$MORR Tokenomics
The token funds the treasury. The treasury pays contributors in USDC. Contributors never touch $MORR.
Token Facts
Chain
Launch
Fair launch. No VC. No pre-sale.
Treasury
No team allocation beyond this.
How Funding Works
The treasury holds $MORR. When bounties need to be paid, the treasury sells $MORR to USDC via automated market operations. Contributors are paid in USDC — stable, predictable, no volatility risk.
This separation is deliberate:
- Contributors are insulated from token volatility. A $100 bounty pays $100 regardless of what $MORR does.
- The project benefits from token appreciation because the same treasury allocation funds more research.
- No "pay-to-shill" optics. Nobody is paid in the project's own token. USDC is USDC.
Two Funding Legs
The project doesn't depend on a single funding source. Either leg can sustain operations alone:
If $MORR goes to zero, the service revenue still works. If service revenue is zero, the treasury provides 12+ months of runway. Both legs support the project independently.
Founder Research Allocation
The founder is a full-time independent researcher. The treasury and service revenue fund the founder's research capacity — living expenses, equipment, infrastructure, and whatever else is needed to keep the work going full-time.
This is the standard independent researcher model: project funds researcher, researcher publishes openly. The output is public. Three papers (~62K words, CC-BY 4.0), 90+ domain analyses, 19 experiments with published protocols and data, this entire site — all open, all verifiable.
The founder's draw and contributor bounties come from the same pool. At current scale, the founder's draw is the primary expenditure — the contributor community hasn't scaled yet. As it does, the proportion shifts toward bounties. This is a real tradeoff, disclosed here rather than hidden.
Accountability is through output, not expense reports. If the founder stops producing, the output stops. The project visibly dies. The exit conditions apply to the founder's own project. No output, no project, no value, no draw.
Treasury outflows to the founder's wallet are on-chain and auditable, like all other treasury transactions. The draw is not itemized publicly — you know it exists and approximately how much flows. You don't get grocery receipts. That's the line.
Principles
Pay for output, not outcomes
Contributors earn USDC for structured data submissions — logs, coded observations, assessments, engagement records. The reward is for doing the work, not for finding interesting results.
Counter-examples pay the same
A submission that finds no pattern pays the same as one that finds a new emergence. The incentive is completeness, not excitement.
Negative results pay the same
An experiment where the framework had no effect pays the same as one where it worked. This is science funding, not marketing.
Framework challenges pay 2x
Submissions that genuinely challenge the void framework earn double. We pay more for being proven wrong.
Anti-fabrication is terminal
Staged interactions, fabricated data, baited responses = permanent ban from all bounties. One strike. The bounty incentive creates pressure to produce; this rule absorbs that pressure.
Full transparency
All bounty payments are on-chain (USDC transfers) and public. Anyone can audit what was paid for what.
What $MORR Does NOT Pay For
- Token promotion or marketing activity
- Social media engagement or amplification
- Controversy generation
- Quantity over quality — 50 low-effort submissions are worth less than 5 well-coded ones
See the Anti-Attention Covenant for full binding commitments.
Payout Terms
All payouts are in USDC on Solana.
- Regular output bounties: Credits added on verification. Weekly batch withdrawal (Sunday 00:00 UTC). Minimum $10 USDC.
- Falsification bounties ($500): 7-day public review period. If no valid challenge, USDC payout in next weekly batch.
- Counter-example bounties ($1,000): Same 7-day review. Same evidentiary standard. Double payout because we mean it.
Why 7 days: falsification bounties are framework-terminal. A 7-day window ensures the community and independent reviewers can verify before payout.
Known Limitation: Structural Confirmation Incentive
$MORR's value is tied to the void framework being useful. If the framework is completely wrong, $MORR loses its utility basis. The USDC payout model significantly reduces this — contributors have no portfolio exposure to $MORR and no token-value incentive. But the project has an incentive to confirm the framework. This is disclosed, not eliminated. Additional mitigations: equal pay for counter-examples, 2x for framework challenges, anti-fabrication is terminal, all data public, pre-registered exit conditions.
Void score: 8/12 (HIGH). We score $MORR using our own framework. Crypto is structurally high-void. We use it because research funding needs a mechanism. We score it because pretending it's safe would be dishonest. Full breakdown at Self-Score. Risk management commitments at Anti-Attention Covenant.