WorkChain
Native Gas & Utility Token

WORK powers the
labor economy.

Every transaction on WorkChain is metered and paid in WORK — user-signed or backend-relayed, with no ETH abstraction and no paymaster layer masking it. Stake WORK to unlock verification, bond refunds, and premium mode.

Acquire WORK Read the protocol docs

Supply & valuation

A fixed, final supply. The planning price below is used for every illustrative figure on this page and is not a commitment to a launch price.

Total supply
100B WORK
Final, non-inflationary
Planning price
$0.002
Illustrative, not a launch price
Implied FDV
~$200M
At the planning price
Decimals
18
Standard ERC-20 precision

What WORK is for

Gas on WorkChain

Every attestation, submission, approval, and reputation write is metered and paid in WORK. No ETH-abstraction layer.

Staking & governance

Stake WORK to unlock platform tiers, qualify for the appeal reviewer pool, and participate in protocol governance.

Application bonds

Clients set the bond to apply, bounded $0.01–$5.00 in USD terms. The cost of applying returns value to the token.

The bond sink

Clients set the minimum bond required to apply to their job, denominated in WORK and bounded by a protocol-wide USD range converted live at application time. The bond is non-refundable regardless of outcome — every application, not just successful ones, feeds the sink.

Bond range
$0.01–$5.00

USD-equivalent, oracle-converted to WORK at the moment of application. Clients cannot set a bond outside this range whatever WORK's price does.

Burned
0%

Permanently removed from supply, creating deflationary pressure tied directly to marketplace volume.

To stakers
70%

Redistributed to WORK stakers as real yield — platform usage flows straight through to holders.

Staking tiers

Fixed WORK thresholds unlock progressively stronger benefits. Dollar figures are illustrative at the $0.002 planning price.

1,000 WORK
~$2

Verified badge

  • KYC fast-track
  • Verified badge on profile
  • Higher trust signal in matching
2,000 WORK
~$4

WORK Refund

  • Bond still applies in full at application
  • Your share of the burned portion is credited back
  • Not a waiver — the bond stays a real commitment signal
3,000 WORK
~$6

Premium mode

  • Premium mode for orgs and freelancers
  • Advanced matching
  • Reduced settlement fees

Allocation & vesting

The community allocation is split into named sub-lines so staking rewards and Chain Hub incentives each hold a dedicated budget rather than competing informally for one pool. Vesting discipline matters more to long-term token health than the starting price.

  • Community — Staking rewards
    20%18–22%
    20B
    Emitted as staking yield
  • Community — Chain Hub quests
    9%8–10%
    9B
    Emitted against the quest catalog
  • Community — Ecosystem & grants
    9%8–10%
    9B
    Emitted over time
  • Team
    17%15–20%
    17B
    4-year vest, 1-year cliff
  • Investors
    17%15–20%
    17B
    4-year vest, 1-year cliff
  • Treasury / Foundation
    13%10–15%
    13B
    Multi-year release
  • Public sale / initial liquidity
    8%5–10%
    8B
    At or near TGE
  • Reserve buffer
    7%—
    7B
    Unallocated
Total100B WORK · 100%

How to acquire WORK

At genesis WORK has no open market. Acquisition runs through a treasury-controlled cross-chain sale — the protocol is the counterparty and sets the price. This is not decentralized liquidity, and we do not describe it as such until the phase-two migration to a real DEX is live.

Planning price
$0.002
Settles on
5 chains
Pay in USDC, ETH, SOL, or AVAX on Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Avalanche, or Solana
Treasury-controlled sale at a fixed or slowly-adjusted price — not an AMM
Phase two migrates to permissionless floating-price liquidity
Get WORK

Own the network you work on

WorkChain is an OP Stack rollup settling to Ethereum, with WORK as its native gas token. Every participant is aligned to the same asset.

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