Flow
Three rules.
One whole token, one Pickaxe — fair and proportional — plus forgeable rarity and Stratum depth.
Mint
Pay 0.01 ETH to mint a Silver Pickaxe. Every mint buys $VENA on the market and adds it to the staking pool.
Upgrade
Burn 4 Silver (or 2 of the tier below) plus $VENA to forge the next tier. That $VENA feeds the staking pool too.
Stake & Earn
Stake Pickaxes to earn $VENA from the staking pool — a pool that grows with every mint and upgrade.
Revenue
Two flywheels.
Every Pickaxe mint and upgrade buys $VENA into the staking pool. Trade fees trigger random-timed buybacks that are burned. One grows rewards, the other tightens supply.
ETH mint + $VENA upgrades → buy $VENA → staking pool
Random-timed buybacks → permanently burned
No dedicated staking allocation is pre-minted. The reward pool is fed entirely by real product volume — the more Pickaxes minted and upgraded, the bigger the pool.
Mint → pool
ETH from every Silver mint is swapped into $VENA and added to the staking pool. Upgrades pay $VENA that flows to the same pool.
Trade → burn
Virtuals trade fees come back to the project as $VIRTUAL, are swapped into $VENA at random intervals, and burned — reducing supply over time.
Staking rewards
Stake Pickaxes to earn from the buyback-fed pool. Rewards scale with real VENA demand, not an emission schedule.
Weighted emissions
Your share = rarity weight × Stratum (stake duration). Higher tiers and longer stakes earn a larger slice of the pool.