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# Spending Tokens

The complete list of what LangX Tokens can be spent on — a streak freeze, filling in a missed day, cosmetic frames and titles, and sticker packs.

There are exactly four things to spend tokens on. The list is short on purpose, and it is worth explaining why before going through it.

## Streak freeze — 200 tokens

A streak freeze rescues a day you missed, so one bad day does not undo months of practice. Buy one in advance; if you miss a day, it is spent automatically and your streak survives.

You can bank **two at a time**. That is enough to cover real life — a flight, a hospital visit, a week that got away from you — and not enough to make the streak meaningless. A stockpile of freezes would turn a streak into a number you bought rather than a habit you kept.

## Fill in a missed day — 600 tokens

A freeze is bought before the day you miss. This is for the one you already missed: it fills a single empty square on your activity map, and if that square sat between two runs, your streak becomes the whole length.

Three limits, and each is doing a job:

* **The last 14 days only.** Beyond that you are not repairing a lapse, you are rewriting a season.
* **Two a month.** This is the one that matters. It is the cap rather than the price that stops a large balance manufacturing a streak nobody lived — at two a month, no amount of tokens buys a run you did not keep.
* **Never today.** Today is earned by using the app, which takes one message.

It costs more than a freeze on purpose. A freeze asks you to think ahead and costs you that foresight; a repair asks nothing of you but tokens, so it should not be the cheaper habit. Measured against what a day is worth — two hundred messages, at one token each — a repair is about three days of committed use to buy one day back.

Before you buy, the app tells you exactly what the purchase will do — including when the honest answer is *nothing much*. A square in the middle of a fortnight you were away for fills in and joins no streak at all, and you will be told that before you spend rather than after.

## Frames and titles

Cosmetic frames around your avatar, and titles shown next to your name. They change how your profile looks and nothing else.

There are ten frames and ten titles.

| Frame    | Tokens | Title    | Tokens  |
| -------- | ------ | -------- | ------- |
| Slate    | 1,000  | Beginner | 1,500   |
| Bronze   | 2,500  | Learner  | 3,000   |
| Sky      | 4,000  | Helper   | 5,000   |
| Silver   | 6,000  | Tutor    | 8,000   |
| Mint     | 9,000  | Mentor   | 12,000  |
| Ember    | 13,000 | Linguist | 15,000  |
| Gold     | 18,000 | Polyglot | 17,000  |
| Violet   | 25,000 | Scholar  | 20,000  |
| Midnight | 35,000 | Master   | 50,000  |
|          |        | Legend   | 100,000 |

One more frame, **Aurora**, cannot be saved up for. It costs 50,000 and is only offered to someone who has held a 365-day streak *and* corrected 5,000 times — the top rung of both ladders. Corrections in a chat, corrections on a post and recordings left on a pronunciation request all count towards that number; they are the same act in different media, and each one is paid the same. Anyone who qualifies has already earned more than its price from those alone, so the gate decides who and the price only decides when.

## Sticker packs — 1,000 tokens each

Two packs of twelve stickers to send in a chat. **Starter** is what you say in a conversation — a wave, an ear, a pencil, a mouth, a question mark; **Practice** is about the practice itself — slow down, again, let us switch languages, we got there.

Both cost the same, and that is the point: packs are not a ladder the way frames and titles are. There is no rung below either of them, so neither has to be bought before the other. If a third pack arrives it will sit beside these two rather than above them.

The stickers carry **no lettering**. LangX is read in eight languages, and a sticker that says *Nice!* would only work in one of them — so the drawings say it instead. Half of each pack is drawn for this app; the other half is Microsoft's Fluent Emoji under the MIT licence, used unmodified and credited in the app's *Our Kitchen* screen.

## Why the list ends there

Tokens **cannot** buy a paid feature — not filters, not a wider translation allowance, not the ability to start more conversations, not Nearby. That is deliberate. The moment tokens could buy a paid feature, farming tokens would become a substitute for subscribing, and the subscription is what pays for running the app. Keeping the sinks cosmetic — or, in the case of a filled-in day, keeping them inside the streak's own rules — is what lets the token economy be generous without undermining the thing that funds it.

For the same reason there is no way to buy tokens, send them to another member, or take them out of the app. See [LangX Token](/litepaper/token/token.md).

## Spending does not cost you your rank

The leaderboards rank tokens **earned**, not tokens held. Buying a gold frame does not drop you down the table — your balance falls, your all-time total does not. Spending and ranking are two different numbers, so you never have to choose between them.