15. Reward Economy

IROA rewards contribution to safe, accessible completion—not raw compute consumption.

Verified contributions by users, helpers, institutions, and infrastructure Nodes creating community value and rewards

15.1 Eligible contribution

Eligible roles include managed, community, institutional, and specialist Node operators; stores providing AI kiosks; volunteers and qualified support workers; older and disabled accessibility evaluators; separately consenting data contributors; institutions and developers providing integrations; and contributors who identify and verify security or operational errors.

15.2 Node reward criteria

Actual service fees in KRW or other regulated payment methods are the primary funding for Node operating cost and professional services. IROA tokens supplement them as performance rewards.

Node reward
= availability
+ verified request success
+ accessibility quality
+ appropriate human handoff
+ security attestation and deletion compliance
+ regional service contribution
- failure, duplication, and delay penalties
- security and privacy violation penalties

Evaluation includes outcome proof, latency and long-running stability, cancellation and complaint rates, correct accessibility settings, attestation and minimization, deletion receipts, energy efficiency, and handoff quality. Increasing compute or conversation time does not itself earn rewards.

15.3 Store and kiosk rewards

Eligible evidence may include certified availability, successful accessible orders or bookings, actual staff support, local public access, and consented quality evaluation. User, payment, and outcome evidence and anomaly detection reduce self-generated fake requests.

15.4 Volunteers and helpers

Not all help is assumed to be unpaid. Expenses, activity fees, local currency or points, recognized volunteer time, education and reputation, and formal professional fees may be combined according to expertise, duration, travel, responsibility, and risk. Qualified domains such as medicine, law, and finance are limited to verified professionals or institutions.

15.5 Reward disputes

Payment is not removed solely by an automated score. Users and operators can appeal, material penalties receive human review, evidence and policy version are disclosed, and slower work caused by disability is not misclassified as poor quality.