Spending YAP

Spend YAP to unlock more practice, and create healthy token sinks by design.

This is our current spending model and will be refined before TGE based on beta feedback and real usage.

Spending YAP unlocks learning and social features while returning value to the ecosystem. Half of every spend is permanently burned, shrinking supply over time, and half funds the treasury to pay creators, finance rewards, and build product. Spend options include extra lesson access, AI coaching, quizzes and exams with stakeable rewards, and community features like leaderboards and quests. Prices are quoted in whole YAP in the app for clarity, and smart contracts execute every transaction with full decimal precision behind the scenes.

Learning Access

Every learner gets five free lessons per day to form a habit. If you want more, you can pay per lesson or buy time-limited passes. Example pricing: 1 YAP per extra lesson, 3 YAP for the rest of the day, 20 YAP for seven days, and 75 YAP for thirty days of unlimited access. We also reward mastery: a perfect score on a lesson returns a single 1 YAP bonus, paid once per lesson to encourage high-quality work rather than loops.

• Consider holding unlimited passes to short windows and adding soft caps for new accounts. • Track pass use by lesson ID and device so passes cannot be farmed by bot networks. • Implement expirations and cooldowns to reduce exploit vectors.

AI time and tutoring

AI coaching is metered. Users receive a small complimentary allowance daily, then pay to extend sessions. Example: 5 free minutes per day for the AI Tutor with additional 20-minute blocks at 1 YAP, and 25 free AI text messages daily with a 3 YAP hourly unlimited chat option for heavy practice.

• Meter AI time in seconds on the backend and bill in block units to avoid overcharging. • Use client-side counters plus server verification so abuse is detectable and reversible. • Consider subscription-style bundles for heavy users to stabilize treasury inflows.

Quizzes and Exams

Quizzes give extra YAP for high scores. Milestone exams allow staking to increase rewards: stake a modest amount to boost upside on a pass, but subject to cooldowns and retry limits. Failing an exam forfeits a portion of the stake to the burn or treasury so stakes have real incentives attached.

• Staked amounts should be small relative to potential reward to avoid excessive financial risk for learners. • Enforce retry limits and progressive cooldowns (example: 24 hour cooldown, max three attempts) to stop farming. • Automate stake slashing logic with clear dispute and appeal processes.

Community Features

Leaderboards, quests, and creator challenges are entry-fee driven. Players stake YAP to join leaderboards or event pots; winners split the pool weekly and top performers can receive rebates. Community quest pots pool YAP from participants, and payouts are distributed to completers by contribution. Entry fees should stay low to keep events inclusive while allowing meaningful prizes.

• Use transparent payout formulas and weekly resets to avoid snowballing winners. • Add performance rebates (up to 50%) for top scorers to reward excellence while returning liquidity to users. • Creator-run events require lightweight moderation bonds staked to ensure fairness.

Pricing Display

The app displays whole YAP amounts so decisions are fast and intuitive. Under the hood, smart contracts use 18-decimal precision to ensure financial accuracy. UI rounding never loses value; any rounding adjustments are handled on-chain and displayed transparently.

• Always show both UI-friendly amounts and a hoverable breakdown of actual on-chain precision for transparency. • Ensure front-end rounding matches on-chain math to avoid disputes, and publish the exact contract functions used for conversions.

The spending model turns YAP into an engine for learning: easy free access plus pay-to-extend options, metered and premium AI coaching, stakeable exams, and social events. That design recycles value through burns and treasury funding, aligns incentives for mastery over volume, and uses staking and cooldowns to make abuse expensive.