One currency has to be spent for the other to be worth holding. Robinfall splits them in two.
Minted once, never again. Spend it and it is gone — every ticket bought with it burns on use, and there is no key anywhere that can make more.
Real Ethereum. The game does not mint it, drop it, or hand it out — it is the door fee, not the payout. What you came in with is still yours on the way out.
$YIELDMinted by playing, spent on territory and upgrades. It is a share of the trading fees the game actually earns — so it moves with the economy instead of pretending to be fixed.
Supply, the curve, the fee split and how $YIELD is valued are all in the whitepaper.