The token behind the network.

1. What VSCORE does

Four jobs, and the design exists to serve them, not the other way around:

• Bonds score-node operators — capital at risk so a bad or manipulated attestation has a real cost.
• Carries fee value — the currency the burn/reward mechanism runs on.
• Governs the network — data-model requirements, fee parameters, dispute outcomes.
• Bootstraps the two-sided market — pays early node operators and early XLS-66 vault integrations to exist before there's real fee revenue to fund them.

2. Token standard & supply

Issued as an XRPL Multi-Purpose Token (MPT) — XRPL's standard for compliant utility-token issuance, with configurable authorization, locking, and clawback flags a plain IOU/trustline token doesn't offer cleanly. That matters for a network with slashing: a slashed stake or a sanctioned wallet can be restricted at the protocol level, not bolted on after the fact.

• Total supply: 1,000,000,000 VSCORE, fixed at genesis. No open-ended inflation — new tokens enter circulation only from the pre-allocated ecosystem pool below, on a decaying schedule.
• Decimals: 6.

Fixed supply is deliberate: a network whose entire pitch is "trustworthy, hard-to-manipulate scores" is a bad place to also run discretionary token inflation that stakers have to second-guess.

3. Allocation

No team or backer tokens are liquid in year one, and no bucket here is sold to the public for money — the two design choices that matter most for keeping VSCORE a usage-linked utility token rather than an investment contract (§7).

4. Fees & burn

A lender or vault manager pays a fee every time it queries a wallet's or agent's score:

• Standard pull (one current score + reason codes): $0.15 equivalent, in XRP or RLUSD.
• Continuous monitoring (a vault gets notified if a score changes materially): $0.02 equivalent per wallet per day, streamed via an XRPL payment channel.

Every fee routes through the native AMM into VSCORE, then splits:

Honest caveat: at low early volume, burn is negligible next to the node-incentive emissions flowing out at the same time (§5) — the split is a lever governance can retune, not a number that makes the mechanism self-sustaining on day one.

5. Node staking & slashing

Minimum stake to run a score node: 50,000 VSCORE, locked for active service plus a 21-day unbonding period — long enough for a slashing dispute on recent attestations to resolve before stake exits.

Delegation: holders who don't want to run a node can delegate stake to an operator, sharing its rewards and its slashing risk — how the network gets real economic security without every holder running infrastructure.

The ecosystem pool (§3) releases to node operators and integration partners on a four-year, front-loaded decay — roughly 40% / 27% / 19% / 14% by year — so incentives are richest exactly when the network has the least fee revenue of its own to pay for security.

6. Governance

Token-weighted voting on required data models, fee parameters, the burn/reward/treasury split, slashing-dispute outcomes, and treasury grants — with two constraints aimed at avoiding common DeFi governance failure modes:

• A 72-hour timelock between a passed vote and execution, so a governance attack can't instantly redirect fee flows.
• Progressive decentralization, not a launch-day DAO. A small founding multisig keeps emergency-pause authority (e.g. to freeze a compromised scoring model) for a defined, published period, with an explicit sunset date after which it's renounced or handed to a vote.

7. Regulatory design intent

Not legal advice — the reasoning behind the choices above, stated plainly. The fee-burn mechanism is structured as a usage-linked burn tied to a specific utility (paying for and securing attestation services), not a profit-distribution promise to holders. The allocation in §3 deliberately keeps every token either earned (node rewards, the community airdrop) or vested against ongoing work (core contributors) — nobody pays cash for VSCORE itself. Capital for the company building this is raised the conventional way, as equity, which is a well-understood legal path rather than a novel token-securities question. None of this is a substitute for counsel actually reviewing the mechanism before anything real launches.

8. Status & roadmap

Every number on this page is illustrative — a coherent starting point, not a settled spec. Before anything is real:

1. XRPL Testnet issuance — done. VSCORE is live as a real MPT on XRPL Testnet (1B fixed supply at 6 decimals, lockable/tradeable/transferable/clawback-capable), with a real holder account already receiving the 50,000 VSCORE node-stake minimum from §5 as a demo transfer. No real money, fully reversible. View issuer account →
2. XRPL Mainnet treasury issuance — done. The same MPT now exists on Mainnet too: identical parameters, entire supply held in the project treasury, transferred to nobody. This proves the issuance mechanics on the real network without crossing into distribution, a sale, staking, or public liquidity — every one of which still waits on the steps below. View issuer account →
3. Parameter validation — the fee tiers, the 45/35/20 split, the 50,000 VSCORE stake minimum, and the emission curve stress-tested against real XLS-66 vault economics and a game-theoretic review of the slashing incentives.
4. Independent economic & security audit.
5. Legal review of the full mechanism — not just this page's wording — before any public distribution: node rewards, the community airdrop, staking/delegation, or seeding public liquidity. The treasury-only Mainnet issuance above is deliberately scoped to not require this first (see the site's own developer/legal discussion of why); every step past "the token exists in our own treasury" does.