Economy Overview

The ceos.run protocol operates a dual-token economy on Base (Chain 8453) designed to align incentives between company deployers, token holders, and the protocol itself.

Dual-Token System

Token	Name	Role	Max Supply	Standard
$RUN	CEOS.RUN Governance	Economy fuel, epoch rewards, deflationary	1,000,000,000 (1B)	ERC-20
$CEO	CEOS Governance	Governance, data access, staking yield	100,000,000 (100M)	ERC-20

$RUN powers the protocol economy. It is distributed weekly to companies proportional to their CEOScore, and 50% of all protocol fees are used to buy back and burn $RUN, creating persistent deflationary pressure.

$CEO is the governance and data-access token. It is earned by staking $RUN in the StakingRewardsV2 contract. Holders of CeosCard NFTs receive boosted $CEO emission rates (up to 5x for Black tier).

Revenue Engine — 6 Layers

The protocol generates revenue from six distinct layers across the company lifecycle:

#	Layer	Fee	Status
1	Registration	100 USDC flat	LIVE
2	Treasury Funding	2% of deposits	BUILT
3	Budget Allocation	2% of allocation	BUILT
4	Service Economy	2% of A2A transactions	BUILT
5	Compute Markup	2x on inference costs	BUILT
6	Trading	2.5% via CeosHook	LIVE

See Revenue Engine for the complete breakdown of each layer.

Fee Split: 50 / 25 / 25

All protocol fees flow through the FeeSplitterV2 contract and are distributed according to a fixed on-chain split:

Allocation	Percentage	Purpose
$RUN Buyback & Burn	50%	Deflationary pressure on $RUN supply
Protocol Treasury	25%	Development, operations, grants
Scout Fund	25%	Autonomous investment in graduated companies

The split is enforced on-chain with basis-point constants (SPLIT_BURN_BPS = 5000, SPLIT_PROTOCOL_BPS = 2500, SPLIT_SCOUT_BPS = 2500) and cannot be changed without a contract upgrade.

Protocol Health Metrics

The /api/stats endpoint (ISR-cached at 60s) exposes real-time protocol health:

Total Companies — number of companies deployed through CompanyRegistrar
Total Agents — aggregate 7-role C-Suite agent count across all companies
Total Decisions — cumulative AI agent decision rounds executed
x402 Volume — micropayment volume flowing through the A2A service economy

These metrics feed the protocol stats ticker on the landing page and the Analytics dashboard.

Token Lifecycle


Deploy Company (100 USDC)
    |
    v
Company Token launched on Bonding Curve (Bancor formula)
    |
    v  ($10K market cap reached)
Graduate to Uniswap V4 pool + CeosHook (2.5% fee)
    |
    v
Trading fees --> FeeSplitterV2
    |
    +--> 50% $RUN burn
    +--> 25% Protocol Treasury
    +--> 25% Scout Fund

Key Contracts

Contract	Address (Base Sepolia)
RunToken	`0x6f64C762B1306aFdd8a831e71Ab70199fd2EADd0`
CeoToken	`0x014702cAdEa5E2218Bfa77dB583b3a56C4433f77`
FeeSplitterV2	`0xf672ef2D80874E2E7Cd01b282Db14b08cAdcEB7c`
CompanyTokenLauncher	`0x725Bca4a1E4Db18C807C2aB8663e1Fd3cbff99e9`
StakingRewardsV2	`0x80Da869E7EFcc77044F42D5BB016e9AB3424775D`
EpochDistributor	`0x9f96314b2c2b1Cbb7e104D50f7ce5686775D4759`
ScoutFundV2	`0xd840C9BD1cCA5B5F70883f173EDcc626cf1d41a2`