The cloud was centralized.
OPEN puts it back on the network.

Cloud is not sold by the transaction. It is sold by the resource: an instance that runs below its baseline banks credit, and only the work that overruns that credit is billed at the on-demand rate. The OPEN pool runs the same meter.

1. Capacity is 10% of the ETH-equivalent depth standing at the current price, L / √P. That is the pool's own arithmetic, read live · a deeper book absorbs bigger bursts on its own, with no number for anyone to tune.
2. Credit refills with time alone: an empty bucket is full again after an hour of quiet, and it never fills past capacity.
3. Spot is anything that fits inside the standing credit. It pays the pool's 0.30% and nothing else · but it spends the credit it used.
4. On demand is the part of a swap that runs past the credit. The rate on that overrun rises with how far past capacity it reaches, up to 3%, so there is no cliff at the edge of the bucket.

The bill is donated into the pool in the same transaction and the claim is burned. The hook holds no ETH, no tokens and no claim between transactions · there is no pot, no distributor, and nothing anyone can be locked out of.

The same order is not the same trade. Into a quiet pool it is baseline · into a pool that has just been drained it is contention, and contention is what the meter charges for.

The meter cannot be washed into a discount. Its only state is a credit balance and every swap spends it: a wash trade burns the bucket it would want full, pays the pool fee and moves the price against itself on the way. The one thing it can do is drain the credit so the next trader is billed · and that bill is paid to the liquidity.