The protocol / ActivationUpdated 30 Aug 2026

Activation.

An inactive Broker is a collectible. An activated Broker is a business. Activation is the one-off fee that turns the first into the second - until it transfers.

In plain English Paying the activation fee switches your Broker on: it starts collecting a weighted share of every Clock In reward round. Higher tiers cost more and earn more, but not proportionally - the ladder gets steeper as you climb. Half of every fee is burned forever, the rest goes to the protocol, and none of it is refundable. Sell the Broker and the activation dies with the sale.

The five tiers

Fees are paid in $STONKBROKER to the Activation Manager (0xacd5ae3c060c1137fe2ee86b0ab2ef697456f664). Weights determine your share of each reward round. Official tier table:

Tier	Fee (STONK)	Weight	Weight per STONK vs Base
Base (T0)	66,666	100x	1.00 - the benchmark
T1	166,666	125x	0.50
T2	366,666	160x	0.29
T3	666,666	200x	0.20
T4	1,666,666	333x	0.13

Read the ladder carefully T4 costs 25 times as much as Base but earns only 3.33 times the weight. Every step up buys weight at a worse rate than the step below - that is the design, not a bug. Two useful framings the community uses: upgrading is paying a premium for yield density on a single NFT, and spreading the same spend across more Base-tier Brokers buys more total weight. Neither is advice; know which trade you are making.

Where the fee goes

50% burned - removed from supply permanently.
50% to the protocol treasury.
0% refundable. Deactivation returns nothing. There is no exit from an activation except the rewards it earns while it lives.

What "deactivation" actually means

There is no deactivate button you would ever want to press. Deactivation happens to you, in exactly one way: any true ownership transfer clears activation automatically. The NFT contract calls clearActivation inside its transfer logic, with no custody exceptions - the developers' own source comment: "Activation must reset on every true ownership transfer - with no custody exceptions." This has been verified onchain: cleared Brokers emit ActivationCleared and must pay the full fee again to rejoin the rounds.

The consequences ripple through the whole system:

Selling destroys value that no one receives. The seller loses the activation, the buyer does not get it, and the fee was part-burned long ago. Factor it into your exit maths.
Every Anvil deposit deactivates. Moving a Broker into the vault is a transfer, so the vault's half of the collection is entirely inactive.
Turnover feeds the burn. Each resale that reactivates burns another half-fee. The more the collection trades, the more supply disappears.
Activation counts are a survivor statistic. The live number measures Brokers currently paid-up, not cumulative adoption.

The state of activation

As of the 28 August 2026 census: 1,830 of 4,444 Brokers were activated (41.2%), with total active weight 21,128,800. The tier mix leans heavily to the bottom rung: Base is 81% of activations, T4 just over 3%. Wallet-held Brokers were 81% activated; vault Brokers 0% (by construction, as above). Current figures: Live Numbers.

Sources: official docs tier table (stonkbrokers.cash/docs), Activation Manager contract, independent on-chain census, 28 Aug 2026.

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