Business Model & Revenue Streams

SUDIGITAL is modelled to earn from four primary streams, with staking rewards shifting from emission-funded to revenue-funded over four years. This page describes the model, not a result: the only numbers the repository enforces are the token constants on $SUDIGITAL Token, and every forward-looking figure here lives in Targets.

Revenue Architecture

SUDIGITAL REVENUE

Primary Streams (95% of revenue):
├─ Mission Ecosystem (35%): 5% ecosystem fee from 80/15/5 split
├─ NFT Sales (25%): Primary mints, fractional shares
├─ Staking Spread (20%): Difference between emissions & rewards
└─ B2B / Enterprise (15%): White-label solutions for brands

Secondary Streams (5%):
├─ Sponsorships & Partnerships
├─ API access fees (developer tier)
└─ Trading fees (when enabled)

Targets

Nothing in this section has been achieved. These are targets, and they are the only forward-looking revenue figures published: where a page elsewhere needs one it links here.

Horizon	ARR target	What it assumes
Year 1	$1,000,000	Mission fees, NFT primary sales, first staking cohorts, 3-5 B2B
Year 2	$5,000,000	Growth across the same streams, expanded staking, more B2B
Year 3	$20,000,000	Scale, DAO-governed parameters, multi-chain, enterprise contracts

The Year 1 target splits across the streams in Revenue Architecture: mission fees 35%, NFT sales 25%, staking 20%, B2B 15%, sponsorships and API access 5%.

Revenue Sustainability

The model shifts from emission-funded to revenue-funded over 4 years. This is the plan, and it holds only if the Targets are met. The 10,000,000-token annual emission cap binds every year regardless of what share of revenue arrives:

Year 1: 40% of staking APY from protocol revenue
Year 2: 60% of staking APY from protocol revenue
Year 3: 80% of staking APY from protocol revenue
Year 4: 100% of staking APY from protocol revenue (self-sustaining)

Mission Rewards:
Year 1: 60% emissions + 40% revenue
Year 2: 40% emissions + 60% revenue
Year 3: 20% emissions + 80% revenue
Year 4: 0% emissions + 100% revenue (the target, not a constraint)

Burn Mechanics

$SUDIGITAL has a fixed 1B supply with emissions capped at 10M/year. One burn source is shipped in code; nothing has been burned yet, because the NFT mint opens 2026-11-11 and the burn is paid out of mint revenue.

Burn Source	Status	Detail
NFT minting fees	Shipped	25% of platform mint revenue (24.5% of each mint) burned on-chain
Mission / ecosystem fee	Gated — Phase 2	Share of the 5% ecosystem fee burned; enabled: false
DEX trading fees	Gated — Phase 3	Share of trading fees burned; governance-controlled; enabled: false
Liquidation penalties	Not implemented	—
DAO buy-back	Not implemented	—

Any net-supply projection depends on real activity and future phase activation; it is not a guarantee. Source of truth: packages/nft/src/constants/tokenomics.ts (BURN_PHASES).

Burn Governance

Windows are measured from the NFT mint opening on 2026-11-11, and the phase controls are a plan: BURN_PHASES carries only the enabled flags today.

Phase	Window	Control
Phase 1	First 6 months after the mint	Fixed burn rate (transparency)
Phase 2	Months 6-12 after the mint	Governance vote on adjustments
Phase 3	Month 12+ after the mint	Full DAO governance over burn parameters

NFT Revenue Model

Recipient	%	Description
Founder	1%	Original minter (first buyer)
Creator	1%	Platform royalty
Platform	98%	25% of this burned

First mint: 100% to platform (with 25% burned).
Subsequent mints: 1% founder + 1% creator + 98% platform.

NFT Supply & Shares

Role	NFT IDs	Max Shares	Total Shares
Owner	1,111	111	123,321
Builder	1,111	111	123,321
Trader	1,111	222	246,642
Player	1,111	333	369,963
Worker	1,111	555	616,605
Memer	1,111	888	986,568
Total	6,666	—	2,466,420

Related

• Staking & Rewards — how APY is funded
• NFT Ecosystem — full NFT details
• Token Distribution — allocation breakdown