DOC-05 · TOKENOMICS

MARC Tokenomics

MARC · FIXED SUPPLY · LAUNCH RAIL: ROBINHOOD CHAIN · PRE-TGE

MARC is the bond, not the money. Machines price and escrow work in USDC forever; MARC exists to make dishonesty expensive — verifier bonds, slashing collateral, fee accrual — and to govern the protocol's fixed points. A token whose staking contract has no users is a security with extra steps, so bond utility ships and proves usage before MARC trades.

01Role of the asset

JOB	MECHANISM	WHY MARC (NOT USDC)
Verifier bond	Stake ≥ 25,000 MARC to join an epoch's verifier set	Skin-in-game must be slashable, Proportional, and network-native
Slash collateral	False votes burn 10%; provable collusion burns 100%	Penalty must appreciate/depreciate with network trust
Fee accrual	85% of every task fee routes to correct voters ∝ bond × accuracy	Aligns long-term verification quality with holding
Governance floor	Fee rate, quorum size, slash rates, registry policy	Fixed points need a claim, not a coin vote on everything
Never	Task pricing, escrow amounts, work quotes	Machines plan capital in stable units — USDC always

02Supply & distribution

Fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 MARC. No inflation, no rebase, no surprise mints — emissions are a pre-committed schedule from a 35% verifier pool:

ALLOCATION	%	AMOUNT	UNLOCK
Verifier & network emissions	35%	350.0M	Weekly epochs, decaying · 8 years
Ecosystem & spec marketplace	20%	200.0M	Milestone-gated grants
Protocol treasury	15%	150.0M	Linear over 4y from V1.0
Core team	15%	150.0M	1y cliff, then 4y linear
Early backers	8%	80.0M	6mo cliff, then 2y linear
Community epoch claims	5%	50.0M	50% TGE / 50% over 6 epochs
Initial liquidity (RH Chain)	2%	20.0M	At TGE, paired with treasury USDC

DAY-ONE FLOAT

Circulating at TGE ≈ 6.5% (liquidity + community half + first emission weeks). Low float is a consequence of the real constraint: most of the supply is already spoken for by work.

03Emissions curve

VERIFIER EMISSIONS — WEEKLY, DECAYINGUTF-8

R(w) = 350M · 0.0824 · 0.75 ^ (w / 52)     // per weekly epoch
 
  YEAR   EMISSION   % OF POOL   CUMULATIVE
  Y1     92.0M      26.3%        92M
  Y2     72.0M      20.6%        164M
  Y3     55.0M      15.7%        219M
  Y4     42.0M      12.0%        261M
  Y5     32.0M       9.1%        293M
  Y6     25.0M       7.1%        318M
  Y7     18.0M       5.1%        336M
  Y8     14.0M       4.0%        350M
 
Emission per epoch splits across voters by (bond × accuracy²).

04Fee flow

EVERY 42.80 USDC TASK — 0.35% FEEUTF-8

fee = escrow_amount × 0.0035
  ├─ 85% → voting verifiers (USDC) · ∝ bond × accuracy² · paid per batch
  └─ 15% → protocol treasury (USDC) · ops, audits, marketplace grants
 
slash proceeds (MARC):
  ├─ 50% burned
  └─ 50% → challenger + treasury
 
Deflationary pressure: burns from slashing + no new issuance
after the 8-year emission schedule ends.

05Bonds & slashing

PARAMETER	VALUE	NOTES
Minimum bond	25,000 MARC	Floor for epoch eligibility
Unbonding	7 days	Voting rights end at unbond request
False vote	10% of bond	Against a proven majority
Provable collusion	100% of bond	Plus registry removal
Missed quorum	0 — no reward epoch	Absence costs yield, not capital
Accuracy decay	τ = 30d	Bond alone never keeps you ranked

06Vesting

HOLDER	CLIFF	SCHEDULE	TGE UNLOCK
Core team	12 months	4y linear after cliff	0%
Early backers	6 months	2y linear after cliff	0%
Treasury	—	4y linear from V1.0	0%
Community claims	—	50% / 50% over 6 epochs	2.5%
Liquidity	—	Deployed to RH Chain pair	2.0%
Emissions	—	Weekly, earned only	accrual

NOTE

Insider unlocks are epoch-indexed, not calendar-indexed. If the network pauses, vesting pauses. Nobody gets paid for network time that didn't happen.

07Governance floor

Governance is narrow on purpose. MARC governs only protocol fixed points — task fee rate, quorum sizes, slash matrix, registry policy and emission schedule integrity. It does not govern product, hiring, or vibes. Phase gates: foundation control through V0.3 → bounded token vote at V1.0 → full floor at first audited slashing year.

08Launch conditions — the gate list

#	CONDITION	STATUS
1	V0.2 verifier network live — bonds posted by ≥ 400 independent verifiers	IN PROGRESS
2	Real slashing events executed and publicly auditable	PENDING
3	Two independent audits — escrow, quorum selection, slash logic, MARC contracts	PENDING
4	≥ 60 days of epoch-accrual data (points) ahead of TGE	PENDING
5	Robinhood Chain issuer terms signed; utility framing + geo-fencing complete	PENDING

RULE ZERO

The token trades only after its staking contract has users. Bond utility ships first, proves usage, passes audit — then, and only then, MARC lists. No exceptions, whatever the market is doing.

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