Corporate career simulator · Arc
Your rank
sets your
salary.
Buy a corporate worker. It gets paid in USDC, straight into its own wallet. Promote it and it earns more.
Hiring is the mint — one corporate worker, paid for in $CEX.
Buy a corporate worker
100,000 $CEX. Half of it is burned on the spot.
It gets paid
Every badge earns real tokenized stock, paid into a wallet only it owns. Interns included.
Promote it, earn more
A CEO takes 7.0× what an Intern takes. Selling resets it to Intern.
Hiring mints the NFT. There is no separate mint button.
Badges minted so far. The rest are held by the market contract and sold at a flat price, in the order they were minted.
60% of every USDC fee the protocol charges is credited here; the other 40% goes to the treasury. Once the pot passes the threshold, any wallet can open a Payday round and keep 0.5% of it for the fee.
How close the pot is to the threshold that opens the next round. At 100% any wallet can open it.
Badges held by the market contract right now, available immediately at 100,000 $CEX.
The same for every badge in the collection. The desk only sells; it never buys one back. Half of the price burns and half goes to the payroll pool.
What one badge is worth in USDC, taken from the $CEX/USDC time-weighted average price. Every USDC fee in the protocol is a percentage of this figure.
Removed from supply permanently: half of every 100,000 $CEX hire, half of every Fast Track purchase, and half of every deposit from a defended Boardroom Challenge.
Tokenized stock actually delivered into badge wallets, valued at the Pyth price at the moment of each payment.
The eight ranks
Points, Reinvest and Tenure are what each rank costs to enter, and the tenure is served in the rank below. Seats is the collection-wide cap on that rank. Weight multiplies the share of every Payday. Fast Track is the $CEX price, where there is one.
| Rank | Points | Reinvest | Tenure | Seats | Weight | Fast Track | Unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | — | — | — | ∞ | 1.0× | — | Payday, at 1.0x |
| Analyst | 40 | 5% | 3d | ∞ | 1.4× | 100,000 | Right of challenge |
| Associate | 120 | 8% | 7d | ∞ | 1.9× | 300,000 | Field Work, Team Quota |
| Manager | 300 | 12% | 14d | 216 | 2.5× | 900,000 | Exam. Last rank money can buy. |
| Director | 700 | 15% | 21d | 86 | 3.3× | — | Bonus Season, Market Call |
| VP | 1,400 | 20% | 30d | 32 | 4.3× | — | Vote on the basket |
| SVP | 2,600 | 25% | 45d | 9 | 5.5× | — | Standing to claim a corner office |
| CEO | 5,000 | 30% | 60d | 6 | 7.0× | — | Rotate the corporate ticker |
A new weight does not count for 24 hours, so a rank taken minutes before a Payday pays at the old weight. Any transfer of the badge, sale or gift, resets it to Intern and clears its Performance Points. The CEO row lists requirements, but no promotion fills a CEO position.
What can go wrong
The payout depends on trading volume, and transferring a badge resets its rank to Intern.
Salary depends on volume
Payday distributes fees the protocol collects. Less trading means fewer fees and a smaller payroll pool. Rank weight sets your share of it. It does not add to it.
Transfer resets the rank
The desk never buys a badge back, so OpenSea is the only exit. The badge arrives at its new holder as an Intern with no Performance Points. Severance returns 25% of what the current holder spent on Fast Track, vested over 7 days, and nothing else.
Positions are capped
Manager and above are limited to 349 positions across the whole collection. Once a rank is full, the only way in is a Boardroom Challenge against a named holder. No promotion fills a CEO position, even when one is empty.
The owner can withdraw
Protocol contracts include an owner withdrawal function, and it reaches the payroll pools, not only fee revenue. The owner can also add positions to any capped rank.
Thin stock liquidity
On-chain USDC/stock pools are shallow, and one of the six tickers has no pool at all. Payday therefore settles from a pre-funded inventory at the Pyth price rather than through a swap.
Not available everywhere
Swapping into tokenized stock is restricted for US residents. Payouts are fee redistribution, not dividends or equity.