The Userouter flywheel
Unused inference
pays stakers.
Stakers earn CREDIT, sell what they don't use to buyers at a discount, and get paid in USDC. The more buyers come for cheap inference, the more every staked ROUTER earns.
One loop, four turns.Every step is a contract call on Elysium.
01
Stake $ROUTER
Holders stake ROUTER. Every hour the Staking contract mints a fixed amount of CREDIT and splits it pro rata.
02
List CREDIT
Stakers who don't need the inference list their CREDIT on the marketplace, at the discount they choose.
03
Buyers save
Developers and agents buy that CREDIT below face value with USDC, then activate it: activation burns it into API balance.
04
Demand pays stakers
Every fill pays the seller in USDC. More buyers clear listings faster and at shallower discounts, so each staked ROUTER earns more dollars.
The wheel, right now.Read from the Staking contract, the tokens, the marketplace and the launchpad buyback.
Live from Elysium · refreshed every 30s
01 · Staked
—
01 · Emission
—
Your share, if you joined
—
for 1M ROUTER staked now
02 · Listed
67.15KCREDIT
up to 30% off
03 · Buyers save
$12,683.60
vs face value, buying every listing
03 · Circulating
—
minted to stakers, minus what's burned
Why it doesn't run on printing.Three rules keep the yield tied to real usage.
Fixed emission
CREDIT per hour is a set number, not a reward that grows with TVL. More stake means a smaller share each, so yield has to come from buyers.
Used credit is burned
Activating CREDIT burns it into API balance. Inference that gets used leaves the supply instead of circling back to the market.
The market sets the price
Sellers pick their discount and buyers take the deepest first. Strong demand narrows discounts on its own, no admin knob.
Flywheel questions.What drives the yield, and what doesn't.
Where does the yield come from?
From buyers. Stakers earn CREDIT, and CREDIT is worth what buyers pay for it in USDC on the marketplace. No fee or treasury is paid out to stakers.
What happens to the platform fee?
Buyers pay a fee on top of the credit price. Part goes to the referring affiliate, the rest to the protocol's fee recipient. It does not buy back ROUTER.
Does anything burn $ROUTER?
Yes: the LLM launchpad. 10% of every model token's creator fees goes to the UserouterBuyback contract, which buys ROUTER on the market and sends it to 0x…dEaD. The running total is in the stats above.
Does more staking raise my rewards?
No, the opposite: the hourly emission is shared, so new stake dilutes everyone's CREDIT. What raises your dollar return is buyer demand.
Do I have to sell my CREDIT?
No. You can activate it into your own API balance, hold it, or transfer it. Selling is just the route to USDC.