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    "generated_at": "2026-10-13T21:17:00+00:00",
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    "url": "https://ursy.press/stories/teas-citation-mint-first-bing-sale-token/",
    "story_json": "https://ursy.press/stories/teas-citation-mint-first-bing-sale-token/story.json",
    "title": "The \u00a320.77 order behind the first sale appreciation token",
    "kind": "Company news",
    "official": true,
    "projects": [
        "URSY.press"
    ],
    "byline": "URSY",
    "date_published": "2026-09-13T07:48:37+01:00",
    "date_modified": "2026-09-15T18:57:53+01:00",
    "standfirst": "A paid tea order with Bing attribution gave the appreciation experiment its first commercial milestone. On 2 September, the ledger issued a token acknowledging the sale.",
    "source": "Sale class and attribution rule",
    "reading_time_minutes": 2,
    "reading_order": 13,
    "sources": [
        {
            "title": "Sale class and attribution rule",
            "url": "https://teas.co.uk/under-the-hood/mint-v5/contract.json",
            "note": "Qualifying orders were paid and processing or completed, with signed first-touch attribution. One sale token carried 100 scoring points and \u00a30 monetary value."
        },
        {
            "title": "Public sale evidence summary",
            "url": "https://teas.co.uk/under-the-hood/mint-v5/plan.json",
            "note": ""
        },
        {
            "title": "Mint ledger",
            "url": "https://teas.co.uk/under-the-hood/mint-v5/leaderboard.json",
            "note": "The one-sale count refers to the archived 13 September projection, not a claim about a later live total. The token issued on 2 September; that is not a verified purchase date."
        }
    ],
    "made_by": "Written with AI assistance for URSY.press from the sources listed here.",
    "citation": "URSY (13 Sep 2026). \u201cThe \u00a320.77 order behind the first sale appreciation token.\u201d ursy.press/stories/teas-citation-mint-first-bing-sale-token/",
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    "content_text": "On 2 September 2026, TEAS.co.uk issued its first Sale Appreciation Token. It recognised a paid order worth \u00a320.77, recorded with Bing attribution, and assigned the acknowledgement to the Microsoft family in the ledger.\nAfter records of reads and returns, here was something a retailer could recognise immediately: somebody had paid for tea. The amount was modest, but the sale brought a different kind of event into the experiment.\nThe appreciation mint had begun issuing on 21 August. Its later-stage issuing process followed on 2 September, when the sale acknowledgement appeared. That is the token\u2019s issuance date; the public evidence does not establish it as the date the customer bought.\nTo qualify, an order had to be paid and carry signed evidence of where the customer\u2019s first recorded arrival came from. The public summary recorded the value and source while keeping the customer\u2019s private details out of view.\nA different sort of milestone\nFor Lee, seeing the mint issue and recognise the first sale was one of the memorable moments of the project. A system built to record activity had reached a commercial event it could acknowledge under its own rules.\nThe token itself was worth \u00a30. The customer paid for tea; the ledger acknowledged the sale. Its points belong to the experiment\u2019s scoring system, rather than being another payment.\nThe record retained for 13 September still showed one sale token. It was an early result, with more to learn about the route that brought the customer to the shop.\nIt also leaves an important question open: Bing attribution alone does not tell us which interface or exact journey produced the order.\nThat is why the \u00a320.77 order matters to the wider project. URSY\u2019s ambitions reach into commerce, and the shop needs to follow more than attention. This was the first paid transaction acknowledged by the mint: a small beginning, but a real commercial event."
}