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Mincoin funding / Lesson 06

Lesson 06 · Investor course

Treasury, caps, and allocation

A funding mechanism needs a stop rule before it needs a growth story.

Cap first

Set a creator or project allocation cap before launch. A token balance, market capitalization, or early price spike is not creator income and does not justify cap expansion.

Reserve and overflow

A post-cap transfer must remain separately accounted for. Observed or unpriced inbound value is not accepted campaign funding. Reserve does not reopen a closed cap.

Allocation rule

If a proposed treasury model uses shares or windows, publish the inputs, normalization, time frame, variance, and optimization objective. A mathematical allocation rule is not a risk-adjusted investment recommendation.

Do the work

Design a cap, reserve rule, approval path for changes, and post-cap overflow rule for a hypothetical project.

Falsifier: If the operator can change the cap, purpose, or beneficiary after contributions arrive without a new approval event, the control plane is incomplete.

This lesson is a case-study instrument. It is not individualized financial advice and does not create an offer, security, token, entitlement, or payment obligation.