The team determined allocations based on industry reports, peer analysis and stress tests, and finds that the current distribution incorporates the best balance among funding size, incentives, unlock schedule and ecosystem.

At its core, the token mining incentives structure has a duration of 4 years and highest allocation of 30%, followed by the team/core contributors and investors/advisors, and ecosystem/genesis incentives.

Please view the link below for a comprehensive tokenomics and release schedule for $AARK.

References to Distribution Design

• Looking into projects that have done fundraises with investors, token allocation percentage averages around 19% allocated for investors.
• Source: https://www.liquifi.finance/post/token-vesting-and-allocation-benchmarks

• Common allocations in the DeFi space were studied and reflected on to the Aark tokenomics, especially regarding allocations to the Core Team(23%), Eco/Treasury(16%) which consisted of some of the largest shares.
• Incentives(49%) were optimized and decreased by about one-fourth taking into account that perp DEXs are revenue generating models that require less subsidies.

Tokenomics

• Genesis Incentives(6%) are allocated to community members that contribute the most to the early stages of Aark Digital. Will be used for various purposes as below:

  • Rewards for Early Bird ALP and Point Mining (distributed at TGE)
  • Rewards for events before TGE (linear unlock for 2 months after TGE)

• Community Rewards(30%) will be allocated for:

  • Trade Mining
    • rewards will be categorized into two parts: 1) Base Mining Rewards, where a portion of the allocation will be distributed as flat base rewards, and 2) Triggered Mining Rewards, where the entire allocation is distributed once specific trading volume thresholds are met.
  • Token Staking
  • Early Incentives
  • Rewards for community contribution before and after TGE

• Early Investors(15.1%) allocation is for investors that have participated in the Seed investment round. Details of our amazing backers can be found here.

• Future Investors(7%) allocation is for opportunistic fundraising in additional investment rounds.

• Team(20%) allocation reflects the Aark Digital core team’s share.