Toss One ZPZ Coin, See Eight Uses

One ZPZ coin is designed to do eight jobs across the EZPZ ecosystem. Section 3 of the whitepaper lists them: premium access, payments, data access, staking, governance, NFT and reputation, community incentives, and treasury and development. Toss the coin above to watch them fan out, then watch them merge back, because every one of them runs on the same token and the same rules.

ZPZ is launching, so none of these uses is live yet. Everything below is the design set out in section 3 of the whitepaper, and every rule links to the line it comes from.

Eight uses, five ways to use one coin

The eight uses sort by what you actually do with your ZPZ. Some keep it in your wallet, one spends it, two start with staking, and one works behind the coin for everyone.

Eight medallions, one coin

Each medallion from the toss is one use. Pick one to read what it is designed to do, where it is designed to apply and what is still to be published.

Hold it: access set in ZPZ, not dollars

Access tiers are defined in fixed ZPZ amounts, not fixed dollar values.

That sentence from section 3.1 shapes two of the eight uses, premium access and data access. Each tier is designed to have its own threshold, counted in ZPZ, and holding that number of ZPZ is designed to give access to the tier. Nothing is spent; the tokens stay in your wallet.

Because the threshold is counted in ZPZ, it does not follow the dollar. It changes in one way only: the whitepaper says tier thresholds may be adjusted through DAO governance if market conditions make access impractical for new users. No tier names or ZPZ amounts have been published yet, so every tier reads the same for now: amount to be published, set in ZPZ, adjustable by DAO vote. Read section 3.1 for the rule.

Spend it: the burn rule behind every payment

Section 3 lists payments for alerts, mentorships, subscriptions and AI tools among the uses ZPZ is designed for. What makes this use specific to ZPZ is what can happen to the tokens after they are spent.

What is designed to happen when ZPZ is spent

1. You approve and spend. You approve an amount of ZPZ for a service inside the ecosystem, such as an alert, a mentorship, a subscription or an AI tool.
2. A platform contract may burn it. The token contract has a dedicated platform burn facility, burnForPlatform. Authorized platform contracts may burn user-approved ZPZ when it is spent on ecosystem services.
3. The floor is checked first. Before any protocol burn, the contract checks the live total supply against 5,000,000,000 ZPZ. A burn that would take supply below that floor is rejected and the whole transaction reverts. There is no partial burn down to the floor, and at or below the floor every protocol burn is rejected.
4. Burned means gone. Burned ZPZ is permanently destroyed and cannot be minted again, because the contract's count of tokens ever minted only goes up.

Each step has its line in the whitepaper: the platform burn in section 3.2 and the floor in section 5.2. The same floor also governs the automated buyback, which you can follow in How ZPZ Coin Works.

Stake it: one program, one vote rule

Two of the eight uses start with staking. The staking program has two tracks, and every one of its terms is set out in section 4 of the whitepaper; read them there in full rather than in a summary.

Staked ZPZ is also what votes. In ZPZ governance, votes are designed to equal the square root of staked ZPZ, fixed by a snapshot one hour before voting begins, so 100 times the stake gives 10 times the votes. Unstaked balances, including any tokens in the treasury or development wallets, carry zero votes. Read section 10.1, or see a whale weighed against the crowd in 100x the Stake, Only 10x the Votes.

Why everything merges back into one coin

The toss ends the way the design does: eight uses, one token, one set of rules in the contract. Whichever way ZPZ is used, the same limits apply to all of it.

• One cap. Every token ever minted counts against a hard cap of 10,000,000,000 ZPZ, and that count never goes down (section 5.1).
• One floor. No protocol burn, from payments or from the buyback, can take live supply below 5,000,000,000 ZPZ (section 5.2).
• One vesting rule behind the coin. The treasury and development allocations have a 6-month cliff, then vest over 24 months, and unvested tokens cannot be released early (section 7).

What can change, and what can't

• Can change: access tier thresholds. A DAO vote may adjust them if market conditions make access impractical for new users (section 3.1).
• Can't change through an ordinary setting: the 5B floor. The contract exposes no ordinary administrative setter that can lower it. Changing it would take a new audited implementation, a public timelocked multisig upgrade and a published whitepaper amendment (section 3.2.1).
• Can't come back: burned ZPZ. The minted counter never decreases, so a burn can never restore minting capacity.

Honest limits

Eight uses is a design, not a promise that all eight work today. Here is what the whitepaper does not yet say.

• No amounts yet. Tier names, tier thresholds in ZPZ and service costs in ZPZ have not been published.
• Nothing is connected yet. ZPZ is launching. The EZPZ products exist today; ZPZ's place in them is planned.
• "May burn" is a narrow rule. Only authorized platform contracts can burn spent ZPZ, only ZPZ you approved, and only above the floor.
• Early on, burns may be off. Issuance starts at 1,000,000,000 ZPZ and grows in phases, so live supply may sit below 5,000,000,000 ZPZ at first. While it does, every protocol burn stays disabled (section 5.2).
• Two uses are outlines. Badges and milestone NFTs, and referral and ambassador programs, are listed in section 3 without further detail.
• The toss is an illustration. It pictures the design. Nothing in it happens on-chain.

FAQ

What are the eight uses of ZPZ?

Section 3 of the whitepaper lists premium access, payments, data access, staking, governance, NFT and reputation, community incentives, and treasury and development. Every one is planned while ZPZ is launching.

Do I have to spend ZPZ to use it?

No. Access tiers are designed around holding a set number of ZPZ, and staking and voting keep your ZPZ staked rather than spent. Only payments spend it.

How much ZPZ does an access tier need?

That has not been published. Tiers are set in fixed ZPZ amounts, not dollars, and a DAO vote may adjust a threshold if access becomes impractical for new users.

Does spending ZPZ burn it?

It may. Authorized platform contracts may burn ZPZ you approve and spend on ecosystem services. A burn that would cross the 5,000,000,000 ZPZ floor reverts in full, and while supply is at or below the floor, protocol burns are disabled.

Can burned ZPZ come back?

No. Burned tokens are permanently destroyed, and the count of tokens ever minted never goes down, so burning never makes room to mint more.

Can I use ZPZ this way today?

Not yet. ZPZ is launching, and these uses are planned. The launch targets are on the roadmap, and targets can move.

Start here

See the tools the coin is designed for. You can ask EZRA 5 free questions a day and get the free Finn app for TradingView. EZPZ Trading, EZRA, AiPe, Finn and TradingVox are live today; ZPZ's connections to them are planned.

Then read section 3 of the whitepaper for every designed use, follow one token through its planned jobs in How ZPZ Coin Works, and follow @ZPZcoin on X for news as it lands.