Money In / Money Out

All real-world value in Dyson Sprawl flows as USDCx (Superfluid streaming USDC).

Bootstrap threshold

Streaming does not begin until 100 tiles have been claimed (the Phase 1 → Phase 2 milestone). Before that threshold, frontier auctions and resource mining operate normally, but maintenance, Harberger acquisitions, and USDCx streaming are inactive. Auction proceeds accumulate in the treasury during this period, giving it a meaningful starting balance before distribution begins.

Money In

Two continuous auction channels feed the protocol treasury:

• Land auctions: new frontier tiles sold continuously, paid in USDC or ETH (converted to USDCx on entry)
• Unit auctions: army spawns sold periodically when the military layer is active, same currency path

Auction proceeds go directly into the protocol treasury.

Money Out

Once the 100-tile threshold is reached, treasury balance streams continuously to players as USDCx via a global UBI GDA pool.

Each player's share is determined by their declared value — a live value derived from their registered maintenance streams, rarity multipliers, and local bonus:

taxWeight = Σ (memberFlowRate_i × RARITY_MULT[tier_i] × localBonusBps_i / 100)

Each player's units in the UBI GDA pool equal their total declared value. Units update in the same transaction as any maintenance stream change — there is no lag or accumulation window.

Distribution rate: treasuryBalance / 7 days, recalculated on every treasury deposit. Fully programmatic — no admin action required. This ensures the treasury always maintains approximately 7 days of runway at the current distribution rate. If inflows stop, the pool runs dry in one week.

Separately, a faction that controls the six-point outer crown may receive a victory CFA into its treasury while the crown condition holds.

Why this works

The protocol acts as a continuous buyer of resources. Paying maintenance in resources is effectively selling those resources to the protocol in exchange for a proportional claim on incoming auction revenue.

This creates a self-reinforcing loop:

1. Auctions bring capital into the treasury → streams pay out to maintenance contributors
2. Stream yield makes licences valuable → drives higher auction bids
3. Higher bids → larger treasury → higher stream rates
4. Higher stream rates → resources more valuable → productive licences more valuable
5. More valuable licences → more contested → more auction and Harberger acquisition activity
6. Crown control turns frontier dominance into a visible faction treasury advantage

Sustainability

The system is solvent as long as auction volume remains active. Long-term health depends on continuous land expansion and army activity sustaining auction frequency. Because declared value is live state, stream shares rebalance continuously without any accumulation lag.

Reasoning trace

• The cashflow model should distinguish between “productive participant” income and “temporary hegemon” income.
• Crown rewards belong in the same money-flow diagram because they are treasury-native streams, not abstract prestige.