Every transaction is energy.
Every joule signs a receipt.
A tax return, a property closing, a trade, a call, a claim, a course — energy becoming work in the world. Twenty-two pillars. One ledger. One billing unit.
Two ways in
One concrete scenario. One inspectable artifact.
One house close. Twenty-two pillars. 190.65 joules.
Sarah and Diego buy a 1,840 sqft house with rooftop solar and an EV charger. Watch every pillar do its work, sign its receipt, and spend exactly the energy it took.
The periodic table of transactions.
Twenty-two elements. Five groups. Seven periods. Every cell links to its standards, its joule range, and the receipt format it emits. Click anything.
The 22 pillars
Different industries. Same atom.
A FHIR claim, an ISO 20022 wire, a FIX fill, an OpenBadges credential — all decompose into the same primitives: identity, statute, asset, action, cognition. Each pillar is a B2B IaaS surface for one of them.
Open Standards
Open protocols. Ownerless. Stewarded.
Apache-2.0 reference implementations in Rust. Pinned at 1.96.0. The protocols are public; the moat is the registry, the services, and the authoring tools.
OpenPay
An open standard for accepting payments — issuer, acquirer, terminal, dispute, settlement. Apache-2.0 reference implementation in Rust.
Smart Byte
A neutral value substrate — every byte carries provenance, every transfer signs a receipt. Protocol is ownerless; TX Science is the steward.
EOC
Energy-Optimized Compute — bill AI inference in joules, route work to the cheapest tier, expose the grid-mix per call. Open spec.
WAI
Web AI Media Transport & Execution — an envelope + capability dispatch for media. SOTA codec menu as the floor; neural shared-prior path on top. Apache-2.0, Rust reference impl. Used by CommunicationOS.
JouleClaw
A pure-Rust AI runtime that dispatches every operation through a 5-tier cascade — L0:Cache → L1:Lawful → L2:Embed → L3:Model → L4:Wire. Inference is the last resort, not the entry point. Honest microjoule accounting with explicit Provenance (HwShunt / ModelBased / Estimator). Apache-2.0.
ARL
A universal, vendor-neutral yardstick for the readiness of an AI system to do a defined task — what TRL is to technology. Four parts anchored in math or physics: validation depth, convergence class, energy profile, security class, with cross-axis gates. CC-BY-4.0.
Joule Code
The coding cargo class of the substrate — an edit, a refactor, a generated function as a content-addressed, signed transition over a source tree with its energy cost intrinsic. Remote frontier agents are the L4 escape hatch; the protocol carries no token. Apache-2.0.
Sandbox
Isolated, capability-gated, metered, and attested execution across the heterogeneous compute fabric — CPU, GPU, NPU, TPU, photonic, quantum. Eight isolation tiers (S0–S7); the accelerator is a first-class capability, a metered resource, and an attested line item. Apache-2.0.
Map
The geospatial cargo class — a region at a position, altitude, instant, and fidelity is a content-addressed, signed tile with its energy cost intrinsic, packed into a range-requestable tileset on dumb storage. An F0–F4 fidelity cascade with a base floor defined everywhere. Apache-2.0, Rust reference impl; demonstrated by a wgpu globe at maps.transaction.science.
Access
A shared access-core kernel — access methods, gaze, voice, signed receipts — under two surfaces: Express (aac.transaction.science) for augmentative & alternative communication, and Lumina (lumina.transaction.science) for reading. The board and the document are portable files, free at the protocol layer. Apache-2.0.
proof
Energy-accounted formal verification — a content-addressed proof obligation, a cheapest-sufficient solver cascade with disclosed escalation, and a signed receipt recording which tier closed it and the joules it cost. Correctness stays the verifier's; a proof is not a specification. JouleProof is the steward. Apache-2.0 / CC-BY-4.0.
JCP
A unified, energy-native, capability-secured protocol for agentic systems. Every actor is a did:key; every authority is a signed, bounded, debited Grant — a capability and its joule budget in one object. Authorization and metering are decided outside the model and sealed in a receipt; a tool's output can never take control; delegation only narrows. Apache-2.0 / CC-BY-4.0.
The wire format
Twenty-two pillars. One receipt.
Same identity, same audit format, same billing unit (joules), same wire transport across every vertical. Pick a pillar. Hover any field. See what each one means.
Open the receipt explorer →What we believe
Three statements. Each is the proof of the next.
Every operational event in Transaction Science emits a signed JWP ReceiptPayload. Forging the audit means forging a signature. The format is the same across all 22 pillars.
Inspect a receipt →A query, a wire, a credential, a recording — each costs measurable energy. Insights aggregates the joules; CSRD reports are projections over the receipt log, not separate compilations.
Watch the energy flow →ISO 20022, FIX, FHIR, ACORD, OSCAL, OID4VP, MoQT, MLS, OpenBadges, OpenTofu — every pillar speaks the protocols the regulated world already runs on.
See the periodic table →