Vital Economics: Settlement, Issuance, and Redemption
Master the Vital economic model — how the Distributed Intelligence Unit is issued, spent, and redeemed through the Mesh-Native Exchange.
About this course
Vertical stack context: DOSFIUniversity (research) → DOSFI Academy (this course) → MeshNativeExchange (publishing & monetizing). Students progress from Learning → Building → Publishing → Monetizing. This course is the authoritative introduction to Vital — the Distributed Intelligence Unit (DIU) of the mesh. You will learn the complete economic model: how Vital is issued when compute is performed, how apps spend Vital on behalf of users, how enterprises redeem Vital to fiat, and how the 10-billion hard cap shapes the economics of distributed intelligence. This module provides a comprehensive technical examination of the Vital Economics subsystem within the DOSFI Mesh-Native ecosystem. It details the mechanics of DIU (Distributed Intelligence Unit) metering, the deterministic issuance of settlement primitives, and the process of asset redemption across the Mesh-Native exchange. Students will learn how the State Machine handles resource accounting and how Routing Policies ensure compliance during MNE transactions.
What you'll build
- Understand the lifecycle of a DIU in the Vital ecosystem.
- Map the settlement flow between the Transport Layer and the MNE.
- Explain the deterministic nature of asset redemption.
- Configure basic economic workflows within a Node.
- Verify transaction integrity using the Bundle Schema.
Prerequisites
- Fundamental knowledge of distributed systems.
- Familiarity with the Mesh-Native architectural topology.
- Understanding of basic Node-level configuration.
- Completion of the Introduction to Identity Fabric module.