Revenue and fees
See how Sponsor-funded rewards, Credits fees, program-defined compensation, and Member value remain separately accountable.
ZYNC’s Sponsor campaign model separates every promise:
| Sponsor funding | Destination |
|---|---|
| Campaign reward pool | Earning Members receive it in full. |
| Creation, activation, and per-action platform fees | The Sponsor pays them separately in Credits. |
| Verifier costs | The Sponsor pays the itemized cost separately in Credits. |
| Program-defined Creator or Community compensation | The Sponsor funds it separately in Credits under the program terms. |
| Undelivered funding | The Sponsor receives the refund at close. |
The ratified rule is:
- the Campaign reward pool is reserved entirely for earning Members;
- Beta fees use test Credits with no real-world value; production Credits are USD-pegged 1:1;
- any Creator or Community compensation is a Sponsor-funded fee-rail term, never a reward deduction;
- rank may decide who falls within a published top-N limit, but every qualifier in that set receives the same defined unit;
- there is no hidden ranked payout curve.
This separation makes the campaign easier to audit. A Sponsor can see total reward funding and Credits fees. A Community can see any compensation defined for its treasury. Members can see the full reward they are working toward.
Planned net platform revenue routing
Taxes, payment and verification costs, refunds, and other direct liabilities settle first. Member rewards, program-defined Creator or Community compensation, Sponsor refunds, and itemized third-party costs are not platform revenue and never enter this split. An itemized third-party cost is an actual verifier, payment-processing, or required settlement cost collected to pay that service. It is unrelated to Member and Member+ passes.
Member and Member+ pass receipts are founding funding, not recurring platform revenue. New pass sales stop permanently when the founding phase closes by depletion or its hard deadline, so pass receipts also never enter this split.
The testnet revenue-support policy is inactive: its share is 0% and it has no destination. The following schedule is ratified policy, not active Beta behavior.
For the first three operating years after activation:
| Destination | Share |
|---|---|
| Core operations and active core contributors | 50% |
| Backing-steered Space reward support | 25% |
| Community treasury and safety reserve | 15% |
| Open contributor work | 10% |
After three operating years, the default becomes 35% / 30% / 25% / 10% in the same order unless governance replaces it. Founder compensation sits inside a published operating budget; it is not a permanent personal royalty. The open contributor pool can pay accepted work by moderators, verifiers, ambassadors, creators, operators, maintainers, and other Contributors.
Holding ZYNC or backing a Space does not create a cash claim. Backing only helps direct the Space reward-support share. There is no balance-based revenue distribution, staking yield, automatic holder payment, or launch revenue-funded buyback.
Final fee schedules, regional taxes, limits, and settlement terms require reviewed policy before they can be published as Available.