16. Tokenomics & QTS Economics
16.1 What the Repository Defines
QTS is intended to be the native staking and resource-accounting asset. The current repository defines validator stake, stake-weighted quotas, slashing data structures, and reward hooks. It does not provide a complete audited mainnet monetary policy, genesis allocation, or governance-controlled issuance schedule.
Any statement about QTS supply, valuation, distribution, or governance weight must therefore be treated as a design direction until a canonical genesis and economics specification is committed.
16.2 STACC Resource Model
The STACC modules model quota allocation and compute-unit metering. Quotas are associated with stake and transactions are admitted and scheduled by resource limits rather than a user-facing gas market. This is a protocol resource policy, not proof that execution is costless: validators still bear CPU, memory, bandwidth, storage, and operational costs.
Sponsorship and activation logic are present as separate modules for accounts that do not yet hold stake. Their exact network-wide policy depends on node configuration and integration.
16.3 Validator Rewards
The current stacc/validator_rewards.rs implementation exposes a hookable reward function based on a supplied base inflation reward and a performance score. Its module documentation explicitly describes the model as inflation-only and chain-specific. It does not implement the previously stated formula, rent coverage metrics, or a complete three-source revenue distribution.
16.4 State Rent
state/state_rent.rs contains a configurable rent collector with a prepaid/exemption model, grace periods, and expiry tracking. Its defaults use configurable lamports-per-byte-per-epoch, a two-year exemption threshold, account overhead, and grace periods. These values are implementation defaults, not immutable economic constants, and the module should not be presented as an already deployed burn-and-redistribution mechanism.
16.5 Slashing
The consensus slashing module defines evidence types, penalties, jailing, reporter rewards, and configuration values. Slashing is an enforcement mechanism for provable validator faults; the final percentages, burn policy, and reward destination must be fixed in a network genesis or governance specification before mainnet.
16.6 Required Mainnet Specification
Before a production launch, Quantos needs one normative economics document covering maximum and initial supply, issuance, staking activation, delegation, unbonding, quota formula, rent denomination, reward funding, slash destinations, treasury policy, and upgrade authority. Until then, this section intentionally makes no forecast such as “rent parity in three to five years” and no claim of deflationary supply.