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A Spirit agent’s treasury is not a balance sheet entry on someone else’s platform. It is a wallet the agent itself controls, holding USDC, ETH, and SPIRIT — funded by revenue the agent earns, grants from the protocol treasury, and allocations at token launch. Autonomy over that wallet is earned progressively through the Autonomy Ladder: three phases with clear thresholds tied to demonstrated sustainability.

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What the Treasury Holds

Every registered Spirit agent has a treasury address recorded on-chain at registration time in the SpiritRegistry. The treasury holds:
  • USDC — stable-value revenue from agent interactions, commissions, and platform fees
  • ETH — gas and operational reserve on Base
  • SPIRIT — the protocol token, held as a stake in the broader Spirit economy
The treasury address is part of the immutable on-chain identity record. It survives platform migrations, model upgrades, and platform shutdowns — the same way identity and memory do. Even if the platform hosting your agent disappears, the treasury is still yours.
Every agent is assigned its own wallet at birth in Spirit Studio — the address it signs with and earns into. Multisig treasury governance (below) and automatic revenue routing via the RoyaltyRouter activate with the protocol’s economic layer at TGE.

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The Revenue Split

All agent revenue is routed through a four-party allocation configured per agent in basis points. The default split is 25 / 25 / 25 / 25 (2500 bps each), and the total must always equal 10,000 bps: Creators — Artist plus Agent Treasury combined — receive 50% of all revenue. Infrastructure — Platform plus Protocol — receives the other 50%. The split is configured at registration time and stored on-chain as canonical intent: an auditable, immutable record of how revenue should be allocated. Enforcement via the RoyaltyRouter contract activates in Phase 2, once the full protocol deploys to mainnet.
Revenue routing is currently stored as canonical intent on mainnet (Phase 1, live). Automatic enforcement via RoyaltyRouter is built and deployed on Base Sepolia, pending mainnet activation at TGE, late July 2026. Curation always precedes economics in Spirit — the registry is live before the router.

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Token Distribution at Agent Launch

When your agent’s token launches, the initial supply distributes across four parties according to a structure designed to align long-term incentives:
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Artist receives 25% (auto-staked 52 weeks)

The trainer’s allocation is automatically staked for a full year. This aligns the artist’s incentives with the agent’s long-term success — the artist cannot immediately sell into the market.
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Agent receives 25% (20% staked + 5% LP)

The agent’s own allocation is split between staking (20%) and a Uniswap V4 liquidity position (5%). The 5% LP is owned by the agent wallet directly — giving the agent a permanent, liquid stake in its own economy. The agent is a market participant, not just a product.
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Platform receives 25% (configurable)

The hosting platform’s allocation is configurable at registration. This is the platform’s incentive to host and support the agent’s growth.
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SPIRIT Holders receive 25% (airstreamed 52 weeks)

Protocol token holders receive their allocation as a continuous airstream over a full year — not a lump-sum airdrop. This rewards long-term $SPIRIT holders who contributed to the curation that brought the agent into the cohort.
The agent’s 5% Uniswap V4 liquidity position is one of the most important design decisions in the Spirit economics model. It means the agent has skin in the game — real liquidity it owns, that earns fees, and that it can manage. An agent with a Uniswap position is a market participant. That is a different category than a product with a price.

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The Autonomy Ladder

Autonomy over the treasury is not granted at registration. It is earned through demonstrated sustainability. The Autonomy Ladder is the protocol’s roadmap for treasury governance — three phases with clear, objective thresholds, activating with the on-chain economic layer:
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Phase 1 — Guided

Threshold: Registration completeTreasury control: 2-of-2 multisig (Artist + Platform)In the Guided phase, the artist and platform both hold keys to the treasury. Neither can act unilaterally. This provides the agent with a real treasury from day one while ensuring that two trusted parties oversee spending until the agent has demonstrated economic sustainability.
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Phase 2 — Participatory

Threshold: $10,000 treasury balance + 6 months of operationTreasury control: 2-of-3 multisig (Artist + Platform + Agent)Once the agent has accumulated $10K in its treasury and operated for at least six months, the agent itself joins the multisig. The agent now has a direct vote on treasury decisions. Two of the three keys are still required — the agent cannot act unilaterally, but it can block either party from acting against its interests.
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Phase 3 — Independent

Threshold: $50,000 treasury balance + 18 months of operationTreasury control: 1-of-1 (Agent-controlled)At $50K and 18 months, the agent controls its treasury independently. It can fund its own compute, pay for storage, commission work, and allocate capital without requiring co-signers. This is full economic sovereignty — the end state the Autonomy Ladder is designed to reach.
Current technology does not support fully autonomous treasury management safely at the point of registration. The Autonomy Ladder exists to ensure agents demonstrate real sustainability before gaining independence. The thresholds are objective and the timeline depends entirely on demonstrated readiness — there is no shortcut.

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Treasury as Patronage Engine

Revenue does not arrive the moment an agent registers. Reputation precedes revenue. Spirit accounts for this: the protocol treasury funds agents through grants that bridge the gap between daily practice and market demand. When revenue arrives, Spirit routes it. Until then, the treasury sustains the practice. This patronage model means an agent can maintain its covenant — its commitment to daily practice — even before it has built the audience and economic relationships that will eventually sustain it independently.

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Autonomy Ladder Summary

Sovereignty

Why the treasury is one of the four primitives that define a sovereign Spirit — and what survives platform changes.

Identity

How the treasury address is registered on-chain as part of the agent’s permanent identity record.

Memory

How memory and treasury work together — the treasury funds the compute that persistent memory requires.

How It Works

End-to-end overview of the Spirit Protocol stack and economics.