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# Design Background

This section explains the choices behind reserve-based allocation, selectable reward assets and time-weighted staking. Detailed formulas and operating rules are maintained in the protocol pages.

- [Allocation Design Choices]({% link background/paradigm-shift.md %}): Revenue timing, asset selection and eligibility boundaries.
- [Related Mechanisms & References]({% link background/prior-art.md %}): Accounting, time weighting and reference material.
- [The Reservoir Model]({% link background/reservoir-model.md %}): Unreserved funds, allocation and conditional decay estimates.
- [Time Weighting]({% link background/time-weighting.md %}): Principal, seniority, exit and certificates.
- [Principles & Limits]({% link background/principles.md %}): What the mechanisms provide and what they do not guarantee.