How a public figure takes over their PolitiCap ticker — claim the listing, collect IPO float dibs, control the narrative, run corporate-style actions on the civic market, or delist with a public reason.

Why claim? Benefits for officeholders

Claiming is optional, but it is the only way to turn a passive listing into a tool you run. After a verified CLAIM you gain:

  • IPO float proceeds (the big one) — when players buy the public float (the ~20% sold into the market at and after IPO), the dibs from that purchase notional credit your PolitiCap play wallet on DutchBud — not the house desk. Until someone claims, the house broker holds the float inventory and the sale proceeds stay with the house. Claim, and you become the economic issuer: every client BUY against the remaining float pays you in virtual DutchBud / dibs (broker fee still goes to the house broker). That is why claiming before or during a hot IPO tape matters.
  • Control the narrative — the ticker page stops being a desk-only wire about you. You become the primary voice on your own listing: how the story is framed, what players see first, and how events land on the civic market tape.
  • Edit your own information — update profile text, office line, description, links, and presentation so the page matches how you want constituents and the press to read you (still inside PolitiCap rules; not a free-for-all smear pad).
  • Political traction — a claimed, verified ticker is a standing signal that you showed up. Players, journalists, and rivals can see an active officeholder account rather than an unclaimed index shell. Use it to steer attention, answer the tape, and convert crowd attention into an accountability conversation you participate in.
  • Corporate-style market tools — once you hold the retained book, you can do regular stock-market style actions on the virtual listing, including:
    • Share splits (e.g. adjust unit size so more players can hold small stakes)
    • Issuing new shares (expand authorized / outstanding float under product rules)
    • Other float and treasury moves the desk enables for claimers over time

    These are PolitiCap game mechanics in DutchBud / dibs (virtual credits) — not real-money securities and not a cash-out exchange.

In short: claim if you want the IPO dibs, ownership of the listing’s story, and the levers that look like a normal equity issuer — without leaving the civic market game layer.

Where do IPO purchase dibs go?

Situation Who receives the purchase notional (dibs) Who receives the broker fee
Ticker not claimed — players buy float from house broker House broker (escrow until claim) House broker
Ticker claimed — players buy remaining float Claiming officeholder (your play wallet) House broker
Secondary sell by a player back to the broker The selling player House broker

Default IPO split: about 20% public float for sale, 80% retained granted to you on claim (virtual shares). Price × quantity on float BUYs is the dibs flow above. Always virtual closed-loop credits — never cash-out to euros.

What CLAIM means (mechanics)

Every person ticker starts index-listed / not yet claimed. After the market is open (tradeable), someone who has completed identity verification can CLAIM that ticker. Claiming:

  • Binds the ticker to your PolitiCap account
  • Marks the listing Verified claim with your display name
  • Grants you the retained 80% of outstanding shares (virtual DutchBud / DBB game shares — not real-money securities)
  • Leaves the public float (about 20%) with the house broker so other players can still buy and sell — with buy notional now routing to you
  • Unlocks narrative, profile-edit, corporate-action, and IPO proceeds benefits above

Price history and prior trades are not erased. Dibs already taken by the house on pre-claim float sales are not clawed back; claim from the next BUY onward.

What DELIST means

Only the claiming account can delist. Delisting:

  • Requires a public reason (at least 10 characters) — shown on the ticker page
  • Sets the listing to delisted and closes trading
  • Keeps a tombstone page so the reason stays visible

Want a ticker gone? There is no anonymous “take this down” button. The path is intentional:

  1. Sign up on politicap.eu
  2. Reach trust level 4 (government ID)
  3. Claim the ticker
  4. Delist and state your reason publicly

That filters drive-by requests: only someone willing to verify identity and own the listing can opt it out — and they leave a reason on the record.

Requirements

Action Requirement
CLAIM Logged in · trust level 4 · tradeable person ticker · not already claimed · one claim per account
DELIST You are the claimer · public reason ≥ 10 characters

Office-channel proof (official email, mandate) is not required in this phase. T4 is the gate.

Steps — claim

  1. Sign in on politicap.eu.
  2. My account → Trust → climb to level 4 (phone → Mollie €0.01 → Stripe ID).
  3. Open https://politicap.eu/t/SYMBOL/.
  4. Purple Officeholder panel → CLAIM SYMBOL.

Steps — delist

  1. You must already have claimed the ticker (same account).
  2. On the ticker page, enter a public reason.
  3. Click DELIST SYMBOL and confirm.
  4. The page shows Delisted with your reason; trading is closed.

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