Tokenomics
Not DeFi yield. Not learn-to-earn. XP is proof you showed up and did something useful — recorded on-chain, composable, permanent. While everyone else is trading tokens, we built one that means something because it's backed by contribution, not speculation.
Pick up a feedback task. Review a feature, test a flow, tell us what's broken. It takes real effort to give good feedback — XP is released to your wallet as proof that effort happened.
Your contribution history becomes your identity. Not your Twitter following, not who you know. What you've demonstrated — on-chain, verifiable by anyone. Claim a credential and your XP balance is snapshotted permanently.
Once you hold XP, you can give it to others. See someone doing good work? Recognize them. Reputation flows through the network, not from a central authority deciding who matters.
Total Supply
100,000XP
Distribution
Tasksonly
Credentials
onAndamio
Moderation
byHumans
There's nothing on this public ledger that distinguishes a five-year builder from someone who showed up yesterday.
Developers have git commits. Designers have portfolios. But community reviewers, educators, product testers, facilitators — you post threads. You hope people remember. Five and a half years of Catalyst. Thousands of contributors. Almost nothing on-chain to show for any of it.
As long as we're on Twitter, we've changed nothing. XP is the commit graph for non-code contributions. Devs recognize the model immediately. Everyone else gets access to what made open source culture work — without needing to learn git.
The cycle
Not learn-to-earn. Not a financial token. Not governance (yet). XP has no market value and is not designed to be traded.
Cardano doesn't need another token to trade. It needs a token that makes people want to do things. XP gives the ecosystem something to point to: this is what Cardano is actually for.
XP replaces “take my word for it” with “check the ledger.”
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's run this experiment first — see if the mechanics work, if people actually use it, if on-chain reputation means something in practice.
If it does, we continue with V2 of this token. The people who earned XP in V1 will have a say in what that looks like.
For builders
Create a project, post feedback tasks, distribute XP. You get structured feedback from real people. They get on-chain proof they contributed. No one needs to approve you — the protocol enforces it.
XP earned on any project is composable. Other projects can set prerequisites based on your XP balance. Strangers build on each other's credentials without coordination. That's the difference between a public ledger and a better database.
Coming soon
Host your own project on Cardano XP
Post tasks, reward contributors with XP, and collect structured feedback on what you're building. If you're interested in being one of the first projects, reach out.
Let's talkThis is scaffolding — designed to be outgrown by whatever the community builds next. If it works, the people who earned XP in V1 decide what V2 looks like. If it doesn't, we learned something. Either way, it's on-chain.
We're not asking anyone to believe this will work. We're doing it. You're invited to join in when you're ready.