$COVE Light

Token Overview

$COVE is the protocol’s governance token. It is currently non-transferable for a minimum of 6 months, after which the DAO can vote to enable transfers. After 18 months, anyone may enable transfers.

At the moment, $COVE is non-transferable and only used for voting in protocol governance. In the future, we expect governance proposals to enable transfers and add additional utility and tokenomics.


Token Distribution Light

The initial $COVE token distribution

Initial Distribution

The initial supply of 1 billion $COVE has been minted at genesis and will become available over the course of 3 years. The initial distribution is as follows:

  • 55% Community
    • 0.5% Community multisig signers
      • 1 year linear vesting
    • 9.5% Bazaar launchpad auction
      • 1 year linear vesting
    • 8% 1st year liquidity mining incentives
      • At the community multisig’s discretion, unused tokens will be returned to the treasury after 1 year
    • 22% Community treasury
      • 3 year linear vesting
    • 15% Foundation
  • 45% Current and future team, investors, and advisors
    • 2 year linear vesting for investors
    • 3 year linear vesting for team and advisors

Token Specification

The source code for the token can be found on Github here or on Etherscan here.

  • Name: Cove DAO
  • Ticker: COVE
  • Initial supply: 1B
  • Modifiers
    • Ownable/governance
    • Permit
    • Pausable
      • Non-transferable for 18 months (anyone can unlock after)
      • DAO can vote to enable transfers after 6 months
  • Additional functionality
    • Rescue function for ETH/ERC20s
    • Transfer allowlist
    • Max 6% per year starting after 3 years (ARB style inflation)