Mechanism
APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATIONCadence, claim window, per-claimant cap and contributor-class split are decided for V1.
Ecosystem rewards
Rewards
Weekly reward epochs for verified plant-care contribution — not deployed yet.
Rewards program not deployed yet. The mechanism below is approved for V1 implementation, but no reward epoch has ever run on any Solana cluster. There is nothing to claim right now.
Status
Where this stands
Deployment
No epoch, Merkle root or claim has ever been published on localnet, devnet or mainnet-beta.
How it will work
Mechanics
Epoch cadence
One epoch per calendar week, opening ISO weekday 1 at 00:00:00 UTC and closing ISO weekday 7 at 23:59:59 UTC.
Claim window
Once an epoch's reward root is published, claims stay open for 90 days.
Per-claimant cap
No single wallet may receive more than 1% of one epoch's total reward budget.
Multiple wallets
Splitting contribution across several wallets on the same profile does not raise this cap — see multi-wallet identity.
Budget split
Contributor classes
| Class | Share of epoch budget | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday contributors | 60% | Ordinary verified plant-care contributions: identifications, care logs, corrections. |
| Depth contributors | 20% | Sustained, high-quality contribution across many observations or an under-covered species/region. |
| Reviewers & moderators | 10% | Contribution review, moderation and quality-assurance work that keeps the data commons trustworthy. |
| Institutional partners | 10% | Botanical gardens, universities and other institutions contributing verified bulk data. |
Policy
What happens to unclaimed rewards
Unclaimed after the window closes
Claims close permanently 90 days after an epoch's root is published. Unclaimed CGW from that epoch remains in the Ecosystem Rewards Vault — it is not rolled into the next epoch, redirected to the team or treasury, or burned. The unclaimed amount is recorded and reported publicly.
Budget a class doesn't fully use
Any reward-class budget an epoch does not fully allocate stays undistributed for that epoch; it is never automatically moved to another class. After the 120-month ecosystem-rewards emission schedule completes, no new V1 reward epochs may consume CGW outside that approved schedule.
Once an epoch is live, claiming happens at /claim. Figures above come directly from @cgw/token-spec — see Transparency for live on-chain state once something is deployed.