Node operators
50%Paid out per successful query, split by racing position.
Tokenomics
The $STRM economic loop.
$STRM is the network access and staking token. The protocol settles payments in 5-minute batches on Solana and pays operators on outcome — speed, correctness, and uptime — not on effort. Everything on this page is exactly what is defined in the protocol README.
stake
10,000
STRM minimum to operate a node.
cooldown
7 days
Unstake delay after exit.
settlement
5 min
Batched payouts on Solana.
Network revenue split
Where every paid query goes
Fee revenue is split between the parties that actually carry the network. The percentages are protocol-level, not policy.
Treasury
20%Protocol-owned reserves for development and ecosystem grants.
Data providers
20%Upstream contributors of indexed data and partial state.
Governance
10%Token-holder voting rewards as governance rolls out.
Racing rewards
70 / 15 / 15, decided in milliseconds
Each query is raced to 3–5 nodes. The fastest correct answer wins 70% of the payment. Two verifier nodes each earn 15% for confirming consensus on the result.
Winning node
70%
First correct response to a raced query.
Verifier (1)
15%
Earns by confirming consensus on the winning answer.
Verifier (2)
15%
Second verifier in the racing set; same consensus role.
Payment options
Customers can pay in STRM, SOL, USDC, or any whitelisted SPL token. The protocol normalizes against market rates and credits operators in the same currency they accept. The choice is a treasury decision, not a protocol gate.
Staking and slashing
Operating a node requires a 10,000 STRM minimum stake with a 7-day cooldown when an operator unstakes. The stake is what makes the SLA enforceable: poor performance or incorrect results trigger automatic slashing, and verification nodes flag mismatched responses during the racing protocol. Correct, fast operators keep their stake intact and accumulate reputation that affects future query selection and rewards.
Settlement
Payments are aggregated into 5-minute batches and settled on Solana. The settlement engine sums earnings per operator and writes one batched on-chain payout per epoch, which keeps per-query gas costs near zero while still giving operators fast finality on their revenue.
What this page does not say
Supply, emissions, vesting, and allocation schedules are not finalized in the protocol README and are intentionally not stated here. As the token program ships to devnet and those numbers become protocol-level rather than draft, this page is where they will land — with the same standard: if it isn't in the protocol, it isn't on this page.