HONEY Tokenomics

The Financial Engine of HoneyPlay

HONEY is the economic driver of the HoneyPlay Financial OS—a game-economy token that rewards real participation while keeping supply disciplined through deflationary taxes and oracle-governed emissions.

Built with HoneyTaxConfig, HONEY exemplifies a self-reinforcing micro-economy: every transaction—swaps, trades, or transfers—captures fees that fund burns, buybacks, treasuries, and incentives, creating a flywheel where growth benefits all stakeholders.

💡 Fun Fact Think of HONEY as the hive’s honey pot: workers (users) fill it via activity and buybacks, queens (creators) draw rewards, and the hive (the OS) uses it to expand—while the honey itself gets scarcer over time.

HONEY Token Basics

Total Supply: 10,000,000,000 HONEY (10 Billion HONEY).

Allocation
Percentage
Purpose

Users

60%

Rewarded via HoneyJar for AMM swaps, Marketplace activities, NFT trades—driving engagement and adoption.

Backers / Team

40%

Team / Backers allocation, exchange listings, ecosystem fund

🔒 Vesting & Locks: Team allocation vests over years, specifics haven't been decided yet.

HONEY Utility & Value Drivers

HONEY is the glue binding the Financial OS, with utilities that create demand and capture value.

Core Utilities

  • Incentives Fuel: Earned via HoneyJar for activities; redeemed for rewards—driving OS usage.

  • Governance: Vote on parameters (e.g., fee tiers, Oracle bands) via DAO (future scope)

Value Drivers

  • Deflationary Mechanics: Built-in burns via HoneyTaxConfig reduce supply on every taxed action (transfers, swaps)—countering emissions.

  • Perpetual Buybacks: 50% of protocol fees auto-buy HONEY via AMM, creating constant demand.

  • Treasury utility: Funds NFT floor sweeping (e.g., DragonBee)—HONEY taxes route to treasuries for automated market making for supported game assets.

  • User-Owned OS: Via HoneyJar, users earn HONEY proportional to contributions (e.g., swap fees = points = HONEY), making the OS "owned" by its community—adoption grows as users become vested.

  • Game-Economy Pioneer: As the first token with HoneyTaxConfig, HONEY demonstrates micro-economies: Taxes from in-game actions fund NFT floors, creator rewards, and protocol—closing loops that sustain games without external subsidies.

🟨 Adoption, from the macro lens: By standardizing emissions, fees, and taxes around HONEY, every new game that plugs into the Financial OS adds more fee flow into the same buyback + rewards loop. This shared demand surface turns many small economies into one big, self-funding market.

🔮 Oracle-Controlled Emission System

HONEY emissions are dynamically regulated by HoneyOracle using TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price) from HONEY/SUI pools, ensuring stability without manual intervention. This protects against volatility: fast responses to downs, cautious ups.

Neutral Zone Protection (±3%)

  • Purpose: Prevents overreaction to normal price fluctuations

  • Behavior: No emission changes within the 300 basis point band

  • Stability: Maintains predictable emission during stable periods

Downward Protection (Fast Response)

  • Trigger: HONEY price drops >3% from anchor price

  • Response: Immediate 3% emission cut per epoch (300 basis points)

  • Compounding: Cuts compound for consecutive down epochs

  • Maximum Cut: 30% per day (3,000 basis points cap)

Upward Reward (Slow Confirmation)

  • Trigger: HONEY price rises >3% from anchor price

  • Response: 1% emission increase (100 basis points)

  • Confirmation: Requires 3 consecutive epochs (9 hours) to activate

  • Weekly Cap: Maximum 50% total increase per week (5,000 basis points)

Looking Ahead (Phase 2 & multi-token era)

As more studios launch tokens and games on the Financial OS, aggregate fee flow (AMM + marketplace + token taxes) rises. Because buybacks are sourced from that shared flow while emissions are bounded by the Oracle, Phase 2 should introduce structurally stronger buyback pressure relative to issuance—benefiting long-term HONEY holders and active users alike.

🟧 Many tokens, one sink More games → more taxed volume → more protocol revenue → more HONEY buybacks. Emissions don’t scale linearly with hype; they’re governed—so buy pressure outpaces issuance as the platform matures.

Coming Soon: DragonBee Egg NFTs 🐉🍯

🟪 Launch Hint — First game on HoneyPlay DragonBee Eggs are launching soon as the first native game asset. Treasury routing from HoneyTaxConfig and marketplace revenues will be used for floor support and market-making, with HONEY as the coordinating asset. DragonBee becomes the live showcase of NFT floors tied to real in-game activity—and a template for future games / collections.

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