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This is a draft. Numbers marked † are proposals and may change before launch. Nothing in this document is an offer to sell anything or advice to buy anything. Section 13 lists the ways this can go wrong. Read it first if you are here for the token.
6. Two currencies
| Shells | $ELSE | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it lives | Game server | Solana (SPL token) |
| How you get it | Shifts, errands, events | Buy it on the market |
| Can be traded | No | Yes |
| Can be withdrawn | No | It is already yours |
| Used for | Everyday things | Scarce and permanent things |
| Supply | Issued by play, removed by spending | Fixed at launch, shrinks with burns |
There is no way to turn Shells into $ELSE.
The reason is simple. When a currency that players earn can also be sold, bots farm it and sell it until it is worthless. That is what happened to most play-to-earn games in 2021 and 2022. Shells have no market, so there is nothing to farm at scale. The game never mints $ELSE, so it cannot be farmed at all.