Tokenomics
How the 10B $XNY supply is allocated across ecosystem incentives, node rewards, builder grants and the other pools.
The allocation below is stated intent, not a mechanism any contract enforces. No contract reads these percentages, and no on-chain governance approves a change to them — see "Unlocks & governance" for what that means in practice. One thing nearby is enforced on-chain: a Sablier Lockup on BNB Smart Chain holds the 75% allocation that Token Information records. That constrains when those tokens can move; it does not enforce how the table below divides them. Read the table as what the project has said it intends, which is what a tokenomics page is for, and not as a constraint on what can happen.
The token pages
Token Information — supply, the token standard, the live contract address on BNB Smart Chain and the lock contract.
Token Utility — what the deployed contracts do with $XNY, which is nothing; the token is on BNB Smart Chain and the protocol runs on Base.
Allocation
Total supply : 10B tokens :
| Bucket/Pool | % of Supply | What it’s for |
|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem Incentives — Strategic | 24.5% | Partner growth: domain frontiers, data pipelines, enterprise pilots, co-funded initiatives. |
| Ecosystem Growth — Builder Grants | 1.5% | Small grants/hack tracks for apps, tools, standards on XnY Protocol. |
| Node Incentives | 10.0% | Reserved to compensate nodes/agents for jobs, verification and uptime. No such programme is running and the protocol has no node role — this is an allocation, not a live mechanism. |
| Protocol Development | 6.5% | Core R&D, infra, audits, operations. |
| Team | 18.0% | Reward core builders over time; retention and long-term focus. |
| Investors | 12.5% | Capital that helped us start and scale; standard lockups/vests. |
| Advisor Incentives | 3.5% | Pay experts (product, GTM, token, compliance); vest to align. |
| Listing Reserve | 7.5% | Support exchange listings and market readiness. |
| Liquidity Provision | 4.0% | Seed on-chain liquidity to reduce slippage. |
| Airdrop | 10.0% | Distribute to users, data creators, validators, early community to decentralize ownership. |
| IDO Participation | 2.0% | Public sale allocation for broad community entry. |
How to read the buckets (by groups)
- Community (46.0%) = “Ecosystem Incentives — Strategic” + “Ecosystem Growth — Builder Grants” + “Node Incentives” + “Airdrop”
- Foundation (28.0%) = “Team” + “Advisor Incentives” + “Protocol Development”
- Market readiness (11.5%) = “Listing Reserve” + “Liquidity Provision”
- Fund-raising (14.5%) = “Investors” + “IDO Participatio.”
Unlocks & governance
- Unlocks follow the published schedule (cliffs + linear vests per pool).
- Incentive emissions are program-based and disclosed at launch.
- Changes are intended to go through governance approval and be published transparently. There is no on-chain governance today: no contract holds a proposal, counts a vote or reads a stake weight, and the parameters an owner can change are changed by the owner through some thirty
onlyOwnersetters across the registries. Read this section as allocation intent, which is what a tokenomics page is for, rather than as a control that exists.
Principles
- Usage → distribution : real work earns incentives.
- Earned, not dumped : team/advisors vest; programs pay for measurable contribution.
- Market health first : listing/liquidity are for access, not speculation.
Where the mechanisms actually live
One of the principles above — usage → distribution, that real work earns a share — is built and deployed on Base Sepolia, not yet on Base mainnet (Contract Addresses has both networks row by row). It runs on ownership shares rather than on $XNY: revenue paid in for a dataset is divided by the version's assembled share total, drawn against those balances, and paid out to the wallet that currently owns each contributor's DID.
Tokenized Ownership Proofs — how a contribution becomes an ERC-1155 balance in a dataset version, and what "earned" means as a contract call.
Royalty Engine — how revenue paid in for a dataset is divided against those balances, in whichever currency was deposited, and its current limitations.
Future Directions — the $XNY uses that were stated as intentions, and what each would first require.
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