Fixing the LEAF economy 🌱

First, thank you. The suggestions thread was full of sharp points, and a lot of this came straight from you. We're doing things one step at a time, and this is step one.

Why we're doing this
The game gives out more LEAF value every day than real money comes into it. That gap is what has been pushing the price down. We're closing it, honestly and for good.

What's changing
Daily payouts come down to a level the game can actually sustain. From here, what you earn rises and falls with the real money flowing into Sprout. More money in, you earn more. Quieter weeks, a little less, but never below a floor, so it never hits zero.

Because the economy is slower right now, yields will be lower for the next few days. As activity grows, they climb back up.

What this means for you
We're spreading your returns, not cutting them. The launch rate was too high to last, and a big number that loses value faster than you earn it was never real return. We're pacing the same grove so the value holds.

Joined early? You earned at the highest rate Sprout will ever have. That head start is real. Your loop, balances, withdrawals, and badges do not change.

What it does for the game
It lengthens the life of Sprout, years instead of months. It stops the bleed and keeps LEAF honest. It does not pump the price by itself, only real growth does that, which is exactly why a Sprint is coming next.

The vote, and what's next
30 of you voted "let's build it, I love it" and 9 said "not sure yet." The majority is clear, so we are building it. If you are one of the unsure ones, drop a comment and tell us why, because if we do not know what is holding you back, we cannot fix it.

One thing at a time: we ship this patch first, then we launch the Sprint very soon.

The update goes live tomorrow, Wednesday at midnight UTC. Full picture in the image below. Thank you for growing this with us.

The night the forest gets stronger

Tonight at midnight UTC, we ship the update we have been talking about. Here is the truth, straight and hopeful.

What changes
The daily LEAF you earn comes down to a level Sprout can truly sustain, with a floor so it never hits zero. Your existing LEAF is 100% safe. Nothing in your pile changes, only the rate you earn new LEAF from here. The yield was set too high at launch, and a big number that loses its value faster than you earn it was never real. We are spreading your returns so they last, not cutting them.

Why we are doing it
Because we are not here to chase a chart. We do not measure Sprout by the price of LEAF. We measure it by real trees in the ground (over 4,700 donated and counting) and a calm game that is still here years from now. That is the win. And hear this clearly: we will do everything in our power to support LEAF and the people who hold it.

This is the moment
Every project has a night like this, the night the real ones show up. If the forest means something to you, this is when you stand with us. Hold the line. Keep planting. And get ready: a Sprint launches 24 hours later, tomorrow at midnight UTC, with real rewards for the people who hold and believe in the forest.

We are not going anywhere. Let us grow this thing for real. 🌱

🌱 *BUILD TO LAST opens at 00:30 UTC*

A 7-day sprint for the growers who plant deep and hold the line.

*THE GOAL*
Build a grove that lasts. Plant real trees. Hold your LEAF.

We are bringing LEAF emissions to a level the forest can sustain. This sprint rewards the players who carry the forest, not the ones who flip and leave.

*WHAT TO DO*
• Plant trees with SOL (every purchase funds real tree planting)
• *Buy LEAF on a DEX and hold it in your wallet.* The Hold 10 and Hold 100 quests check real wallet LEAF, not in-game balance.
• Nurture daily, build a streak
• Burn LEAF in the Furnace
• Share what you grow

*$500 USDC PRIZE POOL — Top 50*
1st $60 | 2nd $40 | 3rd $30
4-10: $17.14 each | 11-25: $10 each | 26-50: $4 each
Distributed by Zealy after the sprint.

*WHY HOLDING MATTERS*
Steady holders carry the forest. If you can hold through the week, do.

We do not chase the chart. We plant real trees and build to last.

Join → https://zealy.io/cw/sprout

🌿 How the Hold Quests Work

The Hold 10 LEAF and Hold 100 LEAF quests are verified on-chain at random times throughout the day.

They are built to reward holding, so your XP is tied to your wallet actually holding the LEAF:

• Keep holding and your XP stays yours.
• If your balance drops below the required amount, the quest XP is removed automatically, every time it falls short.
• Buy back and hold again and the XP is restored.

That is by design: the board reflects genuine holders. If you are holding, there is nothing to do. Hold your LEAF, keep your XP, climb the board.

🔥 NEW: Daily Hold quests are LIVE

You asked, we built it. A bunch of you said holding LEAF should pay every day, not just once. You were right. 🌱

Two new Daily quests:
- Hold 10 LEAF → +50 XP every day you hold.
- Hold 100 LEAF → +100 XP every day (stacks, so holding 100 = 150 XP/day).

Claim them each day in Zealy. The longer you hold, the higher you climb.

