# $NOMU Invisible Staking

### **The Fundamental Flaw of DApp Staking**

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Most dApp & protocol staking models in Web3 reward you by diluting you. \
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They reward you by diluting you. They print supply to pay stakers, use locks to hide inflation, and advertise unrealistic APRs to attract short-term mercenaries.\
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It's a short term game that delays today’s selling pressure for a bigger one tomorrow. The result is predictable: Protocols weaken. Holders get diluted. Conviction gets replaced by opportunism.
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#### Over Time:

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Circulating supply inflates</td></tr><tr><td>Value per token gets thinner</td></tr><tr><td>Sell overhang gets bigger</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### **This, of course, is nonsense.**

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Staking is meant to *strengthen* alignment over time, Whether its securing PoS chains, informing governance, or simply rewarding loyalty.\
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But the current dApp staking meta does the opposite and inevitably ends in one of two ways:
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* **If you take profit as a staker**, you hurt everyone else. As you dump more tokens than you bought, your individual price impact keeps climbing.
* **If you compound as a loyal staker**, you get dumped on by others doing exactly that.&#x20;

> It’s not *if* the music stops, it’s *when*.\
> **Net emissions are structurally unsustainable.**

**From that reflection, we built something new.**

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*What if a protocol rewarded the behaviours that actually strengthen it, **without minting a single token?***

No inflation. No lock. No artificial yield. Only real & uncapped value generated by market activity
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## 🐡 Nomu Invisible Staking

> **Nomu's loyalty system that naturally flows value up the loyalty curve. Powered by $NOMU's trading fees.**

Every trade on the market every buy, every sell, every rotation,  generates real fees in $NOMU. Instead of unlocking new supply, those fees **move from short-term traders to long-term believers.**

It’s a meritocratic transfer of value:\
**from hands that create volatility → to hands that create stability.**\
From opportunism → toward conviction.

A system where:

* Time matters as much as tokens
* Small, consistent holders can outperform whales
* Traders are welcome, but dumpers get expelled
* And no new supply is ever printed — *only redistributed*

You opt in once. Everything else happens automatically.

As trading volume increases, **the reward pool grows with it, sustainably, transparently, non-inflationarily.**

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And at the heart of it all is your Value Added score:

#### 🧠 The Dynamic Value Score (0 to 100)

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✨**This is your reputation score.**

It measures your **conviction and behavior over time.**
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Your score depends on **how you hold**, not how big your bag is.\
Every participant starts at a neutral score of 5**0**.

Then it evolves with every action:

**On Buy:**

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Value Score ↗ moves towards 100 
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**On Sell:**

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Value Score ↘ penalized based on % sold
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The score is a pure measure of your actions, not the size of your wallet.

#### 🟢 Behavioural Bonuses

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Nomu Invisible Staking boosts positive behaviours.

* **📊 Regular DCA**\
  Score multiplier between **x1.05 and x1.20**
* **💎 No-Sell Season**\
  **Pure Holder Boost** for diamond hands
* **🐟 Small Holders Can Shine**\
  Consistency can outperform size
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#### 🔴 Anti-Dump Rule

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**Dumping in a short window results in instant disqualification**

* Final score becomes zero
* No return until next season
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**Moderate traders are still rewarded.**\
They receive less, but they are never excluded as long as they do not dump.

#### 🧮  Rewards Distribution

At the end of each one-month season, Nomu redistributes **10% of real trading fees** to participants.

**Reward logic:**

Each wallet gets a **weight** based on its **Value Score** and its **NOMU balance at the end of each season**.

```
weight_i = value_score_i × final_balance_i
reward_i = (weight_i / Σ all_weights) × total_reward_pool
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* `behavior_score_i` is your final Value Score (0–100) for the season
* `final_balance_i` is your NOMU balance at the final block of the season
* `total_reward_pool` is 10% of trading fees for the season

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Your Value Score reflects how you behaved throughout the season.\
Your final balance reflects your commitment at the final block. \
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Your reward is proportional to both.
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**Example**

Reward pool: **1,000 $NOMU (10% trading fees)**

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th>Wallet</th><th>Value Score</th><th>Final Balance</th><th>Weight = score × balance</th><th width="100">Reward (NO)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Wallet</strong></td><td><strong>Value</strong> <strong>Score</strong></td><td><strong>Final Balance</strong></td><td><strong>Weight = score × balance</strong></td><td><strong>Reward (NOMU)</strong></td></tr><tr><td>A</td><td>90</td><td>100 NOMU</td><td>9,000</td><td>≈ 428</td></tr><tr><td>B</td><td>60</td><td>200 NOMU</td><td>12,000</td><td>≈ 571</td></tr><tr><td>C (dump)</td><td>0</td><td>400 NOMU</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table>

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#### Recap

**What increases your score ✅**

* Good holding
* Regular DCA
* Multi-season consistency

**What decreases your score ❌**

* Dumps (sharply penalized)
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### Why this matters

**1. No Emissions**\
There is no token printing. Every reward comes from real trading activity.

2\. **No Lockups**\
**Your** $NOMU never leaves your wallet. There are no cooldown or staking periods, your rewards are calculated according to your actions in real time.

3\. **Uncapped Yield**\
Yield depends purely on trading volume. More volume = More fees = More APY

4\. **Aligned Incentives**\
Buyers, traders, and stakers all share the same goal >> **more activity = more value for everyone.**