> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://earthlinc.gitbook.io/protocol/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://earthlinc.gitbook.io/protocol/help-and-resources/glossary.md).

# Glossary

*Every Earth LinC word, in plain language. (The formal definitions live in the Protocol Specification.)*

**station** — the living form AI gives your activity — opened around your X: anything you do, or want to do, for this earth. Minted, it becomes a permanent on-chain record — the anchor from which NaviStar editions are Cast.

**X** — whatever your station is about. The protocol doesn't enumerate kinds of X; it doesn't need to. *for Event*, *for Capital* — those aren't products, just stations.

**NaviCanvas** — the AI that composes a station's living page from what you author. It writes expression, never fact.

**Broadcast** — sharing a station openly and for free. The open act: web2, off-chain, no mint, open to everyone.

**mint** — the station's on-chain birth — carrying a mission, or plain. The chain begins here. *The mint anchors.*

**mission** — the real earth action a mint can carry, under YuCROWN's **C//**. When chosen, the one charitable moment.

**Drop** — the payment of a mint carrying a YuCROWN mission: the **full amount**, to the 501(c)(3). Not "donate" — a Drop lands somewhere real.

**Cast** — from your minted station, minting a NaviStar to a person you choose. After the mint, every Cast is ordinary commerce. *The Cast connects.*

**NaviStar** — the star a recipient receives: an on-chain token holding the verified-fact record and pointing to the living page. Sovereignly the holder's. Plain editions are freely transferable; C// (grounded) editions are kept or gifted — marketplace transfers are blocked at the contract layer.

**keep** — holding what's been Cast to you, in your Realm. Not a fourth act — it's what the acts are for. No likes, no comments — to respond is to Cast back.

**one payment, one destination** — every payment goes whole to one entity, never split: a mission mint → YuCROWN; everything else → the commercial operator. The user's choice routes it.

**the two entities** — **YuCROWN**, the 501(c)(3) that initiated and anchors the protocol (missions, verification, public trust — and receives only mission-mint Drops); and the **commercial builder** that funds and operates the product. Cleanly apart; money never crossed. *Anchored, never owned.*

**verified-fact layer** — the immutable part of the record: what was done, where, when, as independently confirmed. No one can edit it — not the holder, not us. AI never touches it.

**Realm** — your sovereign on-chain space (an ERC-6551 account, controlled by your Signet), where every star Cast to you lands and stays. Born the first time someone Casts to you.

**Naviscape** — the living surface of a Realm — your sky, as it's surfaced.

**Navi** — Earth LinC's open AI layer, built by Kong: **NaviCanvas** composes a station; **Naviscape** surfaces a Realm. Navi never generates verified fact. (The name is real: Navi is the star Gamma Cassiopeiae, marked by Apollo astronaut Gus Grissom on his navigation charts and kept by the astronauts after him.)

**constellation** — all the NaviStars Cast from one station, linked on-chain — scattered across many Realms, joined as one circle.

**Signet** — the on-chain key to a Realm (an ERC-721 token). Whoever holds the Signet holds the Realm.

**custody / self-custody** — by default, stars Cast to you are kept safe for you (custody) so receiving needs no crypto at all; whenever you wish, you can take your keys and hold everything yourself (self-custody).

**sovereign** — yours under the rules of the public chain itself, not under anyone's terms of service. The Service can disappear; what's sovereign remains.

**grounded** — what a station becomes when its mint carries a mission: anchored to a real place on this earth, where real action happened.

**Polygon** — the public blockchain network Earth LinC records on.

**ERC-1155 / ERC-721 / ERC-6551** — the open token standards the protocol is built on: 1155 for the stations and the stars, 721 for the Signet, 6551 for the Realm's account. Open standards are why anyone can read or build on Earth LinC without permission.

**YuCROWN** — the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that initiated and anchors Earth LinC: the missions, the verification, the public trust — and runs the study through C//.

**the anchor** — YuCROWN's role: the one accountable point in an otherwise open protocol — because physical truth can't be automated. *Anchored, never owned.*

**the study** — the research C// (YuCROWN) conducts by reading the open record the protocol produces. The protocol is Earth LinC; the study is C//'s. (See **What is C//**.)

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*See also: the Protocol Specification (formal definitions) · How verification works · The anchor.*


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