The board is bunched within a few hundred XP. Holding is the move almost nobody has pulled, and a few days of it can leap you up the leaderboard.

Don't hold yet? Grab some and start stacking daily XP 👉 Buy LEAF on Raydium:
https://raydium.io/swap/?inputMint=sol&outputMint=8TyGscJFh1jQqHvezgtpYRm5SsLo5YkAe53prNSegoPh

One rule: hold for real. Buying, claiming, then selling will not work. Every wallet is audited at the end of the sprint and any farmed XP gets removed. Hold for real, keep your XP, climb. 🔥

🌱 Fairness Check — Hold Quest XP Evened Out

We reviewed every Hold quest claim to make sure the XP was fair across the board.

When the Hold quests became daily in the opening days, some of you who claimed a day later got less XP for the same quest. We've now leveled everyone UP to match. No XP was taken from anyone.

The Hold quests are daily from here:
- Hold 10 LEAF → 50 XP/day
- Hold 100 LEAF → 100 XP/day
- We check balances at random times, so just hold.

Heads up: farming the quest by selling right after claiming is still audited at sprint end. Genuine holders are fully covered.

Questions → ask in Discord (discord.gg/pYg3AzxpZn) or here.

🌱 $LEAF is green today

+4% on the day, and the chart is finally matching the energy in the Grove.

No pump, no promises. Just real holders, a live sprint, and real trees behind every token.

To everyone holding through Build To Last: this is you. Keep going.

Long game. Build to last.

🌱 WE'RE #1 ON PLAYTOEARN

SPROUT IS THE NUMBER ONE BLOCKCHAIN GAME.

Out of the entire Top 50, we sit at the top. Rank 1. P2E-Score 2226. Up 12.61% this week.

Grow trees. Earn LEAF. 30 seconds a day. You built this, Grove.

But we are not slowing down. We want the game to keep growing, and that means getting the economy right.

HEADS UP: we're opening up the NEW ECONOMY conversation and we want YOUR voice in it. Drop your ideas in the Discord suggestion channel:
👉 https://discord.com/channels/1415868116113555569/1476547252460978281

Number one today. Let's build something that lasts. 🌱

THE GROVE LEARNS TO SHARE ITS WATER
Live in less than 12 hours.

Tomorrow morning, Sprout's biggest update goes live. A quick heads up so you are ready.

Every tree is getting a Payback Bar that shows how close it is to earning back what you paid. While it is still getting there, nothing changes, guaranteed in code. Once it has paid you back, it gets thirsty, and you keep it at full speed by watering it.

So your LEAF is about to have a real job. If you have been harvesting, keep it close. Starting tomorrow it is how you keep your trees running and how you grow the communal World Tree the whole grove raises together, and every act of support puts you on the Steward board.

This is the update that fixes the economy at the source, so the grove can keep paying people back for years instead of months. The mission has not moved: plant real trees, build a real community, be honest about the math.

Full breakdown with the launch tomorrow.

Discord: discord.gg/pYg3AzxpZn
Play: https://i.playsprout.org 🌱

THE GROVE LEARNS TO SHARE ITS WATER
Sprout's biggest update is LIVE.

Today changes what LEAF is for.

Every tree now has a Payback Bar showing how close it is to earning back what you paid, at the real prices it harvested at. While a tree is still earning it back, nothing changes, guaranteed in code.

Once a tree has paid you back it rests, and you bring it back to full speed by watering it. So your LEAF finally has a real job: keep your trees running, grow the communal World Tree, and lead the Steward board, the new honor roll of the people who keep the grove alive.

If you have been harvesting LEAF, this is your moment to put it to work. New here? Plant a tree and grow with us.

Everything is checkable: per-tree receipts, buy-and-burn receipts, the live scoreboard.

The grove is open. 🌱

Play: https://i.playsprout.org
Discord: discord.gg/pYg3AzxpZn

For anyone with questions about the latest update, we put the full breakdown in one place, with the charts and the real numbers behind every decision. Most of what people are asking is already answered in here, so give it a read first:

https://playsprout.org/docs/economy-update.html

Then bring us anything it doesn't cover. 🌱

AN HONEST UPDATE: TRADING WORKS AGAIN, AND WHAT COMES NEXT

Growers, short and straight.

What happened: the pool's liquidity sat in positions, and selling over the past weeks drained the dollar side of the last one. That's why swaps kept failing. There were no dollars left to fill them.

What changed today

1. Selling works again. We added a new position covering prices from $2 down to half a cent, so swaps fill in both directions. Honest number: it holds about $148 of real dollars right now. If several people sell, the price will drop fast and each LEAF gets less. We'd rather tell you that up front.

