Two parallel instruments that together form the capital and ownership structure of Automatos AI — cleanly separated by legal wrapper, audience, and purpose.
Contributor ownership of work built on Automatos. Not a token at launch. Three layers:
- Attestations — EAS-based on-chain records of every contribution (merged PR, published skill, agent template, reviewed content, confirmed bug report).
- Splits — programmatic on-chain revenue share via 0xSplits when marketplace revenue is generated by a contributor's work. Paid in USDC.
- Treasury DAO — attestation-weighted governance of marketplace policy, featured content, and grants for non-monetizable contributions.
See docs/automatos_community_protocol.md for full design.
Investor capital raised as regulated digital securities on Base (ERC-3643), representing real preferred equity with on-chain cap table, smart-contract-enforced vesting, and post-lockup secondary liquidity on compliant ATS venues (Securitize Markets, INX, Archax).
- Issued under Reg D 506(c) + Reg S for US accredited and non-US investors
- Same economic and governance rights as traditional preferred shares
- 12-month lockup, then freely tradeable on approved regulated venues
- Never DEX-listed, never retail-marketed as speculative utility
See docs/automatos_tokenized_equity.md for full design.
Conflating community-reward tokens with investor-capital tokens is the 2021-era pattern that produced almost every failed or enforcement-action token project of the last cycle. Keeping the two instruments separate — separate contracts, separate legal wrappers, separate audiences — is what makes the structure defensible and what makes each instrument deliver on its actual purpose.
| Track 1 (Community) | Track 2 (Equity) | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | Contributors | Investors |
| Instrument | None (USDC splits + attestations) | Tokenized preferred equity (ERC-3643) |
| How obtained | Earn via verified contribution | Purchase under Reg D/S |
| Legal nature | Creator revenue-share agreement | Regulated security |
| Trading | Not applicable | Post-lockup, regulated ATS only |
| KYC | Not required | Required (accredited verification) |
Draft architecture for partner review. Nothing is deployed. Nothing has been offered.
docs/automatos_community_protocol.md— Track 1 architecturedocs/automatos_tokenized_equity.md— Track 2 architecturedocs/TOKENOMICS_REVIEW.md— review of the prior design and why it was replaceddocs/archive/— superseded August 2025 tokenomics (do not reference in current conversations)whitepaper/— platform technical whitepaper (separate from token structure)
Nothing in this repository is an offer of securities, legal advice, or investment advice. Any actual offering will be conducted through documentation prepared by qualified securities counsel.