Rewards are per project
There are no protocol-wide ROOT emissions. Every reward is paid out of a single project's own trading fees: the creator fee ramp (the creator's share of the token's fee rises to 50 % as its score rises — from 30 % once the project is verified by Eden or has an attested data score, from 10 % while it is unverified with no data) and that token's ROOT-buyback lane: half of it stays in the token's pair asset (ETH, USDG or the RWA it trades against) and pays the validators who scored it; the other half buys ROOT, which is split between locked ROOT/ETH liquidity (a quarter of the lane) and a burn (a quarter). Validators are never paid in ROOT. To score a project a validator stakes 2,500 ROOT once and burns $100 of ROOT per project it validates.
Creator share
30 → 50 %
verified / data · 10 → 50 % unverified, no data (score capped at 50 ⇒ max 30 %)
Scorer lane
50 %
of the token's ROOT-buyback lane, paid in its pair asset
Per-validator cap
5 %
of a token's cycle pool
Cycle
7 days
unpaid remainder buys ROOT → burned
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Validate a project
Validating is a separate action from holding or trading a token (DEV_GUIDE §2.2). Two steps: first become a validator — stake 2,500 ROOT and burn $100 of ROOT, once, for every project — then validate each project by burning $100 of ROOT per project. Burns are never refunded. Unstaking your ROOT drops validator status and every project registration at once.
Human scorers receive no monetary reward by design — scoring is gated by the validator stake + the per-project burn, and is never paid (ADR-0005). Validators are rewarded only from the tokens they scored, in each token's pair asset (ETH, USDG or the RWA it trades against) — never in ROOT. Half of each token's ROOT-buyback lane funds its scorer pool (√stake × thesis quality, 5 % cap, 7-day cycles); whatever a validator can't receive buys ROOT and is burned. Claim on your profile.