Ports & edges

The economy is the system of record; everything it talks to is a port you supply an adapter for.

• Signer

  The signing port: sign and verify with rotating keys, backing the checkpoint that attests the ledger is intact.

• Processor

  The payout processor port that pays sellers, plus the provider adapters that satisfy it.

• Rates

  The rates port supplying the fixed CREDIT↔USD buy, par, and payout rates.

• Pricing

  The pricing capability: a fee policy that splits a sale into recipient legs and platform revenue.

• Storage & messaging

  The storage and messaging ports — the ledger and sub-stores, plus the dispatcher, cache, and outbox/inbox — and their adapters.

• Scope & non-goals

  What economy-lab deliberately does not do: no payment provider, no event consumer; the host supplies those edges.