Expiry & Governance
TLA Lease Lifecycle
TLAs expire after one year unless the required annual rent is paid. A business with allocated control can renew its TLA annually.
If a TLA is not renewed, it enters Grace, during which the required renewal can still be paid. When Grace ends, the TLA becomes Reclaimable and can return to the allocation process.
| State | Definition |
| Active | The lease is current and the TLA operates normally. |
| Grace | The lease term has ended but remains renewable. |
| Reclaimable | Grace has ended and the TLA can return to the allocation process. |
Expired is not a separate lifecycle state. It is a display condition for the moment the lease term ends; the lease is then in Grace.
Governance by the House of Stake
House of Stake governance has two broad tiers. The council controls membership, code changes, fee changes, and other high-impact configuration. Admins handle routine operations such as upgrades, pauses, and sweeps within the contract gates.
The public docs intentionally do not prescribe a complete voting procedure or evaluation rubric. Those mechanics are governed by the deployed contracts and may evolve without changing the lease lifecycle.