Team Compensation Without Token Allocation

Teams launching under PURITY are compensated exclusively in the base asset. No token allocation exists at any point — no team tokens, no discounted entry, no unlock cliffs, and no insider cost-basis asymmetry. If a team wants tokens, it buys them on the open market like everyone else.

Team compensation is the team share of liquidation proceeds ($PURE: 20%), forwarded to the launch's TeamDistribution contract at the moment each liquidation happens. That framing carries the whole incentive design: the team is paid only from realised market demand. If organic demand materialises and the engine liquidates into it, the team earns. If it never does, the team earns nothing — there is no salary drawn from launch capital, no draw on the market-making treasury, and no way to front-run the outcome.

Two structural constraints govern how that compensation is received:

Mandatory vesting. Team value does not become claimable when it arrives. Every deposit vests linearly over six months — a fixed, immutable schedule that ties the team's compensation horizon to the launch's continued life. The mechanics are on the next page, Team ETH Vesting.

Forfeiture on abandonment. If a launch ends in an Abandonment shutdown, the team's entire unclaimed balance — vested and unvested alike — is clawed back and redistributed to the participants who bore the failure. Walking away is the one outcome the compensation structure prices at zero.

The market-making treasury is never a team resource. The one path by which a team can even propose touching it — the governed treasury release — is hard-capped in code and decided by token holders, not by the team (Governed Treasury Release).