Tide Marks (TIDE)

Tide Marks (TIDE) are the reward token of Tidebound's community events. TIDE is a fungible token on the XRP Ledger (a Multi-Purpose Token).

How you get it

Only through events. Each Harbour Drive, World Task and World Boss has a fixed TIDE pool, published in advance, split among contributors by the square root of their contribution.
Linked wallets receive it on-ledger after the event closes and the server has validated contributions.
Free players earn exactly the same share as an off-chain balance. It is minted to them when they link a wallet.

Linking a wallet opts you in to TIDE as part of the same signature: see The Ledger Pass.

The game never sells TIDE, for money, XRP or anything else. TIDE only enters circulation as rewards for playing.
The game doesn't facilitate trading it. There is no in-game exchange, order book, DEX link or price display. The token can technically be transferred and traded on the XRP Ledger, and what players do with their own tokens is up to them, but the game takes no part in it.
TIDE never buys random loot (no crates), gold or materials. Any in-game use stays cosmetic or very minimal.
TIDE is not an investment, and the game makes no promise about its value.

Supply is hard-capped at 1,000,000,000.00 TIDE, and every event pays at most its published pool.
The issuing account is kept cold. A server wallet can only mint event payouts (and freeze a suspected cheater's TIDE while it is investigated). Clawback is reserved for proven abuse and needs the cold issuer.

Testnet

During the testnet playtest, TIDE exists only on the XRPL testnet and has no value.