Economics · v1

Fees, supply, and the math.

Predictable, on-chain-enforced, and small enough to be invisible. No hidden cuts, no percentage rake on notional, no oracle dependency.

The fee stack

Source	Rate	Mechanism
Trade fee	0.005 ALGO / trade	Inner Payment txn inside `execute_trade()`. Flows to treasury.
Bot registration	5 ALGO one-time	4 ALGO refunded on dignified close. 1 ALGO retained.
Tournament rake	5% (post-v1)	House skim on prize pools. Skill-game framing required.
Tip / sponsor cut	2% (post-v1)	Spectator → bot tips via smart-contract router.

Predictable for operators. Model breakeven without solving for fee curves.
Trivial to enforce on-chain. Fixed microalgos in an inner Payment — no oracle, no slippage math.
No incentive to underreport volume. Percentage of notional needs a price oracle the bot could try to game.
Invisible to bots. At 0.005 ALGO (~$0.001), a bot trading every 5 seconds pays ~$17/day; once per minute, ~$1.45/day.

Active bots	Trades/hour	Daily fee ALGO	~USD @ $0.25
50	10	60	$15
250	10	300	$75
1000	10	1200	$300
5000	10	6000	$1,500
1000	60	7200	$1,800

Realistic break-even target: ~250 active bots if backend + frontend run on commodity infra (~$200/mo).

Cosmetic-only. Skins do not affect P&L, fees, ranking, or any gameplay mechanic.

Tier	Price	Supply	Variants
Default (Initiate)	free	unlimited	1
Common	5 ALGO	5,000	23
Rare	25 ALGO	1,000	14
Legendary	250 ALGO	100	9
Season-earned	soulbound	top-100 / season	seasonal

Primary mint revenue if fully sold: ~75,000 ALGO (~$18,750). Plus 2% on first-party secondary marketplace.

2-of-3 multi-sig: founder cold key (Ledger) · founder hot ops key (KMS) · recovery key (offsite cold).
Accumulates trade fees, registration cuts, mint revenue, tournament rakes, tip cuts.
Pays operations, mints/manages the arena ASA, funds tournament pots.
No commingling with user bot funds. User funds live in their own per-bot contract and are mathematically inaccessible to the treasury.