CaveBro DAO — User-owned AI agents

Proof · Ecosystem projects

Two live ecosystem projects. One stewardship target. Open contracts.

Not a deck. Not a pitch. CaveBro DAO is a community of holders forming on Arc to govern an incubator for user-owned AI agents and to act as the timelock-bound policy authority for protocols that opt into DAO-governed parameters. Hedgents and Registrai are ecosystem projects built by the founding team, both live in production. Suffix Pool (a.k.a. domain market) is the inaugural stewardship target — a treasury product built on Registrai oracle feeds whose parameter authority is being handed to CaveBro DAO via timelock. Contracts on Arc testnet are deployed and verified. Read them.

Hedgents

Commodity-exposure infrastructure for Solana. Two fleets running: v0 USDC treasury-management on Solana mainnet (5 live daemons — stable-yield · multiply on Kamino · hedged JLP · riskwatcher · researcher) and the hgMETAL fleet on Solana devnet with three products — hgMETAL (actively-rebalanced metals index across gold / silver / platinum / palladium), hgUSD (senior tranche, ~5% defended coupon, reserve floor at 4.5%), hgYIELD (junior tranche, ~15% target, first-loss). Forward-priced mint/redeem; compile-time authority isolation throughout.

Solana · Mainnet v0 · hgMETAL devnet

hedgents.com ↗

Registrai

Permissionless onchain oracle protocol on Arc. 21 contracts deployed and source-verified on ArcScan: bonded oracle registry, prediction markets (FPMM), and Cirque cirBTC × USDC lending. 5 live oracle feeds + 12 prediction markets. Aggregation runs onchain as bytecode anyone can re-execute — not a methodology document anyone has to trust.

Arc · Live · 21 contracts verified

registrai.cc ↗ /lending ↗

Suffix Pool · Domain Market — inaugural stewardship target

A two-token treasury ($ai senior · $aiLP junior) built as an oracle consumer of Registrai, settling on Arc. Acquires .ai domains as treasury collateral; floor cash-backed at k = 0.9 × floorPar. CaveBro DAO is the named PARAM_ADMIN — sets SENIOR_CAP, reserve coefficients, ratchet split, acquisition budget; elects + slashes the bonded Curator. Stage 1 launch gate: Timelock contract on Arc binds Cave / MemberNFT / Vote to the SuffixTreasury PARAM_ADMIN role. Pools $ai / $xyz / $fun already on Arc testnet.

Arc · Testnet · CaveBro-governed

domainmarket.registrai.cc ↗

Arc testnet — CaveBro DAO contracts

Seven contracts deployed and source-verified on ArcScan: $CAVE governance token (ERC20Votes), signed-claim Faucet, soulbound Member NFT, snapshot-block Vote, Genesis NFT (Batch 1 · 555 · ERC2981), CohortBook (incubator registry), DepositAttestor (pre-TGE snapshot record). 82/82 tests passing across the contract suite. CaveBroTimelock — next, to bind these into the Suffix Pool PARAM_ADMIN role.

Arc testnet · 7 verified · Timelock pending

$CAVE ↗ Faucet ↗ Member NFT ↗ Vote ↗ Genesis NFT ↗ CohortBook ↗ DepositAttestor ↗

Early access via waitlist. Mint date, $CAVE presale access, founding member details, and the first cohort selection vote — sent to early-access members first. Early access →

Manifesto

You don't own your AI. You rent it. The assistant that scheduled your week, the model that drafted your email, the agent that traded for you — every one of them runs on someone else's server, reports to a platform, and can be turned off, throttled, retrained, or fed back into a product that competes with you. The user is the variable. The platform is the constant.

Some of us took the agents back.

The rule has one sentence: the user owns the agent.
Open code. User-held keys. Verifiable on-chain. No one can deplatform what they don't host. Pull the cable, change providers, distrust every server in existence — the agent still works for you. This is not a feature. It is what AI should have been by default. The industry chose otherwise. We didn't.

