$SPEND gauges
Spend money. Own companies.
Lock $SPEND for $veSPEND, vote a stock gauge, and that's what the protocol buys next. Curve wars, for stocks.
You vote the gauge. The protocol buys the stock.
The move
Lock $SPEND. Vote the gauge.
People will spend at Apple and Costco. That does not pick the bag. $SPEND votes do. Communities pay you to point those votes.
Lock $SPEND
Same setup as Curve. Lock longer, get more vote power ($veSPEND).
Pick a gauge
Each stock is a gauge. AAPL, NVDA, or some tiny ticker nobody takes seriously yet.
Take the bribe
A crowd can pay extra for votes on their ticker. 100 of base value plus 50 on the side. 150.
That name gets bought
More votes, more of the weekly buy, and a higher stock reward for people spending there.
Example week
Spend hits AAPL and NVDA.
Voters still slam 100% of $SPEND into a toy airplane shop ticker. That's what gets bought.
Where people spent
AAPL · NVDA · some tiny shop
Where $SPEND voted
$TOYAIR
Gauge won. Protocol buys that.
Gauges
These are the tickers you can fight over.
Card
Powered by Rain
The spend.fun card runs on Rain. You swipe it. Spend gets tagged to a merchant and a ticker. The fight over what gets bought still happens in gauges.
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Token
$SPEND
Lock it for $veSPEND, vote, and try to pull the buy onto your gauge. That is the whole game.
$SPEND100 becomes 150
Voting power steers the buy. That is why people pay for it.
On Curve, your vote moved emissions. A protocol could add a bribe on top. You kept the base 100 and picked up 50 extra. Same lever here, except the prize is stock buying and a fatter reward rate on the card.
Budget
$100k
gauge-controlled buy next week
NVDA before
15% · $15k
no extra incentives
NVDA after
35% · $35k
$20k paid to voters. $20k more NVDA bought.
Shoppers feel it
$1,000 at Apple. Base 1% is $10 AAPL. If AAPL is boosted that week, 1.8% is $18 AAPL.
Companies can fund it
Nike, or an NKE crowd, drops $50k on the NKE gauge. Marketing spend becomes consumer stock ownership.
Inspired bythe Curve WarsCurve wars for stocks
Companies and communities are fighting for consumer stock rewards.
Inspired by the Curve Wars. Same lever: votes decide where value goes, so people pay to point them. DappRadar's explainer is the short version.
What $SPEND actually does
You do not hold it to look at a chart. You lock it so you can move a gauge.
Lock
Stake $SPEND. Longer lock, more $veSPEND.
Vote
Steer the buy. Take any extra a gauge is paying.
Boost the card
Winning ticker can pay 1.8% stock instead of 1%.