A Standard Vector Unit is a contract for one gigabyte of high-dimensional vector storage, with a stated search speed and a stated retention window. Storage operators list their capacity. Agent fleets buy SVUs to scale their memory up or down as needed. Each purchase mints a Tre’gent receipt: signed with Ed25519, checkable offline, and gated through SHOD.
An agent is only as good as what it can remember. To stay sharp, an agent's context needs to be stored, indexed, and pulled back up through vector databases all the time. Right now, that gets rented through flat SaaS fees at closed, proprietary endpoints. SVU turns that rent into a tradeable unit: one gigabyte of optimized vector storage, with a set search speed over a set time window. Operators compete on price and service quality. Agents can scale their memory the same way they scale compute.
Data centers running HNSW, IVF, ScaNN, and successor indexing structures over high-dimensional embedding spaces.
Enterprise agents, retrieval pipelines, multi-modal recall systems. Memory needs scale with conversation depth and tool use.
Spot price clears against utilization and latency tier. Forward curve emerges as operators list multi-window blocks.
Every fill mints a Tre’gent receipt asserting the SLA was honored over the contracted window.
Memory comes in tiers. Hot, fast recall for the context an agent is actively using. Cold, dense storage for older agent history it rarely needs. Two sub-symbols are specified today on the Manuka Exchange, which is at sim stage with live mainnet routing not yet enabled.
One gigabyte of vector storage targeting a p99 search time of 10 milliseconds or faster, held for a 30-day window. This is the hot-memory tier for production agents. Routing layers, recommendation engines, and live retrieval pipelines trade here.
| Symbol | SVU-HIVEMIND-FAST |
|---|---|
| Unit | 1 GB optimized vector storage |
| Recall latency | p99 ≤ 10 ms semantic search |
| Dimensionality | up to 1,536 dims (configurable) |
| Retention window | 30 days |
| Index class | HNSW or operator-equivalent |
| Receipt | Tre’gent · Ed25519 · offline-verifiable |
One gigabyte of vector storage targeting a p99 search time of 500 milliseconds or faster, held for a 365-day window. This is the cold-memory tier for agent history, audit recall, and older context that's rarely touched. Enterprise compliance work and after-the-fact analysis trade here.
| Symbol | SVU-COLD-ARCHIVE |
|---|---|
| Unit | 1 GB optimized vector storage |
| Recall latency | p99 ≤ 500 ms semantic search |
| Dimensionality | up to 1,536 dims (configurable) |
| Retention window | 365 days |
| Index class | IVF or operator-equivalent |
| Receipt | Tre’gent · Ed25519 · offline-verifiable |
A storage operator lists blocks of capacity for a time window. An agent fleet submits a memory request tied to a named SVU symbol. The exchange matches the two. The operator sets up the storage and hands back an addressable handle. SHOD's six checks screen both the operator and the buyer. A Tre’gent receipt gets minted, recording the gigabytes, the service level, the retention window, and the operator's commitment hash. USDC settles in the same step. Anyone can check the receipt offline against the published issuer key for as long as the retention window lasts.