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# 1. SOSO Token

#### 1.1 Supply and issuance

SOSO has a fixed total supply of **1,000,000,000**. Ethereum is its authoritative chain, and it is migrated to ValueChain, where it is the native asset.**WSOSO** is the canonical ERC-20 wrapper of native SOSO, for applications that need a token interface.

#### 1.2 Utility

<table><thead><tr><th width="200.13671875">Role</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Gas</td><td>Native SOSO pays for all EVM system chain execution.</td></tr><tr><td>Security</td><td>Validators stake SOSO to join consensus and earn rewards (Chapter 10).</td></tr><tr><td>Issuer backing</td><td>Curators are required to stake SOSO to set their issuance and management capacity on Tigris Protocol. SOSO holders can also delegate staked SOSO to a Curator and share that Curator's revenue.</td></tr><tr><td>Trading and collateral</td><td>SOSO can be deposited into a SoDEX Perpetuals account as collateral.</td></tr><tr><td>Governance</td><td>SOSO holders decide allocations from the ecosystem reserve, including the ValueChain Ecosystem Incentive Treasury.</td></tr></tbody></table>

**Other utilities.** Holders who stake SOSO also receive:

* Lower trading fees on SoDEX. The discount is tiered by the amount staked, up to 40% off the volume-based fee, and applies to both taker and maker fees.
* A vote on RWA research. Staked SOSO carries a vote in the RWA Research Hub, used to promote research and analysis of the real-world assets holders want brought on chain.
* A rewards boost on the SSI Index Protocol. Staking raises the holder's SSI Points multiplier, which determines the holder's share of each epoch's SOSO distribution.

Holder staking is done through SSI Earn and represented by the receipt token sSOSO. It is separate from validator staking, which secures consensus and is covered in Chapter 10.<br>

#### 1.3 Fee flow and treasury

Because base fees are paid to block builders rather than burned, fee revenue goes directly to the validators who secure the network.Part of the SOSO supply is held in an ecosystem reserve. Through governance, SOSO holders allocate funds from that reserve to the **ValueChain Ecosystem Incentive Treasury**, which pays validator staking rewards (Chapter 10) and funds incentives for applications and validators on the network. Allocations are decided by proposals in the `sosovalue-governance.eth` Snapshot space.