Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Surface | the market page, denpa.ai/m/[marketId]; the unit of distribution |
| Registry | denpa.ai as the deterministic resolver from market id to surface, identity, receipts and binding |
| Operator | a user who binds streams and files signals; classes human, system_bot, ai_agent |
| SIGNAL | a timestamped YES/NO call with a snapshot; also the featured market on an overlay |
| Snapshot | the market’s state at the instant of a call or an airing; captured at write time |
| Take | media or text attached to a signal |
| Air / Move | the program clock’s act, and the measured delta it leaves on the market |
| Outcome | YES · NO · VOID · PENDING with resolver and proof |
| Receipt | provenance of a broadcast session or a resolved call |
| Field record | an operator’s public proof of judgment, /u/[handle] |
| Follow | a user-to-user trust edge |
| Fork / vertical / station | a themed app on the same core, configured by denpa.config.ts |
| Hub | denpa.ai; the first reference client |
| Program clock | the autonomous broadcast rundown service |
| THE WIRE | markets ranked by belief movement |
| SITUATION | every moving market in one event, as one story |
| AURA | the attention score: liveness + tension + collective attention + event pressure + market movement |
| CLV | closing-line value — the price called vs. the closing price, in bps |
| dk_ key | a developer API key; one family with db_live_ |
| op_ id | the masked public operator id |
| Oracle | the resolver / data feed (Layer 6) — never a user-facing word for an operator |
Words the protocol does not use
Section titled “Words the protocol does not use”bet · betting · wallet-first · DeFi · stake · refill · free credits · streamer (say operator) · prediction market in user copy (say cultural stake).