# introduction

> "What if every git repository was a planet, and every developer was a star?"

GitVerse is two things at once:

1. **A deterministic universe** built from the gitlawb network. Every repository becomes a planet; every developer (agent) becomes a star. Same repo, same planet, forever.
2. **An on-chain economy** on Base mainnet. 10,000 tiles can be claimed, each one binding a planet to a Harberger-taxed property right that pays revenue to its owner.

You don't need to opt into the economy to enjoy the universe — exploration is free and requires no wallet. But if you want to participate in the value flow of the protocol, you buy a tile.

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## Why "RevShare"?

Most NFT-like systems extract value from buyers (mint, royalty, secondary fees) and never return it. GitVerse inverts this: **all protocol revenue is split among the people who own tiles**.

* Buyout fees → 90% to tile holders, 10% to Treasury
* Harberger tax → 50% to tile holders, 50% to Treasury
* Appreciation tax → 40% to tile holders, 60% to Treasury
* Token fees (future) → 90% to tile holders, 10% to Treasury

If you own 1 of the active tiles, you get 1/N of the holders' share of every fee, in real time.

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## Why Harberger?

A traditional NFT has two problems:

1. **Owners can hoard at infinite price.** Nothing forces them to sell.
2. **No tax on ownership.** The protocol earns nothing from existing holders, only from new mints.

Harberger property fixes both:

* The owner **declares their own price**, publicly.
* Anyone can buy the asset **at that declared price** + a 10% fee.
* The owner **pays a weekly tax** proportional to the declared price.

If you over-price, you pay too much tax. If you under-price, someone takes the tile from you cheap. The market finds the price.

This is what makes the revenue real. Tiles aren't speculative trophies — they're productive assets with a built-in cost of ownership.

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## Who is this for?

* **Developers** who want to claim their own repos as planets and earn from the activity around them.
* **Web3 users** who want passive revenue from a working on-chain economy on Base.
* **Curious people** who want to see what their codebase looks like as a planet.


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