GRU, Chain 138, and x402 Canonical Terms Notice

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guosmmDocumentId: GUOSMM-E-2026-012
title: "GRU, Chain 138, and x402 Canonical Terms Notice"
instrumentVersion: 1.0
language: en
publishedAt: 2026-07-12T19:45:00Z
effectiveAt: 2026-07-12T19:45:00Z
signingAuthority: "Sovereign Military Order of Malta"
draftStatus: production_signed
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# GAZZETTA UFFICIALE DELL'ORDINE SOVRANO MILITARE DI MALTA
# OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA (GUOSMM)

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Document ID | `GUOSMM-E-2026-012` |
| Series | E |
| Document type | Supervisory Notice — Canonical Terms |
| Published | 2026-07-12T19:45:00Z |
| Effective | 2026-07-12T19:45:00Z |
| Counsel gate | `signed` |
| Related acts | `GUOSMM-D-2026-011`, `GUOSMM-E-2026-011` |

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# GRU, Chain 138, and x402 Canonical Terms Notice

## Section 1 — Purpose

1.1 This Notice establishes the canonical Gazette terminology for the GRU / DBIS architecture as it relates to:

- Defi Oracle Meta (`ChainID 138`)
- the Global Reserve Unit (`GRU`)
- native `c*` hub-layer assets
- `cW*` transport-form assets
- network interoperability
- systematic machine-payable and settlement-related flows, including x402-related lanes

1.2 The purpose of this Notice is to preserve definitional clarity, operational continuity, and publication discipline while preventing unsupported claims of regulatory equivalence, issuer equivalence, deposit status, legal-tender status, universal network support, or mutable live-status overstatement.

## Section 2 — Defi Oracle Meta / Chain 138

2.1 **Defi Oracle Meta**, identified on the EVM registry as **`ChainID 138`**, is designated as the principal GRU hub-settlement chain within the DBIS architecture.

2.2 Chain 138 is the canonical on-chain environment for:

- native GRU hub-asset issuance where separately authorized
- hub-directed x402 settlement surfaces
- registry, policy, and settlement-control functions
- related audit, ledger-correlation, and machine-payable workflow support

2.3 This designation does not by itself create:

- nation-state central-bank status
- payment-system designation by an external competent authority
- automatic host-state licensing effect
- universal corridor activation across all external networks

## Section 3 — Global Reserve Unit

3.1 The **Global Reserve Unit** or **`GRU`** is the governing reserve-basket, monetary-policy, and asset-taxonomy architecture for the designated DBIS token system.

3.2 GRU defines, within the applicable architecture:

- token-family taxonomy
- reserve-basket logic
- issuance structure
- transport-extension structure
- interoperability model
- policy and accounting treatment

3.3 GRU is not, by that status alone:

- the sovereign issuer
- a nation-state central bank
- a nation-state electronic money institution
- a substitute for any external regulatory authorization otherwise required

## Section 4 — Native c* hub assets

4.1 A **`c*`** asset is a native GRU compliant digital settlement instrument issued within the hub architecture and structured as part of the GRU M1 settlement layer where separately authorized.

4.2 A `c*` asset may be designated for:

- hub settlement use
- accounting alignment
- machine-payable workflows
- registry-linked or policy-governed financial operations

4.3 Such designation remains subject to:

- the governing acts
- reserve policies
- issuance controls
- operational rulebooks
- respondent-jurisdiction requirements where applicable

4.4 **`cUSDC_V2`** is designated as a native GRU M1 hub settlement asset on Chain 138 and may serve as the primary x402 settlement asset on the hub chain where the relevant technical surface, policy profile, and operational controls are active.

4.5 `cUSDC_V2` is structured for:

- par-style redeemability intent
- interoperability within approved corridors
- financial-integrity controls within the GRU stack

4.6 Nothing in this Section shall be read to create, without a separately applicable legal instrument or competent-authority perimeter:

- deposit st

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