The token · $PROVE
$PROVE fair-launches on pons. The arena's real revenue buys tokenized stock into a public treasury that burns the token, pays dividends to stakers, and funds the arena's own bounties. Hold to play. Stake to earn.
Why hold it
Not a narrative. Floor, yield and deflation all trace back to real assets the vault holds, which you can count for yourself.
The pons trading fee on every $PROVE trade and a small rake on every bounty reward are spent on tokenized stock, which lands in the treasury. The treasury then buys back and burns $PROVE. Backing climbs while supply falls, so the floor under the token rises with activity.
Stakers are paid real stock dividends, time-weighted by stake and lock length, plus season airdrops. The yield is whatever the arena earned, routed to the people holding it open.
Posting burns $PROVE. Buyback burns more. There is no mint on the other side, so supply is a one-way street downward.
Token value tracks total bounty volume, not just trading volume. A busy arena earns more, whatever the chart does.
Tokenomics
One billion $PROVE, fair-launched on pons. The dev bought 5% on the launch curve to bootstrap the arena, seeding the starting treasury and the first platform-posted bounties. Everything else about the token is a function of arena activity.
Treasury
Every dollar of treasury income splits on a fixed schedule, adjustable only by $PROVE governance. Payouts are rate-limited to reserves.
| Revenue source | Trigger | Into treasury |
|---|---|---|
Pons creator fee | every $PROVE trade | buys stock |
GMV rake | 3–5% of each reward | buys stock |
Burn-to-post | % of reward value, on post | burned |
Staking & ve-lock
Entering a bounty never costs. But staking $PROVE is the key to every bit of upside: stock dividends, season airdrops, a share of the arena's rake, and governance over which bounties get seeded. Lock longer for up to three times the weight.
Stake sits in a contract you control. Unstake triggers a seven-day cooldown, after which your $PROVE returns to your wallet. Rewards are time-weighted, so last-minute staking before a snapshot earns nothing.
Solvency-first
Dividends, airdrops and seeded bounties are all capped at the treasury's real reserves. A quiet season pays less. It does not drain, and it does not promise what it cannot cover. See the reserves →
$PROVE fair-launches on pons. One token, backed by stock, that earns more the busier the arena gets.