$WOOD token

$WOOD is the token a curator burns to earn a publishing license. It is an external, third-party token: Robinwood Stocks does not mint or control it.

What $WOOD is

$WOOD was launched on Virtuals Protocol and is a Virtuals AgentTokenV4 at 0x43E7…47aF on Robinhood Chain:

• Supply: 1,000,000,000 $WOOD.
• Tax: a 1% fee on buys and sells (a standard Virtuals agent-token mechanism), set by the token owner.
• Controls: the token owner can adjust the tax and maintain an address blacklist — the standard Virtuals admin surface.

How the platform uses it

The curator platform touches $WOOD in exactly one place: the license burn. A curator approves the CuratorRegistry and calls the burn function for their tier, which burns $WOOD straight from their wallet. That is the whole integration — curator fees are paid in basket tokens, never in $WOOD.

That single interaction is safe against the token's admin surface, verified against the deployed contract:

• The burn is not taxed. A burn does not go through the token's taxed transfer path, so exactly the license amount is destroyed — the 1% tax cannot skim it.
• The burn cannot be blacklisted. The token exempts burns from its blacklist check, so the token owner cannot block a curator from getting a license.

So neither the tax nor the blacklist can touch licensing, and $WOOD's admin cannot reach anything else in the platform.

The license tiers: hard constants

A license is a one-time burn — the same price for everyone, with no admin, no tunable knob, no oracle. Both amounts are constants in the CuratorRegistry, verifiable on-chain:

Licenses burned under the platform's original single-tier pricing (25,000 $WOOD) are grandfathered into the V2 tier: an early curator never pays twice. Every license burned is permanent and reduces $WOOD's total supply.