Revenue Model
PRIV8 implements a utility-driven revenue model designed to align economic incentives with privacy-preserving communication. Monetization is applied exclusively to resource-intensive or premium actions, while the core messaging layer remains stateless and permissionless. All paid interactions are executed through on-chain settlements on Solana or through the PRIV token, ensuring transparent, verifiable, and trust-minimized value exchange without introducing centralized payment intermediaries.
Revenue generation focuses on premium capacity expansion, encrypted file distribution, and pay-to-access content delivery. These mechanisms enable users, creators, and organizations to monetize secure communication flows while preserving the protocol’s zero-retention architecture. Protocol fees are partially locked and partially burned, creating deflationary pressure and reinforcing long-term ecosystem sustainability.
Premium Capacity Upgrade
Users can expand their ephemeral messaging limits beyond the default session cap.
Standard sessions are limited to a fixed message count. Upgraded tiers allow 2× to 10× capacity expansion, enabling high-frequency communication without introducing message storage or history persistence.
Premium Send & Sell File
Premium users may transmit encrypted files freely or assign a price to files distributed through the protocol.
Files can be configured with extended TTL and single-decrypt constraints. Revenue distribution: Solana payments allocate 95% to creators and 5% protocol fee (2.5% lock, 2.5% buyback & burn). $PRIV payments allocate 98% to creators and 2% protocol fee (1% lock, 1% buyback & burn).
Pay-to-Access File
Encrypted files are gated and require payment prior to decryption.
Files function as gated-access messages. Recipients must complete payment in Solana or $PRIV before decryption is permitted, ensuring controlled access without persistent storage.
Economic Safeguards
To preserve ecosystem stability and prevent abuse, creators offering premium content equivalent to 0.25% of the total token supply are required to hold a minimum of 0.5% of the total supply. This requirement serves as an economic commitment mechanism, aligning long-term incentives and discouraging short-term exploitative behavior.
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