12 · APPENDIX
12. Appendix
12.1 Glossary
Window: a fixed time span, typically 60 minutes, over which activity in a token is measured from the durable ledger.
Receipt: a posted, verifiable measurement of the window following a public claim.
Durable ledger: FAUST’s append-only record of every decoded swap; the source of all published figures.
Indexed swap volume: USD notional of swaps FAUST decoded and priced; a subset of chain-wide DEX volume.
Canonical stock token: one of the 96 official tokenized equities verified against the issuer; all same-ticker others are impostors.
MCP: Model Context Protocol, the open standard through which agents query FAUST.
SIGHT: FAUST’s on-chain incentive points program, funded from the ecosystem allocation.
12.2 The 2018 Artifacts
Robinhood open-sources Faust, shared by Vlad Tenev (July 31, 2018): x.com/vladtenev/status/1024357355071229952. The original repository: github.com/robinhood/faust. Engineer testimony: Jaren Glover’s same-day quote tweet of the announcement, crediting Faust with leveling up his distributed-systems skills.
12.3 Changelog Reference
FAUST ships in public. The live changelog of protocol, terminal, and agent updates is maintained at faustprotocol.io. Major entries are announced on @faustprotocol. Figures throughout this document are stamped July 2026; the archive has grown since you started reading.