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PNK Token

PNK is the native token of the Kleros protocol. It serves two core functions: staking for juror eligibility and governance voting rights. Token holders stake PNK to participate in dispute resolution, with higher stakes increasing selection probability, and use it to vote on governance proposals, court parameters, and platform changes. The name references Pinakions, the bronze plates used in Ancient Athens for randomized jury selection.

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Token Supply

The max PNK token supply is 915,528,222.07931277. Supply changes are controlled exclusively through Kleros DAO governance votes.

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What PNK Is Used For

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Why Kleros Needs a Native Token

PNK’s design provides three layers of protection against a 51% (Sybil) attack:
  1. Market scarcity defense. Acquiring 51% of PNK becomes economically prohibitive: large purchases exhaust available liquidity and drive the price up, unlike an attack denominated in ETH or another asset with vastly deeper markets.
  2. Price impact risk. A successful attack would substantially devalue PNK itself, imposing a massive cost on the attacker that does not exist when attacking with an external asset.
  3. Fork capability. As a last resort, the community can perform an emergency fork that removes the attacker’s holdings, a recovery path unavailable with external tokens.

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How to Get PNK

The fastest way is the Buy PNK page of the Court, which routes to the exchanges listed there.

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What’s Next?

Tokenomics

The full economic model behind Kleros

Become a Juror

Stake PNK and start judging cases

Governance

Vote with PNK on protocol decisions