How to Understand Why the Piastre Economy Works

The Core Principle: Piastre Only Grows

The first thing most people don’t understand is the basic rule: Piastre is a protocol into which you can deposit your dollars. From this, it creates value. Part of your dollars are stored in USDC, because you will need them later as daily payouts. But the rest is converted into Bitcoin and held inside a closed economy.
What does this mean? It means the protocol has no mechanism to withdraw value directly out of it. The protocol only mints new Piastre as a representation of the locked value inside, but since that value never leaves, no Piastre are burned or redeemed out of the system.
Result: the protocol can only grow. Its treasuries can only expand. The closed value is structurally destined to rise. By design, Piastre cannot shrink. The only question is: how fast does it grow? And the speed depends on two things:
(1) new inflows—every new user who deposits dollars; and
(2) Bitcoin’s price—since the treasuries are filled with BTC, their value grows with the long-term appreciation of digital gold.

Daily Profit Share and Built-In Stability

At launch, Piastre pays 12.75% annualized profit share in USDC, distributed daily to every holder. These payouts come from the constantly growing value of Bitcoin locked in the treasury. Historically, Bitcoin has grown by 50%+ annually on average. The protocol only liquidates about 15% annually to fund payouts. Even with those sales, the BTC treasury itself keeps compounding, often growing at 35% year-over-year or more. So, even though users receive USDC daily to spend or reinvest, the treasury keeps expanding much faster. Over time, this makes the system asymptotically stronger. But what happens when Bitcoin falls? Imagine BTC drops by 50% overnight. On that day, the protocol still pays out daily USDC from its Profit Share Treasury. The BTC sale to replenish it is now worth only half. The shortfall is small when divided across 365 daily payouts. Users feel only a minor dip in their profit share percentage. This is the built-in shock absorber: because payouts are daily and fractional, market crashes translate into gentle declines, not sudden collapses.

How to Think About Piastre

Think about Piastre like real estate that pays rent. Your Piastre token pays you 12.75% rent annually in USDC. If Bitcoin drops and your “rent” shrinks (say, to 11%), you may decide to sell your Piastre on the secondary market. As with property, if you want to sell quickly, you offer a discount. Example. If your profit share fell to 11%, you might sell your Piastre for $0.95. A new buyer sees: $0.95 entry plus 11% yield ⇒ an effective 16% return. Attractive—so they buy.
This creates a self-regulating market: Piastre finds a clearing price via discounts, while the protocol itself never redeems tokens. The protocol is like a developer: it mints new “apartments” (Piastre) and sells them at $1; secondary owners trade among themselves.



The Stimulus Treasury: Counter-Cyclical Defense

If the effective profit share remains below 12.75% for a prolonged period, the Stimulus Treasury (held in USDC) activates to incentivize new investors.
Mechanism: if the effective rate is 1% below the cap, Stimulus adds a 1.5% bonus. A new $1 deposit mints 1.015 Piastre. Meanwhile, their dollar follows the standard split: 85% buys cheaper BTC, and 13.75% tops up the USDC treasury, lifting payouts for everyone. Downturns thus become entry opportunities: new users get bonuses, the protocol accumulates BTC at lower prices, and the community strengthens.

Time Leverage = Mining PTC with Time

Everyone knows early Bitcoin miners gained the most. Piastre mirrors this through Time Leverage. Every day, the protocol distributes PTC (at 5% per year of remaining supply, paid daily) to Piastre holders. If you join early, you share the daily drop with fewer people. The longer you stay, the more PTC you accumulate. PTC isn’t just governance; it’s a percentage claim on the PTC Swap Treasury backed by BTC surpluses. Supply is capped at 21,000,000 (like Bitcoin). Two things define your “mining power”: when you joined (earlier = more days of drops) and how much Piastre you hold (bigger share = larger daily allocation). You don’t mine with electricity—you mine with time in the protocol. You can sell PTC on the market or burn it to mint new Piastre, redeeming your share of the BTC treasury.

Community as One Treasury

The protocol is one giant vault shared by everyone. People join at different times and with different amounts, so the system continually averages entry points into Bitcoin. The result is a smoother, more stable growth curve for the whole community, which benefits from Bitcoin’s long-term upward trend while absorbing individual timing risk.

Conclusion: Why Piastre Works

Piastre is designed to absorb new capital, lock it into Bitcoin, average entries through time, and pay out a stable profit share in USDC. Daily, fractional payouts smooth volatility; during downturns, Stimulus restores attractiveness and pulls in new inflows. On top of that, Time Leverage via PTC rewards patience by increasing each participant’s share of a Bitcoin-backed economy every day they remain in the protocol. As long as profit share exceeds simple USDC staking yields, many will prefer holding Piastre over dollars—because unlike dollars, Piastre is tied to a treasury that only grows. It is a prototype of a new monetary system where time is leverage and Bitcoin is the ultimate base of value.