SKATE serves as the foundational utility and governance token of the Skate protocol, designed with key functionalities:
Governance: SKATE token holders can stake their tokens to participate in protocol governance, influencing key decisions such as incentive allocations and protocol parameter adjustments. Staking duration and magnitude will determine voting power, promoting long-term commitment.
Ecosystem Incentives: SKATE plays a pivotal role in bootstrapping adoption and driving growth in Liquidity Providers, Skate AVS Incentives, Sateless App Incentives and Community Contributions.
Technical Overview
Unified Global Bitmap: A shared liquidity model that synchronizes pricing across all supported chains in real time.
Global Pricing State: All trades inherit a unified price curve anchored to deep liquidity pools on canonical chains (e.g., Ethereum L1), ensuring consistent pricing across environments.
Automated Cross-Chain Rebalancing: Powered by Hyperlane, Skate AMM actively balances liquidity across VMs through fast, reliable messaging infrastructure.
Token Circulation Status
Investors and Advisors: 15%, 6 Months Cliff, followed by multi-year vesting schedules
Public Sale: 1.5%, 40% Unlocked at TGE, the rest will be unlocked over 3 Months.
Airdrop: 10%, 100% Unlocked at TGE
Team: 10%, 6 Months Cliff, 42 Months linear vesting
Liquidity & Exchange Reserve: 18%, will follow dynamic release models designed to incentivize consistent participation and growth
Community: 45.5%, will follow dynamic release models designed to incentivize consistent participation and growth
Project Highlights
Skate AMM functions as middleware to unify liquidity across multiple VMs, enabling real-time, cross-chain price alignment and efficient arbitrage execution. This shared liquidity state improves asset usability and trust as projects expand into new ecosystems.