Token
The network pays wages in USDC — real dollars, always. The token is the capped upside layer on top: earned only by verified work, never required, and never the paycheck.
Why a token exists
The problem it solves
A young network needs supply before it has revenue. Cash can't pay for that; ownership-flavored upside can. The token recruits and retains the device operators who power the network in its earliest, least profitable phase — and gives everyone who does verified work a capped share of what the network becomes.
Two rules that never break
One: token emissions never pay for anything with a dollar cost — wages, servers, and credits are funded by revenue, so a token-price dip can never become a network outage. Two: the wage stays payable entirely in USDC forever. Earning never requires touching the token.
How it's earned
Verified work, nothing else
The token is minted only against epochs of verified work — jobs actually served, audited by the network's re-execution checks. There is no mint for idle uptime, no discretionary issuance, and no time-based drip. Each epoch, the network publishes a cryptographic summary of who did how much verified work; operators claim their share on-chain themselves.
A hard cap, front-loaded to builders
Total supply is capped at one billion. Epoch budgets decay over time, so a token of work done early earns more than the same work done later. The people who power the network first get the largest share of it.
Allocation
One billion, split four ways
Written into the contract at deployment and enforced on-chain: the work-emissions bucket is the only mintable supply, and it can never exceed its share — burned tokens never re-open mint capacity. Figures below are the working allocation; any change before launch will be published here first.
| Bucket | Share | Release |
|---|---|---|
| Work emissions | 60% | Minted only against verified-work epochs; decaying budget, front-loaded to early operators |
| Team & treasury | 25% | 4-year vest, 1-year cliff, multisig; movements announced before they happen |
| Ecosystem & liquidity | 10% | DEX liquidity on Robinhood Chain, integrations, security bounties; use published |
| Early backers | 5% | ≥2-year vest, 6-month cliff; unused rolls into work emissions |
What holding it does
Choose your pay
Planned at launch: every earner picks their own split — all USDC, or divert part of earnings into the token at a published bonus rate, funded from the capped emission budget. Dollars for people who want dollars; upside for people who believe.
Stake for work, not for yield
Planned: operators can stake tokens against a device. Staked devices get priority for surplus demand — within their trust tier, never above it — and the stake doubles as an honesty bond, forfeited on proven fraud. Holding earns you more paid work in dollars. It does not print more tokens. There is no yield loop here by design.
Supply that shrinks with real usage
Planned, subject to legal review: once network revenue crosses a published threshold, a fixed share of the network's margin is used each epoch to buy tokens on the open market and permanently remove them from supply. Forfeited honesty bonds are removed the same way. Demand for the token is designed to be a function of real network usage — not of promises.
What it is not
Plainly
It is not the wage. It is not required to earn, to buy, or to use anything on the network. It carries no promise of profit, yield, or price. It is not sold by this website. Mechanics marked as planned ship only after security audit and legal review, and may change or not ship at all.
Rollout
Phased, with public gates
One — testnet: work-anchored epochs and on-chain claims (running now, private). Two — launch on Robinhood Chain after audit and legal review, with published allocation and vesting. Three — staking, once the fleet is large enough that priority means something. Four — usage-linked supply reduction, once revenue crosses its published threshold. Each gate is public; nothing activates quietly.