Contributor rewards: what vouchers earn

Active vouchers earn $WHUF from the contributor rewards pool — the network paying the people who build its credibility graph.

The pool

- 1,800,000 $WHUF (18% of total supply), committed at genesis

- Emitted by the EthosRewards smart contract — not by any company or foundation deciding payouts

- Rewards continue indefinitely; no cliff, no end date

How emissions work

The pool emits on a continuous decay model: each year, a set percentage of the *remaining* pool is emitted. Early on, emissions are larger — rewarding the vouchers who bootstrap the graph when the network most needs participation. As the pool shrinks, emissions taper automatically. They never fully stop; they diminish toward negligible levels over many years.

The Foundation can adjust the emission-rate parameter, but the contract enforces a hard ceiling — the rate can never exceed 100% of the remaining pool per year — and no one can mint new tokens into the pool.

What determines your share

Your share of each emission is proportional to your actively vouched $WHUF relative to everyone else's. More tokens vouched, larger share. Unvouched tokens sitting in your wallet earn nothing — rewards go to capital that's actually at work (and at risk) in the credibility graph.

What rewards are not

Rewards are not interest, not a dividend, and not guaranteed income. Per-participant amounts depend entirely on how many tokens the whole network has vouched at any moment: if participation grows, individual shares compress. Locked and unvested allocations (team, investors) are not eligible — only genuinely vouched tokens earn.