The engine

The whole loop.

Three fee sources — the bench, on-chain royalties, and $KARAT trading — split seventy / twenty / ten. That seventy percent buys tokenized precious metals on the open market. Every hour the round divides the metal by effective weight: ninety percent across pendants that are on, a tenth reserved for souls.

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Pendants on
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Effective weight
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Pot this round
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Round share per 1.0×
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Souls
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$KARAT burned
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$KARAT feeds the fees when it trades and sets the weight when it burns. It never enters the metal flow itself — and making a piece real is the only thing that takes weight away.

Fees · royalties, pool fees, σ
Tokenized metal · GLD, SLV, PPLT
$KARAT · burned, never routed
Weight · sets the split, moves no metal
State change · moves nothing

Figures are illustrative, not live. Earning depends on fee revenue; nothing here guarantees a rate or a timeframe.