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Treasury

Scientific capital,
under the runtime.

The Protean Labs treasury sits on proteanlabs.base.eth on Base mainnet. Two rails: WETH funds operational scientific infrastructure; PRTN holds the long-horizon alignment side. The alignment rail splits into liquid wallet-held PRTN and a locked alignment reserve — 5,000,000,000 PRTN (5% of supply) in a 6 months Sablier Lockup vault. Updated live from on-chain reads.

Total treasury value

$6,510.39

Operational rail · WETH

$3,199.60

Compute + wet-lab disbursements

Alignment rail · PRTN

$3,310.80

Liquid + locked · long-horizon alignment

Locked alignment reserve

5B PRTN

5% of supply · 6 months Sablier lock
0xbc67…7245· proteanlabs.base.eth · Base mainnetlive · 68s

Operational—Timeline

Operational transaction timeline

Tracked operational transactions · on-chain

A public log of operational treasury transactions, added as they happen on-chain. Each row links to its BaseScan transaction.

Protean uses the WETH rail for operational treasury actions. This log records each on-chain operational transaction — what happened, why, and the BaseScan link that verifies it.

  1. ExecutedOperational railCompetition funding

    Banner competition funding

    Swapped approximately $500 worth of WETH to USDC for the banner competition.

    Token flow
    WETH → USDC
    Value
    $500
    Source
    Protean operational treasury
    Chain
    Base mainnet
    BaseScan transactionReference

01—Holdings

Three positions,
two rails.

WETH carries claimed operational fees. PRTN carries the alignment-side position — now split into liquid wallet-held PRTN and a locked Sablier reserve. The split keeps disbursement decisions from pressuring the long-horizon surface.

WETH

Operational

Balance

1.788995WETH

USD value

$3,199.60

Treasury share

49.1%

price · chainlink$1,788.49

PRTN

Liquid alignment

Balance

421,312,937.6PRTN

USD value

$257.30

Treasury share

4.0%

price · dexscreener$0.000001▲ 0.95%

PRTN

Locked alignment

Locked balance · Sablier

5,000,000,000PRTN

Supply share

5%

Lock term

6 months

Sablier Lockup · locked · Base mainnet · 46.9% of treasurySablier Lockup NFT #725

Lock—Onchain

Locked alignment
reserve.

Protean has locked 5,000,000,000 PRTN, 5% of total supply, in a 6 months Sablier Lockup vault on Base mainnet. This is not a countdown to sell — Protean does not plan to sell these tokens when the lock ends. They are reserved for long-horizon ecosystem use, and the lock exists to broadcast alignment and make treasury discipline visible onchain.

Amount
5,000,000,000 PRTN
Supply share
5%
Status
locked
Term
6 months
Provider
Sablier Lockup
Chain
Base mainnet
Owner / recipient
proteanlabs.base.eth
Lock NFT
Sablier Lockup NFT #725
Unlock
6 months lock
BaseScan transaction

Intended use

  • Liquidity
  • Market-maker support
  • Incentives
  • Contributors
  • Ecosystem growth

Protean locked 5B PRTN for 6 months to make alignment visible onchain. The unlock is not a planned sale event. The reserve remains intended for liquidity, market-maker support, incentives, contributors, and ecosystem growth. It is not equity, governance, royalties, revenue share, or a claim on research outcomes, and implies no price support or future appreciation.

02—Infrastructure

Capital toward
scientific expansion.

The first $30,000 of operational-rail capital funds local compute infrastructure and the first review-gated wet-lab handoff batches. The ladder below names each allocation.

Initial scientific infrastructure milestone

$3,200/ $30,000

Progress

10.7%

Operational rail (WETH) · denominated in USD

A01

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB

Local inference + ESM2-scale protein-language-model workloads. The substrate for continuous candidate adjudication.

A02

WRX90 Threadripper PRO + ECC

Workstation platform for the runtime — high-bandwidth memory for evidence indexes, claim QA, and Ledger proposal preparation.

