$LEMON Token
The United Stands of Lemonade is based on the idea that a healthy creator & small business economy fosters a thriving and valuable ecosystem. The economics of this ecosystem are designed to generate value for three constituencies ⤵️
Value accrues to tokenholders through the productive re-deployment of:
[Phase 1] Platform & Marketplace fees. Lemonade smart contracts deployed on Mainnet Ethereum, Base, Optimism, Celo, Zora, Arbitrum and other L2s for event ticketing, subscriptions and NFTs
[Phase 2] Lemonade Superchain Sequencer revenue. Sequencer revenue generated is primarily directed to fund community, brand and event creators, which creates ecosystem value and drives demand for blockspace.
Value accrues to creators, brands, event organizers, contributors directly from retroactive public goods funding and the markets it enables. Builders also benefit symbiotically: it’s better to build in an ecosystem with a healthy and engaged community being rewarded for using the public goods developed by builders and used by creators, SMBs.
Value accrues to users and community members from ongoing airdrops of $LEMONS, from project incentives made possible by United Stands of Lemonade ecosystem initiatives and funding, and from the benefit public goods provide.
The $LEMON token thesis is simple.
Spend $LEMONS to save time & money
Earn $LEMONS when you spend time & money
Phase 1
Platform Revenue
Phase 2
Platform + Lemonade Superchain
Platform, Marketplace & Sequencer generate revenue
Phase 1: Platform & Marketplace fees
Lemonade Stands come equipped with community building and management tools developed by Lemonade Labs- digital public goods and premium products provided for a nominal subscription fees.
Phase 2: Superchain Sequencer Fees
Funding for the Lemonade economy comes from ownership of Lemonade Superchain and the value of its blockspace. Initially, funding will come directly from the centralized sequencer, accruing to The Lemonade Foundation for redistribution. In the future, funding can accrue directly to the protocol by selling the right to participate in Lemonade superchain’s decentralized sequencing network.
Simply put: the right to blockspace is the sustainable source of revenue that drives Lemonade’s economic model and grows with the network itself.
Revenue is distributed to builders, creators & community
Community builders and creators in the space of music, art, culture and events bring people together make an economy truly vibrant. But most platforms fail to provide adequate funding and support for creators and digital public goods that enable this economy to thrive with a healthy middle class. It’s here that Lemonade takes a step forward, by building a sustainable funding source into the mechanisms of the network itself.
The Lemonade Platform and Superchain Sequencer revenue is distributed back to the ecosystem primarily through Retroactive Rewards and slow Airdrops. This creates strong incentives for individuals to build for the public good of the United Stands of Lemonade.
To start, the Citizens’ House will vote quarterly on distributions of funds to individuals, teams, projects, or communities that have provided subjective value over a specified time period. This directly rewards community members for the positive impact of their work.
Retroactive $LEMON rewards also provide possible exit liquidity for public goods projects, creators and brands, which opens up a market for community support and early investment in those projects.
This means builders, creators and communities can:
Be compensated for their positive contributions without generating direct revenue.
Raise capital to bootstrap based on the early potential and promise of their initiatives.
In the long-term, the Foundation expects this mechanism to drive a wide range of pro-social downstream effects, which the Collective can capture and expand upon through frequent experimentation and iteration.
Value to community builders drives demand for products & blockspace
Funding onchain community builders and creators drives growth — and therefore network revenues — from the ground up. The aggregate effect is an ecosystem that is easier to build on, learn about, and connect to, in turn driving application usage and generating more demand for its products blockspace across all supported chains/networks.
But what value do these Lemonade Stands as digital public goods provide, and for whom is it valuable? This is a rich design space. Lemonade’s governance is designed to create conditions for building an open, inclusive ecosystem to usher the next billion onchain, and experimentation around this question. The Lemonade Foundation draws heavily on the work of Optimism Collective, Ostrom, Vitalik, and others to make sure funding for public goods is maximally efficient, effective, and safe.
To start, Foundation governance is shared and divided through a four-branch system, where network parameters for the amount of funding are controlled by these four branches, but the governance of retroactive rewards allocation is determined by a set of Citizens with intricate knowledge of the Lemonade ecosystem and overall industry, and have skin in the game.
Thoughtful allocation of incentives, funding and rewards will create longterm value for community builders, event organizers users, tokenholders, citizens and the entire Lemonade Ecoystem.
$LEMON Token
The United Stands of Lemonade is based on the idea that a healthy creator & small business economy fosters a thriving and valuable ecosystem. The economics of this ecosystem are designed to generate value for three constituencies ⤵️
Value accrues to tokenholders through the productive re-deployment of:
[Phase 1] Platform & Marketplace fees. Lemonade smart contracts deployed on Mainnet Ethereum, Base, Optimism, Celo, Zora, Arbitrum and other L2s for event ticketing, subscriptions and NFTs
[Phase 2] Lemonade Superchain Sequencer revenue. Sequencer revenue generated is primarily directed to fund community, brand and event creators, which creates ecosystem value and drives demand for blockspace.
Value accrues to creators, brands, event organizers, contributors directly from retroactive public goods funding and the markets it enables. Builders also benefit symbiotically: it’s better to build in an ecosystem with a healthy and engaged community being rewarded for using the public goods developed by builders and used by creators, SMBs.
Value accrues to users and community members from ongoing airdrops of $LEMONS, from project incentives made possible by United Stands of Lemonade ecosystem initiatives and funding, and from the benefit public goods provide.
The $LEMON token thesis is simple.
Spend $LEMONS to save time & money
Earn $LEMONS when you spend time & money
Phase 1
Platform Revenue
Phase 2
Platform + Lemonade Superchain
Platform, Marketplace & Sequencer generate revenue
Phase 1: Platform & Marketplace fees
Lemonade Stands come equipped with community building and management tools developed by Lemonade Labs- digital public goods and premium products provided for a nominal subscription fees.
Phase 2: Superchain Sequencer Fees
Funding for the Lemonade economy comes from ownership of Lemonade Superchain and the value of its blockspace. Initially, funding will come directly from the centralized sequencer, accruing to The Lemonade Foundation for redistribution. In the future, funding can accrue directly to the protocol by selling the right to participate in Lemonade superchain’s decentralized sequencing network.
Simply put: the right to blockspace is the sustainable source of revenue that drives Lemonade’s economic model and grows with the network itself.
Revenue is distributed to builders, creators & community
Community builders and creators in the space of music, art, culture and events bring people together make an economy truly vibrant. But most platforms fail to provide adequate funding and support for creators and digital public goods that enable this economy to thrive with a healthy middle class. It’s here that Lemonade takes a step forward, by building a sustainable funding source into the mechanisms of the network itself.
The Lemonade Platform and Superchain Sequencer revenue is distributed back to the ecosystem primarily through Retroactive Rewards and slow Airdrops. This creates strong incentives for individuals to build for the public good of the United Stands of Lemonade.
To start, the Citizens’ House will vote quarterly on distributions of funds to individuals, teams, projects, or communities that have provided subjective value over a specified time period. This directly rewards community members for the positive impact of their work.
Retroactive $LEMON rewards also provide possible exit liquidity for public goods projects, creators and brands, which opens up a market for community support and early investment in those projects.
This means builders, creators and communities can:
Be compensated for their positive contributions without generating direct revenue.
Raise capital to bootstrap based on the early potential and promise of their initiatives.
In the long-term, the Foundation expects this mechanism to drive a wide range of pro-social downstream effects, which the Collective can capture and expand upon through frequent experimentation and iteration.
Value to community builders drives demand for products & blockspace