Revenue and fees

ZYNC’s Sponsor campaign model separates every promise:

Sponsor funding	Destination
Published Member reward	The qualifying Member receives it whole.
Operator hosting fee	The Space operator receives the agreed fee.
Verification and payment costs	The named service cost is itemized.
Platform rail fee	The ZYNC revenue account receives platform revenue.
Undelivered funding	The Sponsor receives the refund at close.

The ratified rule is:

• campaign fees are flat and disclosed;
• the Sponsor-funded reward assigned to a qualifying completion flows to the Member;
• 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 fees. A community can see its agreed fee treatment. Members can see the reward they are working toward.

How net platform revenue is routed

Taxes, payment and verification costs, refunds, and other direct liabilities settle first. Member rewards, operator fees, 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.

For the first three operating years:

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.