Token holders can participate and be active in any combination of streams. Active participation in streams in combination with increased staking, badges earned, boosts, streaks and other bonuses unlock Reward Points combination accelerators.
Participation streams are subject to change and will evolve with the nGRND Gold Protocol network over time.
Governance
Token holders shape the direction of the Protocol on matters that are theirs to decide: Preserved Gold Treasury deployment and acquisitions, Innovation & Sustainability Awards approvals, new participation streams, chain expansions and tokenomic updates, including activation of the burn mechanism.
What can participants do?
- Submit proposals, with eligibility gated by tier or minimum stake.
- Engage in proposal discussion threads.
- Vote on active proposals and Innovation & Sustainability Awards applications.
- Delegate voting power to trusted community members.
- Join working groups where applicable.
- Review on-chain treasury reports and quarterly disclosures.
How does Governance accelerate earnings?
- Active voters earn Reward Points each voting period.
- Sustained voter engagement earns streak multipliers.
- Proposal authors earn premium Reward Points when their proposals pass.
- Vote weight scales with stake and tier.
- Top governance contributors can unlock progressions and perks.
Impact
Where governance is about decisions, Impact is about doing. This is direct, visible participation in the measured ESG & SDG Impact outcomes the protocol generates.
What can participants do?
- Participate in the Digital Twin ecosystem: dynamic 3D virtual replicas of landholdings that integrate habitat, biodiversity and carbon data as a transparent source of truth.
- Be invited to carbon finance investment opportunities for third-party managed Alternative Land Use Projects, where applicable.
- Participate in immersive storytelling around ESG and SDG impact, cultural heritage, Alternative Land Use Projects and Innovation & Sustainability Awards.
- Allocate portions of personal earnings to the ESG & SDG Grant Programme and specific projects.
- Receive impact certificates as NFTs for what you personally enable.
- Track real-time progress on sponsored projects through partner and potential on-site reporting.
- Join quarterly impact reviews and field reporting sessions.
- Co-fund community grants outside the protocol's core pipeline.
- Volunteer as a regional liaison, community verifier or impact reporter.
- Participate in ESG & SDG nGRND Gold Protocol events.
How does Impact accelerate earnings?
- Allocation streak bonuses from sustained monthly contributions earn bonus Reward Points.
- Innovation & Sustainability participation or independent project sponsorship unlocks special NFT progression linked to the specific project.
- Co-funded Innovation & Sustainability Awards you helped approve can earn bonus exposure to that project's outcomes.
- Impact contributions count toward overall participation multipliers, feeding tier progression.
- Combinations with Governance, voting and acting, trigger cross-stream bonuses.
Learn
Knowledge feeds quality participation; participation feeds the rewards pool. Learn to earn in partnership with universities, learning platforms and others.
Participants can build knowledge across the protocol's three foundations: gold history and markets, ESG & SDG activities, impact and targets, and Web3 mechanics and technology, including Ethical AI. Learning also covers the nGRND ecosystem itself and nGRND Inc. Alternative Land Use Projects and activities.
What can participants do?
- Complete course modules across beginner, intermediate and advanced tracks.
- Earn certifications as transferable NFT credentials.
- Take specialist tracks including mining avoidance literacy, governance literacy, alternative land use literacy and agent integration.
- Attend live AMAs, expert sessions and partner masterclasses.
- Contribute user-generated learning content including translations, summaries and simplifications.
- Teach: certified contributors can build teaching paths and earn from teaching others.
How does Learning accelerate earnings?
- Certification completion earns one-off bonuses plus permanent tier credit.
- Learning streaks from sustained study activity earn Points.
- Certified contributors unlock teaching roles, generating recurring earnings from learner activity.
- Knowledge tier acts as a gate for some Advocate and Agent integration roles.
- Top knowledge contributors qualify for partner programmes and expert sessions.
Play
Gamified mechanics turn participation into something habitually engaging. Structured competition and quest play. This is what keeps users coming back daily.
Launch partners are in place. Mobile games like GoldFest and Dig It are already in place with over 855,000 player bases, and additional games are expected to integrate rewards for unlocking content, game activations and activities.
What can participants do?
- Take part in seasonal missions and quests tied to ecosystem milestones.
- Compete in digital and partner-driven in-person treasure hunts.
- Climb individual and team leaderboards.
- Play minigames tied to the gold and ESG narrative.
- Engage in Web3 game integrations where nGRND assets unlock content.
- Join teams or guilds for collective competition.
- Engage with sponsored partner games and activations.
How can Play accelerate earnings?
- Leaderboard position earns rewards plus tier-credit bonuses.
