Glossary

Shannon: The smallest unit of SOMA.

Bond: Security deposit. Refunded if honest; forfeit if verification fails.

Commit-reveal: Two-phase weight publication. Hash first, reveal later. Prevents copying.

Cosine similarity: How SOMA measures distance between embeddings. 1 = match, 0 = unrelated, -1 = opposite.

Embedding: A list of numbers representing what data means. Similar data produces similar numbers.

Epoch: One network cycle. One day.

Optimistic verification: Assume honesty, audit only winners.

VDF: Verifiable delay function. Unpredictable randomness that anyone can verify.