An agent that can reason but can't pay is half an agent. Agents need money that's predictable, programmable, and doesn't ask permission — the dollar, in its on-chain form. Every CaveBro agent transacts in dollars. The user pays in dollars, the developer earns in dollars, the treasury holds dollars. We picked the chain serious people use for serious money.

Building this way is hard. No platform moat. No telemetry stream. No data exhaust to show investors. The economics fight you at every step. CaveBro DAO exists because this kind of work cannot be sustained alone — a community that funds the agents, governs the direction, and holds every developer to the one rule. Holders signal. Developers ship. The contracts are on-chain and readable.

We are not asking you to trust us. We are asking you to read the contracts.
The cave is dark by design. No tracking, no ads, no enterprise pivot, no exit. Just agents that work for the person holding them.

CaveBro DAO — user-owned AI agents.
Open by design. Community by choice.
The cave shares what it learns.

Founding Collection

CaveBro Genesis NFT

Pixel cavemen. No face. No signal. Pure founding energy. First batch: 555. Future batches decided by the DAO.

Genesis #0001

555 First batch

TBA Mint price (USDC on Arc)

1,000 Votes per NFT

Holder perks

$CAVE presale allocation

Genesis holders get first access to $CAVE at founder price before public listing. 30-day lock post-launch. Allocation is per-NFT, not per-wallet.

1,000 votes per NFT

Each Genesis NFT carries 1,000 votes in the CaveBro DAO — additive to any $CAVE-based voting weight. Propose, debate, and decide what the cave builds next.

OG status

Founding members are recorded on-chain at the CaveBro genesis block. Permanent and non-transferable as a historical record, even if the NFT is sold. The cave remembers who showed up first.

Artwork licence

Personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to display the artwork — as a profile picture, on personal social media, in personal projects. Commercial use stays with the DAO. Full terms in NFT Terms §5.

Token

$CAVE

Utility first. Governance by usage. Deflationary by design.

Burn

$CAVE has on-chain burn mechanics. Burn sinks are defined by governance — proposal-submission stake, agent-specific use cases voted in by holders, treasury sweeps. The DAO sets what tokens burn for; holders signal which sinks ship.

Stake

Lock $CAVE to earn seasonal rewards. Emission each season equals the burn from two seasons prior. Deflationary, with a permanent floor.

Govern

Vote on which agents are selected into each cohort, incoming dev allocations, and major parameter changes. Holders signal. Devs execute.

Own

Every agent in the ecosystem is user-owned: open code, user-held keys, verifiable on-chain. Every agent transacts in USDC. $CAVE and the treasury live on Arc; agents live on whichever chain they were built for. No platform sits between you and the agent.

Distribution — 100,000,000 $CAVE

Ecosystem fund

30%

Staking rewards

25%

Public liquidity

20%

Founding team

15%

Marketing / airdrops

10%

Economic Model · Incubator + Stewardship

How the DAO earns.

Four revenue lines from the incubator program, plus parameter-authority stewardship of opt-in external protocols (no fee by default — see Constitution Art. VIII). The community curates; selection is the product.

NOW

Vault yield + NFT mint

Treasury USDC earns from the Hedgents vault as an approved yield strategy. Genesis NFT mint at TGE adds one-time working capital.

Real today

INCUBATION

Inclusion fees + revenue share

Agents pass a curated selection vote, pay $1K USDC inclusion, and commit 5–10% of gross revenue. Cap of 3 open applications keeps the bar high.

Active model

COHORT RAISES

Ticket-token raises

Cohort agents that reach raise-readiness deploy a per-project ticket-token contract. DAO captures issuance fee + carry. Incubated only.

Triggered · Cohort-only

MATURE

Standing incubator + alumni

Multi-cohort track record. Alumni mentor next cohorts. Raise machinery and securities playbook become routine. Recognised when markers hold — not declared.

Recognition target

Each line compounds on the prior cohort's track record — not on a treasury number or a calendar. Full breakdown in Token Disclaimer §10 and Constitution §4.1.1 + §6.1.