Ozeaon White Paper

A dual-token design that separates earned reputation from transferable value, so influence cannot simply be bought.

• Progress (PRG) is a non-transferable reputation token earned through verified contributions — learning, publishing, curation, and governance participation. It cannot be bought or sold.
• OZN is the transferable utility token used for payouts, marketplace activity, staking yields, and treasury operations.
• Progress converts into OZN only through Proof-of-Progress staking emissions, never through a direct swap.
• Emissions follow a decaying, halving-style schedule, so early contributors earn more for the same contribution.
• Inactivity decay reduces dormant reputation and voting weight, while sustained activity earns buffs — keeping governance in the hands of active contributors.

Governance weighted by contribution and recent activity rather than by the size of a wallet.

• Voting weight is a function of Progress and active, decay-adjusted reputation — not raw token holdings.
• Proposals carry a tiered submission deposit that is refunded when a proposal passes and forfeited when it fails, discouraging spam.
• Nine proposal types cover media inclusion, open call, project, round and tutorial endorsement, NFT acquisition, topic creation, governance parameters, and treasury actions.
• Acquisition-type votes resolve at a high approval threshold, with a fixed voting window and a settlement period after resolution.
• The Ozeaon Foundation holds stewardship responsibility for mission alignment and ethical oversight.

A phased, fixed-price token launch designed for predictability rather than speculation.

• Pricing steps up by phase at fixed tiers, rather than moving continuously with a bonding curve.
• Allocations are split across community and contributors, treasury and ecosystem, team (vested), liquidity, and reserves.
• Participant protections include per-phase caps, vesting and cliffs for team allocations, and treasury-backed floor mechanisms.
• Proceeds are directed toward building and validating the platform in phases, in line with the published roadmap.