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Protocol-funded purchasing

Stock Pot

The Stock Pot turns protocol fees into purchasing capacity for tokenized stocks.

Activity becomes purchasing capacity

The capital flow

The Stock Pot is where protocol fees become purchasing capacity for tokenized stocks.

It is one of the two pots that fund an epoch. The Stock Pot handles the fee side and produces tokenized stocks; the Works Pot handles the mint side and produces a burn plus a $WORKS distribution. They are funded separately and settle together.

FIG / 05STOCK POT CAPITAL FLOW
PROTOCOL ACTIVITY
PROTOCOL FEES
RESERVESTOCK POTPURCHASING CAPACITY
TOKENIZED STOCK PURCHASE
ACTIVE MACHINES
The Stock Pot is the capital bridge between protocol fees and the tokenized stocks distributed through epochs.

One defined responsibility

What the Stock Pot does

The Stock Pot gathers the fees assigned to protocol-funded asset purchases. It is distinct from Machine weight: fees determine the size of the purchasing pool, while weight determines how the resulting epoch output is divided.

01
Protocol fees
The capital input assigned to the Engine Works purchasing mechanism.
02
Stock Pot
The epoch purchasing capacity built from protocol fees.
03
Epoch output
The tokenized stocks purchased for weight-based distribution.

From capital to assets

Tokenized-stock purchases

During the production cycle, the Stock Pot funds tokenized-stock purchases. Purchased assets form the distributable output for the epoch and flow toward eligible active Machines at settlement.

Inspect the capital side

The Reserve interface

Reserve is the product module for Stock Pot value, accumulated fees, purchases, composition, allocation, and the purchase ledger. It presents verified protocol state without creating positions or synthetic history.

Open Reserve