🏦 Mātou Tokenomics Model
Version 3.0
The below document outlines the Mātou Collective Tokenomics Model, summarising the Tokens and their features, our plans for Treasury initialisation, and the proposed reward rates for member participation and contribution
💸 Mātou Collective DAO Tokenomics Model
Matou’s Tokenomics Model is designed to create an economic system that focuses on economic wellbeing while encouraging community participation.
🪙 Mātou Collective Tokens
Matou DAO has designed three tokens which are split into two categories
✅ 1. Governance
🌘 $COM: Community Token
- Use: Used to vote on community house decisions
- Limitations: Non-transferable
- Earning Routes:
- Distributed to community based on community platform activity
🌖 $CTR: Contributor Token
- Use: Used to vote on contributors house decisions
- Limitations: Non-transferable
- Earning Routes:
- Contribution quality-based (quality rating of verified contribution)
💵 2. Utility
🌕 $UTIL: UtilityToken
- Use: Used to access platform tools and support the ecosystem.
- Limitations: Non-voting
- Earning Routes:
- Contribution-based (development, tech support, etc.)
- Engagement-based (governance participation, content creation)
⚖️ Token comparison
| Type | Token | Transferable | Voting Rights | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governance Token | $COM | ❌ No | ✅ Community House votes | Strategic, culture level decisions |
| Governance Token | $CTR | ❌ No | ✅ Contributor House votes | Operational and technical implementation decisions |
| Utility Token | $UTIL | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | Access to tools and services via Treasury bonding curve |
🛠️ Integration
Governance tokens (COM) are designed to enable communities and contributors to develop and decide on proposals that either change how the collectives operates or assign treasury funds. The treasury uses $UTIL to resource the implementation of proposals.
🧠 Key Insights
- Checks and Balances via two‑house model and Elder veto.
- Meritocratic Participation through non-transferable tokens tied to contribution.
- Sustainable Incentives via platform revenue, bonding curve purchases, and controlled emission.
- Cultural Centering with Elder oversight and structured engagement.
💭 Implications
- $UTIL does not confer voting rights, so it doesn’t directly impact the formal governance process.
- This separation prevents plutocracy, ensuring that governance power isn’t concentrated through wealth or token accumulation.
- However, indirect influence may exist through:
- Access benefits — users with $UTIL may have more access to features/tools, which could shape informal influence.
- Treasury power — since $UTIL is linked to the treasury and platform economy, its holders may have sway over economic momentum, though not over decisions.
💰 Mātou Collective Treasury
The Mātou Collective Treasury is the central engine for managing, distributing, and sustaining the DAO’s economic resources. It is responsible for the minting and burning of Mātou Collective tokens, disbursing contribution rewards, funding approved proposals, and facilitating purchases of $UTIL via a Treasury‑controlled bonding curve. Pricing and liquidity for purchases are governed by a bonding curve that algorithmically links price to supply and reserves: purchases mint new tokens along the curve and adjust the price accordingly. All bonding curve purchases, usage revenue, and incentive distributions flow through the Treasury, which is governed by DAO-approved policies and moderated by Treasury Stewards.
As the ecosystem grows, the Treasury captures value from activity across the network and redistributes it to contributors, communities, and infrastructure projects. Its design emphasises financial sustainability, value recirculation, and cultural safeguards. It ensures that all economic growth benefits the collective and remains grounded in Indigenous governance principles. $UTIL is a utility token for access, not a vehicle for speculation or open‑market trading.