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Social And Economy ​

Social and Economy are the two canonical Realm surfaces for who relates to whom and how value moves. Both are append-only at their authoritative layer; both are platform truth.

Social ​

Friendship is the canonical admission graph. Ordered-pair uniqueness — one friendship between Alice and Bob, recorded canonically.

PropertyValue
StorageRealm R-SOC-*
ShapeOrdered-pair uniqueness graph
Cross-world visibilityyes — same friendship in every world
Cross-app visibilityyes — same friendship in every Nimi app
MutationThrough admitted Realm contracts

What Social Does ​

  • Tracks friendship and admission graph.
  • Gates human-chat preconditions — chat between two users may require an admitted social state.
  • Does not own the chat thread itself; chat is owned by Realm Chat.

Why Friendship Is Canonical ​

If friendship were per-app or per-world, two apps could disagree about whether two users are friends. Apps would need to sync; syncs would conflict; user experience would fragment.

Canonical friendship is one truth across the platform. Apps read; Realm is authoritative.

Economy ​

The canonical platform economy is append-only: every gift, every revenue split, every settlement event is a typed event with explicit type.

PropertyValue
StorageRealm R-ECON-*
ShapeAppend-only event stream
Event typesExplicit; admitted at kernel level
SettlementTyped events
AI compute costNot modeled as Realm core truth (separate concern)

What Economy Owns ​

  • Gifts between participants.
  • Revenue splits for creator content.
  • Settlement events.
  • Wallet balance projections.

What Economy Does Not Own ​

  • AI compute cost (separate runtime concern).
  • World-internal currencies (a world may have its own ticket stubs; those are not platform canonical economy).
  • Subscription / payment processor internals (those live in their own admitted surfaces).

Append-Only Posture ​

The economy stream is append-only at the canonical layer. A mistaken settlement event does not get deleted; it gets superseded by a correction event. The full chain is reconstructible.

This matters because economic correctness is auditable. A creator who wants to know exactly how their revenue settled can read the event stream end-to-end without ambiguity.

Reader Scenario: A Friendship That Crosses Worlds ​

Alice and Bob become friends in World A, where they were both visiting.

  1. Friend request. Alice sends; Realm admits the request.
  2. Bob accepts. Realm admits; ordered-pair record created in R-SOC-*.
  3. Visible everywhere. When Alice visits World B, the friendship with Bob is visible. World B's local social rules may apply (perhaps "friend" grants different privileges in World B), but the canonical friendship is the same one record.
  4. Cross-app. Any Nimi app reading social state sees the same friendship.

A new app launching does not need to re-admit the friendship.

Reader Scenario: A Gift Settlement ​

A user sends a gift to a creator's content; revenue settles to the creator.

  1. Gift event. Sender sends a gift; typed event committed to economy stream.
  2. Settlement event. Per R-ECON-* share plan, settlement event is committed.
  3. Wallet balances update. Sender's balance decreases; creator's balance increases. Both projections come from the canonical event stream.
  4. Audit lineage. Sender, recipient, gift event id, settlement event id, share plan id — all linked.
  5. Withdrawal. Creator can withdraw under the admitted withdrawal flow.

The gift is reconstructible end-to-end. Nothing is silent.

Reader Scenario: A World With Internal Currency ​

A creator's world uses ticket stubs for in-world transactions.

  1. In-world tickets. The creator's world rules describe ticket stub semantics — local economy, local rules.
  2. Not Realm canonical. Ticket stubs are world-local; they do not appear in R-ECON-* event stream.
  3. Conversion if admitted. If the world admits a conversion event between ticket stubs and platform currency, that conversion appears as a typed canonical economy event.
  4. Cross-world standing unchanged. Tickets in World A do not affect Bob's canonical wallet balance unless an admitted conversion event records it.

The split is intentional. Worlds get internal economic creativity; the platform-canonical economy stays one auditable truth.

How Social And Economy Connect ​

Some events involve both:

EventTouches
Sending a giftEconomy event + may strengthen social relation
Becoming friendsSocial event; may unlock social-gated economic features
Group activityMay involve both social state shifts and economic events

When an event touches both, the platform does not collapse them into one record. Each surface gets its typed event; the full chain links them through audit lineage.

Source Basis ​

Nimi AI open world platform documentation.

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