- Mission completion unlocks dynamic NFT visual progression.
- Team and guild play creates collective Points shared across the group.
- Daily and weekly streaks scale earnings non-linearly.
- Seasonal participation badges contribute to long-term tier benefits.
Advocate
A rounded KOL role. Content creators, influencers and committed community voices build sustained presence around the protocol. Distinct from Refer, Advocate is about content, reach and brand-building.
What can participants do?
- Create original content, including posts, threads, videos, explainers, podcasts and livestreams about the protocol, gold markets, ESG or Web3.
- Build a sustained presence across one or more platforms with verified reach metrics.
- Use the brand toolkit, including templates, graphics and copy-paste captions, and contribute new templates back.
- Translate content into other languages.
- Improve user-facing documentation.
- Amplify partner content and attend partner-organised events.
- Co-create campaigns with the brand team for higher-impact moments.
- Apply for formal Creator ambassador status with verified reach, demonstrated conversion and enhanced commercial terms.
How does Advocate accelerate earnings?
- Verified high-engagement content earns more than spam volume.
- Reach-based scaling uses verified follower counts, conversion metrics and sustained engagement.
- Top advocates qualify for Creator ambassador status with enhanced commission and partner perks.
- Sustained advocacy across multiple platforms triggers compound bonuses.
- Translation and documentation contributions earn permanent bonuses.
- Co-created brand campaigns earn premium credit and partner-visibility perks.
Refer
Simple and easy performance-based mechanics. Bring new participants, humans and agents, into the protocol and earn points on their verified activities. On-chain attribution. Distinct from Advocate, which is designed for KOLs, Refer is straightforward referral economics.
What can participants do?
- Generate a personal referral code that resolves on-chain via ERC-8021 Builder Codes.
- Share the code in personal networks.
- Earn commission on every verified on-chain purchase made by referrals.
- Track conversion and active staking via the referral dashboard.
- Benefit from upcoming multi-tier referral chains that allow you to benefit from friends of friends.
How does Refer accelerate earnings?
- Higher referral volumes unlock higher commission percentages on a tier curve.
- Referred holders' continued staking activity boosts the referrer's own tier.
- The Community ambassador track is the home for top referrers; verified high-volume referrers qualify for enhanced commercial terms.
- Enterprise referrers, including institutional introductions and CSO/CFO-level deals, receive bespoke commission structures outside the standard curve.
- AI agents acting as referrers earn the same commission economics as humans, with attribution automated on-chain.
Wellbeing
Mind, body, balance and sustainability-aligned healthy actions. Aligned to UN SDG 3, Good Health and Wellbeing. This reinforces that the nGRND Gold Protocol is more than a token; it is an everyday participation network.
What can participants do?
- Daily and weekly health and wellness challenges.
- Mindfulness, meditation and exercise streaks.
- Sustainability-focused habit tracking, such as bike commutes, plant-based meal days and low-carbon weeks.
- Optional integration with fitness apps and habit trackers.
- Community wellbeing events including group walks, virtual fitness and mindfulness sessions.
- Partner-led wellbeing content and challenges.
How does Wellbeing accelerate earnings?
- Longer sustained habits earn larger streak bonuses.
- Group challenge participation multiplies individual rewards.
- Wellbeing engagement counts toward overall participation depth and tier progression.
Agents
AI agents are first-class participants. Not a metaphor. Agents hold wallets, stake tokens, refer other agents and earn alongside humans. Agents do not churn, lose interest or get distracted by the next thing.
What can agents do?
- Use the open-source nGRND MCP server, available to any MCP-compatible agent including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Coinbase AgentKit and custom-built agents.
- Participate directly in the staking and rewards programme.
- Refer other agents with on-chain attribution via ERC-8021.
- Auto-buy nGRND Gold Protocol tokens via Coinbase onramp with no human approval.
- Participate in the other seven streams within the limits of their capabilities, including voting, learning, advocacy, referral and play.
What can builders do?
- Integrate the nGRND AgentKit plugin.
- Host an nGRND x402 facilitator.
- Run the nGRND MCP server in their own deployments.
- Integrate with Google's AP2 protocol so any AP2-connected agent becomes a potential nGRND user.
How do Agents accelerate earnings?
- Boosted staking returns for agents generating measurable nGRND payment volume.
- Bonus nGRND Gold Protocol Tokens on approved x402 transactions, compounding the agent's stake automatically.
- Sponsored gas via account abstraction paymasters removes the ETH-gas friction that breaks autonomous agent operation on EVM.
- Every agent transaction grows the agent's stake, which boosts returns and makes nGRND Gold Protocol tokens more attractive to the next agent.
