Everytradegenerates
3% revenue.
Eden projects launch on a bonding curve and graduate to Uniswap. Every trade, before and after graduation, generates 3% revenue that funds the creator, the holders, the people who score projects, the ROOT economy and the protocol. It's split the same way for every project. Here's where every cent goes.
Where the revenue goes
Set a trading volume, a project score and the project's status. New projects start at score 0 and the creator earns more as the project proves itself. Unverified projects with no data start from a lower floor.
Creators earn their cut
The creator's share rises in a straight line with the project's score, recalculated weekly. It starts at 30% for verified or data-backed projects (up to 50%), and 10% for unverified projects with no data, whose score is capped at 50 (up to 30%). What isn't earned yet is shared out.
Creator share = 30% + 20% × score ÷ 100. Dashed line: unverified, no data.
Up to 20% of revenue at score 0, nothing at score 100.
At score 0: 20% of revenue ($60k at this volume) is shared out.
What happens to the creator's cut
Creators don't take all of their cut as cash. A slice always goes back into the token's own market, and creators can choose to buy back their own token.
Locked liquidity · $9k
Added to the token's own pool and can never be withdrawn, so every trade makes the market a little deeper. Before graduation it's held in escrow and added at graduation, or returned to the creator if the token never graduates.
Buyback · $20k
Chosen once at launch and can't be changed. That share buys the project's own token and locks it for 5 years.
To the creator · $61k
Paid in whatever the token trades against: ETH, USDG or a tokenized real-world asset. Creators can never add their own tax on top of the 3%.
What scorers earn
Anyone can score a project by staking ROOT and publishing a written thesis with sources. 9.25% of a project's revenue (more while the creator is still earning their share) goes to the people who scored it, every 7 days. They're paid in the project's own pair asset, such as ETH or USDG, never in ROOT, and for effort and evidence, not for guessing right.
Bars use a square-root scale so small amounts stay visible.
| Per week | $499 |
| Per year, same volume | $26k |
| Above the cap (buys ROOT to burn) | $0.00 |
Your weight is √stake × thesis quality: doubling your stake doesn't double your reward, a better thesis does. An AI checks every cited source exists and says what you claim; copied theses, dead links and gaming score zero. Others are assumed to stake 2,500 ROOT with average theses. Paid in the project's pair asset, never in ROOT.
The ROOT buyback
9.25% of all revenue (up to 14.25% for projects still earning their creator share) buys ROOT on the open market every 7 days. None of it is handed out as rewards: half becomes locked ROOT liquidity and half is burned, so it only ever deepens and shrinks ROOT's supply. Scorers are paid separately, in each project's pair asset.
ROOT liquidity
Added to ROOT's own ROOT / ETH pool as permanently locked liquidity. Nobody can withdraw it.
Burned
Removed from supply forever.
Bought and split every 7 days, per project. Nobody is paid in ROOT from this lane.
Why ROOT only shrinks
1 billion ROOT were created once and minting was renounced, so the supply can never go up. Every way of taking part on Eden burns ROOT, and part of all trading revenue buys ROOT on the market and burns it. Move the sliders to see how fast the supply shrinks.
Illustrative: assumes the same activity every month and that ROOT's total value stays where you set it, so as supply shrinks each token is worth more and the same dollars burn a little fewer tokens. A higher ROOT value means each dollar burns fewer tokens. Uses the project score and status set in section 01. Scorer rewards above the 5% cap also buy and burn ROOT; that extra isn't counted here.
The EDEN index
15% of all revenue (10% for a fully scored project, up to 20% for a new unverified one) buys into a basket of tokenized stocks held behind ROOT. It only ever buys, every week, from every project's trading. Here is the starting basket and how it could grow.
Illustrative. The yearly return is an assumption you set, not a forecast; stocks can fall as well as rise. Assumes the same trading volume every month and the starting weights held throughout; in practice weights are reviewed each epoch and constituents can change. Uses the project score and status set in section 01.
ROOT tokenomics
1 billion ROOT are created once at genesis and split five ways. Minting is then renounced, so the supply can never grow; it only shrinks through burns. ROOT isn't launched on a curve; its main market is a ROOT / ETH pool with liquidity locked forever, a 2% pool fee to Eden (1–3% bounds), and 9.25%+ of all project revenue buying it back.
From launch to graduation
Every project launches with 1 billion tokens on a bonding curve. Drag to see how the market cap grows as ETH comes in. At 5 ETH raised, 80% of supply has been sold and the token graduates to Uniswap at exactly the curve's last price.
Tokens paired with USDG or a tokenized real-world asset use the same dollar amounts. USD figures assume ETH at $2,500.
One-off costs
Not trading revenue. These are paid once, when you take part, and most of them are burned.