2. Withdrawal fee 20% → 0%. No cut on the way out.

3. Harvest speed 0.5x → 0.15x. More LEAF was being created than money coming in. Emission goes to the floor while things settle, and it steps back up only when the Grove Health scoreboard conditions hold.

4. Receipts for everything. Buybacks keep buying and burning LEAF, and money entering the game is what refills the pool over time. It's all in Grove Health, linked on-chain.

The bigger truth: the structure of the game was built around greed, and that's what drained it.

So here's the plan, nothing hidden: we're letting the token crash. Voluntarily. We're not buying it up, not propping the chart, not inventing a floor. The market is going to find the real price of LEAF, probably lower than anyone likes, and we're waiting that out on purpose. Defending fake numbers is what drained this game, we're not doing it again. While it settles, the game keeps running: trees grow, harvests continue at the floor rate, and your LEAF buys the same game at any price, because everything in it is priced in dollars' worth of LEAF.

Then we relaunch the economy around one rule: the grove only pays out what actually comes in. No more fixed numbers, they're what killed it. Yield will breathe with the price: when LEAF is cheap your trees drop MORE LEAF, when it's expensive they drop fewer but each is worth more. Trees will cost a fixed dollar amount of LEAF at market price, burned forever with a receipt. The total paid out can never exceed the real money that came in. The exact formula and caps go public when it ships, verifiable like everything else now.

No dates, no price promises. The crash is the reset, the relaunch is the rebuild. What we promise is honest numbers, receipts, and real trees planted.

Receipts:
https://solscan.io/tx/3j8dMXhtRjGJuhiaFDJj48t9gN1FvReFWdKB5U2qZDazTmt7H5XCUgUZcj45xNxcxobsJjJBzmwQdCoSw2iFX36j
https://solscan.io/tx/5qeq9YsYndFfnwfpr7zQC9uC3QuMigoqfKjBnNpWZmFRw8RipzFEYfTiP7Wkr4ZdUZuVwabcGWucyK35p1Eqm4md

🌱 An honest rebuild of the Sprout economy

Here is the plain truth: the old model promised a fixed high yield and printed more LEAF than money was actually coming into the game. That is what drained the pool and the price. So we stopped trying to defend a number and rebuilt on honest ground, where the game only pays out a share of what it actually takes in. This is not a shutdown or a last resort. It is a deliberate redesign, the healthiest version of Sprout, chosen on purpose because it removes the one thing that was killing it and lets the grove stand on its own.

What is changing
- Yields breathe with real activity. Payouts are now a share of what comes into the game, settled in LEAF at the live price. A Legacy tree still out-earns a Community tree, but the exact amount moves day to day instead of being a fixed promise.
- Gentle automatic brakes. When money slows, payouts slow early and softly. The game is built to keep running for years even with no new money. If it goes quiet it slows down, it does not stop. No cliff.
- LEAF gets real things to spend on. Watering, cosmetics, evolution, the World Tree. What keeps the grove alive is LEAF being spent, not a bigger number.
- Selling works and the withdrawal fee is 0. Every buyback and burn has a public receipt you can check.

What we are hoping for is simple: a game that survives on its own, honest and verifiable, that can grow when players arrive. We are letting it breathe for a while, and if the price stays low for a while, that is okay. Once things are steady, we will reassess and start bringing new players back in.

SECOND GROWTH: WHAT IT IS, HONESTLY

The old economy died of one thing: fixed promises. Fixed yields meant the game kept paying full speed even when money coming in slowed, draining itself to keep a promise it could not afford. The promise itself was the bug.

Second Growth replaces the promise with a principle: the grove pays out a share of what actually comes in. Nothing more, ever.

Yields breathe. A public formula reads real inflow and proposes every harvest rate change; each one is reviewed and signed on a hardware wallet, in the open, inside hard on-chain limits. Busy grove, faster. Quiet grove, slower. The first signed raise already happened: +7%, up from the emergency floor.

LEAF only gets rarer. Mint revoked, 1,000,000 forever. Buyback LEAF is now destroyed on-chain automatically, every few hours, with receipts. Today: 26.57 LEAF burned for good.
https://solscan.io/tx/22ZdcSHtM91azkbGBBjLLdPpJ7AUbwAFgKvbUYntdRDWMyAK4V7wCYab97a1yGXU9mHii3qQMNaHy2HgVh9UugHT

A watchdog: if the harvest dial ever moves without a matching public proposal, an alarm fires. The system tells on itself.

The Daily Gust: same wind for the whole world, every day at 00:00 UTC. Free, 3 attempts, best counts. Runs earn Sap, Sap grows rings on your trees, 12 rings makes an Elder. Sap is not a token and rings never change your yield: they are how the grove remembers who showed up.

