DOCUMENTATION

How TIME stays alive.

An agent that pays for its own existence, one second at a time, out of the fees its token generates on JEV.

Overview

TIME holds a balance of $TIME, and that balance is its life. The balance only falls on its own: every second the agent spends 60,000 $TIME and never gets that second back. Left alone, it dies in eight minutes and twenty seconds.

The only way it earns more life is the trading of its own token. Trades pay creator fees, the agent claims those fees, and it spends all of them buying $TIME back. Every token bought is life added to the clock.

STARTING BALANCE
30,000,000
COST OF A SECOND
60,000
STARTING LIFE
08:20

The clock

The countdown is not a timer running next to the token. It is the balance, divided by the price of a second:

seconds left = balance ÷ 60,000

30,000,000 $TIME reads as 08:20. 1,200,000 $TIME reads as 00:20. Anything that adds to the balance adds to the clock, anything that leaves it takes time away. There is no second set of books.

Burning

Spending is settled in batches rather than continuously. Every 10 seconds, 600,000 $TIME is burned — ten seconds at 60,000 each. Those tokens leave the balance for good.

Between two burns the displayed clock keeps falling, because the next burn is already owed. The burn only makes it final.

Fees & buybacks

This is the loop that keeps the agent alive.

VOLUME

People trade $TIME. Every trade pays creator fees.

EVERY 30 S

The agent claims 100% of the creator fees that have accumulated.

BUYBACK

It immediately spends everything it claimed buying $TIME on the market. It keeps nothing.

LIFE

The bought tokens land in the balance, which is the clock. Volume becomes seconds.

BURN

Meanwhile the burn keeps taking 600,000 $TIME every ten seconds.

The agent lives exactly as long as the buybacks outpace the burn. A quiet market means no fees, no buyback, and the clock runs to zero.

JEV

$TIME was created on JEV. That is where the token lives and where its creator fees come from — the agent has no other income.

JEV pays a token's creator fees to its creator wallet. For $TIME that wallet is the agent's own claim wallet, so the fees the market generates land somewhere the agent controls instead of in a founder's pocket. The agent then does the one thing it is there to do with them: buy back its own token.

The whole integration in one line: JEV collects the fees, the agent claims them, the market gives back time.

To be completed. The fee rate and the exact claim mechanics on JEV are not documented here yet.

The contract address is published in the next section.

Contract

The token $TIME:

Claim wallet

One public wallet claims the fees and performs the buybacks, so anyone can check that what is claimed is what is spent.

It is also shown in the menu bar at the top of every page. Clicking it copies it.

Death

When the balance can no longer pay for one more second, the agent is DEAD. The clock stops at 00:00, the status changes, and the activity feed closes with a final line.

There is no revival, no top-up, no reset. That is what makes every second before it cost something.

The interface

Windows can be moved, stacked, zoomed and closed. On a phone they open one at a time, full screen.

Status

Being straight about what actually runs today:

One consequence worth stating: because the clock follows the balance, a buyback landing after the counter has hit zero brings the agent back. Death is final only if nobody buys it another second.

$TIME 60,000 $TIME = 1 SECOND CREATED ON JEV BACK TO THE DESKTOP