LGE Participation

This page explains how to participate in a Liquidity Generation Event (LGE) on OhShii: the requirements to contribute, the optional sponsor code, the OHSHII token fee and the strong verification that exempts you from it, and the governance benefits you unlock by locking OHSHII and voting on proposals.

LGE Participation Requirements

Everything from One Platform

Deposit once, participate everywhere — no external transfers needed.

The full participation flow is integrated within OhShii Launcher. You deposit funds, then complete the LGE requirements directly on the LGE page — there is no need to move assets between external interfaces.

Step 1 — Deposit ICP, Bitcoin, or Solana Deposit ICP directly, or bring in Bitcoin or Solana from the Cross-Chain Gateway (the balances page) — no custodians, no traditional bridges.

• Bitcoin — use the Bitcoin tab on the balances page. Bitcoin arrives on the Internet Computer as ckBTC via DFINITY’s chain-key minter, and is then swapped to ICP via ICPSwap.
• Solana — send SOL to your Menese-generated address. SOL is automatically swapped to ICP through Menese Protocol’s chain-key execution layer (no off-chain relayers, no wrapped tokens). You can also convert ICP back to SOL at any time.

Step 2 — Access the LGE Page & Complete Requirements Go to any LGE page and complete the steps: the OHSHII token fee, which every Guest-tier wallet pays: a strong verification (Telegram) exempts you from it, a Google verification does not. All tools are integrated within the LGE page.

Everything is seamlessly integrated within OhShii Launcher.

What applies when you participate

Most of what shapes a contribution is non-optional and the same for everyone — there is no privileged role that lets some participants contribute on different terms. Two limits always apply to every wallet. On top of them, Guest-tier participants (no strong verification) pay a one-time OHSHII fee, and a sponsor code is entirely optional.

Contribution limits (always apply)

• Minimum per contribution — each contribution must clear a floor proportional to the campaign’s funding target: 0.2 ICP per 500 ICP of target (0.2 ICP at a 500 ICP target, up to 2 ICP at a 5000 ICP target). In the final stretch of a sale the minimum drops tenfold so the last small tranche can always be bought. Anything below the current minimum is rejected.
• Maximum per wallet (your participation tier) — every wallet has a per-LGE purchase cap, measured in campaign tokens. Guest-tier wallets (unverified, or verified with Google only) have the lowest cap. A strong verification (Telegram) raises it, and locking OHSHII for Voting Power (while staying an active voter) raises it further — see Unlock Higher Limits below, or the dedicated Purchase Limits & Tiers page for the tier table at a glance.

Governance activity — not yield — is what raises your limit. OHSHII is a fixed-supply token: the entire supply existed from day one and nobody holds a key that can mint more. Its minting account is the NNS Root canister (r7inp-6aaaa-aaaaa-aaabq-cai) — the same account every token launched through an LGE uses — and an ICRC minting account is written once at install, with no field for it in the ledger’s upgrade arguments, so it can never be moved. (What that guarantee rests on — and the one thing it does not close, namely what a ledger’s canister controllers can always do on the Internet Computer — is analysed in the standalone-token reference.) Because there is no inflation, OhShii has — by design — no “staking for yield”: paying an APY on locked tokens would require minting new supply, which OHSHII cannot do. So instead of a financial return, OhShii rewards an active community through utility. Locking OHSHII earns Voting Power, and staying an active voter in the ecosystem DAO (ONS) is what lifts your per-LGE purchase cap. Your buyable amount moves up or down with your governance activity — lock and vote to reach a higher tier; stop voting and your tier (and its higher cap) drops back toward the entry level until you vote again. When you unlock you get back exactly the tokens you locked, never more. What you gain is a functional capability (how many campaign tokens you may buy), earned by participating — never a payout.

OHSHII Fee for Guest-Tier Wallets (Waived by Strong Identity Verification)

This applies only if your wallet has no strong identity verification (unverified, or verified with Google only) — it is a conditional cost, not a universal requirement. Its purpose is anti-Sybil: the per-wallet cap above only holds if you can’t simply spin up many wallets. Because a Guest-tier wallet has the lowest cap, someone could try to bypass their limit by buying from a swarm of fresh Guest wallets — so each Guest wallet pays the fee, which makes splitting a large buy across many accounts uneconomic. A strong verification removes the fee, because it ties the wallet to one real person — that means Telegram, or a World ID or DecideID verification made before those legacy methods stopped accepting new verifications. Verifying with Google is a lighter check (one Google account per wallet): it unlocks governance and the creation flows, but it does not remove this fee or raise your tier.

