Introducing $CP Tokenomics: A Comprehensive Overview
Aug 20, 2026
6 min Read
Most AI products today run on infrastructure owned by three or four companies. Your model calls hit their endpoints. Your data sits on their servers. When they change pricing, your margins change. When they retire a model, your product breaks. When they decide your use case violates a policy, you find out after you’ve already shipped.
You don’t own that stack. You rent it, and the landlord writes the rules.
Cluster is the version you control. AI models to run inference against, GPU compute rented by the job instead of by the hour, and a marketplace where data owners list and price their own datasets. One endpoint in front of all of it, and no single company sitting between you and the work.
Because every job gets metered and settled onchain, software can buy its own capacity. An AI agent that needs a model, a machine, and a dataset can get all three without a person approving each charge. That matters more than it sounds. An agent that can pay is an agent that finishes.
$CP🔗 is what settles it. Every model call, every GPU job, every dataset purchase.
The short version
- **5,000,000,000 **[**$CP**](https://x.com/search?q=%24CP&src=cashtag_click)** exist.** That number never changes.
- **1,369,091,667 are circulating on day one.** That’s 27.38% of supply.
- **No team tokens and no investor tokens unlock at launch.** Seed, Series A and Team all start at zero.
- [**$CP**](https://x.com/search?q=%24CP&src=cashtag_click)** pays for AI calls, GPU time, and datasets.** That’s the job.
- **Community holds the largest allocation at 40.38%.** Airdrops, rewards and incentives.
Three rules we set before picking any numbers
Rule one: five billion, forever
Five billion $CP🔗 exist. That’s the whole supply. There’s no mint function in the contract, so the number is fixed the moment it launches. Nothing can add one later, because the contract itself can’t be changed.
Plenty of teams keep a mint button in case they want it. We left ours out.
Rule two: the contract only moves tokens
The $CP🔗 contract does one thing. It sends tokens from one wallet to another.
The code can’t be swapped later, because there’s no upgrade path built into it. It has no pause switch, no address blocklist, and no way to move tokens out of a wallet that holds them. Those functions were never written. Go check the contract yourself.
Rule three: every feature has to use the token
$CP🔗 pays for real things. AI calls, GPU jobs, dataset purchases. Each one is a priced transaction.
We turned that into a build rule. A feature ships only if it uses $CP🔗 to pay for something or price something. Features that just hand holders a badge don’t get built.
Where the tokens go
No team tokens and no investor tokens unlock at launch.
Every one of the 1,369,091,667 $CP🔗 circulating on day one comes from three places: the Community, Liquidity, and the Foundation. Seed sits at zero until month 12. Series A sits at zero until month 12. Team and Advisors sit at zero until month 18.
Community, 40.38%
The largest allocation in the token.
706,591,667 $CP🔗 are liquid at launch, which is 14.13% of total supply. That splits two ways. Part of it is the broader community budget, covering the airdrop and the marketing allocation handed to exchanges, who use it to bring their own users onto Cluster. The rest is aimed at specific communities we’re airdropping to, with marketing lined up to run alongside each one.
Both routes do the same job. They put tokens in the hands of people who use the product while giving us room to grow the network at the same time.
The remaining 26.25% of total supply releases over 36 months and goes to rewards and incentives for people using Cluster products, starting with the ones who were here from the beginning.
Registration details and airdrop guidelines follow in the next announcement. Anything left unclaimed returns to the Foundation.
Foundation, 21.00%
262,500,000 $CP🔗 are liquid at launch. That reserve is earmarked for launch-side exchange costs, including call options and other pre-agreed expenses. The line items are decided in advance, so it functions as a budget rather than a discretionary pot.
The rest releases from month 3 across 36 months and funds Foundation operations. Legal, engineering, growth, product development, community expansion, and go-to-market. Everything that keeps the protocol shipping is paid for from this pocket.
Team & Advisors, 17.00%
Nothing at launch. An 18-month cliff, then 24 months of linear release, which makes it the most heavily locked pocket in the token.
It covers full-time contributors and the advisory group, and it holds a reserve for people who join later. Allocation from it is deliberate rather than automatic, and it’s split between people working on Cluster full time and advisors contributing in a narrower capacity.
Liquidity, 8.00%
400,000,000 $CP🔗, fully liquid at launch, with no cliff and no vesting.
This is working capital for market depth. It covers market maker loans and options, meets exchange KPIs on launch day, and funds expansion to additional venues and additional chains as those requirements come up.
Keeping it unlocked is what lets us respond to market conditions in the window where responsiveness matters most.
Series A & Strategic, 9.33%, and Seed, 4.29%
Nothing at launch for either. Both wait 12 months, then release over the following 24.
Seed backed Cluster at the idea stage, before there was much to look at. Series A and Strategic came in later at a different valuation, after product-market fit, to build out the growth engine. Two rounds, $7.75M raised in total.
Series A and Strategic is backed by DAO5, Paper Ventures, JPEG Trading, Mapleblock Capital and others. Seed came from early backers and angels.
What you use $CP for
Paying for work. AI calls, GPU jobs, dataset purchases. Every one is a priced transaction settled in [$CP](https://x.com/search?q=%24CP&src=cashtag_click).
Higher access tiers. Paying in [$CP](https://x.com/search?q=%24CP&src=cashtag_click) moves you up the network’s access tiers. Higher tiers carry preferential access to network resources during periods of peak demand, which is exactly when access is worth having.
Cluster earns from three places: fees on AI calls, margin on GPU rentals, and fees on the dataset marketplace.
A note on staking
$CP🔗 staking rewards are protocol incentives for long-term participation in the Cluster Protocol network. They are not interest, dividends, a profit share, or an entitlement to any portion of protocol or enterprise revenue.
Staking may also carry utility benefits inside the network, such as preferential access to network resources during periods of peak demand. These are functional features of the protocol, not financial returns.
Staking $CP🔗 does not confer governance rights, equity, or any claim against OPL or any affiliated entity. No staking program offers a guaranteed yield, fixed rate of return, or minimum distribution.
$CP🔗 is not offered, sold, or promoted as an investment, and no person should acquire or stake $CP🔗 in expectation of profit.
Who issues $CP
$CP🔗 is issued by the Foundation, which builds the protocol, holds the treasury, and manages token distribution.
Official channels
We’ll post the contract address through those accounts at launch and nowhere else. Anything you see before then is a scam, including posts from accounts that look exactly like ours.
Disclaimer
This document describes the intended design and functionality of the Cluster protocol and the $CP🔗 token.
Nothing here is financial, investment, trading, or legal advice, and none of it is an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy or sell any asset. $CP🔗 is a utility token used to pay for protocol activity and access protocol services. It carries no equity, no ownership, no profit rights, and no claim on the revenues of Foundation.
Every feature, mechanic, and timeline described above can change or be withdrawn for technical, regulatory, or operational reasons. We make no guarantee about availability, performance, or outcome.
Using blockchain systems carries real risk, including total loss. You are responsible for understanding those risks and for following the law where you live.