The structure of the framework
Voxonomics does not reduce a blockchain economy to one raw statistic. It measures six distinct dimensions and preserves their component evidence.
Each parent index receives exactly one-sixth of the core VTS budget in Edition 3.1. That equality applies to the six parents, not to all 30 submetrics individually.
1. Proof of Value (PoV)
PoV measures whether a network is producing verifiable, useful and sustainable economic activity. It distinguishes nominal activity from economic settlement, persistent demand and durable value capture.
| ID | Submetric | Weight | Default horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| POV.ES | Economic settlement | 25% | 30/90 days |
| POV.FR | Fees and protocol revenue | 20% | 30/90 days |
| POV.AU | Active economic usage | 20% | 30/90 days |
| POV.VC | Value capture and sustainability | 20% | 90/365 days |
| POV.PQ | Persistence and activity quality | 15% | 90/365 days |
2. On-Chain Participation Index (OPI)
OPI measures the breadth and quality of participation in using, securing, governing and developing a network. It focuses on productive, distributed and persistent participation rather than popularity alone.
| ID | Submetric | Weight | Default horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPI.AP | Active participant breadth | 25% | 30/90 days |
| OPI.SP | Security participation | 20% | 30/90 days |
| OPI.GP | Governance participation | 15% | 180/365 days |
| OPI.DP | Developer participation | 20% | 90/365 days |
| OPI.DR | Distribution and retention | 20% | 90/365 days |
3. Decentralised Liquidity Index (DLI)
DLI measures whether a network supports usable, diversified and resilient on-chain liquidity. It looks beyond headline TVL toward executable depth, price impact, trading quality and concentration.
| ID | Submetric | Weight | Default horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| DLI.ED | Executable depth | 25% | 30/90 days |
| DLI.SE | Slippage efficiency | 25% | 30/90 days |
| DLI.VQ | Volume quality | 15% | 30/90 days |
| DLI.VD | Venue and asset diversity | 15% | 90 days |
| DLI.CR | Concentration and stress resilience | 20% | Event/365 days |
4. Protocol Integrity Index (PII)
PII measures current structural integrity: security, decentralisation, infrastructure diversity, availability, finality and controlled protocol change. It replaced the older Public Trust Index so the core measurement is based on observable protocol properties rather than sentiment.
| ID | Submetric | Weight | Default horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| PII.ST | Security track record | 25% | 365 days/lifetime |
| PII.CD | Consensus and control decentralisation | 20% | 30/90 days |
| PII.ID | Infrastructure diversity | 15% | 90 days |
| PII.AF | Availability and finality | 20% | 30/365 days |
| PII.GI | Governance and upgrade integrity | 20% | Current/365 days |
5. Real-World Adoption Index (RWAI)
RWAI measures verifiable connections between a blockchain and economic activity outside purely endogenous crypto speculation. It includes settlement, payments, tokenised assets, adoption persistence and the integrity of external claims.
| ID | Submetric | Weight | Default horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| RWAI.RS | Real-world settlement value | 25% | 90/365 days |
| RWAI.SP | Stablecoin and payment use | 20% | 90/365 days |
| RWAI.TA | Tokenised asset value and quality | 20% | 90/365 days |
| RWAI.AD | Adoption diversity and persistence | 20% | 180/365 days |
| RWAI.EI | External-verification integrity | 15% | Current/365 days |
6. Economic Resilience Index (ERI)
ERI measures the ability of a network economy to retain essential function, absorb shocks and recover. It is historical and stress-oriented: current integrity belongs to PII; performance through adverse conditions belongs to ERI.
| ID | Submetric | Weight | Default horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERI.AR | Activity retention | 20% | Stress event |
| ERI.LR | Liquidity retention | 20% | Stress event |
| ERI.SS | Security-budget sustainability | 20% | 365 days/stress |
| ERI.TR | Treasury and resource resilience | 15% | 365 days |
| ERI.SR | Shock recovery performance | 25% | Stress event |
From raw facts to comparable measurement
Universality applies to the economic definition, not to identical raw fields. Each network can require a different adapter to obtain equivalent evidence correctly. After acquisition, the framework applies declared units, scope, transformations, normalisation, smoothing, coverage and confidence rules before an official result can be published.
That distinction is crucial: a native observation is not automatically a score, and a score calculated during research is not automatically an official publication.
How the six parents relate to VTS
The six parent indices form the Value Transfer Score (VTS), the central intrinsic network economic measurement in Edition 3.1. VTS is standardised against the Economic Reference Unit and is separate from market recognition, structural risk and evidence confidence.
No shortcut: an official VTS requires all six official parent indices and the framework's publication conditions. Missing or unimplemented evidence cannot be hidden merely to complete a ranking.
The controlling source
This guide is a searchable introduction. The Voxonomics Whitepaper — Final Publication Edition 3.2 controls the definitions, transformations, equations, exclusions and publication rules. The machine-readable metric registry in the project source records the canonical parent composition and submetric weights.
Edition 3.2 · additive architecture
Edition 3.2 is the current publication. Evidence preservation, storage and Vox-in-a-Box nodes extend the unchanged Edition 3.1 economic framework: six equally weighted parents, 30 canonical submetrics and VTS = Value Transfer Score.