page. The ATCE section has its own detailed ATCE glossary.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ACL | The Attested Consensus Layer, JIL's consensus engine. It seals a block at six of ten validators with verified enclave quotes and state-transition proofs, or at eight of ten without them. A payment request needs a yes from every active voting validator. |
| Agentic review | A second look before ATCE's final ruling. It can hold an act that every rule passed. It cannot release an act the rules denied. Its result is signed and recorded in the ruling. A person decides what happens to a held act, outside the review. |
| Annex | A leaf under a hub or directly under the root. It holds nothing beneath it and cannot open a corridor. Annexes are unlimited. |
| ATCE | The Adaptive Trust, Compliance and Execution Engine. It rules an act before value moves: a domestic ruling inside a domain, a corridor ruling on a hop between domains. |
| Basis point | One hundredth of one percent. 5 basis points of $400,000,000 is $200,000. |
| Built | Status marker. The code is merged and tested and is not yet deployed. |
| Domain license | Formerly Class A. The Domain license: a nation, a central bank, or a commodity consortium. Setup $100,000 one time, annual floor $250,000, credited against JIL's share of collected transport fees. The Domain license and the Hub license carry the same published price. See fees. |
| Hub license | Formerly Class B. The Hub license: a regional hub or an institution, connected to a Domain. Same published price as the Domain license. |
| Commodity annex | An annex that issues a unit tied to a commodity, such as a gold gram or a barrel. A commodity annex is not a sovereign. A commodity consortium that licenses its own root is a commodity root. |
| Corridor | A governed connection between two domains. The sending cell's policy applies on departure and the receiving cell's on arrival. Only a root sends on a corridor. |
| Corridor ruling | ATCE's verdict on a hop that leaves a domain. |
| Currency Object | A native managed instrument on the ledger, in place of a smart contract: issuer, reserve model, mint and burn authority, settlement rules, identity and jurisdiction requirements. The ledger has no general-purpose virtual machine. |
| Designed | Status marker. Written down and on the roadmap. |
| Domestic ruling | ATCE's verdict on an act that stays inside a domain. |
| Gas block | A block of leased settlement capacity. The capacity lease is not published on this site. A gas block must register and be approved for the regions where it may work, and it cannot benefit in a region where it is sanctioned. A block holder does not receive a domain's data and does not receive a governance right. |
| Hop | One settled movement across one corridor. A route may have several hops. |
| Hub | A level under the root. A hub holds annexes. A hub under a hub is rejected. |
| Ignition Switch | The settlement fee model. The toll is published before every hop, and settlement capacity is reserved in advance as gas blocks, also called train cars. There is no auction and no priority tip. The capacity lease is not published on this site. See the Ignition Switch page. |
| Initiating root | The root of the domain that sends a corridor hop. It pays the toll. |
| JIL.ai | The federation utility token. Its value varies, and no price is quoted. It is designed to be burned as the rail is used, in proportion to the basis points used on it; the amount per basis point is not determined. Every Domain, Hub, and Annex uses the JIL L1 rail. Tokens were given to participants earlier. No sale is running, and further issuance is disabled until a licensing event. See JIL.ai. |
| Lessee | This site does not use the term. The holder of a reserved car is the lessor. |
| Lessor | The holder of a reserved train car (a gas block). The lessor receives the published share of the toll when a hop uses its car: 40 percent on a corridor, 50 percent inside a domain. A block holder does not receive a domain's data and does not receive a governance right. |
| Live | Status marker. Running on jil-mainnet-2 or on this site. |
| Operator | The party that runs a domain under its license and sets the rate inside it. Inside a domain the operator receives 25 percent of the toll. JIL Sovereign Technologies Incorporated is the operator of this Layer-1 host and of the validators. |
| Root | The top of a domain, also called Tier 1. A sovereign or a licensed consortium holds it. Only the root holds the corridor credential. |
| Ruling hash | The unique SHA-256 hash of a ruling. It binds the profile, both parties' records, the review result, and the outcome. The chain holds the hash; JIL holds the full record. |
| Shared Resource | One site per stablecoin, with no hubs and no annexes, also called Tier 2. A root registers once to use it, and the registration covers every hub and annex under that root. Tier 2 means only this. |
| Sovereign cell | The provisioned chain of one domain, with its own genesis and its own ledger. It runs the same engine as every other cell. |
| Sovereign domain | The governed space a licensee runs: its constitution, its chartered entities, its currency, and its rulebook. The provisioned chain is its sovereign cell. |
| Toll | The fee on a settled hop. It is published before the hop runs, a minimum of 5 basis points of settled gross, with no priority tip. The corridor fee and the transport fees in the license are the toll. A license floor is credited against JIL's share of collected tolls. See fees. |
| Train car | A unit of reserved settlement capacity. The capacity lease is not published on this site. |
| WORM record | The write-once record JIL holds for each ruling, filed under the ruling hash. Encrypted per record. A legal erasure destroys the record's key and leaves the digest, so the chain's reference stays valid. |
Words this site does not use for structure
- Class A and Class B are the old words for Domain and Hub. There is no Class C.
- Tier 1 is a root. Tier 2 is a Shared Resource. An annex is never Tier 2. There is no Tier 3.
- A commodity desk is a commodity annex or a commodity root, never a sovereign.
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