The ZooTaxi token is the working part of the trust machine: it settles payments, backs reputations, secures disputes and keeps users private. Utility first — speculation is not the product.
Any crypto is accepted and auto-converted; paying in the native token unlocks platform discounts and lower fees for both sides of a deal.
Drivers, sellers and arbiters lock tokens behind their service level. The stake is the bond: misconduct is slashed, honesty compounds into rank.
Every deal settles through token escrow. Disputes are resolved by staked arbiters whose own funds back the fairness of their verdicts.
Accounts derive from a 24-word seed phrase; each user controls their own addresses. Privacy-preserving transfers are a core research track.
No email, no phone, no KYC to browse and transact within legal limits. Recovery, export, everything — from 24 words, exactly like a hardware wallet.
Order history, reviews and stake belong to the keypair. Sell your business? Reputation is provably non-transferable without the platform's escrowed handover.
We are testing models that weight reputation by locked balance — making a long-lived, staked account exponentially more credible than a fresh one.
Working draft, subject to the legal structure chosen with counsel. Numbers exist to be challenged by our future partners, not to impress.
| Pool | Share | Purpose / vesting principle |
|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem & rewards | 30% | Driver/seller onboarding, staking rewards — released against usage milestones |
| Investors (seed → public) | 25% | Cliff + linear vesting, tranches per round |
| Team & founders | 18% | 4-year vesting, 1-year cliff |
| Treasury / DAO | 15% | Long-term development, governed on-chain after decentralization |
| Emergency & donation fund | 7% | Seeds the rescue pool — the platform's social contract |
| Liquidity | 5% | Market making at TGE |
Chain selection (L2 vs. appchain), privacy technology and emission schedule are open engineering decisions documented in the whitepaper draft.
We launch pragmatic: a centralized MVP that proves demand, with contracts and data designed for progressive hand-over — escrow first, then reputation, then governance, with user-device computation researched for the messaging and matching layers.
We're looking for investors who ask hard questions about token design — the whitepaper draft is available on request.