ARK token

ARK is the asset at the center of the protocol economy.

On the current public mainnet reference deployment, the token is named TEST. In product language, ARK is the same idea: the liquid asset users trade, board, lock, and use to participate in the protocol.

What ARK Is

ARK is designed to be more than a ticker. It is the protocol's unit of attention, commitment, and reward accounting. Liquid holders can trade freely. Users who want deeper exposure can board or lock their tokens and enter the reward system.

Plain version: holding liquid ARK gives you market exposure. Boarding or locking ARK tells the protocol you are participating, and that is where reward accounting begins.

The token does not rely on hidden wallet taxes for every transfer. The protocol focuses on official routes: trading through the official pool, boarding, locking, claiming, compounding, exiting, and unlocking.

The Three Token States

Liquid ARK

Liquid ARK is flexible. It can be held, transferred, bought, sold, boarded, or locked. It gives the cleanest market exposure, but it does not earn protocol rewards by itself.

Boarded ARK

Boarded ARK is active participation. It receives base rewards and can be claimed, compounded, or exited. Exiting early may pay an exit fee that decays over time.

Locked ARK

Locked ARK is a stronger commitment. It stays locked until maturity and can earn the locked reward lane plus WETH-accounted rewards that normally pay out as ETH.

Receipts

Boarded and locked positions have receipts. In the current TEST deployment, these include bTEST, lTEST, and position NFTs. Receipts help the contracts track who owns what, what is earning, and what can be claimed.

Supply And Liquidity

The current TEST deployment uses a fixed 400,000 token supply. At launch, 320,000 TEST was placed into official liquidity and 80,000 TEST was set aside for the genesis reward program.

400,000fixed TEST supply

320,000official liquidity tokens

80,000genesis reward budget

The important idea is scarcity plus visible distribution. Supply is not quietly minted for every new campaign. Reward budgets, official liquidity, and deployed contract addresses are meant to be legible.

How Value Moves Through ARK

Official pool volume

Buys and sells through the official pool pass through the hook, which can collect the configured fee and route it through the protocol.

Rewards

Boarded and locked positions are the reward participants. Rewards are not sprayed at every passive wallet. They are attached to positions the protocol can account for.

Buybacks

Part of the fee route can buy ARK through official logic. The docs describe the route, the contract, and how it fits into the broader system.

Harbor

Harbor can deploy WETH-only liquidity below spot. It is designed as visible downside liquidity support, not as a promise that price cannot fall.

The Investor Lens

The ARK thesis is that an asset can be more interesting when the market can clearly see where supply sits, where official liquidity sits, how fees route, and which holders have chosen deeper participation.

Liquid supply gives the market a price. Boarded and locked supply show commitment. Official-pool volume creates fee flow. Fee flow can feed rewards, buybacks, and Harbor. That loop is the core economic story.

Important: none of this removes market risk. ARK can move up or down. The point of the design is to make participation, incentives, and protocol routes visible instead of vague.

What To Watch

Signal	Why it matters
Official pool volume	Volume is what sends fees into the protocol routes.
Boarded and locked participation	Shows how much supply is choosing reward participation instead of staying liquid.
Reward claims and compounds	Shows whether users are taking rewards out or rolling them into participation.
Harbor liquidity adds	Shows when WETH fee flow is being deployed below spot as liquidity support.
Contract addresses	Confirms you are looking at the active deployment, not an old or fake address.