The $GONA Token and Incentive Design

The $GONA token is the native utility and rewards token of the Gonana ecosystem, designed to align incentives across all participants—traders, buyers, liquidity providers, and logistics partners. The token serves multiple functions. Trading mining rewards users with $GONA proportional to their verified trade volume, incentivizing genuine economic activity and discouraging wash trading through sybil-resistant mechanisms. Liquidity providers who stake assets in the DEX earn both trading fees and $GONA emissions, with no mandatory lockup periods, allowing users to withdraw at any time. Fee discounts are available to users who stake $GONA or maintain liquidity positions, creating a flywheel effect where active participants benefit from lower costs and higher rewards. In later phases, $GONA will enable governance, allowing token holders to propose and vote on protocol upgrades, fee structures, new commodity categories, and treasury allocations.

Token emissions follow a fixed schedule with halving epochs and activity-based bonus pools to ensure sustainable long-term distribution. Dynamic rewards adjust based on true marketplace activity, with safeguards against sybil attacks and wash trading. The treasury allocation supports liquidity bootstrapping, security audits, regional go-to-market initiatives, insurance funds for dispute resolution, and grants for ecosystem partners such as farmer cooperatives, inspection firms, and open-source developers. Compliance is built into the token design, with utility framed around platform usage and incentives rather than speculative investment. Jurisdiction-aware distribution ensures that the token is not offered in restricted regions, and robust disclosures inform users of risks and regulatory considerations.