MoTZ Staking Platform
A gamified hold-to-earn system for Founders Coins & Vault Keys. Risk-to-earn expeditions, not boring staking.
🎯 The Goal
Reward loyalty (holding Founders Coins & Vault Keys) with an engaging game loop — not just passive yield. Most guild staking platforms are boring: stake, wait, claim. Nobody cares.
We want something people check in daily for. Something they strategize about. Something they flex in Discord.
Design principle: If you sell your Founders Coins, you lose your energy generation and your expedition progress. Diamond hands get rewarded. Paper hands lose out.
⚙️ "Soft Staking" — No Smart Contracts
Instead of users locking tokens in a contract, we simply read the blockchain to check if they still hold their assets. From their perspective it feels like staking. From ours, it's just a database + on-chain verification.
How It Works
- User connects wallet once → signs a message (free, no gas, no transaction) to prove ownership
- Backend checks Ronin chain periodically → "Does this wallet still hold Founders Coins and Vault Keys?"
- As long as they hold → they passively generate Energy ⚡
- If they sell or transfer → Energy stops accruing immediately
💡 No staking contracts. No locking. No "unstake" flows. No audits. No gas fees. They just hold — and the game rewards them for it.
🎮 The Game Loop: Expeditions
Think Darkest Dungeon meets Fallout Shelter. Players generate energy from holding, spend it deploying units on risky expeditions, and reap the rewards (or suffer the losses).
Energy Generation
- Each Founders Coin generates 10 Energy/day
- Energy caps at 72 hours worth (encourages daily play, prevents infinite hoarding)
- Rarer Founders Coins could generate more if rarity tiers are introduced
Expedition Types
| Expedition | Energy Cost | Duration | Risk Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scavenge Run | 5 ⚡ | 1 hour | Low — mostly safe |
| Deep Venture | 15 ⚡ | 4 hours | Medium — real danger |
| Raid | 30 ⚡ | 12 hours | High — high reward or total loss |
| Legendary Quest | 50 ⚡ | 24 hours | Extreme — jackpot or wipeout |
Outcome Probabilities
| Outcome | Scavenge | Deep | Raid | Legendary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🎉 Loot (prize payout) | 40% | 30% | 25% | 20% |
| 😐 Nothing (safe return) | 35% | 25% | 15% | 10% |
| 🤕 Injured (needs recovery) | 20% | 30% | 30% | 30% |
| 💀 KIA (unit lost) | 5% | 15% | 30% | 40% |
Units
Each player starts with 3 units tied to their Founders Coins. Injured units need recovery time before redeploying. KIA units can be revived with Energy — creating a meaningful cost to reckless play.
🔑 Vault Keys: The Multiplier
Vault Keys don't just unlock "more" — they unlock better odds and bigger prize pools:
| Vault Keys Held | Tier | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Base | Standard prize pool |
| 1–5 | Silver Vault | 1.5x prize pool |
| 6–15 | Gold Vault | 3x prize pool |
| 16+ | Diamond Vault | 5x prize pool + exclusive Legendary Quests |
A whale holding 50 Founders Coins + 30 Vault Keys generates massive Energy AND accesses the highest-tier expeditions. Directly rewards the most loyal holders.
💰 Prize Pool Funding
Expeditions pay out from a managed prize pool. Sources:
- Guild Treasury allocation — Set aside X RON/month
- Grant funding — Ronin & Arbitrum grants can directly fund this
- Seasonal pools — Partner-funded limited-time events
- Leaderboard prizes — Top earners per week/month get bonus payouts
💡 The game economy is entirely off-chain, so prize pool payouts can be tuned in real-time — no contract redeployments, no governance votes.
🛠️ Tech Stack
Zero smart contracts. The entire platform is:
📅 Build Phases
Foundation
- Wallet connect + holder verification
- Energy accrual dashboard ("You hold 5 coins → generating 50 ⚡/day")
- Basic expedition system (pick → wait → result)
- Simple prize pool with manual funding
Depth
- Unit management (injured / KIA / recovery)
- Vault Key tier system
- Leaderboards
- Expedition log & history
Community
- Expedition alerts to Discord
- Guild-wide raid events (everyone contributes energy to a boss)
- Seasonal competitions
- Lore & narrative layer
🏆 Why This Design Wins
Mark of The Zeal · Internal Design Brief · February 2026