Purchase Limits & Tiers
Every wallet has a maximum number of campaign tokens it can buy in a single LGE. That maximum is set by your participation tier. There are five tiers, and this page lists all of them, what each one requires, and how much OHSHII you would need to lock to reach it.
The five tiers and their token caps
Section titled “The five tiers and their token caps”| Tier | Maximum tokens per LGE | What it requires |
|---|---|---|
| Guest 👤 | 1,000,000 (1M) | Nothing — but pays the Guest fee (30,000 OHSHII, once per LGE) |
| Human 🧍 | 4,000,000 (4M) | Strongly verified (Telegram, or an earlier World ID or DecideID verification) — no fee |
| Fish 🐟 | 12,000,000 (12M) | Strongly verified + ≥ 2,000 VP + active voter |
| Shark 🦈 | 18,000,000 (18M) | Strongly verified + ≥ 10,000 VP + active voter |
| Whale 🐋 | 24,000,000 (24M) | Strongly verified + ≥ 30,000 VP + active voter |
The cap is per wallet, per LGE — it resets for each new campaign. Every figure above is governance-votable: the ONS DAO can change the caps, the VP thresholds and the fee through a Critical proposal.
How to reach each tier
Section titled “How to reach each tier”Three things stack, and all three are required for Fish and above:
- Verify your identity with a strong method — Telegram. World ID and DecideID are legacy strong methods: they no longer accept new verifications, and wallets verified with them earlier keep this level. This alone takes you from Guest (1M) to Human (4M) and removes the Guest fee. Verifying with Google unlocks governance but leaves you at Guest for purchase limits. OhShii stores no name and no document: only that your principal is verified, with which method, and a salted one-way digest that stops one account from verifying many principals.
- Lock OHSHII to earn Voting Power (VP) —
VP = min( √tokens × lock_months , 36,000 ). The lock must run at least 45 days (1.5 months); anything shorter earns 0 VP. - Stay an active voter — vote on at least 2 of the last 3 countable ONS proposals. Locking alone is not enough: a wallet without a strong verification, or one that stops voting, cannot hold Fish, Shark or Whale.
If you stop voting you drop back to the Human cap (4M) until you vote again. Your verification and your VP are kept — only the cap drops.
How much OHSHII to lock
Section titled “How much OHSHII to lock”Because VP grows with the square root of the amount and linearly with the duration, locking for longer is far cheaper than locking more. Approximate amounts of OHSHII to clear each threshold:
| Target | 6-month lock | 1-year lock | 2-year lock |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish (2,000 VP) | ~111,000 | ~28,000 | ~7,000 |
| Shark (10,000 VP) | ~2,780,000 | ~695,000 | ~174,000 |
| Whale (30,000 VP) | ~25,000,000 | ~6,250,000 | ~1,563,000 |
A quick way to remember it: ~30k OHSHII for 1 year → Fish, ~180k for 2 years → Shark, ~1.6M for 2 years → Whale.
Two details that move the numbers slightly:
- VP is computed on the net amount, after the locker’s 1% platform fee — lock about 1% more than the figure above.
- Your eligible locks are combined before the square root is applied, then capped at 36,000 per wallet. Several shorter locks can add up to a tier, as long as each one is ≥ 45 days — but splitting one amount across several locks gains you nothing, because the combination happens first. A number shown next to an individual lock is that lock’s share of your total.
Use the Voting Power simulator to try your own amount and duration before committing.
Where to see your own tier
Section titled “Where to see your own tier”- On the campaign page of any active LGE. When a launch is running, the participation panel shows your current tier, the tokens you may still buy in that campaign, and what the next tier up would require. This is the authoritative number — it comes from the canister and already accounts for verification and active-voter status.
- In the launcher, under Governance → How it works. The five tier cards are marked passed / current / locked against your own tier, so you can see the whole ladder and where you sit on it even when no LGE is running.
- Your Voting Power is shown on the same Governance page once you connect a wallet and select OHSHII.
The Guest fee, briefly
Section titled “The Guest fee, briefly”Guest-tier wallets (no strong verification: unverified, or verified with Google only) pay 30,000 OHSHII on their first contribution to each LGE. It is an anti-Sybil measure, not a universal cost: a strong identity verification (Telegram) removes it entirely, and a Google verification does not. The fee is held for the campaign and comes back if the LGE fails (within its 7-day refund window), less 0.02 OHSHII of ledger fees; if the LGE succeeds it goes 100% to the OhShii treasury — it is never burned. Each LGE also accepts at most 50 Guest participants.
Two things the tiers are not
Section titled “Two things the tiers are not”- Lock Points are not Voting Power. Lock Points are a separate score shown in the locker; they gate nothing on OhShii. Only VP (plus a strong verification and voting) sets your tier.
- Delegation does not move purchase capacity. If you delegate your vote, the delegate casts your voting weight — but your LGE tier is always computed from your own locks. A large holder cannot lend their tier to anyone.
Related
Section titled “Related”- LGE Participation — the full participation guide, including the minimum contribution and the VP simulator.
- What is an LGE — what you are participating in.
- Voting — how voting works and what counts as a countable proposal.
- Liquid Democracy — delegating your vote.
- Refunds — what happens if an LGE does not complete.