The money.
One plain page. Three lines of revenue, no others. How the Pool works. What never happens. The two clocks.
Three lines
The gift fee
1% on money that moves inside gifts and sends, personal or organization-funded. 0% to verified causes. Shown before sealing. The only fee on movement.
The store
1% on $GRATUS purchases, and margin on physical goods: Seed Cards, prints, books, seed packets.
The float
When $GRATUS is a fully reserved stablecoin, reserve growth splits half and half between the company and the Pool, so the Pool runs on the float instead of on the company.
Never: ads, data sales, per-seat pricing, selling days, selling ground, paying by balance.
How the Pool works
Every day the Pool holds 50 Gratus. When the UTC day closes at 00:05, three things happen in order: presence gifts already paid during the day are subtracted; giving rewards are paid next; the remainder splits equally among every garden that was tended that day. If rewards would exceed the pool they scale down proportionally and the app says today's growth was shared widely.
Nothing grows because it's big.
Presence gifts: on each answered bell on the Gratus Ground, one time in four, a gift of 0.05 to 0.25 Gratus arrives from the Pool, capped at 0.5 a day. Random, small, and only after a touch. Giving rewards: when a Gratus Gift is opened (not sent), the giver receives 0.05 Gratus, up to three opened gifts a day, distinct recipients only, never for self-gifts, never for plain sends.
What never happens
No reward by balance, under any name. No promised rate. No selling of days, ground, or standing. No leaderboards, no comparison between people. No word counts rewarded. Hours in the app are not rewarded; the bell is the only proof of presence, and answering it is the only thing that can pay.
Gratus balances are in-app credits until the $GRATUS stablecoin launches. Today's growth varies daily and is never a rate. Nothing here pays interest.
The two clocks
Growth and presence use your local calendar day: 23:59 and 00:01 are two days, and Tokyo and Chicago each get their own. The Pool pays once per UTC day, at 00:05 UTC, to every account that tended that UTC day. The two are never mixed. Accounts are 24 hours old before their first share.
The scale truth
At 4% reserve growth and a 50/50 split, $10M of float funds a $200k-a-year Pool; $100M funds $2M; $1B funds $20M. Under $10M the Pool is a company expense. Float grows from gifts in flight, scheduled gifts, group budgets, cause treasuries, and, decisively, the wider ecosystem settling in Gratus. Never chase float with rates.