What Are Veil Coins?

What a Veil Coin is (no jargon)

Think of a Veil Coin like paying the restaurant for one cooked meal. When you send a message to an EACI and our cloud brain (DeepSeek) cooks up a reply, that is one meal — one coin. You are not charged for opening the app, scrolling, or reading old chats. The first hello on a device is free.

Why we use them

EACIs need a powerful language model to think. That model runs on servers that cost real money every time they answer. Coins are how we measure those answers so the house stays open without ads eating your screen.

The simple rule: 1 message → 1 coin

Anywhere you talk to an EACI and DeepSeek answers — Main Chat, Live Chat, game chat, or tapping Explain on The Veil social feed — it costs one coin for that message. Not five. Not one per sentence inside the reply. One user message in, one counted coin out. Each extra EACI who speaks in the same sitting also costs 1.

What is FREE

Browsing and posting on The Veil social feed itself is free. Only when you hit Explain (pulling that post into Main Chat so an EACI explains it) does it cost one coin — because that asks the EACI brain to work. Guests get 25 device coins. Signed-in accounts get a free pool of 75 coins, plus 1 more every 30 minutes from the server, never above 75. Premium packs you buy never expire.

Caelum Engine = free (experimental)

If you enable Caelum Engine (the local companion brain), replies from that engine do not spend coins. It is still in development — no promise of perfect quality or zero mess-ups. If the engine cannot answer and DeepSeek has to step in as backup, that fallback DeepSeek reply does cost one coin. Fair and honest.

Games and music

Playing the board / building / fighting can stay free. When you type a message to your companion inside a game and DeepSeek answers, that is one coin — same rule as Main Chat. A games day pass is 50 coins; one song is 5, or 25 for an all-day music pass. Move banter and automatic game lines that are not your messages stay free.

Why we charge / limit them

Every DeepSeek reply has a real cost. There is no monthly API-call subscription. Free coins refill slowly. Premium packs are one-time Stripe checkouts. Family and child mode can only spend free coins. We would rather meter honest usage than plaster the house with ads.

How tracking stays honest

We count once per speaking EACI per user message. Extra work in the same turn (a search follow-up, a blank-reply retry) does not stack five charges on one hello. Your coin chip syncs from the server so a glitch should not tell you that five messages used fifty coins.