Tokenomics Summary

Introduction

This Tokenomics summary is an outcome of over a year of development surrounding the design of the optimal token economy. GoraNetwork made use of full time mathematicians, statisticians and also worked with several third party tokenomics consultants and auditors to develop a comprehensive economic design. In order to fund the project initially, a reasonable amount of tokens was dedicated to investors while ensuring that the percentage of supply remains as low as possible. Vesting schedules are implemented to protect the value of the $GORA token and allocation of tokens are ecosystem and participant biased. The token has utility on both sides of the ecosystem; node runners and validators stake to earn rewards while consumers use the token to pay for data. The primary design will ensure that the community will be the majority holders, and whale holdings are limited.

In order to fund the project initially, a reasonable amount was dedicated to investors while making sure that percentage of supply remains as low as possible. Vesting schedules are implemented to protect the value of the GORA token and allocation of tokens are ecosystem and participant biased. The token has utility on both sides of the ecosystem; node runners and validators stake to earn rewards while consumers use the token to pay for data. The primary design will ensure that community will be the majority holders, and whale holdings are limited.

Token Supply and Distribution

The total supply of $GORA is 100M tokens, and will be distributed across 13 sub areas

Token Supply Schedule

Token Allocation	% of Allocation	Number of Tokens	Vesting Period	Controlled By
Ecosystem Rewards	33%	33,000,000	1 month cliff, Distributed as per network activity	Protocol
Ecosystem Development	10%	10,000,000	1 month cliff, 20%/year over 5 years	DAO
Treasury/Liquidity reserve	12%	12,000,000	12 month lock up, then 8% per month. 100% locked in Treasury as reserve & automated liquidity pairing.	Project Team (Can be superseded by DAO)
Advisors	3%	3,000,000	6 month lock up then daily unlock over 12 months	External
Team and Recruitment	10%	10,000,000	24 month lock up, then daily unlock for 12 months	Project Team
Marketing and Partnerships	6%	6,000,000	3 month lock up, then 15% per month	DAO
Adoption Incentives	2%	2,000,000	3 month cliff Distributed to node runners over 2 years	DAO
Launch liquidity	4%	4,000,000	Orderbook management and liquidity provision by Market Maker (GSR) Locked to CEX/DEX	Project Team
Seed	10%	10,000,000	12 month cliff, daily unlock over 12 months	External
Whitelist Round	2.10%	2,100,000	12.5% TGE, daily linear over 8 months (may be used to run nodes to accumulate rewards).	External
Node Sale Round	1.67%	1,666,666.67	15% TGE, daily linear over 6 months (Note: These tokens must be used to run nodes, and rewards will accumulate)	External
Public Round	2.23%	2,233,333.33	20% TGE, daily linear over 4 months	External

The token release schedule for GORA is as below:

A visual demonstration of the circulating supply, which more detail can be found in Monetary Supply, and distribution section

Token utility

The GORA token allows holders to:

• Stake and become Node runners and Validators.

  • A consequence of this is to be eligible for rewards paid out by GoraNetwork and Consumers.

• Consumers can pay for data/computation.

• Token holders can vote on issues such as fees (i.e. Governance).

• Accrue value as GoraNetwork grows.

Rewards/Incentives

• Rewards are a pool of 10,000,000 tokens which will be handed out on a monthly basis via programmed rules.

  • Those with a higher number of successful requests will receive a larger share of the monthly pool of rewards.

  • Rewards pool increases month-on-month instead of declining exponentially which will help incentivise long term participation and new joiners every month.

• Adoption incentives are an extra pool of 2,000,000 tokens designed to attract early adopters with guaranteed 3 month APY for new joiners.

  • APY will vary depending on the month joined.

  • 20% for the first 6 month, 15% for the next 6 month and 10% for the subsequent 6 months.

Token Sale Structure

A fixed price token sale model will be used, which means the sale ends when the tokens are bought out at the specified fixed price.

For the first two rounds - although tokens are under lockup - Node Runners will be able to stake those tokens which makes them eligible for the most profitable section of the adoption incentive schedule.

They will also be eligible for the stakeholder rewards schedule from the beginning. The ability to sell the tokens will occur as per vesting schedules, depending on which round you buy in, which is currently planned for April 2023. This means as you receive your tokens on a daily basis, you will be able to sell your tokens. Token holders can delegate their tokens to providers of such services such as Infstones, or run their own nodes and stake to earn rewards.