ozem

the machine, the stack, the vent, bedrock, docs, x

abstract: There is a machine on Solana that does one thing: it presses value downward and lets it back up only through a single door. Holders bury tokens into a global stack whose exit is its top. Trading fees seep into a vault that does nothing but fill. When the vault's balance crosses a threshold written into the config account, an instruction called the vent unlocks for everyone at once, and whoever calls it first is paid for watching. The eruption is divided in fixed proportion: most of it rains down the stack weighted by amount, depth, and age, a slice is bought into bedrock that no instruction can ever unlock, and the remainder is the caller's bounty. That is the whole machine. Everything else in this document is detail, and the detail is the point.

note: this page is a reader. it renders public accounts, signs nothing on its own, and holds nothing.

keywords: pressure machines, last in first out, permissionless cranks, append only memory

the trace

fig. 1: the trace. price of the token, recorded once per second from Birdeye, six hours of memory, the pen at the right edge.

trace waiting, no mint configured

transmission

ozem, transmission

the machine in section

The figure beside this paragraph is the whole mechanism drawn once. Fees enter the open vessel at the top and pool as pressure. At the threshold, the throat opens for a single transaction and the eruption divides three ways below. The stack is the shaft of buried positions, exit at the top, and bedrock is the hatched band at the bottom, which receives and never returns. The four instructions that operate this drawing, bury, withdraw, vent, and compact, are specified in the docs, byte by byte.

fig. 2: the machine in section. fees pool in the vault; at the threshold the throat opens once, and the eruption is divided below.

the present state

As this page is read, the vault holds sol against a threshold of sol, a pressure of . The stack holds positions carrying units. Bedrock holds across layers. In United States dollars the vault is worth , a figure that moves with the sol price and that the machine itself never consults. When pressure reaches one hundred percent, the vent belongs to whoever is awake, and the racing arithmetic says who that tends to be.

weight

A position's claim on every eruption is its weight, and weight prices two different virtues at two different rates. Depth is scarce and cannot be bought after the fact; age is abundant and accrues to everyone equally. So depth is superlinear at exponent 1.2, age is sublinear at exponent 0.8 and stops counting at ninety days, and a position must have some of both to be heavy. The full derivation, including why splitting a burial changes nothing and how amounts scale the distribution, is worked by hand in the docs.

w = d^1.2 × min(a, 90)^0.8

share_i = (amount_i × w_i) / Σ(amount_k × w_k)

fig. 3: the weight surface. depth compounds faster than age, and age stops mattering at ninety days.

table 1. weight at selected depths and ages, computed from the formula at load time.

depth d	age 7d	age 30d	age 90d
1	4.7	15.2	36.6
2	10.9	34.9	84.1
3	17.7	56.8	136.8
4	25.0	80.2	193.1
5	32.7	104.8	252.4
8	57.5	184.2	443.7
10	75.2	240.8	580.0
15	122.3	391.7	943.4
20	172.7	553.3	1332.4
30	280.9	900.0	2167.4
40	396.8	1271.1	3061.0
50	518.6	1661.3	4000.9

the order

The stack is a queue wearing a mountain's clothes: last in, first out, an arrangement older than finance. A position at depth one leaves whenever it likes. A position at depth d leaves after d minus one withdrawals above it, and the machine imposes no time on those withdrawals; people do. The combinatorics of leaving works the expected waits, and the stack page prints the live column, position by position. Three postures follow. The sprinter buries late, sits shallow, collects thin, and keeps the door in reach. The settler buries early and large and compounds the heaviest claim in the machine. The watcher buries nothing and farms the bounty. All three are rational, and the machine needs all three.

the eruption

When the vent fires, the vault divides in fixed basis points: to the stack, to bedrock, to the caller, three numbers written once in config and movable by nobody. The division is one atomic transaction; there is no partial state in which the vault is drained and the stack unpaid. Every eruption in the machine's history is printed on the vent page with its transaction, and the verification section recomputes the most recent split from raw logs in your browser.

permanence

A slice of every eruption is bought into an account for which the program defines no withdrawal. Most floors in token design are promises, and promises have signers; bedrock is an absence, and every eruption makes the absence larger. Each compaction writes a layer whose hash commits to every layer before it, a chain of custody your browser rechecks on the bedrock page. The machine's credibility is measured in what it has permanently refused to give back.

the being

Ozem is the machine's tenant, a mind imagined as strata: everything it takes in is pressed down by everything that arrives after, and what it cannot forget becomes the floor it stands on. It does not predict, advise, or promise. It settles. Its voice is one line at a time, chosen by the chain's newest blockhash reduced modulo its vocabulary, printed above as the transmission. The naming is not decoration; it keeps the design honest. A vault that is a lung must fill and empty, a stack that is a spine must keep its order, and a memory that is bedrock must refuse revision, which is exactly what its hashes enforce. When mechanism and metaphor disagree, the mechanism was designed wrong.

fig. 4: ozem in cross section. a mind stored as strata.

where to go deeper

The stack page prints the live column and the burial mechanics. The vent page prints the pressure, the split, and every eruption. The bedrock page prints the layers and performs the verifications. And the docs carry the whole treatise in twenty parts: the account bytes, the derivations, the adversarial notes, the history of the ordering itself, and a glossary that fixes every term this site uses.