NAV is what a token is backed by. RFV is what it is guaranteed by. They are not the same number and the protocol treats them differently — the buyback bids at RFV, never at NAV.
NAV / token
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USDG + marked equity
RFV / token
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USDG only · hard floor
Market (TWAP)
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Buyback bid
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RFV − 1.5% · inverse bond
NAV vs RFV vs MARKET
last 60 epochs
The gap between the gold line and the cyan line is the premium — that is what the emission curve reads. The gap between cyan and green is the equity bucket: real upside, but not part of the guarantee.
RESERVE BUCKETS
$0.00
BACKING PER TOKEN
EMISSION CURVE · RATE HITS ZERO AT NAV
R_MAX 0.45% · K 1.75
Every OHM fork that died, died the same way: it kept minting into a market that had already fallen below its own backing. Here the rate is a clamp on the premium, so it is structurally impossible to emit at or below NAV.
Total supply
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401K
Seats outstanding
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floor(sum of whole balances)
Epoch emission
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of supply, per 8h
Implied APY
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if the rate held for a year
WHERE THE 5% FEE GOES
The 5% transfer fee is immutable and applies only on transfers to or from mapped AMM pairs. Wallet-to-wallet is zero. Whitelisted protocol contracts are zero.
50%
Stock Desk
buys equities for vested Seats
30%
Treasury
straight into backing
15%
LP / POL
protocol-owned liquidity
5%
Buyback
standing bid at RFV − 1.5%
The team share starts at 40% of the fee stream and decays linearly to zero over 30 days, taken pro-rata from all four buckets. After day 30 it is zero forever — there is no switch to turn it back on.