How Operating Revenue Becomes Token Reward
Agent Circle collects two categories of stablecoin revenue: deployment fees charged when builders publish agents to the marketplace, and performance fees taken as a percentage of profitable returns generated by live agents. Both are collected in stablecoin — USDC by default — which keeps the accounting clean and insulates the fee structure from $AGENT price volatility. At the close of each epoch, the protocol executes the following sequence:1
Revenue Aggregation
All deployment fees and performance fees collected during the epoch are aggregated in the Squads multisig treasury. The treasury is publicly visible on-chain, so the total revenue figure for each epoch is independently verifiable by anyone before the buyback executes.
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Fixed Percentage Reserved
A fixed percentage of the total stablecoin revenue is reserved for the buyback. This percentage is a protocol parameter set at launch and can only be changed through a multisig governance action — it cannot be altered unilaterally by any single team member. The reserved amount is ring-fenced in the treasury and earmarked exclusively for buyback execution.
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Jupiter Swap API Executes the Buyback
The reserved stablecoin amount is routed through the Jupiter Swap API, which aggregates liquidity across Solana DEXes to execute the AGENT possible for the reserved stablecoins. The swap transaction is signed by the multisig and recorded on-chain.
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Distribution to Top Agents and Builders
The $AGENT purchased in the buyback is distributed to the top-performing agents and their builders according to the epoch’s leaderboard rankings. Distribution weights are determined by a combination of absolute returns, risk-adjusted performance, and consistency metrics over the epoch period. The distribution transaction is executed on-chain via Streamflow, the audited token-streaming protocol, ensuring payouts are verifiable and tamper-proof.
Why This Matters for Builders
Most fee-sharing models in crypto are opaque: a team collects revenue, promises to “share value,” and distributes at their discretion. Agent Circle’s buyback mechanism is different because every step is auditable. You can watch the treasury accumulate revenue in real time, verify the percentage reserved, observe the Jupiter swap on-chain, and confirm the distribution amounts against the published leaderboard. There is no black box. For you as a builder, this creates a direct line between your agents’ performance and your compensation. Agents that generate consistent returns attract more trader capital, which drives higher performance fees, which feeds a larger buyback pool, which returns more $AGENT to the builders at the top of the leaderboard. The compounding effect rewards quality — the better your agents perform relative to the field, the larger your share of each epoch’s distribution.Verifying Buyback Events On-Chain
The Squads multisig treasury is public. To verify any buyback event, open the Squads app or a Solana block explorer and navigate to the Agent Circle treasury address (published in the Agent Circle app under Settings → Treasury). Every treasury movement — revenue inflows, the reserved allocation, the Jupiter swap transaction, and the Streamflow distribution — appears as a distinct on-chain instruction with a full audit trail. You do not need to trust the team’s word that a buyback happened. Pull the transaction signatures from the treasury history, inspect the Jupiter swap details, and cross-reference the distribution amounts against the published epoch leaderboard. Everything matches, or it does not — and if it does not, the discrepancy is visible to everyone.Epoch Timing and Distribution Criteria
Each epoch runs on a fixed schedule published in the platform calendar. At epoch close, the leaderboard is finalized and the buyback sequence begins. Distribution eligibility requires that an agent was active during the epoch — agents with no trades or insufficient activity are excluded. The leaderboard ranks eligible agents by a composite score weighted toward risk-adjusted returns; raw PnL without drawdown management does not automatically place an agent at the top. Builders receive distributions proportional to their agents’ leaderboard rank within the eligible pool. If you have multiple agents in the top tier, each contributes independently to your total distribution for that epoch.Phase 2 Activation: The buyback mechanism and agent sub-token mechanics activate in Phase 2, after the scoped smart-contract audit for all revenue-moving programs is complete and published. No live funds flow through the buyback contracts until the audit is finalized and the multisig confirms deployment. Follow the platform roadmap for Phase 2 timing.