# Tokenomics

ORE tokenomics are optimized for longterm holders.

# Supply

ORE is a fair launch cryptocurrency. It has a capped maximum supply of 5 million tokens and zero insider or team allocations. All minting is programmatically controlled by a smart contract on the Solana blockchain. The protocol mints approximately +1 ORE per minute as part of the standard mining process. New tokens can always be mined as long as the current circulating supply is below the maximum supply limit.

# Demand

10% of all SOL mining rewards are collected by the protocol as revenue. The protocol automatically uses this revenue to buyback the LORE token off open market, reducing circulating supply. These buybacks help offset the cost to holders of mining new tokens. The term "bury" is used here to indicate that burned tokens can be reminted as long as circulating supply is below the maximum supply limit.

# Fees

Below is a breakdown of all fees charged and managed by the protocol:

• 10% of all SOL mining rewards are collected by the protocol as revenue.
• 10% of all LORE purchased through the buyback program is distributed to stakers as yield.
• 10% of all LORE mining rewards are redistributed to other miners in proportion to their unclaimed mining rewards.
• 1% of all SOL deployed by miners is collected as an admin fee to support development, operations, and maintenance.
• 0.00001 SOL is collected by the protocol as a deposit when opening a new miner account in case the account needs to be checkpointed to avoid losing mining rewards.
• 0.000005 SOL is collected by the protocol per automated transaction when scheduling the autominer to offset baseline Solana transaction costs.