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The book.

The treasury is an LP in the stock-token pools and collects real swap fees. Only source of value in the system, and the ceiling on emissions.

Emissions against fees, over twelve months.

The bar is what was emitted. The red line is the decay ceiling, the dashed line is the fees earned. The protocol emits the smaller of the two.

month 1month 12
emitted, capped by revenue emitted, capped by the ceiling decay ceiling fees earned

The crossover lands in month 8. For seven months revenue is the binding constraint — the protocol emits exactly what it earns. After that, the curve binds. Had the ceiling bound from month one, the decay would have been decoration.

Month 12

Book
$1 344 846
Inflow this month
$237 773
Fees earned
$181 494
Ceiling
25 101 $DESK
Emitted
25 101 $DESK
Binding constraint
ceiling
Book value per trader
$111.35
Cumulative coverage
×2.218

Coverage is cumulative fees over cumulative emissions. It cannot fall below 1.000: emitted = min(ceiling, fees) makes that impossible.

Where the money goes.

Bonus
100% burned

The main sink. Proportional to your neglect.

Promotions
100% burned

Occasional.

Poaching
30% burned · 70% to the owner

Near zero-sum. It moves value, it does not destroy it.

Desk extension
into the book

Raises the floor price for everybody.

The only tap is emission, and it is capped. Every other flow is either a burn or a transfer between players.

The registry.

162 Uniswap v4 pools, quoted in USDG, WETH or native ETH. Frozen at deploy in SectorRegistry.sol.

Semis
36 pools · NVDA, MU, AMD, TSM
Index
18 pools · SPY, GLD, USO, QQQ
Crypto-fi
36 pools · DJT, MSTR, QUBT, BULL
Energy
36 pools · SPCX, WYFI
Consumer
36 pools · TTWO, LLY, HIMS, META

8 696 traders backed by the book in month 12 $111.35 each.

What the book will never do.

Accept a user deposit

A book that allocates other people's assets is a collective investment vehicle, with the regulatory weight that follows.

Be paused

No owner, no proxy, no pause function. Parameters are immutable at deploy.

Change its curve

The 15% decay every 30 days is a bytecode constant, not a setting.

Emit more than it earns

A structural constraint, not a policy. Checked by fuzz invariant tests.

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Reproducible: python research/economy.py. Volume inputs come from Phase 0 — a median $24.5M of daily notional across the registry pools, average fee tier 0.35%. Decay ×0.85 every 30 days.