> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://yvechat.gitbook.io/wp/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://yvechat.gitbook.io/wp/yve/tokenomics.md).

# Tokenomics

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**Provisional.** Every figure on this page is a working model, subject to the final economic and legal structure. `$YVE` has not been generated, no contract is deployed, and no sale is open. See [Disclaimer](/wp/resources/disclaimer.md).
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### $YVE Allocation

| Property         | Value         |
| ---------------- | ------------- |
| **Network**      | BNB Chain     |
| **Total Supply** | 1,000,000,000 |

| Allocation           | % of Supply | # of Tokens | Function                                                                                              |
| -------------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Public Sale**      | 10%         | 100,000,000 | Public distribution                                                                                   |
| **Engine Operators** | 10%         | 100,000,000 | Emissions for Engine operators, compute network participants, early adopters, and adoption incentives |
| **Team & Liquidity** | 10%         | 100,000,000 | Long-term alignment of core contributors, and liquidity support                                       |
| **Foundation**       | 30%         | 300,000,000 | Governance, reserves, and liquidity provisioning                                                      |
| **Ecosystem**        | 20%         | 200,000,000 | Grants, integrations, marketplace incentives, and builder collaborations                              |
| **Operations**       | 20%         | 200,000,000 | Compliance, infrastructure, audits, and exchange                                                      |

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### Vesting Schedule

| Allocation       | TGE Unlocked      | # Unlocked at TGE | Cliff (Months) | Vest (Months) |
| ---------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- | -------------- | ------------- |
| Public Sale      | 25%               | 25,000,000        | 0              | 6             |
| Engine Operators | 0%                | 0                 | 1              | 72            |
| Team & Liquidity | 0%                | 0                 | 5              | 24            |
| Foundation       | 9%                | 27,000,000        | 6              | 36            |
| Ecosystem        | 10%               | 20,000,000        | 3              | 36            |
| Operations       | 14%               | 28,000,000        | 0              | 36            |
| **TGE**          | **10% of Supply** | **100,000,000**   | -              | -             |

Ten percent of total supply unlocks at generation. Team allocation carries a five-month cliff followed by a twenty-four-month vest, so contributor tokens begin unlocking after the Engine era is delivered.

Engine Operator emissions run over seventy-two months, the longest schedule in the model, because operator supply is the slowest and most important thing the network has to build.

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### Emission Principle

Operator emissions reward custody actually taken up.

| Rewarded                         | Rationale                                                   |
| -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Engines paired and sustained** | Measures sustained installations                            |
| **Local models served**          | Measures inference kept on user hardware                    |
| **Network capacity contributed** | Measures GPU supply available to others, in the Network era |
| **Uptime and reliability**       | Measures capacity that can be depended upon                 |

Emission parameters move to governance in the Sovereignty era.

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### Buybacks

A portion of fiat revenue is recycled into `$YVE` buybacks, described in [Revenue](/wp/yve/revenue.md). This links enterprise and scaling-tier adoption to token demand without introducing any margin on inference.

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### Verification

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The contract address will be published at generation on [Verified Links](/wp/resources/verified-links.md) and nowhere else. Any address presented before then, through any channel, is fraudulent. Treat every early sale claim as an attack.
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***

One billion tokens.

Distributed to the people who take custody.


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