The Reservoir Model

The Belly holds WBNB funds before procurement. Each new meal allocation first subtracts funds already reserved for existing entitlements. Advancing the meal records budgets; funds leave the Belly later, when purchases or settlement complete, subject to the Belly’s separate window allowance and execution conditions.

For an on-time 8-hour meal, the nominal allocation is at most 1/21 of unreserved funds. A delayed advance counts at most 16 hours of eligible allocation time; it does not create every missed meal. Actual allocation also depends on launch and participation conditions. See Belly allocation and limits.

Ideal decay estimate

With no new inflow, allocation and settlement every eight hours, no pause or backlog, and integer rounding ignored, unreserved funds shrink by 20/21 per meal. The resulting model half-life is approximately 4.736 days. This is an illustration of a regular schedule, not a deadline for actual payments or a guarantee of stable income.

Settlement is separate

Each position selects a menu asset. Its accounting share is recorded before market procurement; the quantity finally received depends on execution or WBNB fallback. Price checks do not eliminate execution costs, MEV or delay. See procurement and fallback.