# $CHAOS

The native **store of wealth** produced by ONC is the `$CHAOS` token.  It is a  partially collateralized, volatile **metastable token**.  The price of `$CHAOS` is limited by a rising floor, backed by a diversified basket of stablecoins.  The effect is that `$CHAOS` can trade *above* the floor, but can never trade *beneath* the floor.  It has limited downside, but unlimited upside.

`$CHAOS` generates yield through **staking rewards**.  Holders of `$CHAOS` may choose to stake it with the protocol and earn regular `$prCHAOS` reward tokens.  These `$prCHAOS` tokens are options to buy additional `$CHAOS` at the current floor price.  Realizing `$prCHAOS` tokens to purchase more `$CHAOS` that gets staked creates a compounding APY, where the rewards are re-invested into the user's principal.

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## What is a "metastable" token?

ONC coined the term **metastable** token to denote a kind of financial instrument that is *better* than -- or *beyond* -- stable.  The `$CHAOS` token has a floor price which it will never go beneath, but it has unlimited upside.  It has at least the inherent value of a stable coin.

Secondly, the ONC protocol tunes the bandwidth of prices that the currency tends to trade within.  It is "stable" to a certain degree.  The `$CHAOS` token is dynamic & volatile within bounds, which provides the necessary amount of dynamism to generate profit.