Wellbian tokenomics
Wellbian (WLBN) is the reward and payment currency of the Weather XRPL DePIN ecosystem - an XRPL issued asset governed by a quality-based fixed-budget policy.
Total supply is fixed at 10,000,000,000 WLBN and the issuing authority has been burned. Supply is split into eight buckets, each released only when its condition below is met.
| Bucket | Amount | Share | Release · vesting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Node holder rewards, round 1 (Phase 1-10) | 2,800,000,000 WLBN | 28% | Released each epoch under the target-supply rule |
| Node holder rewards, round 2 (Phase 11+) | 1,800,000,000 WLBN | 18% | Opens only after the Phase-10 gate · burned if not reached |
| Scheduled burn | 2,500,000,000 WLBN | 25% | Burned in milestone tranches · 5B total with 2.465B buyback burns |
| LP rewards (liquidity mining) | 800,000,000 WLBN | 8% | Fixed-amount payouts · minimum lock · forfeited on early exit |
| Team · contributors | 600,000,000 WLBN | 6% | 12-month cliff + 48-month linear · schedule fully public |
| Ecosystem · regional partners | 500,000,000 WLBN | 5% | Released conditionally per regional milestone |
| Strategic · private | 500,000,000 WLBN | 5% | 6-12-month cliff + 24-36-month vesting · 0 unlocked at TGE |
| Liquidity · reserve | 500,000,000 WLBN | 5% | AMM seed and buy wall · buybacks are burned |
- Daily payout starts at 7 WLBN per station and decays 22% per phase (7 × 0.78^(phase−1)). No time-based halving.
- Phases open only through milestone gates (G0-G10) that require both station count and demand. Phase 1 = 25,000 stations, final target 1,000,000.
- Quality multipliers 0 / 1.0 / 1.2 · full pay at 95%+ uptime, linear between 80-95%, zero below 80% · unpaid amounts are redistributed up to a 10.5 cap and the excess is burned.
- Total burn target 5B = 2.5B scheduled (4 tranches) + 2.465B buyback burns from data revenue. Every data sale burns half of the WLBN paid.
Circulating and emission figures will be published once mainnet rewards start. The canonical source is tokenomics.wellbianlabs.io and the whitepaper.
Every time data is sold, half of the WLBN paid is permanently burned.
50% of network revenue flows back to all holders as value, not to the company. Burns execute automatically at the moment of sale, and every record is instantly verifiable as an on-chain transaction.
Data sales ↑ → burns ↑ → circulating supply ↓ → reward & holding value ↑ → participating stations ↑ → data value ↑
Burn receipts (transaction hashes) will be recorded here with the first data sale.
The 50% burn ratio is a policy published in the whitepaper and can only be adjusted after prior notice. Burns are executed as payments to the issuer address (the standard XRPL burn method), extinguishing the debt and reducing total supply.
Each daily epoch fixes the reward budget first, then distributes it by quality-score contribution. More stations never increases issuance - supply inflation is structurally blocked. Budget = max(bootstrap decay, α × monthly B2B revenue / days), α = 0.50.
Every data sale permanently burns 50% of the WLBN received on-chain, shrinking circulating supply - revenue flows back to every holder as scarcity.
The current device, ARC-600DA, is the 1.0 baseline. Future models receive multipliers relative to it based on sensing capability, recorded in the license NFT metadata.
A per-station cap of 0.5% of the daily budget prevents a few large operators from capturing the rewards.
Swap anytime against RLUSD (a USD stablecoin) on the XLS-30 AMM, or earn trading fees by providing liquidity.
Wellbian (WLBN) pays for the x402-gated weather data API - aggregates, cohort queries, LLM insights. AI agents read the 402 response, pay on-chain, and access data: true M2M payments.
Every dataset sold or queried passes a five-stage de-identification pipeline (geohash5 spatial generalization → temporal aggregation → identifier rotation → k-anonymity → attribute generalization); responses contain only cohort statistics, never station lists.