Stake $PACA
Jul 9, 2025
Meet $PACA – the foundation of Alpaca Network
Every layer of Alpaca’s three-part stack (PACA → MODEL → AGENT) starts with the PACA token. You spend it to launch new AI models, pay platform fees, and unlock a vote on every key decision.
Staking gives you access to a share of each MODEL. One pie of each MODEL token on Modelz that reaches singularity is airdropped to stakers, proportionally to their staking “points”. The more points = the more MODEL tokens you get airdropped. Here we explain how you get those “points”.
How staking “points” work
Staking points are based on your mean stake – the average amount you’ve kept in the pool since you entered.
Top-ups help, but only as fast as your average climbs, so huge last-minute deposits can’t hijack a day’s airdrop.
Withdrawals hurt twice: you earn on the smaller balance and your average falls at double speed, discouraging quick exit-and-re-enter loops.
No stake, no slice. Skip the pool and you skip all model payouts.
Hold steady and your share of daily points (and therefore MODEL tokens) stays healthy; grow steadily and your slice grows with you.
Why this bonding-curve & “2 π” split?
Before shipping, we model-tested more than a dozen liquidity mechanisms and landed on a hybrid inspired by Virtuals Protocol’s agent launch curve and GoFundMeme’s SOL-backed fee routing. In simulations those two designs showed the best balance between (a) cheap entry for early supporters, (b) predictable creator upside, and (c) permanent liquidity once the raise is over. We combined their strengths as follows:
6.28 M $PACA “Singularity” threshold. Economic back-testing showed that, given average daily volume in our beta, 6.28 M PACA is the sweet spot where slippage stays under 3 % yet the pool is large enough to seed a healthy Uniswap pair.
Step-curve supply schedule. Only 87.5 % of the MODEL supply can be bought along the curve . The remaining 12.5 % is paired with the PACA that was just raised to bootstrap the post-launch LP, protecting price discovery from day-one volatility.
The “2 π” reserve. Ahead of the first purchase we auto-divert 3.14 % of supply to stakers and 3.14 % to the DAO/treasury. This hard-codes perpetual incentives for the two constituencies that keep the network running—liquidity providers and governance—without taxing later trades.
Mean-stake loyalty maths. Because daily staking points are capped at your running average balance, any deposit that would distort the curve (e.g., a whale’s last-minute top-up) has its influence throttled, while fast withdrawals cut your mean twice as hard. That keeps the reward flow merit-based instead of timing-based.
Together these parameters give us a curve that starts at < $0.01, ramps smoothly, and hands creators a predictable inventory while letting the community earn a mathematically fair share of every model that reaches Singularity.
We tested with multiple scenarios to get to this point system, as you can see in some of the scripts we ran. We believe this is the best way to reward those who have staked longest, while ensuring enough distribution to newer stakers.
What loyal stakers collect
Automatic MODEL airdrops – Every time a model raises 6.28 M $PACA and hits “Singularity,” 3.14 % of its supply drops straight to stakers. One deposit builds you a growing basket of AI assets.
Together, that turns $PACA from “just another token” into equity across the whole ecosystem.
Jump in (takes about a minute)
Go to hub.alpacanetwork.ai/stake.
Connect your wallet and choose the amount.
Click confirm.
Done! Welcome on board - and you can now start voting on our DAO as well.
TL;DR
Staking points are based on your mean stake – the average amount you’re in for
Stake once, keep it steady, and you’ll earn a slice of every future model tokenized on Modelz, with π% (3.14%) being airdropped according to your points relative to the entire point pool.
What Is Modelz
Modelz.io is the first decentralized exchange built for AI Models. This enables anyone to tokenize, co-own and trade open-source AI models and earn based on their usage. Uniswap meets Hugging Face, to create the first AI Model commodity marketplace in the world. Join the waitlist now!