A fair, transparent, and math-powered way to reward governance participation

At t3rn, we believe governance should be both fair and incentive-driven. That’s why we’re introducing a new way to reward active governance members: the Committee Curve Distribution.

Every week, 10,000 TRN tokens will be distributed among the top 33 committee members. Instead of flat rewards or winner-takes-all payouts, we use a curve-based mathematical model that ensures top contributors are recognized while everyone in the committee receives meaningful rewards.

How the Curve Works

Every committee member receives a base reward to guarantee stability. On top of that, rewards increase along a curve based on:

1. Votes earned (how much support a member gathers)

2. Ranking (how well they perform compared to peers)

The model is tuned so that top performers earn more, but all 33 members stay incentivized and fairly compensated.

Key Parameters:

• Base reward share: 30% of the pool → stability for everyone

• Bonus pool: 70% of the pool → rewards tied to performance

• Curve steepness (α): set to 1.5 → balances fairness and competitiveness

What the Numbers Look Like

With the current setup:

• Top performer: ~952 TRN weekly (~$99k yearly at $2/TRN)

• Average performer: ~250 TRN weekly (~$26k yearly)

• Minimum performer: ~131 TRN weekly (~$13k yearly)

Even the lowest-ranked member earns a guaranteed 91 TRN base reward every week.

Distribution balance:

• Top 5 members: ~32% of weekly pool

• Top 10 members: ~52%

• Top 20 members: ~79%

This means strong contributors are rewarded, but the system avoids excessive concentration of power.

Built Into Smart Contracts

The t3rn Governance Curve Distribution contract handles everything automatically:

• Weekly reward execution

• Curve-based reward calculation

• Transparent preview of upcoming distributions

• Adjustable parameters (if the community decides to fine-tune them)

Security features, such as reentrancy protection and emergency failsafes, ensure the system is safe and future-proof.

Extra Governance Updates 

We’ve been getting a lot of questions from the community around governance, so here’s a quick rundown of what’s changing and how we’re addressing it:

Q: How do Power Users get elected?
A: There’s no threshold to join, but the top 10 will be elected by votes. (Yes, we’ve heard the feedback about the old >50% rule — it’s now reduced to 10%).

Q: What’s happening with Ambassadors?
A: Many of you didn’t register. For now, we’ll keep the current ambassador roles manually on the basis of the last election. But please register by Friday the 19th September so the system can handle elections properly going forward. Ambassadors will be elected based on social activity.

On top of that, we’re teaming up with a 3rd-party engagement tracking & growth platform to make this fairer and more transparent. Once it’s wrapped up, we’ll drop a full update on how this will plug into governance.

Q: How about Moderators?
A: Simple — the top 2 by votes will get elected.

All of these changes are already reflected in the governance UI, now with a more interactive toolkit for voting!

Coming Soon to Gov (but not live yet) !

• Suggest missing chains directly → proposals will appear on the governance panel for voting

• Suggest new assets the same way

• Multi-staking and cross-chain moves of staked govTRN (from both t3rn & Arbitrum) into governance are still in progress. We’ll share more updates soon.

Learn more and get involved via Governance Portal