The rewards pool

The pool that pays every network reward: 30% of each Printer's emission, created on top of it.

The rewards pool is fixed forever and minted only when claimed. That pool, and nothing else, pays every network reward. The Printer holder keeps 100% of their own emission; network rewards never come out of it.

How the pool is split

Stream	Share of the pool	Share of the Printer's emission
Orbits (Network Yield)	45%	13.5%
Guild Yield	50%	15%
Sponsor Match	5%	1.5%
Rewards pool	100%	30%

How a Printer's rewards pool is split

Rewards pool: 30% of a Printer's emission, on top of it

45%

50%

• Orbits (Network Yield)45%13.5% of emission
• Guild Yield50%15% of emission
• Sponsor Match5%1.5% of emission

Created on top of the Printer's emission. The holder keeps all of their own emission.

$$R=0.30\cdot p{\text{orbit}}_k=r_k\cdot R{\text{guild}}_j=c_j\cdot R$$

p one Printer's daily emission. R its rewards pool. r_k the share for Orbit k. c_j the cumulative Guild Yield share for tier j (10% at Tier I, rising 5% a tier to 50% at Tier IX), paid as a differential.

Two tracks: full and fractional

Network rewards run on two parallel tracks. The full track counts Licenses and Printers; the fractional track counts Fractional Licenses and Fractional Printers. Orbits, Guild Tiers, Guild Yield and the Guild Bonus Pool each run separately on each track, with the same rates and tables.

• You earn only on the track you hold: a License (with its Printer) earns on the full track, a Fractional License (with its Fractional Printer) on the fractional track, and a wallet holding both earns on both.
• Anyone can refer people to buy either kind.
• The Sponsor Match is the one reward shared across both kinds.
• Tier minimums on the fractional track count Fractional Printers at a tenth of a Printer each.

Every share is proportional

Nothing is overpaid or over-issued. Each Orbit share, Guild Yield share and Sponsor Match slice is a fixed part of one Printer's own 30% rewards pool. A Fractional Printer earns a tenth of a Printer's emission, so its pool, and every share taken from it, is a tenth of a Printer's. No Printer ever pays out more than its 30% pool.

You must hold to earn

To earn on a track you must hold an open License with its Printer (full track) or an open Fractional License with its Fractional Printer (fractional track). Hold none and those shares are not issued, but your place and your network stay recorded.

Members of your network who hold nothing are shown as Off: you still see them and their Printers, and they count again the moment they buy back in. When you buy a License or Fractional License again, you earn from the next epoch at the Orbits and tier your network already gives you.

When rewards are paid

Orbit shares, Guild Yield and the Guild Bonus Pool are calculated every epoch at 00:00 UTC and paid at 03:00 UTC, as esUNITED. No reward is paid in ETH.

What happens to unpaid shares

Unpaid share	Goes to
A Guild Yield share no one above the Printer has reached (for example Tier IX with no Tier IX above)	Guild Bonus Pool
An Orbit that is locked or empty, a sponsor with no open Printer, or a share that reaches the protocol	Burned (never issued)
A Sponsor Match share with no eligible receiver	Burned (never issued)

Only Guild Yield shares fund the Guild Bonus Pool. Every other unpaid share is simply never issued, so it lowers supply growth instead of paying anyone.