Tokenomics, in plain English

How Coins and SPROUT work today, in the game you're already playing. Nothing below is a promise of price or profit — it's just how the economy is wired.

CryptoSprouts is free to play, and the SPROUT you earn is an in-game point — there's no on-chain token live yet. During this growth phase we keep rewards extra generous: new players start with a SPROUT bonus and the faucet pays more, so you can dive into breeding right away and the players who put in the most get rewarded the most. We reward real play — never deposits, and never for "holding". When the token does arrive, it'll be announced officially here and in our channels first.

• 🌱 Welcome bonus (new players start with)100 SPROUT
• 🌾 First harvest+3 SPROUT
• 🧬 First breed+5 SPROUT
• 🏪 First sale on the Marketplace+7 SPROUT
• 🧪 First time you breed each mutant+6 SPROUT
• 🌾 Every 5th harvest (scales with crop grow time)+1 – +6 SPROUT
• 🧬 Every 3rd breed+20 SPROUT
• 🎁 Friend's first harvest (you invited them)+2 SPROUT
• 🎁 Your first harvest (you joined via a link)+2 SPROUT

New here? Your very first harvest also mints a guaranteed NFT to get you started. The recurring rewards above are turned up for the pre-launch growth phase, with a generous daily cap per player so the more you play, the more you earn. They all come from one capped rewards reserve — not printed out of thin air — and once it runs dry they stop paying, so gameplay can never inflate the token; trading with other players on the Marketplace then becomes the main way to earn more SPROUT. Referral rewards only pay out once your friend actually harvests a crop — not just for signing up — so the link can't be farmed with throwaway accounts that never play.

• Marketplace sale fee5%
• 　↳ burned / ↳ into the Lunar Vault1% / 4%
• Breeding fee20%
• 　↳ burned / ↳ into the Lunar Vault10% / 10%
• Fertilizer purchase25% burned
• 🌙 Lunar Bloom seed30% burned

Burned SPROUT is gone forever — it never re-enters supply. That's what keeps SPROUT scarce once the growth-phase generosity winds down.

• 🌿 Fertilizer — −40% grow time, better oddsSPROUT or Stars/PIX/USDC
• 🧬 Breeding Boost — −20% breeding costStars/PIX/USDC
• 🐼 Panda Farmer — auto-plants & harvests one farm 24/7Stars/PIX/USDC

Boosters and Farmers are optional shortcuts — never required to play. Fertilizer is sold for SPROUT in the shop, and some items can also be bought with Telegram Stars, PIX, or USDC on Solana (real money). Buying one never mints SPROUT, so paying real money doesn't dilute the token or hand anyone free SPROUT — the money simply goes to the project treasury for a digital item, credited only after the payment is confirmed.

• 🛡️ Clans & weekly leagueresets Mondays
• 🎉 Harvest Festival — double NFT dropsevery weekend
• 📣 Share a win, a friend joins+SPROUT for both

Join or create a clan and climb the weekly league — your clan's rank is the score its members earn that week, resetting every Monday, and this week's #1 is the champion. Every weekend the Harvest Festival doubles your NFT drop chance. Bred a mutant or minted a Moonbloom? Share it straight to Telegram — when a friend joins through your link and harvests their first crop, you both earn SPROUT.

Listing prices are capped to sane whole numbers (with a rarity-scaled floor so a Mythic can't be dumped for nothing), and an NFT you just bought has a short cooldown before it can be re-listed — so nobody can fake trading volume by bouncing the same plant between two wallets. Every sale still pays the 5% fee, keeping the burn and the Vault honest.

Every Marketplace sale routes a small share of its fee into the Lunar Vault — a pool funded only by real trading activity, never by anyone's deposit. Today the Vault tracks those fees transparently, and Moonbloom (the rarest NFT — capped at 500 ever and 3 grown per player) already gets in-game perks like a reduced marketplace fee. A future phase may let players with a Moonbloom docked in their Shrine (one share per player) claim a share of the Vault — if that ships, it will be funded purely by realized fees, never by new players' money.