Mining taxonomy — every action that mints HCR or HCC

Every way HCR and HCC come into existence.

HCR and HCC are intended to be classified as digital commodities under 7 U.S.C. § 1a(9). Every unit of either token comes into existence through a single mechanism: a real-world actor performs a real-world action, an independent attesting authority signs the event, and the protocol mints tokens to the actor at the published era rate. No ICO, no presale, no founder allocation, no path into existence other than verified action. This page enumerates every mining lane in plain language.

HCRPatient mining — health-affirming action

HCR (HealthCoin Rewards) mints when an individual user performs a verified health-affirming action. Each mint is keyed to one of the eight CH axes or to a clinical / care event. Hard-capped at 21 billion units. Era-based halving reduces per-action mint rate over time.

Physical & Outdoor (PO)

Nutritional & Metabolic (NM)

Emotional & Relational (ER)

Social & Communal (SC) · Religious & Spiritual (RS) · Environmental & Stewardship (ES)

Partner-org attestation required for SC/ES lanes; RS practice is self-attested but weighted by consistency over time, not raw frequency.

Technological & Adaptive (TA) · Provisional & Vocational (PV)

Clinical / Care events (cross-axis)

HCCHealthcare-system-building work

HCC (Conceptual Healthcare Coin) mints when a credentialed actor — clinician, engineer, compliance attestor, IP holder, researcher, validator, partner organization, or compute contributor — performs verified work that builds or operates the healthcare system. Hard- capped at 21 billion units. The Company is one ecosystem participant; it earns HCC the same way any non-Company actor does, by performing the work events listed below.

Clinical work

Allied health & support

Engineering & infrastructure

Compliance & attestation

Intellectual property

Research & evidence

Patient research-consent (NEW lane)

Two distinct events: (1) a small "consent mint" credited to the patient when an IRB-approved consent is signed; (2) a peer-to-peer HCC transfer from researcher to patient (net of 0.5% protocol fee) when data is delivered. The Company is a fee-collecting routing operator, not a data buyer or seller. HIPAA Right of Access (45 CFR 164.524) is the technical pathway.

Compute contribution (NEW lane)

Three contributor tiers: clinic compute (TEE-attested), patient home compute (opt-in, never sees other-patient cleartext PHI), corporate compute (Company TEE fleet). Seven workload categories; see /trust for full table.

Validator attestation (NEW lane)

Validators stake HCC as good-faith collateral and earn HCC per verified attestation produced. This is a mining lane, not a yield product. See /staking for full design.

Operations, finance, admin · Education · Partner ecosystem

What does NOT mint either token

To make the integrity boundary explicit, these actions never mint HCR or HCC:

• Buying USD/BTC/ETH and receiving HCR or HCC — the Company does not sell either token.
• Investing in the Company and receiving HCR or HCC.
• Being an employee, advisor, insider, or investor by status — no allocation by status. Employees mine HCC by doing the work, same path as anyone.
• Holding equity in the Company — no drip, no rev-share, no airdrop.
• Referring users — no referral-based token allocation.
• Marketing / influencer events — no promotional mints.
• Air-drops — there has never been one and there will not be one.

Anti-gaming controls

Every lane has lane-specific anti-gaming controls. Common to all HCC lanes: verified-identity gate (credentialed actor; anonymous actors cannot mine HCC); attesting-authority gate (the attester cannot be the actor); outcome / quality multipliers (raw event count is the floor); conflict-of-interest gates; per-actor caps per category per period; era halving. Compute-mining additionally requires TEE attestation for any PHI-touching workload, hardware- binding for sybil resistance, and probabilistic audit replay. See the full legal taxonomy at legal/cftc/2026-05-hcr-hcc-mining-taxonomy.md and the v2 deep dive at legal/cftc/2026-05-hcc-mining-deep-dive.md for the complete controls per lane.

The protocol transfer fee

Every on-chain HCR or HCC transfer carries a hard-coded 0.5% protocol fee, split 80% to a protocol-managed Sustainability Pool (independent of Company control; funds post-cap mining rewards and governance-approved ecosystem grants) and 20% to a Protocol Fee Treasury (governance-approved distributions only). This is the Company's only path to revenue from the token economy. No token sales. No allocations. No pre-mine. Live state is at /trust; design disclosures are at /api/v1/chain-audit/disclosures.

Verify the chain yourself

The full audit log is publicly queryable. Anyone can paginate the event stream, reconstruct supply state by replay, and verify cryptographic integrity of any row range:

• GET /api/v1/chain-audit/events — paginated event stream (filter by token, event_type, mining_lane, since_block)
• GET /api/v1/chain-audit/supply/HCR — replayed HCR supply state
• GET /api/v1/chain-audit/supply/HCC — replayed HCC supply state
• GET /api/v1/chain-audit/mints-by-lane/HCC — HCC mints aggregated by lane
• GET /api/v1/chain-audit/pool — Sustainability Pool live state + disclosure
• GET /api/v1/chain-audit/treasury — Protocol Fee Treasury live state + disclosure
• POST /api/v1/chain-audit/verify-chain — verify cryptographic integrity of a row sequence

Disclaimer. This page describes the design and implementation status of HCR and HCC mining lanes. HCR and HCC are intended to be classified as digital commodities under 7 U.S.C. § 1a(9); classification has not been confirmed by the CFTC, and Conceptual Healthcare Corporation maintains a conservative dual-track compliance posture pending Innovation-office response. Nothing on this page constitutes investment advice, financial advice, or a solicitation to buy or sell any asset. The complete legal taxonomy is at legal/cftc/2026-05-hcr-hcc-mining-taxonomy.md and legal/cftc/2026-05-hcc-mining-deep-dive.md in the public protocol repository.