Optimal Tier 1 revenue split ratios

Determine the optimal split ratios for allocating Tier 1 skill installation fees among route contributors, route maintainers, infrastructure, and an optional treasury in the Unbrowse shared route graph payment architecture.

Background

Unbrowse introduces a three-tier micropayment model for its shared route graph. In Tier 1, a one-time skill installation fee is split among contributors who discovered and maintain routes, the platform infrastructure, and an optional treasury.

The paper specifies an initial split with approximately 70% going to contributors, but acknowledges that these ratios are governance parameters rather than results derived from first principles. Establishing optimality of these splits remains an unresolved question.

References

The specific split ratios are governance parameters, not derived from first principles; their optimality is an open question for future empirical study.

— Internal APIs Are All You Need: Shadow APIs, Shared Discovery, and the Case Against Browser-First Agent Architectures  (2604.00694 - Tham et al., 1 Apr 2026) in Subsubsection "Fee Split Architecture (Tier 1)", Section "Route-Level Payment Architecture"