A Shareholder Mentality

Big Picture Alpha

Everyone reading this should now know that the Alpha Nodes project is so much more than a reflection token, a NaaS protocol, or a chart. We are a brand with a driven community and the passion to create fascinating innovations in this space, and we will not fail. Our founders are both very familiar with private capital, venture capital, and dealing with investors. They chose to take a different direction to grow the protocol of their dreams — not by gathering the capital necessary to kickstart this journey from already wealthy investors, but rather bootstrapping our way to extreme success through the support of our early adopters and Alpha investors. Because of this, YOU the reader, viewer, holder, get to directly benefit from the success of Alpha in the same way a traditional VC or private investor would benefit. Our Alpha Holders are our private shareholders. And you will be rewarded as such. So, how are you rewarded?

Welcome to Alpha Shares

Since launch, we have called ourselves Alpha Nodes to make the vehicle of our PIP (Passive Income Protocol) easier to digest to the average crypto user. Many people are familiar with nodes and how they operate from the surface level — You invest your tokens into an asset that then emits an ROI using the native token as it’s emission token. This is very surface level, and not actually at all what a true “node” is. We would like to begin the mindset shift away from the “node” terminology, since the NFTs you will hold with us will actually be considered Alpha Shares. The concept of ownership, reward claiming, the dashboard, etc. will all remain very consistent with familiar node projects, but as we’ve hinted in our previous Medium articles, our reward pools will not be structured like a ponzinomic node project.

Completely New & Unique

What we are accomplishing here at Alpha is beyond the scope of our current name of Alpha Nodes, or any other node project, and 100% unique to the DeFi space and crypto as a whole. Alpha Shares are in essence tokenized ownership of the Alpha brand and all the protocols operating under it’s umbrella. By minting your NFT, you will realize your position as an Alpha Shareholder and begin to earn passive income directly correlated to the protocol’s success, growth and income. Phase 2 is kicking this off with our NFT Marketplace where you as an Alpha Shareholder will have proportional ownership of the income produced through the marketplace.

How does this work?

Since our NFT collection will only be a collection of 10,000, there will only be 10,000 shareholders or owners of our Alpha projects. The scarcity behind the number of “shares” ensures future of sustainability for the holders of these NFTs. As the volume driven to our Alpha Market increases, the amount of rewards directly paid out to our NFT holders will completely offset the ponzinomics of traditional node reward pools. At this point our NFT’s reward mechanism will no longer emulate that of a traditional NaaS project, but rather act simply as an investment vehicle for you to collect your share of passive income generated from our Alpha Market. This is how other major NFT Marketplace players payback their private funding partners, but you as the holder will take place of those PE / VC firms.

The Share’s rewards at the start of Phase 2 will be structured as traditional node rewards pool to incentivize with initial token liquidity and price discovery of the asset, which will eventually be substituted by company revenues and plans to switch over to even a dynamic yield model. There are many directions this may go as we navigate the industry but let’s lay out a simple comparison. OpenSea is an NFT Marketplace that may do $1.5M in platform fees on a slow day. These fees go to the marketplace and the public never sees profit. What if they went to 10,000 shareholders instead? That 1.5M would go to you. Decentralized profit sharing where you are the owners. This is just one use case. Our vision is bigger.

Dividend Return Rates

The return rates for these NFTs has been a topic of unabating thought to ensure our protocol focuses on sustainability and security while also providing enough incentive the be competitive in this passive income space. Our Alphas are early investors that get to ride the waves of success with us, and benefit on the way up. Here are the reward rates we are currently working with but would love to hear community feedback before anything is set in stone.

NFTs will have a base emission rate, with the ability to compound your rewards to level up that rate all the way to a max of level 10.

Base NFT Emission Rates

• 0.75% per day for Power Level 1
• 1.49% per day for Power Level 10

The power level for these NFTs increases on a logarithmic scale. This means you have to compound more than the previous compound to get to the next level. The specific around the amount to compound will be released soon in a future article that also talks about the cost to mint your NFT.

Genesis NFT Emission Rates

100 Alphas

• 1.50% per day Power Level 1
• 1.75% per day Power Level 10

47 Ronin

• 1.75% per day Power Level 1
• 1.99% per day Power Level 10

10 Apex Predators

• 2.00% per day Power Level 1
• 4.00% per day Power Level 10

As you can see, these Genesis NFTs have a much higher emission rate than the base NFTs. We will be completely transparent in telling you that providing these extreme emission rates would be unsustainable for all of our NFTs, but we are able to reward our Genesis NFT purchasers due to them only being such a small portion of the NFT collection (1.57%). We have found that reward rates between 0.75% and 1.5% per day can remain sustainable through ponzinomics, but more importantly, fit well with our Alpha Market projections. If our NFT ROIs are too high, achieving true sustainability would be impossible.

To find out more about the Genesis NFT collection, please read our previous article What It Means To Be An Alpha. TLDR; you must hold at least 2 Trillion $ALPHA tokens to qualify for the Genesis NFT mint. The Genesis mint will be an auction with starting prices that are yet to be disclosed.

What A Capped Collection Means

Our NFT drop will be limited to only 10,000 — Genesis run of 157 NFTs, and the public mint will open up with 9,843 base NFTs to mint. The pros of us limiting our mint is multifaceted and completely outweighs the cons. This is why:

By keeping the supply at 10,000 NFTs the floor-price will increase more and more as our protocol grows and demand grows stronger. This cap also completely solves the issue node projects face of runaway node creation.

The initial plan is to only ever release these 10,000 NFTs on AVAX. These would stay limited, however we do have the ability to drop future boutique collections if the need arises or we have grown enough to support additional shareholders. There are many reasons we would, or would not drop another collection.

The future of being a holder of one of these NFTs means you hold the key to a private community of fellow investors that act as the PE Firm behind Alpha. As we grow to new heights, you will be the private VIPs of a massive ecosystem, holding a prominent status in the corner of DeFi we are chiseling out to be our own.

Just The Beginning

The main focus of Alpha is establishing our protocol as a new genre in Decentralized Finance, completely our own. We hope to bring in the real world combined business experiences of our founders to build a brand, and not rely on unobtainable promises of yield that plague DeFi. We understand how to create a business that generates income, and we completely understand how necessary that is to truly provide a passive income stream to holders. This is just the beginning to the Alpha Shares ecosystem we imagine to be vast and sophisticated. Our early holders will be massively rewarded for the conviction you display. You are part of a brand that is being built entirely with profit sharing.

Stay Alpha.