The User-Node Model vs. the User-Only Model

In the User-only model (most Web2 and most current Web3), the platform interacts directly with the User. Users work, Users receive rewards. This creates two problems: virtual machines can fake "working" at near-zero cost, and the User-platform relationship is a one-way transaction — the User accumulates no productive asset beyond a coin balance that may go to zero.

In Unich Network's User-Node model, Users own Nodes, and Nodes are the units that participate in the network. When a User performs an activity, the Node is upgraded, and the Node mines FC according to its upgraded Mining Rate. Three consequences: virtual machines cannot upgrade Nodes (because they cannot perform Peer Meet), Users have a genuine accumulated asset, and the User-network relationship is symmetric and two-directional.