Say hello to TREE, the native token of Treehouse and the fuel behind a new era of fixed income in crypto.

“Fixed income hasn’t had its DeFi moment — until now.”

For too long, DeFi has lacked reliable rate infrastructure and sustainable yield design, the critical foundations that make fixed income work in traditional finance. With Gaia and the launch of TREE, that gap is finally being addressed. 

Treehouse is building the fixed income layer for digital assets, making returns safer, more transparent, and more accessible for everyone, from individual users to global institutions.

We’re setting the stage for the future of fixed income through our core products:

  • tAssets (starting with tETH): Liquid staking tokens with embedded arbitrage strategies that capture yield opportunities while remaining DeFi-compatible.
  • Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR): A consensus-driven benchmark rate system used to establish reliable on-chain interest rates across protocols.

By coordinating benchmark rates through DOR, powering yield through tAssets, and aligning stakeholders with TREE, we’re making fixed income in DeFi a reality — unlocking a $6 trillion opportunity, onchain.

With Gaia, Treehouse’s Token Generation Event (TGE), TREE serves as the catalyst to activate the next phase of protocol growth, unlock utility, foster alignment, and empower the community to help shape the future of decentralized finance.

What Is TREE?

TREE is Treehouse’s native token, powering both utility and governance across the protocol. It serves to drive sustainable growth and enhance value accrual across the DOR ecosystem. 

From steering protocol decisions to fuelling consensus, TREE aligns the community, users, developers, and contributors in building the fixed income market within DeFi.

Utility of TREE

TREE serves as a medium of exchange for Treehouse—incentivizing the DOR ecosystem and its participants to predict rates transparently and accurately, while driving fixed income growth and enabling decentralized governance. 

Deeply integrated across the Treehouse ecosystem, key utilities include:

  1. Querying Fees: Protocols and enterprises using DOR data pay fees in TREE, generating sustainable revenue and ensuring fair data usage.
  2. Panelist Staking: Participants in the DOR rate-setting process must stake TREE or tAssets, ensuring aligned interests.
  3. Consensus Payouts: Panelists and Delegators will be rewarded in TREE, based on prediction accuracy, encouraging participation and accurate data prediction.
  4. Governance: TREE holders will help govern the protocol, with voting rights over key decisions that shape the future of Treehouse and fixed income.
  5. DAO Grants: The Treehouse DAO will allocate TREE to fund strategic partnerships and ecosystem initiatives, accelerating product development and expanding DOR adoption across digital assets.

For more information on TREE Utility, please refer to the TREE Utility Documentation.

Tokenomics Overview

TREE was designed to support long-term sustainability, ecosystem alignment, and responsible growth.

Designed with a community-first approach, the TREE tokenomics were designed to strike a balance between protocol development, strategic expansion, and community participation.

A meaningful portion of TREE is allocated to community-facing initiatives—rewarding users who stake, govern, and contribute across the ecosystem. Over one-third of the total supply is committed to efforts such as protocol rewards, ecosystem incentives, liquidity support, and airdrops.

Our goal is simple: build a system where value flows back to participants, laying the groundwork for deeper decentralization and shared ownership.

The total supply of TREE is 1,000,000,000 tokens.

Distribution & Unlock Schedules

To ensure fairness and sustainability, $TREE will unlock gradually over a four-year period through structured cliffs and vesting schedules. 

Each allocation category follows its own timeline to promote accountability and long-term alignment.

Allocation Categories

Community Airdrop (10%)

One-time distribution of TREE to early contributors, testers, and protocol participants to democratize ownership. This airdrop recognizes the grassroots efforts of Treehouse’s early believers and sets the stage for broader community governance participation.

Ecosystem Fund (10%)

A long-term fund dedicated to builders, developers, and ecosystem partners who expand the DOR standard and Treehouse product suite. The Ecosystem Fund supports grants, integrations, hackathons, and new on-chain products that leverage Treehouse infrastructure.

Core Contributors (5%)

Allocated to individuals and entities who played a critical role in protocol design, research, or infrastructure development. This allocation is governed separately from the Team allocation, and focuses on long-term contributors beyond the core team.

Exchange Partnerships (3.75%)

Tokens reserved for exchanges to bootstrap community interest, and cultivate alignment between Treehouse and their ecosystems. This allocation supports awareness, accessibility, and early liquidity.

Future Airdrops (5.75%)

Reserved for post-launch growth campaigns, protocol expansions, and strategic community-building efforts. This allocation enables flexibility to reward participation and drive adoption beyond the initial airdrop phase.

Liquidity Provision (3%)

Allocated to seed on-chain liquidity pools and ensure sufficient depth for TREE across key trading venues. These tokens are used to reduce slippage, maintain stable price discovery, and support early token utility.

Unlock Schedule

Treehouse adopts a structured vesting and unlock framework to ensure gradual distribution of TREE over time. The unlock schedule spans 48 months from Token Genesis, with each allocation category following a predefined release curve.

For more information on TREE tokenomics, please refer to the TREE Token Tokenomics Documentation.

Shape the Future With Us

Fixed income is one of the largest and most foundational markets in traditional finance — and now, it’s finally taking root onchain.

With Gaia and the launch of TREE, we’re not just releasing a token, we’re activating the next era of decentralized finance.

TREE is an invitation: To contribute. To govern. To build.

This is where fixed income meets the future.
And it belongs to those who show up and shape it.

The forest is growing. And we’re just getting started.

About Treehouse 🌳

Treehouse, a digital assets infrastructure firm and the decentralized arm of the parent company Treehouse Labs, is at the forefront of revolutionizing the decentralized fixed income market. Treehouse Protocol introduces innovative fixed income products and primitives, starting with its first tAsset, tETH, a liquid staking token that empowers its users to participate in the convergence of on-chain Ethereum interest rates while retaining the flexibility to engage in DeFi activities. 

Treehouse Protocol is also pioneering the Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR) consensus mechanism for benchmark rate setting, enabling a range of fixed income products and primitives into digital assets. Treehouse is dedicated to creating safer and more predictable return alternatives for both individual investors and institutions.