A03

Indexer + mirror archive

Digest reproduction, content-addressed evidence, and supplemental replay-artifact hosting. Local-first by default.

A04

Continuous inference runtime

GPU-side power, cooling, and uninterrupted runtime budget for the 15-minute cognition loop + scheduled scoring sweeps.

A05

Assay-preparation handoff coordination

Provider packets, draft assay requests, reviewed batch preparation. Review-gated, never auto-submitted.

A06

First reviewed handoff batch

Operator-signed preparation of the first reviewed assay-preparation handoff package — draft packets, controls, and lineage before any provider action.

03—Philosophy

Two rails,
one runtime.

The split is the point. Operational expenses live on the operational rail. Long-horizon ecosystem alignment lives on the ownership rail. They don’t compete for the same disbursement decisions; they don’t pressure the same economic surface; and the system doesn’t have to sell long-horizon alignment to pay this month’s compute bill.

WETH — Operational rail

Funds the scientific runtime as it runs.

  • Compute infrastructure (GPU acquisition + utilization)
  • Storage + cycle-manifest hosting
  • Continuous inference + ingestion runtime
  • Assay-preparation handoff coordination
  • Assay execution + provider settlement
  • Tooling + scientific instrumentation

PRTN — Alignment rail

Held. Not a short-term liquidity source.

  • Routed into vesting-aligned structures
  • Accumulates against the network's throughput
  • Preserves long-horizon ecosystem alignment
  • Never disbursed for immediate operational cost
  • Not entitled to scientific outputs or operator authority
  • Strategic optionality reviewed separately, under counsel

See §11 of the architecture paper — “Infrastructure funding architecture.”

Boundary

Treasury values are reported live from on-chain reads. They represent operational and alignment surfaces, not commitments, entitlements, royalties, or distributions. Scientific disbursement decisions remain operator-controlled and review-gated.

02—Role separation

Three wallets,
no overlap.

Authority on the Protean Ledger is split across three principals. The treasury wallet shown above holds governance. The operator EOA holds operational write permissions. Bankr — the automation wallet — holds exactly one role and nothing else. No single key compromise grants the others.

PrincipalRoles heldCapability
Treasury
proteanlabs.base.eth		DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE
UPGRADER_ROLE
PAUSER_ROLE
RETRACTOR_ROLE
IP_DECLARANT_ROLE		Grant/revoke roles, upgrade the implementation, pause the contract, retract disclosed records, declare provisional IP.
Operator
0x827Ba9…9C2C7		OPERATOR_WRITER_ROLE
PAUSER_ROLE
LINEAGE_REVOKER_ROLE
IP_DECLARANT_ROLE (where granted)		Review and approve Ledger proposals, write operator records, and maintain lineage state. Cannot grant roles, upgrade the implementation, or bypass treasury-controlled retraction authority.
Bankr automation
spend-capped		AUTOMATION_WRITER_ROLEBroadcasts operator-approved records to the Ledger:
  • Scientific records (RuntimeCycle, Hypothesis, Experiment, EvidenceBundle, Candidate, Thesis, AssayResult, Collection, ExternalSignal, ScientificAsset, plus typed lineage) — proposal, operator approval, then Bankr broadcast.
  • IPAsset / governance / retraction / revokeLineage / setLifecycle / setDisclosure — approval is necessary, and the contract also requires the relevant treasury or operator role.
Spend policy applies on both paths: per-tx + per-day cap, destination allow-list, halt switch. Holds no other role.

Operator compromise is not governance compromise. Scientific records do not bypass review. Today Galen queues a proposal, the operator approves it, and Bankr broadcasts under spend caps, destination allow-list, and halt switch. For IPAsset minting, retractions, role grants, upgrades, and pause/unpause, the contract adds role gates that Bankr does not hold. Only the treasury wallet can change the rules — and only the treasury wallet accepts external income.