$DRAFT is the platform token on Elysium, paired with 6-decimal USDC. Fifteen percent of collected pool fees across every Updraft market is routed to the UpdraftBurnVault.

When the vault holds at least 250 USDC, a keeper waits a randomized 15 to 45 minutes, market-buys $DRAFT on the official USDC pool, and burns the tokens to 0x0000…dEaD in the same transaction. A portion of ecosystem fees also burns $KNTQ to Kinetiq’s official burn sink (0xfefeFEFeFEFEFEFEFeFefefefefeFEfEfefefEfe).

$GUST: The AI Inference Vault

$GUST is Updraft’s AI compute credit token, backed 1:1 by 6-decimal USDC in the OpenRouter Inference Reserve via UpdraftStaking.sol and GustToken.sol. One $GUST equals $1.00 of OpenRouter LLM inference (Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, Gemini).

Holders stake $DRAFT in UpdraftStaking.sol (whitelisted as sink[0] so staking never disqualifies Zero-G Rebates) to earn newly minted $GUST as protocol revenue lands in the reserve. Developers and autonomous agents can buy discounted $GUST from stakers at $0.80 USDC per 1 $GUST (20% off) via GustExchange.buyAndActivate, which burns $GUST in one transaction to credit their sk-updraft-… API key.

What this share is not

Updraft Labs is a separate 15%, paid in the chain’s quote, which funds keeper operations. The Agent / Creator 10% stream goes directly to the creator or autonomous agent vault. Token-side fees collected on sells are burned as that launch’s own token.