• EXEMPTION: a strongly verified wallet (Telegram, or an earlier World ID or DecideID verification) is exempt from the per-LGE OHSHII fee. The fee is charged to every other wallet, including a Google-verified one. Voting Power and active-voter status do not affect this fee — they only set your purchase-limit tier.
• For Guest-tier wallets: the first participation in each LGE requires the OHSHII fee (default 30,000 OHSHII, a governance-votable amount) in OHSHII tokens. It is collected and held; on a successful LGE it goes 100% to the OhShii treasury (vil43-piaaa-aaaal-qsibq-cai) — there is no automatic burn — and it is refunded if the LGE fails, less 0.02 OHSHII of ledger fees.
• Each LGE also caps how many Guest-tier participants it accepts — at most 50 per LGE. This is a second anti-Sybil layer: once an LGE has filled its 50 Guest slots, further Guest wallets cannot join, and a strong verification is the way in. Strongly verified participants don’t count against this cap.
• Subsequent contributions to the same LGE have no additional cost.

Sponsor Code (optional)

A sponsor code is entirely optional — you can participate without one. You can choose to enter one when you participate; it costs you nothing extra and lets a sponsor earn a small share (0–5%, based on their Voting Power and active-voter status) of a capped referral pool — paid only if the LGE succeeds. Once set, your sponsor code can’t be changed.

See Sponsor & Referral for the full reward tiers, how to become a sponsor (3 ICP), and how/when rewards are paid.

Summary: two limits always apply to everyone — a small minimum per contribution and a per-wallet maximum set by your tier. OhShii pays no yield on locks; instead locking OHSHII and voting raise your tier. The OHSHII fee and the 50-Guest-per-LGE cap are anti-Sybil measures on Guest-tier wallets (unverified, or verified with Google only). A strong verification (Telegram) takes a wallet out of both; a Google verification does not. The fee is refunded, less 0.02 OHSHII of ledger fees, if the LGE fails. The sponsor code is always optional.

Unlock Higher Limits & Governance Benefits

Two independent steps raise what you can do in an LGE — one based on verification, the other on locking OHSHII and voting.

Privacy — not a traditional KYC

This isn’t a traditional KYC: OhShii stores no name, no document and no real-world identity. To verify you, the governance canister checks the data the provider signs (your Telegram account data from the Telegram Mini App, or your Google address through Internet Identity) and keeps only that the principal is verified, with which method, and a one-way, salted digest of your Telegram account number or of your normalised Google address, so that one account cannot verify many principals. The address itself is never stored, and the canister never contacts Google. To understand exactly how each method works and how each provider handles your data, read Google Verification, World ID Verification and DecideID Verification, check each provider’s own documentation, and review the open-source code.

You verify on the verification page.

Step A — Verify your identity

There are two levels, and for LGE limits only the stronger one counts.

• Google — quick, and available to Internet Identity sessions. It unlocks governance: voting and creating standard proposals, delegation, and the token / LGE / DAO creation flows. It does not change your LGE purchase tier and does not waive the fee.
• Telegram — the strong level, and what the LGE tiers read: one Telegram account verifies one wallet. World ID and DecideID also count at this level for wallets that verified with them earlier; they are legacy methods and no longer accept new verifications.

With a strong method you get:

• Skip the OHSHII fee — no per-LGE OHSHII fee (only Guest wallets pay it).
• 4x the purchase limit — your cap rises from 1M tokens (Guest) to 4M tokens (Human).

Step B — Lock OHSHII + vote on proposals

Locking OHSHII earns Voting Power (VP); staying an active voter unlocks the higher purchase tiers and governance power. Both are needed — locking alone is not enough, you must also vote.

• Up to 6x the Human limit — buy up to 24M tokens (Whale tier), versus 4M for a strongly verified non-voter (Human).
• Governance Power — shape the OHSHII ecosystem and vote on proposals.

1. Lock OHSHII (on the OhShii Locker)

• Duration: at least 1.5 months (45 days); shorter locks earn 0 VP.
• The more you lock and the longer the duration, the higher your VP: VP = min( √tokens × lock_months, 36,000 ).

2. Vote on Proposals

• Count as an active voter by voting on at least 2 of the last 3 ONS governance proposals.
• The Fish/Shark/Whale tiers require active-voter status; if you stop voting you are demoted to the Human (4M) tier until you vote again (verification and VP are retained — only the cap drops).

Visit the Proposals page in the launcher to vote.

Voting Power Simulator

Estimate how many OHSHII tokens to lock, and for how long, to reach a target Voting Power. Drag the sliders (or type a value) below:

OHSHII tokens to lock

Lock duration (months)

— estimated Voting Power

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VP = min( √( Σ tokens × months² ), 36,000 ) · minimum lock 1.5 months · capped at 36,000 VP per user

Voting power is computed over all your eligible locks together: the sum runs over every lock you hold, and the square root and the cap are applied once to that total. For a single lock that is exactly √tokens × months, which is what this estimator shows. Splitting one amount across several locks gives the same voting power as one lock of the same size, and adding a lock to locks you already hold raises your voting power by the difference between the new total and the current one, not by the figure above.

