Tokenomics
Neura’s tokenomics are designed around a sustainable, usage-based model that turns infrastructure demand into liquidity, and participation into ownership. Instead of relying on inflationary emissions or mercenary liquidity, Neura captures real economic flows from its sovereign infrastructure and recycles them back into the ecosystem.
At the center of this model is $USN, a reserve-backed stablecoin that serves as the native gas token of Neura, alongside selected whitelisted assets such as $ANKR. The $USN Full Reserve includes both GENIUS-Act–compliant and yield-bearing stablecoins. Combined with additional value capture mechanisms, including RPCfi, MEV, and OEV, this structure ensures that activity directly strengthens the network.
$USN: Stablecoin as Native Gas
Most blockchains rely on volatile native assets (e.g., ETH, SOL) for gas. Neura breaks from this paradigm by making $USN its native gas token. As a fully backed stablecoin, $USN eliminates volatility while delivering predictable costs for businesses, institutions, and users.
Key Benefits:
Predictable Transaction Costs: Fees remain stable in fiat terms, supporting enterprise adoption.
Seamless UX: Users transact and pay gas with the same stablecoin, reducing friction.
Institutional Readiness: Predictable, audit-friendly costs align with regulatory and accounting standards.
Whitelisted Gas Assets
While $USN is the native gas asset, Neura also supports whitelisted tokens to maximize flexibility.
$ANKR is among the first whitelisted assets, leveraging its liquidity, adoption, and community.
Other tokens may be added based on liquidity depth, compliance, and governance approval.
This enables developers and users to engage with Neura without friction from holding multiple assets.
$ANKR migration:
Total Supply: 10 billion $ANKR (at the time of Litepaper publication).
Migration: 1:1 swap from Ethereum to Neura L1 at launch, facilitated by native bridges.
Real-Time Burning Mechanism
When $ANKR is used for gas, a portion of fees is permanently burned, introducing a deflationary mechanic:
Gas Fee Burning: A fixed percentage of $ANKR used for gas is removed from circulation.
Supply Reduction: Creates upward pressure on token economics as usage scales.
Sustainable Design: Burn rate is calibrated to balance incentives with long-term ecosystem health.
Value Capture Mechanisms
Neura’s economic model is built around real usage–based revenues that are captured at the protocol level and recycled into liquidity, rewards, and long-term ecosystem sustainability. Instead of relying on inflationary emissions, Neura ensures that every major activity, from stablecoin reserves to infrastructure usage, contributes back into the network.
Reserve Yield
Income generated by the $USN Full Reserve flows back into the ecosystem.
Yield is redirected into liquidity pools, rewards, and ecosystem incentives.
This creates a sustainable funding base that grows alongside $USN adoption.
Chain-Owned Liquidity
The Neura treasury builds and compounds chain-owned liquidity positions across DeFi.
Treasury-controlled LP positions accumulate over time, producing ongoing yield.
This ensures the network maintains deep, stable liquidity independent of mercenary capital.
Infrastructure Revenues
In addition to reserves and liquidity positions, Neura captures novel revenue streams that other chains allow to leak away. These include RPCfi, OEV, and MEV, all managed at the protocol level and redistributed to stakeholders.
RPCfi:
Every Web3 interaction generates RPC calls; historically, these costs flow outward to infra providers.
Neura in partnership with Ankr, redirects this value into token buy pressure, LP incentives, and rewards.
Chain-owned liquidity grows as RPC traffic scales, creating a self-reinforcing flywheel: usage → more RPC calls → more value captured → more liquidity & rewards → more usage.
OEV (Oracle Extractable Value):
Oracle updates (e.g., price feeds) can create arbitrage opportunities during market volatility.
Instead of leaking to external arbitrageurs, Neura routes this value on-chain, strengthening lending markets, liquidation processes, and ecosystem safety.
Captured OEV proceeds are redistributed as rewards to validators, stakers, and ecosystem participants.
MEV (Maximal Extractable Value):
Normally, block producers extract value by reordering or inserting transactions, with profits lost to external actors.
Neura internalizes MEV, capturing proceeds at the protocol level.
Redistributed MEV revenues provide fair, transparent rewards and reinforce validator alignment with network security.
Incentive Structure
Neura incentivizes both community engagement and infrastructure contributions through a multi-layered incentive model:
Points System: Tracks contributions such as transaction activity, liquidity provision, and social activity.
Leaderboards & Gamification: Competitive rankings highlight top contributors and encourage continuous participation.
Developer Incentives: Direct support for builders creating stablecoin- and DeFi-focused applications.
Liquidity Rewards: Targeted programs attract and retain liquidity providers across the ecosystem.
These incentives create both financial and non-financial rewards, aligning behavior with the network’s long-term sustainability.
Sustainability by Design
Neura’s model avoids the pitfalls of inflationary emissions. Instead, it:
Anchors value in real economic activity (RPC calls, stablecoin usage, MEV/OEV capture).
Recirculates yield back into the ecosystem via chain-owned liquidity and incentives.
Provides predictable and consistent rewards by controlling how value streams are captured and distributed.
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