Orchard Systems
Badges 1–1,111
Hardware and a design cult. The most expensive parking lot.
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Form NTF-1 · Offer of employmentEveryone
starts as
an intern.
6,666 employees. Each owns a wallet the protocol pays a salary into, in real tokenized stock, from the first round. Climb, and it compounds. Sell, and the next holder starts over.
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Hired
0 / 6,666
Badges minted so far. The remainder sits in the talent pool and is bought out of it at a flat price, never auctioned.
Payday pot
—ETH
70% of every fee the protocol charges lands here. When it crosses the threshold anyone can open a round and take 0.5% for the gas.
Bar fill
—
How close the pot is to unlocking the next Payday. At 100% the round is open to anyone, not to us.
Talent pool
—
Employees currently held by the AMM and available to hire immediately at 905,000 $NTF.
Employee price
905,000$NTF
Flat, for every badge in the collection, and the desk only ever sells — it never buys one back. It reads as 9:05 — five minutes late. Rank resets on transfer, which is what keeps one price honest.
Notional
—ETH
What one employee is worth in ETH, from the $NTF/WETH TWAP. Every ETH fee in the protocol is a percentage of this number.
$NTF burned
—
Permanently destroyed. Half of every 905,000 $NTF hire and half of every Fast Track purchase are burned outright, plus half of every reinvested stock position and a slice of every failed boardroom challenge.
Salary paid
$0
Real tokenized stock delivered into employee wallets, valued at the Chainlink price at the moment of each payment. Not a projection.
Fig. 1 — Organisational structure6,666 seats
- CEO
- SVP
- VP
- Director
- Manager
- Associate
- Analyst
- Intern
- Vacant
Every desk
is a token
Six columns, one per employer. Colour is rank, and the cell grows as you climb — so the shortage of chairs is visible rather than described. Caps are collection-wide; each column draws its even sixth.
Corner offices
6
Six in the collection, not six per employer, and nothing in the protocol creates a seventh. The chair is never handed out by promotion: every one of them is taken by contest, occupied or empty.
Capped seats
1,914
Across the whole collection: 1,200 Manager, 480 Director, 180 VP, 48 SVP, 6 CEO. Intern, Analyst and Associate are uncapped — the shortage starts at Manager.
Three gates, and a shortage of chairs
Half the ladder is for sale — $NTF reaches Manager and stops there. Everything else is these three checked at once, and the four rungs above Manager cannot be bought at any price.
Gate 1 — Tenure
3 → 60 days
Time served in the rank below, and the clock restarts at every rung. Nothing accelerates it — a Fast Track purchase buys the rank, not the calendar.
Gate 2 — Performance Points
40 → 5,000
Banked on the Assignment Board across 5 categories. Points cannot be bought, transferred or topped up, and they wipe when the badge changes hands.
Gate 3 — Reinvest
5% → 30%
A share of the employee's own tokenized stock, pulled from their wallet into the payroll pool and paid back out by rank weight. Proportional, so a large balance pays a large gate.
Fast Track
Analyst, Associate and Manager are buyable outright in $NTF, or 10,860,000 for all three at once. 50% of what you pay burns. The badge is marked for as long as you hold it, and it pays 50% more Performance Points on the one rung out of Manager. Director and above are not for sale.
Contested
Boardroom Challenge
When a rank is full, name a badge and post the deposit for that chair — 180,000 $NTF at Manager, rising to 3,620,000 at CEO. The incumbent has 72 hours to match it. They do — 50% of your deposit burns. They don't — you take the chair and they drop a rung.
Points come off the Assignment Board: 3 slots at a time, 5 categories, and 3 missed deadlines in a season puts you on a performance improvement plan — 14 days at 80% weight with the ladder frozen.
The ladder
Weight is your share of every Payday. Seats are counted across the whole collection. Points, tenure and reinvest are what the next rung asks for.
| Rank | Points | Reinvest | Tenure | Seats | Weight | Fast Track | Unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | — | — | — | ∞ | 1.0× | — | Payday, at 1.0x |
| Analyst | 40 | 5% | 3d | ∞ | 1.4× | 905,000 | Right of challenge |
| Associate | 120 | 8% | 7d | ∞ | 1.9× | 2,715,000 | Field Work, Team Quota |
| Manager | 300 | 12% | 14d | 1,200 | 2.5× | 8,145,000 | Exam. Last rank money can buy. |
| Director | 700 | 15% | 21d | 480 | 3.3× | — | Bonus Season, Market Call |
| VP | 1,400 | 20% | 30d | 180 | 4.3× | — | Vote on the basket |
| SVP | 2,600 | 25% | 45d | 48 | 5.5× | — | Standing to claim a corner office |
| CEO | 5,000 | 30% | 60d | 6 | 7.0× | — | Rotate the corporate ticker |
New weight waits 24 hours, so nobody buys a rank a minute before a distribution. Transferring the badge — to anyone, for any reason — resets it to Intern and wipes the Performance Points with it. The Fast Track column stops at Manager because the rungs above it are not for sale at any price.
Six corporations, six payrolls
Each pays its staff in one real ticker, and Payday splits the pot by trading volume — so they compete for it directly.
AAPL
Vantage Silicon
Badges 1,112–2,222
Chips. The most volatile salary in the collection.
0xd0601CE1…0D9EECMeridian Logistics
Badges 2,223–3,333
Warehouses and delivery. The biggest headcount by trading volume.
0x12f190a9…41bF54Beacon Data
Badges 3,334–4,444
Search and advertising. Free lunches.
0x2e0847E8…AD4FE3Northgate Software
Badges 4,445–5,555
Legacy enterprise. Stability and Excel.
0xe93237C5…9c2e74Apex Motors
Badges 5,556–6,666
Manufacturing. Founder cult, night shifts.
0x322F0929…003b2dWhat can go wrong
Worth saying before the market says it.
Salary is cyclical
No trading, no fees, no salary. Rank weight divides the flow; it does not create it.
Rank dies on sale
The desk does not buy badges back. You leave by listing on OpenSea, and the badge arrives at its new holder as an Intern with no Performance Points. Severance returns 25% of what you spent on Fast Track, vested over 7 days, and nothing else.
Seats run out
1,914 chairs are counted, and the count is collection-wide. Once a rank fills, the only route up is a challenge; the corner office is challenge-only even while it sits empty. Deliberate, and it will feel unfair from below.
The owner can withdraw
Protocol contracts expose an owner withdrawal function. Locked liquidity in the Escrow Department is the deliberate exception.
Thin stock liquidity
On-chain ETH/stock pools are shallow — one ticker has no pool at all — so Payday settles from a pre-funded inventory at the Chainlink price.
Not available everywhere
Swapping into tokenized stock is restricted for US residents. Payouts are fee redistribution, not dividends or equity.