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What a node is

A Fire Node is a permanent on-chain commitment of 100,000 $FIRE to the protocol. Once minted, the node enters the active set and begins emitting rewards every block on a fixed daily schedule. Nodes are non-transferable — they belong to the wallet that minted them.

Lifecycle

Every node has a deterministic 60-day lifespan. The clock starts the moment the mint transaction confirms. Throughout the burn window, the node accrues $FIRE continuously — not in discrete daily drops — at a rate equal to the daily emission divided by the number of seconds in a day.

Once a node reaches day 60, it burns out: emissions stop, the node is moved to the retired set, and the 100,000 $FIRE committed at mint remains permanently locked in the protocol floor.

Claiming rewards

Pending rewards can be claimed to the originating wallet at any point during a node's lifespan. Claims are non-custodial — the protocol mints directly to the wallet that owns the node. There is no minimum claim and no claim cooldown.

Pending rewards can also be compounded: when accrued rewards reach the 100,000 $FIRE mint cost, they can be converted directly into a new node without the funds ever touching the operator's wallet.

Reward formula

Each active node emits a fixed 3,333.33 $FIRE per day, independent of total network size. At that rate the 100,000 $FIRE mint cost is fully recouped in 30 days, with the remaining 30 days of the burn window earning pure profit. Rewards are pulled from a dedicated rewards pool seeded at genesis with 5% of the 1,000,000,000 $FIRE total supply.

Pool dynamics

The initial 50,000,000 $FIRE rewards pool bootstraps node emissions at launch. Beyond genesis, the pool is refilled by on-market buybacks funded from 50% of every trading fee (see Fees & Flows below). As long as $FIRE trades, the pool refills — reaching a steady state where fee-driven buybacks balance outflows to active nodes.

Trading fee split

The trading fee is dynamic and applies to every $FIRE buy and sell. It routes automatically on each trade:

• Buybacks → Rewards Pool

  On-market buybacks refill the rewards pool

  50%

• Project Growth

  Development, marketing, and exchange listings

  50%

Locked supply & vesting

100% of supply seeds the initial liquidity pool at launch. The team purchases 20% on-market from the LP alongside the public. A further 15% is bought on-market and locked, released on a 60-day linear vesting schedule with no cliff. Vesting is enforced on-chain — there is no admin override.

Allocation at genesis

• Initial LP

  100%

  100% of supply seeds the on-chain $FIRE pool at launch

Post-launch flows

The following allocations are acquired on-market from the initial LP after launch — they are not pre-mined or set aside from the fixed supply.

• Team Buy

  20%

  Purchased on-market from the LP at launch

• Locked

  15%

  Bought on-market, locked with 60-day linear vesting, no cliff

• Rewards Pool

  5%

  Seeds initial node emissions

Fire Nodes is built on Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum Orbit Layer-2 that settles to Ethereum. Fast, cheap transactions with Ethereum-grade security. Blocks are indexed live at robinhoodchain.blockscout.com.