🚀 Ripe Tokenomics blog post is live! Here's a quick thread on the highlights, full details in blog post, linked at end of thread. 🧵⬇️

🧢 Hard cap: 1B $RIPE The ONLY way supply can go beyond that is if RIPE Bonds are triggered to erase bad debt—a last‑resort backstop.

🫂 Community first: 25 % of all $RIPE goes straight to user incentives—block rewards, bonding discounts & LP rewards—unlocking from day‑one (TGE).

🔒 All vesting is onchain & immutable. Audit the contracts yourself and track every cliff, unlock & vest line‑by‑line. (the link to github code is in blog post).

📊 Allocation snapshot • Community Incentives — 25 % • Foundation Treasury — 22.2 % • Core Contributors — 20.6 % • Distribution Partner — 15 % • Early Backers — 17.2 %

📈 Emission curve • Year 1 → ONLY community tokens unlock. • Month 12 → 33 % cliffs lift for Foundation, Distro Partner & Backers; rest linear over 24 mo. • Contributors: 25 % at month 12, then block‑by‑block over 36 mo.

💰 Funding transparency: Total raised: $1.87 M • $1.32 M self‑funded by the team • $550 K seed @ $0.02/RIPE (FDV $20 M) -- our first and only external capital Backers: @OrangeDAOxyz, @BigBrainVC, @Tetranode, and a few great angels/operators.