AI Tokens CMS Wallet

Use distinct names for distinct units

For an AI-assisted publication, distinguish a blockchain asset balance from an internal service allowance and the provider’s measured model usage. Name each clearly in the product brief and the reader interface. A single “tokens remaining” counter can obscure whether the reader owns an asset, qualifies for access, or has consumed a service.

The ERC-20 token interface describes balances, transfers, and allowances. It does not specify inference credits or a CMS feature’s usage entitlement. Any relationship between those concepts must be deliberately defined by the application.

Define eligibility independently of consumption

A proposed membership policy may decide whether a verified reader can begin a research session. A separate usage service can reserve an internal allowance and reconcile the work performed. Decide what refreshes, what expires, and what happens to unfinished requests.

Keep concurrent requests and cancellation in the design. A closed browser tab should not be the only evidence used to decide whether remote work completed. Associate the task with a durable request identifier and provide an understandable pending state when the outcome needs reconciliation.

Keep privileged operations outside generated text

For a research assistant, constrain the initial feature to approved sources and draft responses. Do not let text from documents or model output become authority to spend funds, revise membership rules, or modify editorial permissions. Any expanded capability needs its own authorization design and review.

Keep privileged provider credentials outside the public website. Decide which reader-supplied or unpublished content may be sent to the service, and avoid collecting complete prompts by default merely because they might later be useful.

Explain the service promise

Publish the eligibility rule, allowance policy, and accounting units in reader language. Label estimates as estimates. Do not imply that an asset’s market price guarantees future computing capacity, investment returns, or unlimited use.

Use the detailed access-and-metering article below to map the proposed service. Pair it with the content model and the cost guide so the visible promise, operational policy, and maintenance budget describe the same feature.