BLESS and TIME tokenomics: modeling yapper and tester rewards
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Reconstructs the BLESS/TIME token model from public data: an implied 1 TIME to 0.45 BLESS rate, 78 monthly epochs to full dilution and yapper payouts by rank and mindshare. Lists the unknowns that could change the outcome.
Key claims
Yappers get 2.25% of BLESS supply, a $2.25M-$22.5M pool
Roughly 78 epochs of ~32 days until full dilution at 84 months
Under 1,000 qualifying yappers means mid-tier ranks earn well; 5,000+ concentrates gains in the top 50-100
Did some highly speculative calculations around @theblessnetwork rewards for yappers and testers based on the available info.
This one could cook hard, and here is why:
➀ What we know:
- Dual token model: 10B BLESS (fixed), 100M TIME issued per epoch
- Distribution: 35% Community, 10% Airdrop, 16.25% Investors, 15% Team, 20.75% Ecosystem/Foundation, 3% Advisors
- Testnet has been referred to as epoch 0 and has been running since November 2024
- 15% of supply initially circulating at TGE based on release schedule
- Yappers get 5% of total TIME supply over a period of 2 months
- The total airdrop amounts to 10% of BLESS supply (incl. testers)
- Token release schedule showing 84-month timeline until full dilution
- Value capture mechanics: 90% of revenue buys back and burns BLESS
Unfortunately, there is also a lot of stuff we don't yet know, and the official communication leaves a lot of gaps (e.g. around TIME to BLESS conversion, number and duration of epochs, exact TGE date, etc.).
➁ So what's the most likely scenario?
Assuming that a total of 45% of supply (Airdrop + Community) will be distributed via TIME, creates a natural conversion rate: 1 TIME = 0.45 BLESS (note there will be different rates in reality due to the impact of conversion lockup).
Given that 10% of the total supply are allocated to a TGE airdrop that will make up 2/3 of the initially circulating supply, and (as mentioned above) assuming that it is distributed in the form of TIME (which testnet nodes already earn and 5% of which is dedicated to yappers), that would mean an initial TIME distribution via airdrop of 2.22B TIME upon the end of epoch 0 (the testnet which has kicked off in Novemeber 2024).
These 2.22B TIME represent exactly 1B BLESS (the 10% airdrop allocation), and if yappers get 5% of total TIME supply (issued across all epochs), that would equal 501M TIME, representing a total of 225.45M BLESS or 2.25% of supply.
Meanwhile, testnet node runners / compute providers that have been accumulating TIME in the past months will also eat well, with a lot of the remaining 7.75% in airdrop allocation likely going to them.
Based on these assumptions and given the confirmed 100M TIME issued per epoch, this would also mean that after the special testnet/TGE epoch, we will see 78 epochs of roughly a month until the BLESS supply is fully diluted after a total of 84 months post-TGE.
More specifically, that would mean one epoch averages 32 days, which could align with monthly reward cycles, with 0.45% of BLESS being issued roughly monthly via TIME to inventivize node runners, content creators, and other contributors to the ecosystem (curious to see if that means yapping will be a long term thing here).
➂ What does it mean for yappers if this is true?
As already briefly mentioned above, @theblessnetwork have confirmed that 5% of TIME supply will be issued to yappers over a period of two months (end of june - end of august, with the latter likely coinciding with mainnet + TGE).
Assuming my calculations from above hold, yappers would get 2.25% of BLESS supply as rewards, a truly significant allocation that means a multi-million dollar payday.
More specifically (also check visuals):
➤ Yapper Total Pool Values:
- At $100M FDV: $2.25M total pool
- At $500M FDV: $11.27M total pool
- At $1B FDV: $22.55M total pool
➤ Individual Rewards (Power Law, Top 500):
- Rank #1: $67.5K-$675K depending on FDV
- Rank #10: $27K-$270K
- Rank #50: $9K-$90K
- Rank #250: $1.35K-$13.5K
➤ Individual Rewards (If 5000 Yappers):
- Rank #1: $49.5K-$495K (more diluted than 500)
- Rank #50: $6.75K-$67.5K
- Rank #250: $1.58K-$15.75K
- Rank #500: $900-$9K
- Rank #750: $563-$5.6K
➤ Mindshare Rewards (Proportional Model):
- 1% mindshare: $22.5K-$225K
- 0.1% mindshare: $2.25K-$22.5K
- 0.01% mindshare: $225-$2.25K
➃ Critical Unknowns:
- Actual TIME to BLESS conversion (0.45 is inference)
- Distribution method (power law vs mindshare)
- Qualifying participant count (500 vs 5000 changes everything)
- Lockup conversion bonus, potential multipliers and detailed criteria
- How Kaito exactly measures "5% of TIME supply" allocation
➄ Bottom Line:
- If <1000 yappers qualify, even mid-tier positions earn very, very juicy rewards, whereas if 5000+ qualify, only top 50-100 wil see significant money
- Zero capital at risk and bounded time effort still makes this pure upside asymmetry for content creators with significant TGE payout potential
- At $250M-$500M FDV (reasonable for AI×DePIN infra), consistent top 100 will easily earn 5-figure rewards.
- Promising tokenomics with 90% of revenue used for BLESS buyback & burn could make for sustainable longterm bet if adoption is there
Are you going to be $BLESS-ed with $TIME anon?
QUOTING @TimHaldorsson
Bless Network is preparing for an airdrop Based on the token release schedule, initially almost all tokens in the supply will go to the airdrop. The @theblessnetwork has managed to build 5,000,000 nodes into their shared computer. Right now they also got a large allocation t
Bless Network is preparing for an airdrop Based on the token release schedule, initially almost all tokens in the supply will go to the airdrop. The @theblessnetwork has managed to build 5,000,000 nodes into their shared computer. Right now they also got a large allocation t
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