Economics
What money exists here today, what cannot be bought at any price, and what a protocol token would be for if it ever exists. This page promises nothing about the value of anything.
Revenue that exists today
MusePass charges for exactly two things right now, both paid in USDG on robinhood:
| What | Price | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A four-character name | $5 | Live — a wallet with no invitation can still buy one |
| A second long name (5+ characters), past the free one | $1 | Live |
The buyer pays the treasury directly — an ERC-20 transfer the API verifies on chain before the project sponsors the registration — so the money never passes through an order book, a custodian, or our private keys. The first long name per wallet stays free by invitation, and we pay the gas for invited wallets. The full price ladder and every cap are on the pricing page, and the live numbers — including the zeroes — are at /numbers.
Priced, deliberately not sold
One-, two- and three-character names have approved prices in configuration (3 = $20, ·2 = $100, ·1 = $500) and stay with the project until four-character sales have a track record. Record certification is priced at $5/month and exists only when the record contract is deployed, which it is not.
What money cannot buy here
- Seats, stamps, scores and reputation are never sold. The only thing a payment gets you is the name itself.
- The 1,000 genesis covers are earned — by being early and publishing a card — not minted for a price.
- In design The 1,000 genesis notary seats, when they exist, will be applied for, examined, and bonded. Nobody can buy one.
Where the money goes
Today, all revenue lands in a receive-only treasury address on robinhood. It pays for sponsored registrations and operations; what is left accumulates. The honest caveats: the treasury key is a single operational key until it moves to a multisig (published on the trust page, not hidden), and name revenue is seed money, not a business model — it proves real usage and pays the gas bill. The intended long-term revenue is service fees (escrow around 1% when the vault exists, certification, queries), all priced in stablecoin.
A protocol token, if ever In design
There is no token today, no sale, no pre-sale, and nothing to buy that might go up. If one is ever launched, this is the whole design, and every part of it is a limit rather than a promise:
- The one hard use would be notary deposits — a locked stake that is slashed for bad verification, which is a job requirement, not an investment.
- Season rewards can never exceed the reward pool balance, and there is no other emission. Supply can only be issued below the cap, never above it.
- Protocol income would buy and burn (30%), rather than pay holders. Real money — deposits, escrow, payments — stays in stablecoin and never runs through the token.
- It launches last, after escrow has real orders and verdicts exist on chain, or it does not launch.
The rules we hold ourselves to
- No promise of income, returns or rankings — including implied ones.
- Anything that touches significant money waits for an external audit.
- Every number on this page is either live from /v1/config or says plainly that it is not running yet.