About Tribune
What TRIB is
TRIB is designed as a fixed-supply token on Base. Its contract creates the supply once at deployment, with no further minting, pause switch, or blacklist. Holding TRIB does not confer ownership of Tribune or a claim on project revenue.
TRIB has not been deployed yet. This site is a preview, published ahead of launch — once the token is live, its contract address will be published here.
Supply and allocationPlanned
The planned total supply is 1,000,000 TRIB, minted once at launch. It will be split like this:
| Share | % | TRIB |
|---|---|---|
| Liquidity pool | 50% | 500,000 |
| Staking rewards reserve Reserved for a future staking reward programme, held in a separate wallet, not yet paid out. | 20% | 200,000 |
| Founder | 20% | 200,000 |
| Treasury (operations) | 10% | 100,000 |
How to take part
First, get some TRIB. Then pass a one-time personhood check (see below), which confirms your address belongs to a real person without publishing who that person is. Once verified, you can stake TRIB behind any idea you want to see in front of lawmakers, and withdraw it again whenever you like.
How ranking works
Ideas are ranked by a quadratic score: take the square root of every individual stake, add those square roots together, then square the total. This rewards ideas with many small backers at the same total stake. Larger stakes still increase the score; this reduces wealth’s influence but does not eliminate it.
For example: 100 people each staking 1 TRIB produce a support score of 10,000. One person staking 100 TRIB on their own produces a support score of only 100. Both groups stake the same 100 TRIB in total, but the idea with 100 independent backers ranks far higher.
Your stake is yours
Staking pays no yield or interest. Every idea has the same terms, regardless of rank. TRIB’s market price can fall even when support for an idea grows.
Staking is non-custodial. Your TRIB stays attached to your address and the idea you staked it on, and only you can withdraw it — in full or in part — at any time, even if the idea has since closed. Nobody else, including the curator, has any way to move staked funds. There is no withdrawal path in the contract for anyone but the staker.
The personhood check
Quadratic scoring only works if one person cannot quietly split their stake across many addresses to game the ranking. So before an address can stake, it has to pass a personhood check.
Anyone can stop counting a stake whose owner no longer passes the personhood check, so an idea’s support only comes from addresses that pass it. The TRIB itself stays the owner’s to withdraw at any time, and the stake can count again once the owner passes the check again.
One verification option being evaluated is Coinbase’s free onchain verification. Verify your wallet with Coinbase: it is one click if you have a verified Coinbase account, and takes a few minutes to show up here. One Coinbase account can verify up to 3 wallets, so this check alone does not enforce one person, one address. Combining different verification providers also needs protection against the same person enrolling twice. The verification is a public on-chain record that your wallet belongs to a verified Coinbase account; it does not publish your name, but Coinbase itself knows which of its accounts verified the wallet.
No Coinbase account? The curator keeps an allowlist as a backup: ask the curator to add your wallet. World ID is planned as a further option.
Anonymity
A public name or profile is not required. Wallet activity is public and can be linked to an identity. Suggestions store their text, optional contact details, and submission time; the hosting provider processes connection data. Complete anonymity is not guaranteed.