Token economy
CTD is the unit of value on certed.one. You use it to register subdomains and to trade names on the marketplace.
Earning CTD
New users receive a one-time CTD grant when they verify their email. The grant is larger for earlier adopters: the first verified user receives the maximum, and each subsequent user receives slightly less, rewarding people who join early.
Spending CTD
- Registering a subdomain — costs CTD, priced at the median of active marketplace listings. See registering a subdomain.
- Buying a listing — pays the seller the listed price.
- Bidding — escrows CTD until the bid is accepted, withdrawn or refunded.
- Staking — locks CTD behind a domain to raise its verification score and earn a share of its sale. See verification staking.
- Sending CTD — transfer to another user. See sending CTD.
Decimals
CTD amounts support two decimal places, so values such as 10.50 CTD are valid anywhere an amount is used — registration prices, listings, bids and transfers. Balances are always displayed in #,###.## format.
The transfer burn
When you send CTD to another user, a small fee of 0.5% is burnt — permanently removed from circulation — while the recipient receives the remainder. This deflationary mechanism is described in sending CTD.
Sale fees & staker rewards
Every marketplace sale also moves CTD around. Of the sale price, 3% is burnt as a listing fee and 10% is shared among the domain's stakers (when it has any), with the rest paid to the seller. Staking CTD behind a name therefore both raises its verification score and earns you a cut if it sells — see verification staking.
Checking your balance
Your current balance is always shown in the header and on your balance page, alongside your full transaction history.
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