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A new kind of credit

Seeds

What they are, where they come from, and where they go.

Credit

Grown, then spent.

What seeds are

Seeds are a new kind of credit. You grow them by lending your computer, and spend them on AI. You can’t buy them, sell them, send them to someone else or cash them out, and the terms say they never become cash.

Three hundred seeds A tray of 300 amber seeds in 15 rows of 20. One seed is ringed, and a bracket under the tray marks one and a quarter seeds, the cost of a real coding task. 1.24 seeds: one coding task 300 seeds
Plate I What seeds buy Three hundred seeds, one each. In our tests, a coding agent renamed a function across three files for 1.24 seeds, the bracket; and 2,000 short questions to a small model cost 1.74 seeds in all, so one seed answered about 1,150 of them. Prices are on this page; the figures are from 26 September 2026, on one Mac.

Two ways

One of them later.

Where they come from

  • Hosting: every job your computer runs.
  • Later: a monthly allowance, and seeds other people give to Commons COMING.

Jobs

And the root fee.

Where they go

  • Jobs: you pay for exactly the text a model reads and writes, at the prices on the Use page.
  • The root fee: 15% of every job goes to Commons, a shared account kept for the network.

A wait

So a cheat can still be caught.

Ripening

Seeds a host earns ripen for 14 days while its computer is new to woodls, then for 7, before they can be spent.

A plain answer

Asked often.

Is this crypto?

No. There’s no coin, no mining and no blockchain, and seeds can’t be traded. Every seed is kept on the Rings, a ring ledger anyone can check.

Limits

  • Seeds have no cash value.