🔄 The Economic Flywheel

Real spending — not speculation — is what turns the wheel.

Every sustainable token economy needs an engine that converts actual usage into market health. This chapter explains MTC's engine end to end: one loop connecting bookings to buybacks to liquidity to rewards. The full parameter set — allocation, halving math, withdrawal limits — lives in Tokenomics; here we show how the pieces move together.

900MFixed supplymint & freeze authority revoked

≈61%Locked until 2027-06-01550M MTC in Streamflow, irrevocable cliff

20% / 25%Buyback commitmentsHQ sales / GCF membership fees

Where real demand comes from

The demand side of the loop is not a promise about future adoption — it is the live platform, in production today.

• Payments — events, restaurant tables, shop orders, and crowdfunding contributions can all be paid with the MTC balance, alongside Stripe and Solana Pay. See Experiences, Shop, and Crowdfunding.
• Tips — after an event, guests tip their guide via Stripe or MTC; live streams take tips in five rails, MTC included. See Live.
• Sponsored Beacons — municipalities, railways, tourism boards, and merchants deposit MTC to boost rewards at specific sacred sites: structural B2B/B2G demand. See Mining.
• Membership and staking — GCF tiers deepen participation, and 徳 (Toku — virtue) staking locks MTC to raise your earning multiplier as the on-chain phase arrives. See GCF and Levels & Tiers.

The loop, step by step

1. Real demand emerges

   Travelers book tours, reserve tables, tip guides, buy crafts, and back campaigns — in yen via Stripe, or directly in MTC. Every transaction is real consumption, not trading volume.

2. Revenue is committed

   Two standing commitments route revenue back to the token: 20% of Matsuri HQ sales (guides & events) and 25% of GCF membership fees are earmarked for buybacks.

3. MTC is bought back at market price

   Committed revenue purchases MTC on the DEX (decentralized exchange). This is buy pressure grounded in consumption — it exists whether or not anyone is speculating.

4. Liquidity gets deeper

   Bought-back MTC is injected into the Raydium MTC/SOL liquidity pool together with paired SOL. A deeper pool means lower slippage and a healthier, harder-to-manipulate market.

5. Rewards become worth earning

   A healthier market makes every MTC reward — 参拝マイニング (sanpai mining — worship mining), media mining, crowdfunding cashback, tips — more meaningful to receive and to spend. That attracts more guides, hosts, and visitors, and the wheel turns again.

Demand and supply, looping by design rather than by sentiment.

And the supply side cannot inflate

The loop pushes on a supply that is structurally incapable of pushing back.

Total supply is 900,000,000 MTC, fixed forever — the mint authority and freeze authority are both revoked, so no new tokens can ever be created and no wallet can be frozen. Of that, 550M MTC (≈61%) sits in a Streamflow lock with an irrevocable cliff on 2027-06-01 — the Grand Unlock. After it, releases follow 2-year halving epochs (≈275M, then ≈137.5M, then ≈68.75M…), a schedule detailed in Tokenomics.

Buyback source — platform

20% of Matsuri HQ sales (guides & events)

Buyback source — community

25% of GCF membership fees

Destination

Market buyback + injection into the Raydium MTC/SOL LP

Total supply

900,000,000 MTC — fixed; mint & freeze authority revoked

Locked supply

550M MTC (≈61%) in Streamflow, irrevocable cliff 2027-06-01

Automation status

Buyback contract code-complete; Hashlock audit Phase 1 kickoff targeted Aug 2026

Honesty first — where automation stands today

Buybacks today are an operational commitment executed by the company — and because they happen on a public DEX, they are visible on-chain by nature. The matsuri-buyback smart contract that will automate them (1,797 lines of code, 17 tests) is code-complete but not yet deployed to any cluster. It is entering a staged audit with Hashlock — Phase 1 kickoff targeted August 2026, final report October — with mainnet deployment targeted Oct–Dec 2026, after the DEX listing. Until the report is signed we say "audit in progress", never "audited". Full detail in Product & Technology and the Roadmap.

What this is — and is not

The flywheel is a demand-and-liquidity design, not a price promise. MTC is a utility token: this chapter describes where revenue is contractually and operationally committed, not what markets will do. No return of any kind is guaranteed — see the Disclaimer.

The flywheel explains how the economy sustains itself. The next chapter explains where it is going — and what it becomes at full scale.