Tokenomics · $PROVE
One billion $PROVE, fair-launched on pons. From there, every number is a function of how busy the arena is. Real revenue buys real stock into a public treasury that burns the token, pays dividends to stakers, and funds the arena's own work. Hold to play. Stake to earn.
Supply & launch
The repo's token is a test mock. The live system slots in the address of the token pons mints, and every other contract reads it as a plain ERC-20.
Supply sinks & demand
Nothing here mints new supply on the other side. Every mechanism either removes $PROVE or gives a reason to hold it off the market.
| Mechanism | What it does | Effect on supply |
|---|---|---|
Burn-to-post on every bounty posted | Posting burns a slice of $PROVE — a percentage of the reward's value, with a minimum floor. It scales with activity, so a busier arena burns harder. | burned |
Hold-to-play, stake-to-earn hold to play, stake to earn | Entering needs a credit: 100,000 $PROVE per bounty, held or staked, returned win or lose. Staking is open to everyone with no minimum and is the key to the upside — dividends, airdrops, rake share, governance — and the same staked $PROVE counts toward your entry credits, so it works twice. | locked |
Buyback-burn from treasury revenue | The treasury spends part of its income buying $PROVE back and burning it. There is no counterpart mint, so this is a pure, permanent sink. | burned |
Dual reward currency poster's choice | Rewards can be paid in tokenized stock or $PROVE. Paying in $PROVE is a transfer, not a mint — and most winners stake their winnings, which soaks the sell-pressure. | no new supply |
Token value tracks total bounty volume, not just trading volume. A busy arena earns more, whatever the chart does.
Revenue → treasury
This is the edge a plain bounty arena does not have. The arena's fees are not spent on itself — they are converted into assets anyone can audit.
| Revenue source | Trigger | Into treasury as |
|---|---|---|
Pons creator fee | every $PROVE trade | tokenized stock |
GMV rake | 3–5% of each reward | tokenized stock |
Both streams route through the fee router, which buys tokenized stock and deposits it in the StockVault. The vault is public and read live from chain — a proof-of-reserves treasury, so nothing is ever paid that the vault does not hold. Count the reserves →
Treasury out
Every dollar of treasury income splits on a fixed schedule, adjustable only by $PROVE governance. Each slice feeds one of the three reasons to hold.
Stake-to-earn & ve-lock
Entering a bounty never costs a thing. Staking $PROVE is the only key to the upside: real stock dividends — fragments of Tesla, Apple, Nvidia — paid time-weighted by how much you stake and how long you lock, plus a share of the arena's rake and season airdrops.
Lock longer and your reward weight rises, up to three times, and your lock carries governance over which bounties the treasury seeds. Stake sits in a contract you control; unstaking starts a seven-day cooldown. Rewards are time-weighted, so staking right before a snapshot earns nothing.
Seasons & airdrops
Beyond per-bounty rewards, the arena runs in seasons. Showing up and holding open over a season is paid out at its close.
Season points accrue from arena activity and stake-time — posting, winning, and keeping stake locked across the season, not a last-minute sprint.
At season end, points convert to a tokenized-stock airdrop from the treasury. The growth engine the platform-bounty slice funds — get paid in shares to grow the arena.
Every season airdrop is solvency-gated. It pays out of real reserves, so a quiet season pays less and the treasury never over-promises.
Solvency-first
Dividends, airdrops and seeded bounties are all rate-limited to the treasury's real reserves. A quiet period pays less. It does not drain, and it never pays early holders with later money — so activity can slow without the system collapsing. Not a ponzi. See the reserves →
Why hold it
Floor, yield and deflation are not a narrative. They all trace back to real assets the vault holds, which you can count for yourself.
Fees buy tokenized stock into the treasury, and the treasury buys back and burns $PROVE. Backing climbs while supply falls, so the floor under the token rises with activity — not with a promise.
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.
One token, backed by stock, that earns more the busier the arena gets. Watch it work on the live stats.