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# Chapter 5 · Gas Routing and Initial Liquidity

One fee, two living streams, nothing retained

### 5.1 The Routing Formula: Settlement with Zero Retention

Activation gas is routed automatically by the contract in fixed proportions, returned entirely to the ecosystem, untouched by human hands and never retained by the protocol:

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* <mark style="color:$warning;">**40% → initial liquidity**</mark>: injected into the DEX VITA/BNB pool and paired with the matching VITA allocated under the rules (from the 8% DEX LP module) to form initial liquidity, deepening the market and steadying the price. Exact pairing amounts, prices, LP lock arrangements and execution addresses follow the final contracts and on-chain records.
* <mark style="color:$warning;">**60% → BTC reward pool**</mark>: the contract buys native BTC (or WBTC) at market through decentralized routing in real time and credits it to the network-wide BTC reward pool, to be distributed by weight among qualifying builders.

### 5.2 What the Split Means

The 40/60 split funds both the system's present and its future: 40% builds immediate market depth so that VITA has genuine liquidity from birth, while 60% settles into a long-term Bitcoin reserve so that every identity lit up pours another layer into the bedrock. <mark style="color:$warning;">**Every gas fee an individual pays thickens the collective foundation across two horizons at once**</mark> — the first gear engagement of the model's endogenous virtuous cycle.

> <mark style="color:$warning;">**Initial liquidity gives the tower its blood for today; the BTC reserve gives it bedrock for always.**</mark>


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