Three deeply interdependent standards form the Trinity: ZKP-369 is the Anchor (who you are — hierarchical identity and storage), ZKP-216 is the Fuel (what you have — fungible privacy token and ascension burn), and ZKP-432 is the Signal (what you've done — non-transferable reputation).
Live application state and user actions are enforced by the Express service and its PostgreSQL database. The Solidity contracts deployed to Sepolia are reference implementations, not the live runtime execution path.
ForgeMinerNFT (ZKP-369) encodes who you are in the ecosystem. Each NFT represents a hierarchical infrastructure license at Tier 3, Tier 6, or Tier 9, gating validator participation, storage commitments, Proof-of-Space-Time challenges, and reward eligibility. Tiers are upgraded through the Ascension mechanism, which burns ZKP-216 SFD. A Solidity reference contract is deployed to Sepolia; current application actions use the server-enforced runtime.
SignalForge (SFD, ZKP-216) is the ecosystem's fungible privacy token with a 200 billion lifetime supply cap matching the deployed reference contract's MINT_CAP. SFD supports public and shielded transfers (Groth16-verified), staking for Proof-of-Stake rewards, and the Ascension Burn that upgrades ForgeMiner tiers: 21,600,000 SFD for Tier 3→6, 216,000,000 SFD for Tier 6→9, and 237,600,000 SFD for Tier 3→9. Burn amounts are exact parity with HarmonicAscension.sol — no discounts and no treasury redirect.
Resonance (ZKP-432) records what you have done. It is a non-transferable, soul-bound reputation score from 0 to 999 that accumulates through validated protocol activity. A score of at least 432 is required to qualify for Tier-9 ascension, and resonance score determines DAO voting weight in SignalForgeDAO proposals. Because it is soul-bound, resonance cannot be transferred, sold, or delegated — it reflects the holder's actual contribution history.
The Trinity creates a self-reinforcing loop: ForgeMinerNFT (ZKP-369) identity licenses gate which protocol activities a participant can perform; those activities generate ZKP-432 Resonance and ZKP-216 SFD rewards; accumulated SFD is burned to ascend the ForgeMiner tier, which in turn unlocks higher-tier validator authority, storage capacity, and reward multipliers — and the additional activities a higher tier unlocks can go on to earn more ZKP-432 Resonance, the sole determinant of DAO voting weight. Removing any one standard degrades the others — the design is intentionally co-dependent.