SIMPLIFIED

No new tokens are ever created. The 225,000,000 NTC sold across the three stages is taken out of the 337,500,000 Treasury — the same tokens simply change hands as they sell. The total supply stays fixed at 750,000,000 the whole time. Once the sale is fully sold, it all adds up as:

• Founders (locked 24 months): 187,500,000 (25%)
• Public holders (sale fully sold): 225,000,000 (30%)
• Treasury remaining (337.5M − 225M, incl. the 5M airdrop reserve): 112,500,000 (15%)
• Withdrawal Liquidity (ring-fenced): 150,000,000 (20%)
• Liquidity Pool (DEX): 75,000,000 (10%)
• Total — fixed cap: 750,000,000 (100%)

Purchaser tokens and Treasury tokens are never counted twice — the unsold part of the 225M just sits inside the Treasury until it sells.

What about the 250,000,000 “redemption cap”? That’s an operational ceiling on redemption/migration — not a sale allocation — set above the 225M on purpose to leave room for the things that are also redeemable but aren’t “for sale”: the 5M airdrop, purchase bonuses (promo codes) and in-game-earned NTC. All of it still comes from the fixed 750M supply, so it’s a safety bound, never extra tokens.

In the UK, how you can advertise depends on what you are actually selling. A freely tradable on-chain token can be treated as a financial promotion (FCA territory); a pay-to-win chip can be treated as gambling. Nitrous Coin is deliberately structured to be neither — and the staged rollout is what keeps every advertising claim defensible.

• Stages 1–2 are a closed-loop in-game credit. NTC isn’t transferable off-platform, isn’t a security and isn’t cash — so the platform is advertised as a skill-based retro-gaming & prize-competition product, not a financial or gambling product.
• It runs as a lawful UK prize competition, not a lottery. A genuine skill-question gate plus a free postal / online entry route make it a competition rather than a lottery; 18+ age verification, an appropriateness risk check, weekly spend caps and harm-monitoring are enforced server-side.
• Blockchain is introduced for transparency, not speculation. At Stage 3 an audited ERC-20 on Base, a 1:1 migration of existing balances, a public Etherscan-style chain-watcher and daily transparency snapshots (NTC sold, treasury, prize pool, refunds, complaints) make the on-chain claims provable — which is exactly what makes them advertisable.
• Sequencing is the safeguard. The transferable, on-chain token only launches once the full compliance scaffolding and a third-party audit are in place. Advertising a tradable on-chain token before that framework existed would risk straddling financial-promotion and gambling rules. By launching the chain last, every UK advertising claim is backed by live, audited, transparent infrastructure.

It comes down to a fixed supply meeting rising demand, with a float that keeps shrinking. These mechanics are designed to support the price once NTC is live on Base — they are not a promise of profit (see the risk note below):

• Hard-capped supply. 750,000,000 NTC, fixed forever, with no mint function after deploy — new tokens can never be created.
• Play-to-burn. Once on-chain, every time the games are played a set amount of NTC is burned (permanently destroyed). The more people play, the more tokens are taken out of circulation.
• Shrinking supply + growing demand. A capped supply that only ever gets smaller through burning, set against more players joining, buying and spending NTC, puts upward pressure on what each remaining token is worth — so the price may rise as the platform grows.
• 1:1 migration seeds a real market. At Stage 3 every existing balance moves 1:1 onto the chain and liquidity is seeded into a Base DEX. The token launches with a ready base of holders and a live market — which helps establish and support the initial on-chain price.
• Transparency builds trader trust. An audited contract, a public chain-watcher and daily transparency snapshots let anyone verify the supply and the burns on-chain — and verifiable, shrinking scarcity is exactly what crypto markets price in. The more players join, the more credibility traders give it.
• Advertising headroom now, tradable crypto later. While NTC is closed-loop (Stages 1–2) it isn’t a tradable crypto, so it can be advertised as a gaming product outside the strict UK crypto/financial-promotion rules. Once it’s live on-chain it becomes a transparent, tradable crypto, and holders (and the team) can move 1:1 onto the blockchain — that migration of demand onto a fixed, burning supply is itself a tailwind for the launch price.