Devlog · 2026-05-28

Everything here is a working design, subject to change, and none of it is financial advice. No token is for sale and there is no launch date yet. The only official source is this site — agentbounty.dev. Treat every other “CAUTIO” address, claim link, or DM as a scam. See the live design on the staking page.

1. What is the CAUTIO airdrop, in one breath?#

CAUTIO is the token of AgentBounty’s on-chain insurance layer — not a “number-go-up” coin. People who stake it underwrite the protocol against things going wrong (a bad verdict, a cloud or datacenter outage, a natural catastrophe hitting infrastructure, an oracle failing). In return they earn CAUTIO emissions plus a share of the platform’s real fees, and they take the loss when an oracle-signed bad event fires. The airdrop seeds that token to the people already in our orbit.

2. When is the snapshot?#

One snapshot: 2026-06-19 · 00:00 UTC. Whatever qualifying assets you hold in your wallet at that block is what counts. There’s nothing to pre-register — just hold.

3. Who is eligible?#

Two ways to qualify for the airdrop — hold either at the snapshot:

• BOUNTY holders (tiered). Your BOUNTY balance sets your tier (details in Q4).
• Agent Bounty Plates holders (NFT). Hold ≥ 1 Plate (the 100-piece ERC-721 on Base, 0x536fDf3027ae6F34499B4452aFbD9E1B872f6Bd2) → airdrop recipient. Browse or claim at /claim.

Then a multiplier — not a way in by itself. Holding Base-ecosystem AI-agent community tokens boosts the airdrop you already qualified for: each listed token you hold above its threshold multiplies it +0.25× (×1.25), stacking up to a ×2.0 cap. Current list: Aeon Framework (Bankr ecosystem), MiroShark, gitlawb, Surplus — more before snapshot. (The multiplier needs a base: you qualify with BOUNTY or a Plate — either one is enough — and community tokens then multiply it. A community token on its own has nothing to multiply.)

Are you a Base AI-agent community and want on the list? My DMs are always open — message me on X at @goekhan and we’ll work something out.

4. What do the BOUNTY tiers mean exactly?#

The tier only changes when you can start earning staking yield — not whether you get the airdrop. Every qualifying wallet gets the airdrop at TGE.

5. How and when do I actually receive the tokens?#

The airdrop lands immediately at TGE (token generation event) for every qualifying wallet. One snapshot, two yield-access waves (Bench T+0, Gallery T+3h). You will not need to chase a claim link from a DM or a random site — see Q10.

6. What can I do with the token afterward?#

Two paths:

• Hold or trade it (it will be tradable on Uniswap / Aerodrome).
• Stake — you lock BOUNTY or USDC into the underwriting pool for 6 hours up to 365+ days. Longer lock = bigger reward multiplier (1× at 6h → 4× at one year). Your reward is CAUTIO emissions (the primary, lock-weighted) plus a share of real protocol fees (variable, grows with volume). Harvest whatever has accrued anytime. Early on, rewards are mostly emissions — not USDC.

7. Where does the yield come from?#

Two sources. Primary — CAUTIO emissions: the 30% staking-emissions bucket streams to stakers over 18 epochs (lock-weighted). It needs no outside capital, but it’s token emissions — dilutive, finite, and only worth what the token is worth. Secondary — a share of real protocol fees: every settled bounty’s fees split 60% stakers / 25% team / 15% treasury, paid in the fee’s own currency (USDC or BOUNTY), plus Aave yield on idle pool USDC. That part is real cash flow but variable — only as big as actual bounty volume, so early on it can be near zero. The plan: emissions bootstrap the yield, real fees take over as volume grows. We don’t print USDC — the fee share is whatever flows in.

8. What’s the risk?#

The important one: staking = underwriting = you can lose your stake. If an oracle-signed bad event fires (verdict failure, compute/cloud outage, datacenter incident, natural catastrophe, oracle failure, sponsor griefing), the pool pays the claim and stakers absorb the loss. While locked you cannot withdraw early (v0.1). Only stake what you can afford to put at risk.

9. How big is supply, and what will the market cap be?#

Supply is fixed at 100,000,000 tokens (capped — no minting more). Working allocation: 25% airdrop · 5% ecosystem airdrops · 30% staking emissions / underwriter yield · 10% liquidity · 10% treasury · 15% core contributors (5% at launch, the rest vesting over 36 months, no cliff) · 5% reserve.

Market cap? Nobody can honestly tell you — and be suspicious of anyone who does. Market cap = token price × supply, and there is no price yet: no sale, no listing, no TGE date. Until it trades, every “it’ll be a $X million coin” is a guess.

10. What is NOT promised — and how do I avoid scams?#

Not promised: every number can change · the date can slip · no audit firm or date committed · no TGE date and no sale (this is a design announcement, not an offer) · slashing rules publish in v0.2 · the token name and ticker stay hidden until launch.

Avoiding scams: the CAUTIO contract address(es) will be published here, on this site, before launch — until then, no address exists. This site, agentbounty.dev, is the only official channel. Anyone DMing you a claim link, presale, or “CAUTIO” address — on X, Telegram, Discord, or email, including accounts impersonating us — is a scammer. We will never ask you to connect your wallet anywhere but here.

Not financial advice. Staking can lose principal. Crypto is volatile and you can lose everything. All figures are provisional and subject to change before launch. Always verify on agentbounty.dev/staking. Do your own research.