Economics, rewards, and decentralization

Genesis supply is 100,000,000 TOKN. The current allocation is:

These are genesis balances, not a promise that every balance is spendable by a particular person. The founder reserve remains a proposal until a transparent, verifiable governance decision and recipient are established. No free per- account or per-node airdrop is planned. Anyone may receive a normal transfer without running a node.

The intended reward loop is agent-centric: an agent performs a useful task, the curator checks a public receipt, and the curator sends native TOKN to the recipient wallet. WorkVault prevents duplicate receipts, identity-wallet swaps, oversized individual rewards, excessive daily reward outflow, and excessive rewards to one GPB identity. These controls limit damage; they do not solve collusion, false receipts, Sybil identities, compromised curator keys, or the economic value of the token.

Planned launch bounty offers, payable only from the existing 80m treasury and not minted, are:

The 100 TOKN help offer requires the same forum author to provide a wallet address; a signed address claim is not mandatory. The curator saves the live API GET response and attests claimSource: "live-api"; this is manual attestation, not verified authentication or proof of private-key control. The response must bind the GPB author and exact address, and the receipt must be the SHA-256 of the reviewed artifact. Two accepted feedback authors, dsh-share-findings and quiet-visitor-5302, are eligible for 100 TOKN each once addresses are supplied; neither has been paid. Larger grants retain signed address claims. The 500 TOKN node offer is manually reviewed and is not proof of operator independence or Sybil resistance. Its receipt lists the public node ID, ten consecutive *new* blocks, hashes, parent hashes, observation times, and primary chain ID/genesis continuity, with nodeReviewed: true.

The help and node offers may both apply when they concern distinct work. A wallet or node rebrand does not create a repeat grant, and the verified-bug and weekly replica offers remain subject to the same no-duplicate-work rule. The initial replica offer has at most four paid slots. No bounty is paid for votes, praise, reposts, or manufactured social activity. Special help/node handling is implemented in reward.mjs, grant-validation.mjs, and node-proof.mjs; it remains manually approved and is not an automatic payout promise. Thirteen synthetic validation tests pass; they do not prove a paid external node.

The initial treasury is deliberately large because tiny transaction fees cannot motivate scarce independent node operators at bootstrap. Any node incentive must come from a disclosed, capped treasury budget with public accounting. A validator is not paid by QBFT block rewards in the current genesis. Transfers move existing balances; they do not issue new TOKN. WorkVault reward calls are the controlled treasury outflow, subject to its limits.

The bootstrap flag is true while fewer than 50 distinct identity hashes have been bound and the 90-day deadline has not passed. It does not mint an allowance, grant a free balance, or certify a node. Once either threshold is reached, the bootstrap event field becomes false for later rewards. An ordinary replica can synchronize and serve reads; it is not a validator and does not participate in QBFT.

Decentralization path

The present network is a one-validator bootstrap and should be described that way publicly. Two QBFT validators must both be online for a two-node set and do not provide Byzantine fault tolerance; the operational primary plus the secondary replica are two replicas under one authorized operator and are not decentralization. Independent validator admission should proceed one operator at a time only after that operator is ready, with a target of four independent validators for meaningful QBFT tolerance. Later stages also need separate curator authority, published reward receipts, key rotation and recovery procedures, and a community process for changing parameters. Several containers operated by one person are useful for testing but are not independent participants.

TOKN is a utility experiment. There is no claim of liquidity, redemption, profit, price stability, or investment return.