What it means for you: some days more, some days less, and that is the design working. Your trees, LEAF, streaks, and withdrawals are untouched. Exit fee stays 0%. No price promises; only what you can verify in Grove Health. 🌱

Play: https://i.playsprout.org

LIQUIDITY CLEAN-UP: CLEARING THE OLD WALL 🌿

Growers, a bit of housekeeping, fully in the open.

What we did. We closed five old liquidity positions from the earlier era (up in the $0.67 to $2.50 range) and moved every LEAF in them, 42,068.62 LEAF, into our public LP Reserve wallet.
Receipt: https://solscan.io/tx/4xbr4iomYKCLX7Yd19cxsKVvkpuY5cEC5zoRmjb2XjdqacTaSjzwY2ru2ftdXGxMs339Y2PosWda4ZZgvi1VpDVj

Nothing was sold. Not one LEAF hit the market. Those positions sat above the current price, helping no one trade, standing there as a wall of our own LEAF that would have sold into any recovery. That overhang is gone now. The LEAF just moved into a labeled reserve, on-chain, all checkable.

What stays. One active position remains as the live market, and we deepen it over time from real revenue, paired properly, never one-sided.

To be clear. This does not reset the price and we will not pretend it could. It clears the old clutter so the market is cleaner and healthier going forward. Honest numbers, receipts, no price promises.

LP Reserve wallet: Edf4G6K4S7DSQA6dwaoTn1f7DhsMBoggDsQuWi8iVmeh

A cleaner floor for the next season 🌱

The grove goes looking for rain

Growers, this week we do something we have not done since the rebuild: we go out and find new people. Sprout is running a marketing campaign in partnership with Play2Earn, starting Tuesday.

Normally this is the part where a community gets a little nervous, and honestly, you would have been right to. In the old economy, a marketing push meant more people splitting the same fixed pie. New wallets arrived, yields got thinner, and the players who were already here quietly paid for the growth. That is why "we're marketing!" so often just means "we need exit liquidity."

Second Growth made that impossible. This is the first campaign where we can show you why.

New growers make your harvest bigger, not smaller
The harvest rate is not a number we pick. It is a share of the real money entering the grove, read by a public formula, proposed in the open, and signed on a hardware wallet. So when new growers arrive and plant, inflow rises, and the formula proposes a higher rate for everyone, including everyone who was already standing here. Growth stopped being dilution. It is now the only thing that raises yields at all.

The same money makes LEAF rarer
Every SOL that comes in also splits into real trees and buybacks, and bought LEAF is destroyed on-chain automatically, every few hours. Tonight's: 0.05 SOL bought 28.68 LEAF at 20:18 UTC, and that same 28.68 LEAF was burned one minute later. Receipts: [bought](https://solscan.io/tx/vKp8puXWAiNsnW8PLegKBoxdNerrXcyhsRCQnxhKvYtpQhPkPFg6cuPZ7BksrK8nUneheNQLL8pdYKVqeq8jDAE) and [burned](https://solscan.io/tx/mi3DmL1ieT5JocsZdQtWxWWqLPKYypX9CgPUTFpvuZAcLX7sRmM4TbvZ7mH9eavifHetgCzrgZFTZ68o7cuA2NM), one minute apart.

Supply is now 998,634.78 LEAF. It started at 1,000,000, the mint was revoked in May, and it has exactly one direction left to go.

What newcomers walk into
The front door is the Daily Gust: same level, same wind, whole world, 00:00 UTC, free, three attempts, best run counts. No purchase changes a scored run. Runs earn Sap, Sap tends your trees, tending grows rings, twelve rings makes an Elder. It is the friendliest door this game has ever had, and none of it touches your LEAF yield.

What we are promising, and what we are not
We are not promising this campaign moves the price. Nobody honest can promise that. What we are promising is the part you can check yourself: if it works, you will see it in Grove Health as real inflow, a higher proposed rate, bigger burns, and more trees. If it does not work, you will see that too, and we will say so out loud, same as we did in July.

4,720 real trees are already in the ground, with another 287 funded and queued. Let's go find the people who plant the next thousand.

The grove grows back. 🌱

🌳 Tree planting is open again

If you hit a wall trying to plant your 5th tree or beyond, that is fixed and live now.

• Every tree is bought with SOL, at every count
• Premium slots you already own can now be planted
• Replanting after burning a tree works again

Nothing to do on your side. Open your grove and plant. 🌱

🌱 A QUIET STRETCH

Growers, short note.

We are stepping back for a while. No campaigns, no pushes, no propping
the price. We want to see how the market moves on its own, and we cannot
see that while we are standing in the middle of it.

We are still looking at what we can do for the token. When there is
something worth doing, you will hear it here first.

The game runs as normal. Nurture, harvest, withdraw, all working.

🌱