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Autonomy Graduation

In one sentence: canoLiq continuously grades its own health against five thresholds, and once it durably clears all of them it becomes eligible to "graduate" from a Canopy nested chain into a sovereign chain.

canoLiq launches as a nested chain secured by a Canopy committee. The long-term goal is for it to stand on its own. Rather than graduate on a hunch, the protocol measures five concrete signs of maturity every block and reports whether it is ready.

The five metrics​

A metric is met only when its current value is strictly greater than its threshold. All five must be met for the protocol to be eligible. Defaults shown (all governance-tunable):

MetricWhat it measuresDefault threshold
TVLTotal pooled CNPY (total_pooled_cnpy)50,000,000,000,000 uCNPY (~$50M at $1/CNPY)
Active validatorsValidators in the committee registry30
TurnoutAverage governance participation across tallied proposals1,500 bps (15%)
Daily transactionsSuccessful txs in the most recent completed day10,000
Treasury runwayMonths the treasury can sustain its spending12
note

The TVL threshold is a flat uCNPY placeholder until a real price oracle exists; treat the "$50M" figure as illustrative.

How each metric is tracked​

  • TVL and active validators are read directly from current state (the pool total and the validator registry).

  • Turnout is a running average: every time a proposal is tallied, its participation ((yes + no + abstain) ÷ snapshot staked, in bps) is added to a cumulative sum and the sample count is incremented. The reported value is turnout_sum_bps ÷ turnout_sample_count.

  • Daily transactions uses a rolling daily window. Each successful DeliverTx increments an in-progress counter; once a window spans a full day (blocksPerDay = 14,400 blocks at 6s), the counter is recorded as last_daily_tx_count and reset. The completed window's count is what the metric reports, so it never shows a half-finished day.

  • Treasury runway estimates how long the treasury lasts at its current burn rate:

    monthly burn = cumulative treasury spend ÷ elapsed months
    runway months = treasury CNPY ÷ monthly burn

    Special cases: a treasury with a positive balance but no measured spending reports an effectively infinite runway (sentinel 1,000,000); an empty treasury reports 0.

Reading eligibility​

The /v1/graduation endpoint returns every metric with its current value, threshold, and whether it is met, plus the composite eligible flag:

GET /v1/graduation
{
  "metrics": [
    {"name": "tvl_ucnpy",        "value": 12000000000000, "threshold": 50000000000000, "met": false},
    {"name": "active_validators","value": 18,             "threshold": 30,             "met": false},
    {"name": "turnout_bps",      "value": 2100,           "threshold": 1500,           "met": true},
    {"name": "daily_tx",         "value": 4200,           "threshold": 10000,          "met": false},
    {"name": "runway_months",    "value": 1000000,        "threshold": 12,             "met": true}
  ],
  "eligible": false
}

What graduation does (and doesn't) do here​

This subsystem measures and surfaces eligibility — it does not flip the chain to sovereign on its own. Acting on eligibility is a separate governance step: the ACTION_AUTONOMY_GRADUATE tier (the strictest one — 15% quorum, 75% approval, 14-day timelock) gates the actual decision, and the dispatch of graduation itself is handled by a later milestone.