QZN
White Paper

QZN is a deterministic coordination protocol for arcade economies on the Qubic network. Gameplay runs off-chain for responsiveness; the economic consequences — match settlement, treasury accounting, and supply reduction — finalize on-chain through 4 contracts at fixed indices 26–29.

The token is fixed at 250,000,000 QZN with no minting mechanism. Value comes from use — playing, competing, creating tournaments, and operating nodes — never from holding. Three reference game clients are built; the Mundus audit is in progress; nothing is live.

Game economies rarely persist. The recurring structural failures:

Two layers, cleanly separated: deterministic gameplay executes off-chain; economic finality executes on-chain in the deployed contracts. Match results are hashed client-side, validated by the Cabinet, and settled without discretionary intervention.

Exactly 4 contracts, authored for Qubic at ascending indices 26–29. Lower-index contracts are called by higher-index ones, so the token sits at the base. Nothing is deployed to mainnet yet — there are no addresses.

Every duel settles through one deterministic route in the Cabinet: a 0.1% protocol fee comes off the gross, then the distributable splits 60% to the winner, 20% to the node operators who hosted the match, and 20% to the treasury. That is the only split. Matches do not burn, and no one is paid for holding.

Worked example: a 50,000 QU pot pays 29,970 QU to the winner, 9,990 QU to operators, and 9,990 QU to the treasury after the 50 QU fee.

Anyone can create a tournament; doing so burns QZN — the core utility sink. Entry fees pool, a 1% protocol fee is taken at completion, and finishers are paid 60/30/10.

250,000,000 QZN, minted once, no inflation in the codebase. Supply only moves down, through three real channels — driven by activity or enforced by contract, never discretionary. There is no per-match burn.

50M QZN — 20% of supply — across three stepped-price phases targeting 40B QU. Below the 25B QU soft cap the sale does not open; at the 50B QU hard cap it closes. Unsold supply burns — burned at close — no rollover, no discretionary allocation. Opens post-audit 2026; no date is set.

Team allocation vests on a 1-year cliff, 5-year linear vest. Full mechanics on the ICO page.

The treasury is a contract, not a wallet. Spends require 2-of-3 multisig approval; anything at or above 1,000,000 QZN waits a mandatory 2-epoch timelock in public view. Reward funding flows automatically each epoch — no hand on the faucet. The Mundus audit is in progress against 321 passing tests.

QZN settles matches natively in the Cabinet contract. Swaps and burn execution route through QSwap, Qubic's on-chain DEX, as backend infrastructure.