$CAVE Tokenomics
$CAVE is the fee-sharing and staking token for Cave Money. The launch model uses a fixed 50,000 CAVE supply, a direct pro-rata airdrop of the full 20,000 CAVE presale bucket, documented liquidity buckets, and long-term staking, locking, and ecosystem alignment.
Last updated May 14, 2026. This page is prepared for review before final public release. Final contract addresses, lock destinations, and launch transaction hashes will be added after deployment.
Fixed Supply
50,000
20,000 CAVE
6,800 CAVE
12,500 CAVE
1,250 CAVE
1,250 CAVE
5,700 CAVE
1,250 CAVE
1,250 CAVE
Supply
How the 50,000 CAVE supply is used
The launch allocation separates liquid launch supply from long-term alignment. Presale participants receive CAVE by direct airdrop, the launch LP bucket creates the primary trading pool, and the team, City, partner, HERESY-staker, and ecosystem buckets are locked, staked, or reserved according to their purpose.
Full bucket is direct airdropped to eligible presale participants pro-rata by confirmed USD. Buyers do not claim.
Paired into primary CAVE/HERESY launch liquidity under the current review model.
Team allocation is intended to be permastaked or otherwise non-circulating at launch.
Permastaked allocation for the City.
Permastaked allocation for $HERESY staker alignment.
Reserved for long-term ecosystem and protocol needs. Not launch float unless explicitly released.
Partner alignment allocation intended to be permastaked.
Partner alignment allocation intended to be permastaked.
Presale
How presale funds are used
The full presale bucket is allocated pro-rata to eligible confirmed presale participants. Final buyer-level accounting excludes internal bridge receiver activity, while direct Grotto HERESY receipts remain included as buyer contributions.
Public launch language should not imply a guaranteed return. The opening price depends on the final liquidity transactions and pool reserves.
Buyer-level presale total
Confirmed buyer contributions after excluding bridge/internal receiver activity.
Whitelisted airdrop basis
Confirmed whitelisted buyer contributions used to pro-rate the full 20,000 CAVE presale bucket.
CAVE airdropped to buyers
Airdropped directly to eligible presale participants. Buyers do not claim.
Unwhitelisted dust
Kept separate from recipient rows for explicit manual or reserve policy.
Primary CAVE/HERESY liquidity
Current review model opens around $7.14/CAVE. This is not a guaranteed return target.
HERESY/USDC support pool
$6,071.33 HERESY side and $6,071.33 USDC side.
Raw confirmed ledger
$82,623.42
Bridge/internal excluded
$11,196.05
Liquidity
Launch liquidity and market-cap language
The current review model routes 68% of buyer-level presale funds and the full 6,800 CAVE LP allocation into the primary CAVE/HERESY pool. That implies a launch price around $7.14/CAVE before final pool execution.
Review launch price
$7.142738
About 2.0000x the effective net-buyer presale close under the current 6,800 CAVE LP review model.
FDV at review price
$357,136.89
FDV is price multiplied by all 50,000 CAVE, including non-circulating buckets.
Review liquid surface
$191,425.37
Based on 26,800 CAVE: buyer airdrops plus CAVE paired in launch LP.
Fees
Protocol fees and CAVE staking
CAVE staking is designed to connect protocol activity back to CAVE holders. The CAVE V2 fee model uses a 1% swap fee split between LPs, stakers, and burn.
Liquidity providers
45% of swap feeLP share stays in reserves, increasing pool value for liquidity providers.
CAVE stakers
45% of swap feeCollected fees route to the staking/reward recipient for pro-rata CAVE staker rewards.
Burn
10% of swap feeBurn share is directed to the burn recipient when fees are collected.
Staking mechanics
Pro-rata rewards
Stakers earn based on their share of total staked CAVE. Rewards are accounted with a per-share accumulator so new rewards can be distributed without iterating over every staker.
No-staker safety
If fees arrive before anyone is staking, they accumulate in a pending pool and can be distributed once staking is active.
No CAVE transfer tax
The fee-sharing design is driven by DEX swap fees and staking contracts, not a transfer tax on ordinary CAVE transfers.
Buyer airdrop amount
20,000 CAVE
Airdropped directly to confirmed presale participants.
Presale bucket residual
0 CAVE
No residual: the full 20,000 CAVE presale bucket is allocated to the direct airdrop.
Primary LP bucket
6,800 CAVE
Paired with HERESY in the current launch-liquidity review model.
Pending final deployment
These are operational release fields, not changes to the 50,000 CAVE allocation model.
Release note
This report is a transparency page for launch review. It explains the current $CAVE supply, fund-use, liquidity, fee, and staking model, but it is not a promise of price performance, a guarantee of a launch multiple, or a substitute for final deployed contract verification.