The TYRE Fund
How the TYRE Fund chooses grants.
The TYRE Fund holds 50,000,000 TYRE for the people and cars that keep motoring history alive. Anyone can nominate, for free; you don’t need TYRE, a wallet or an app account. Every grant is published with its reason.
Round 1 has not opened yet. When it opens, it will be announced on this page. These are the rules as they stand; they may change before then or between rounds, and a round always runs on the rules published when it opened.
01 / What it supports
Four kinds of grant.
Young racers
Drivers in their first three seasons of competition, in any discipline.
Saving a car
A car that would otherwise be lost or broken up. The threat has to be real, checkable by someone other than the nominator, and older than the nomination.
Restorations
Bringing a car and its story back: a car with a documented history, a named restorer and dated photos of where it starts.
Tributes and memorials
For the people and cars that shaped the car world. A tribute is a public record, written with the family or estate, who can have it taken down at any time. It can also name a racer or car project for a grant.
02 / Nominating
How to nominate.
Nominations are taken by email, and only while a round is open.
Email a nomination
Once a round is open, email fund@tyretoken.org. Say which of the four kinds it is, who or what you are nominating, and how you know them: yourself, family, a friend, a club or team, the owner, or no connection.
You can nominate yourself or your own car if you say so. Up to two nominations per person each round. Only a parent or guardian can nominate anyone under 18, in any category.
Include evidence someone else can check
At least one thing that doesn’t rely on your word: published race results, a club or series name, dated photos of the car, proof of what threatens it, or a published obituary or record. Links are better than attachments.
The right person agrees
Nothing goes further until the right person emails the Fund from their own address to say yes and what may be shown: the racer; a parent or guardian for anyone under 18; the car’s owner; or, for a memorial, the family or estate.
The Fund never contacts them first, so if you nominate someone else, let them know and ask them to write in. The Fund checks who they are through a source it finds itself. If nobody agrees before the round closes, the nomination is dropped and never published.
If someone tells you they have nominated you, agree by typing fund@tyretoken.org into a new email yourself; never reply to an address or link you were sent.
After you nominate
- There is no public list of nominees. Only grants that are made are published, plus, once seconds begin, the decision on any nomination that reached five seconds.
- After each round the Fund publishes how many other nominations it received and why they didn’t go ahead, as numbers only.
Nominating is free and never earns points. Nothing about the Fund appears in the Curators of Speed apps.
03 / Decisions
Chosen, and explained.
Curators of Speed LLC decides, and says why. Each grant is judged on five tests.
- Evidence
- Can it be checked by someone other than the nominator?
- Impact
- What would be lost without it?
- Fit
- Does a grant of this kind actually help?
- Need
- Is it already paid for some other way?
- Clean
- Consent given, no conflict, checks passed.
A round can end with no grant in a category if nothing meets the tests. A round can be postponed or closed early; this page will say so if it is.
No conflicts
No grants to anyone connected to the people who run the Fund, their families or their businesses, or to any car they own, have owned, store or sell. They never nominate. At most one grant per household in any twelve months.
Until seconds switch on, the community’s say is through nominating. Holding TYRE never gives anyone more say.
How the community’s seconds will work
- Seconds switch on once about 100 people qualify: signed in to TYRE, with an app connected and verified activity in it. The people who run the Fund, their families and test accounts never count.
- Each person who qualifies can second up to three nominations a round, at most one second for each. No count is shown until the round closes.
- A nomination is shown only if its nominee agrees, and only to the people who can second.
- A nomination with five seconds is guaranteed a written, public decision. If it doesn’t get a grant, the reason is general and never an accusation.
- Seconds never pick a grant or set its size; Curators of Speed LLC decides. They are never used for anyone under 18 or for memorials.
04 / Grants
Every grant, in public.
250,000 TYRE per grant in round 1
In round 1, at most one grant for each of the four kinds. Each round’s size is set before nominations open.
- Paid
- In TYRE, on Base, from the Fund’s own wallet. A grant comes with no promise of any value.
- Who can be paid
- Anyone, anywhere can nominate, and a tribute can honour anyone, anywhere. In round 1 a grant can be paid only to someone who lives in the United States or an organisation based there.
- Under 18
- The grant is paid to their parent or guardian.
- No strings
- A grant never requires you to promote, hold or use anything. Any tax on it is yours.
- Published
- The kind, the amount, the date, the transaction, the reason, and how the nominator knows the nominee, including a self-nomination.
What stays private
- Names and photos are published only as the person who agreed chose.
- For anyone under 18, by default only the discipline and region, and never a school, home town or race schedule, even with a parent’s or guardian’s agreement.
- A car’s location is given only as a region, with just the last four characters of its chassis number. Location data is removed from every photo the Fund publishes.
- The payment stays on the blockchain for good; the page about it can be taken down on request.
- Private evidence is deleted 90 days after a round’s last payment, or 90 days after its results are published if it makes no grants.
05 / Safety
The Fund never writes first.
- The Fund never writes to you first. It only replies to an email you sent it, and only ever from fund@tyretoken.org, its only address.
- It never charges a fee, and never asks for your recovery phrase or private key.
- It never asks you to approve tokens, sign a transaction or send anything. To be paid, you sign one plain-text message that says only which grant you will receive and the address it goes to. Anything asking you to sign something else is not the Fund.
- It takes no donations, tips or top-ups, and there is nothing to buy to take part.
- No draws: grants are chosen, never left to chance.