ONYX × CORE
Two tokens, one loop. ONYX is the earn side — won in play, staked as an APR token. CORE is the treasury side — acquired only by swapping ONYX, a flat 100 ONYX = 1 CORE with the ONYX burned, staked as an FPR token that earns rewards from the treasury. KLV is the money rail underneath both.
Trace the loop. Hover or tab through each current — teal is ONYX, blue is CORE, gold is the treasury.
ONYX is the earn side of the loop. You earn it by playing — every game across the hub credits ONYX, never KLV and never a per-shard currency. ONYX is a KleverChain KDA configured for APR staking: a fixed annual rate, with rewards paid in ONYX itself and distributed automatically by the chain. When you want treasury-backed yield, you swap ONYX for CORE at a flat 100 ONYX = 1 CORE — and the ONYX you swap is burned. Because that swap runs one way only, every CORE minted permanently removes 100 ONYX from supply, so demand for CORE puts a floor under ONYX — each ONYX is always worth at least 1⁄100th of a CORE (equivalently, CORE can never exceed 100× ONYX). The floor is under ONYX, never under CORE.
CORE is the treasury side of the loop. You obtain CORE by swapping ONYX for it. CORE is a KleverChain KDA configured for FPR staking: the asset owner funds a reward pool with other KDAs (KLV from the treasury), and each staker withdraws a share proportional to their stake. That is exactly how CORE earns rewards from the treasury.
Founder CORE is fully vested — nothing unlocks for the first 3 months, then ≈222,222 CORE per month over 45 months, each disbursement minted only when it comes due. The full schedule is public: founder vesting →
The loop, step by step
Onyx Core · pay KLV → earn more
Onyx Core is the account-wide attunement spine that sits over the whole loop: you spend KLV to attune, and every KLV spent raises how much ONYX you earn — a mining bonus applied across every game at once. It boosts the earn side (ONYX), so it feeds straight into the loop above: attune → earn more ONYX → swap more for CORE. Higher ranks also unlock offline auto-mining, so your attunement keeps earning ONYX even while you are away.
Attunement spend is paid in KLV and feeds the same treasury that funds CORE’s FPR pool. Attunement is in pre-launch preview today and goes live with the economy launch; ranks, costs and the exact bonus curve live in the attunement catalog.
Treasury
One treasury serves the whole arcade — never per-Shard. It was seeded with 1,040,000 KLV gross (1,000,000 staked & delegated — the treasury pays that stake’s weekly KLV rewards into CORE’s FPR pool, beginning when CORE is live — plus 40,000 operational at launch), every purchase feeds it, and it funds CORE’s FPR reward pool. The displayed balance is the frozen CORE-reward-pool figure; the operational balance is a live on-chain read held outside it, floating with spend and top-ups against a 20,000 KLV working floor.
APR vs FPR on KleverChain
APR — Annual Percentage Rate. The creator sets a fixed annual yield; the chain distributes rewards automatically, always in the same asset that was staked. ONYX uses APR — a self-denominated, gameplay-earned yield.
FPR — Flexible Proportional Return. The owner funds a reward pool by depositing other KDAs (KLV); each staker withdraws a share proportional to their stake. CORE uses FPR — so it can pay treasury-funded, cross-asset rewards.
Exact APR and FPR reward rates are published at launch — they are not stated provisionally here.