Operator economics, worked
Operator economics lists the revenue legs. This page runs them at real numbers, because a percentage table does not tell you whether the business works.
One firm, Growth tier, first ninety days. Every rate below is published elsewhere on this site and linked; the only things invented are the sales volumes, which are labelled where they appear.
This is arithmetic on published rates, not a forecast. How many evaluations you sell is the entire variable, and nobody can tell you that number in advance. Substitute your own and the structure holds.
Day one: what the launch fee buys
Growth tier costs $5,000, paid once. It splits automatically at deploy:
| Destination | Share | On $5,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Your firm's treasury | ~63% | $3,150 |
| DecentralProp | 20% | $1,000 |
| Franchise pool (same-tier dividend) | 9% | $450 |
| buy-and-burn | 5% | $250 |
| 3% | $150 |
$3,150 of your own $5,000 lands back in your treasury as working capital. The rest buys your place in the shared infrastructure, and the franchise-pool leg pays you back over time as other firms at your tier deploy.
In the same transaction your token mints, with supply split three ways: 70% into your , 20% into a treasury reserve earmarked for payouts, and 10% to you, vesting over 24 months. That 20% is the part worth noticing on day one. It is payout inventory that cost you nothing beyond the launch fee, and it exists before you have sold anything.
The assumption
Everything below assumes you sell 100 evaluations at an average of $200 over ninety days. That is a little over one a day.
Whether that is optimistic depends entirely on your distribution. A trader with an audience clears it in a fortnight. A firm with no audience and no affiliates may not clear it at all, and this is the number to be honest with yourself about before you deploy.
$100 × 200 gives $20,000 in evaluation fees across the quarter.
Where those fees go
Every evaluation fee splits on-chain at purchase. The fixed legs total 28% and never move:
| Fixed leg | Share | On $20,000 |
|---|---|---|
| $DPROP staking yield | 10.0% | $2,000 |
| DecentralProp | 7.5% | $1,500 |
| yield | 3.0% | $600 |
| DecentralProp treasury reserve | 2.5% | $500 |
| Insurance fund | 2.0% | $400 |
| $DPROP buy-and-burn | 1.0% | $200 |
| buyback into your reserve | 1.0% | $200 |
| Universal Treasury Pool | 1.0% | $200 |
Your own share is a dynamic leg set by tier. At Growth it is 7.5%, which is $1,500 on $20,000.
The rest, after the affiliate leg on referred purchases and the liquidity leg that deepens your curve, lands in your treasury as working capital. Roughly half of gross fees, so on this quarter, on the order of $10,000. The exact figure moves with how many purchases were referred and how deep your curve already is, which is why this page says "on the order of" rather than quoting a false precision.
What you actually take home in ninety days
Two things arrive on different clocks, and the difference matters for planning.
Your fee share: $1,500. Half of it pays immediately. The other half is held for 90 days per sale, then becomes claimable. Because the hold is per sale rather than one cliff, sales from month one mature while you are still selling in month three.
So at the ninety-day mark you have claimed roughly $750 to $1,100 of it, depending on how your sales were distributed across the quarter, and the remainder keeps maturing behind you.
Payout income: only if your traders win. When a funded trader takes a payout, 30% of the stakeholder share is yours, delivered in $FIRMA. On a trader's $10,000 profit at an 80/20 split, that is $600 to you. If the trader fails instead, it is zero, because the payout is the only thing that creates it.
That is the leg most operators underestimate. It is also the one that makes the incentives point the same way as your traders': you are paid out of their wins and nothing out of their losses. The conflict of interest, removed has the full six-way split.
The part that is not income
Focusing on the fee share misreads the business. Two larger things are happening.
Your treasury is compounding. Roughly $10,000 of working capital accumulated this quarter, on top of the $3,150 you started with. That treasury is what funds payouts, and it is also what gates which account sizes you may sell. Cross $50,000 in combined liquidity and $100k evaluations unlock. Cross $100,000 and $200k unlocks. This is a solvency rail rather than a marketing tier: you literally cannot sell a size your liquidity cannot support, and you automatically can once it does.
You own the token. 10% of supply vests to you over 24 months, and every payout your firm makes buys that token on your own curve while burning a slice of supply. A firm that pays its traders well is mechanically a firm whose token is being bought and burned. Your equity and your traders' wins move together.
Fee income is the small, predictable leg. Treasury and token equity are the compounding ones.
What you never write a cheque for
- The 50 SOL security bond. It fills itself from a 1% slice of your own fee revenue over time. You never fund it out of pocket.
- Payouts beyond your treasury. If a payout exceeds what your treasury and token reserve cover, and the Universal Treasury Pool absorb it. Not you, personally.
- Your marketing allowance. Every firm gets a monthly engagement-points pool funded by DecentralProp rather than from your treasury: 10,000 points a month at Growth tier. No SOL leaves your treasury and there is no invoice. See The autonomous firm.
- Staff. There is no risk desk, payout desk, fraud queue, or back office to hire, because the protocol runs those. That is the whole premise, and it is the reason these numbers work at a volume that would not support a staffed business.
Where this goes wrong
Three honest failure modes, none of which the arithmetic above shows.
You sell nothing. Every number on this page scales from the 100 evaluations. Sell ten and your quarter is $150 of fee share. The protocol supplies the infrastructure; it does not supply customers. Distribution is the actual job, which is why Growing your firm exists and why If you have an audience argues that an audience is the scarce input.
Your traders win big early. A young firm with a thin treasury and a trader on a run is exactly the stress the risk engine exists for. Payouts slow automatically, your firm's tier tightens, and new evaluations sold during that window carry a harder rulebook. Nothing breaks and nobody goes unpaid, but growth stalls while the treasury refills. Operator risk & lifecycle covers this from your side.
You cannot change your mind. There is no voluntary shutdown. The only exit from a solvent firm is not an exit, and the bankruptcy path is gated on paying every trader in full first. Deploying is a commitment, and the $5,000 is the smallest part of it.
The one-line version
The launch fee mostly returns to you as working capital, the fee share is real but modest, the payout leg only pays when your traders win, and the compounding value is the treasury and the token. Whether any of it matters comes down to how many evaluations you can sell, which is the one number this page cannot supply.
Next: Operator economics for the rate tables in full, Launching a firm for the tiers, and Operator FAQ for the specifics.