USD Vote ($USDV) is a stablecoin-native coordination primitive that turns dollars into durable, on-chain signals.
Each $USDV token issued is backed 1:1 by a stable asset ($USDC) and remains freely transferable at all times. $USDV does not earn yield, require staking, or lock funds. Instead, it introduces a new non-financial property to money: the ability to express scarce, sustained conviction.
$USDV is designed to cut through spam, algorithms, and low-cost signaling by making influence explicit, bounded, and economically meaningful.
Money should be able to speak.
$USDV holders allocate portions of their balance to topics they care about. These allocations represent real influence, backed by real dollars, and update automatically as balances move.
Influence is:
- Non-custodial — funds never leave the wallet
- Bounded — total influence is capped at 100%
- Deterministic — outcomes are predictable and simulatable
- Transfer-aware — influence follows the money
- Spam-resistant — small or stale opinions are removed automatically
$USDV is not a DAO token, a polling system, or a yield product.
It is a stable unit of account for attention.
- Influence is expressed in percentage allocations of a holder’s balance
- Allocations are integer percentages
- The system enforces strict invariants to preserve signal quality
Parameters:
- Minimum allocation per topic: 5%
- Maximum allocation per topic: 100%
- Total allocation limit: ≤ 100%
- Implicit maximum topics per user: 20
No explicit topic cap is required — the minimum allocation enforces it naturally.
A vote assigns a percentage of a holder’s balance to a topic.
- A topic can be any string (in practice any url)
- Votes must be between 5% and 100%
- Each topic may have at most one active vote per user
- Votes can be updated or removed at any time
- No default or passive allocations exist
Votes represent explicit conviction.
If a new vote causes total allocation to exceed 100%, the system resolves the excess automatically using a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) process.
Votes are processed from oldest to most recent until the excess is removed:
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Reduction (preferred)
Reduce the vote just enough to eliminate the excess, but never below 5%. -
Eviction (only if necessary)
If reducing to 5% is insufficient, the vote is removed entirely.
This ensures:
- Newer intent takes precedence
- Older intent persists only if it remains strong
- No residual or dust allocations exist
A vote exists if and only if it is at least 5%.
$USDV behaves like money:
- Tokens are freely transferable
- No staking, lockups, or cooldowns
- No interaction with voting is required to transfer
However, influence automatically adjusts:
- On transfer, all topic allocations are recalculated
- Topic totals update deterministically
- Vote ordering and timestamps remain unchanged
Influence always reflects current economic weight.
$USDV uses minimal, transparent fees to support long-term operation.
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Swap Fee:
0.05% applied symmetrically on buys and sells (with USDC) -
No voting fees
Expressing or updating conviction is free aside from gas
This preserves accessibility while discouraging frivolous churn.
$USDV is intentionally opinionated:
- Stablecoin first — influence is denominated in a neutral, familiar unit
- Conviction over precision — small signals don’t matter
- Scarcity over breadth — attention is limited by design
- Determinism over discretion — no subjective interpretation
- On-chain enforcement — no off-chain trust required
These constraints are features, not limitations.
At all times, the following must hold:
- Total allocation ≤ 100%
- All active votes ≥ 5%
- Allocations are integer percentages
- Maximum active topics per user ≤ 20
- Each topic has at most one vote per user
- Vote ordering is determined only by vote creation or update
- Transfers do not modify vote ordering
- Reduction always precedes eviction
- Eviction occurs only when reduction cannot resolve excess
$USDV is:
- A stablecoin-backed signaling primitive
- A way to express real, sustained attention
- Infrastructure for coordination and discovery
$USDV is not:
- A yield-bearing asset
- A governance token
- A staking system
- A polling or reputation system
$USDV preserves everything people expect from money — liquidity, simplicity, predictability — while adding a new property: voice.
By making attention scarce, explicit, and economically grounded, $USDV turns dollars into signal and ensures that what rises is what people are truly willing to back.
Turns dollars into voice.