Protocol Economics Explorer
Model revenue, expenses, treasury runway, retro compensation, and token upside in one sandbox. See how operator fees, marketplace activity, yield capture, grants, and expenses interact — and what early contributors, operators, and gardeners stand to gain as the protocol scales.
What is this tool for?
Test protocol sustainability: where revenue comes from, what it costs to operate, how long the treasury lasts, and what token allocations are worth at each growth stage. Scenario URLs are shareable.
How to read the outputs
- Coverage shows how much of total expenses is covered by the full revenue mix.
- Net margin is revenue minus expenses — green when positive, red when burning.
- Runway shows how many months the treasury can sustain a negative margin after retro cash obligations.
- Required TVL / principal isolate the capital needed if vault yield or treasury yield alone had to cover all expenses.
- Token upside shows the implied value of contributor, operator, and gardener allocations at each stage, based on your revenue multiple and token supply.
- Stage labels whether the scenario is still bootstrap-heavy, meaningfully hybrid, or approaching protocol scale.
Notes on defaults
The presets are anchored to the project's existing sustainability framing in the v1.0 specification: 4-8% APY assumptions, an early grant-led launch, and a transition toward capital formation through Hypercerts, Octant Vaults, and Revnets rather than a pure SaaS-only model.
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Next: v1.0 specification
Review the broader product and sustainability context that informed the preset assumptions in this explorer.
Read v1.0