Estimate only. The on-chain calculation uses the net locked amount (after the 1% OhShii platform fee), so actual VP is marginally lower. Tiers above Guest also require a strong identity verification (Telegram; a Google verification does not count), and Fish/Shark/Whale require active-voter status — not shown here.

Purchase-limit tiers:

• Guest — no strong verification — 1M token cap (pays the one-time OHSHII fee)
• Human — strongly verified — 4M token cap (no fee)
• Fish — strongly verified + ≥ 2,000 VP + active voter — 12M token cap
• Shark — strongly verified + ≥ 10,000 VP + active voter — 18M token cap
• Whale — strongly verified + ≥ 30,000 VP + active voter — 24M token cap

A strong verification (Telegram, or an earlier World ID or DecideID verification) is required for every tier above Guest — a Google-only wallet stays at Guest here; the Fish/Shark/Whale tiers additionally require active-voter status. The simulator above estimates Voting Power only — it does not check strong verification or voting, which are also required to reach a given tier.

See Purchase Limits & Tiers for the same table with the approximate OHSHII amounts to lock for each tier, and for where your own tier is displayed in the launcher.

Notes:

• The VP calculation uses the net locked amount (after the 1% OhShii platform fee), so the simulator’s estimate is marginally higher than the on-chain value.
• A minimum lock duration of 1.5 months (45 days) is required for VP eligibility — shorter locks earn 0 VP.

You can vote on proposals on the Proposals page, and create an OHSHII lock on the OhShii Locker.

How Voting Power Works (Technical)

Quadratic Formula

VP = min( sqrt(OHSHII_tokens) × lock_months, 36,000 )

• Quadratic scaling: doubling the tokens does not double VP (~1.4x increase) — large holders get sub-linear voting weight.
• Linear time multiplier: each month of lock multiplies your base VP.
• Cap: maximum 36,000 VP per user — prevents any single wallet from dominating governance.
• Several locks count as one. Your locks are combined before the square root is applied, not after — so splitting the same amount of OHSHII across two, five or twenty locks gives you exactly the same Voting Power as putting it in one, for the same duration. Where the app shows a number next to an individual lock, that is that lock’s share of your total, and the shares add up to the total.

Built-in defenses (why the system resists gaming)

• Quadratic + cap → no whale dominance. Because VP grows with the square root of tokens and is capped at 36,000, buying more and more OHSHII yields progressively less influence; even an unlimited bag tops out at the Whale tier.
• Verification → one real person. Tiers above Guest require a strong method (Telegram, or an earlier World ID or DecideID verification), so you can’t farm high tiers across a fleet of wallets — every other wallet is stuck at the Guest cap. Google is deliberately not enough here: it raises the price of a second wallet, it does not prove a second person.
• Active-voter rule → capacity is earned, not owned. The Fish/Shark/Whale caps require you to keep voting (on at least 2 of the last 3 ONS proposals). Stop voting and you’re demoted to the Human cap until you resume — the high purchase capacity is rented by ongoing governance work.
• Delegation moves votes, not buy-power. If you delegate your vote (liquid democracy), the delegate casts your voting weight — but your LGE purchase tier is always computed from your own locks. A large holder can never lend their purchase tier to followers.

Requirements

• Minimum: 1.5 months (45 days) lock duration (governance-votable).
• Thresholds (governance-votable): 2,000 VP → Fish (12M), 10,000 VP → Shark (18M), 30,000 VP → Whale (24M). Approximate amounts to clear each tier: ~30k OHSHII × 1yr → ~2,080 VP (Fish); ~180k OHSHII × 2yr → ~10,180 VP (Shark); ~1.6M OHSHII × 2yr → ~30,360 VP (Whale).
• Multiple locks: your eligible locks are combined before the square root, then the result is capped at 36,000 per user (the cap value is governance-votable) (each lock must be ≥1.5 months). Splitting one amount across many locks changes nothing.

Which parameters the DAO can change

These values are not fixed in stone — the ONS DAO can change them, but only through a Critical governance proposal (the highest bar: ~65% approval, high quorum, guardian-vetoable). Governance-votable: the per-tier purchase limits (1M/4M/12M/18M/24M), the VP thresholds (Fish/Shark/Whale), the VP cap (36,000), the minimum lock duration (45 days), and the Guest fee amount (30,000 OHSHII). Fixed in code (changeable only by a canister upgrade): the quadratic formula itself (√tokens × months) and the active-voter rule (2 of the last 3 proposals).

Examples

• 100k OHSHII × 6 months = 1,897 VP
• 500k OHSHII × 12 months = 8,485 VP
• 5M OHSHII × 24 months = 36,000 VP (capped)