STARTUP®
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Rules that don’t move.

STARTUP launches tokens on the pons curve on Robinhood Chain and adds what pons does not have: a vault for the team supply, holder drops, dev notes, a boardroom, and a fee that burns $STARTUP.

Fees

Fee model

pons charges the trade fee; the creator side of it lands in the STARTUP vault, and 20% of that burns $STARTUP.
pons curve fee1%Charged by pons on every buy and sell while the token is on the curve. 30% stays with pons; 70% is the creator bucket.
Creator tax0 – 10%Chosen by the creator at launch, charged on top of the curve fee, paid to the creator fee recipient in full.
Holder fee sharingon / offWhen on, pons buys the token back with half of the creator bucket and locks it for holders.
STARTUP fee20%Of everything the vault receives as creator fees and creator tax. It has one use: buying $STARTUP and burning it. The other 80% is paid to the creator.
Graduation4.2 ETHRaised on the pons curve; the pool seeds a Uniswap v4 position on Robinhood Chain.
Launch fee0.0005 ETHPaid to pons in the launch transaction, plus the dev buy.
Drops0%Holder drops carry no fee. Gas for claiming is paid by the claimant.
$STARTUP

Buyback & burn

The protocol's 20% has one destination. There is no treasury multisig and no withdraw function.

Every launch made through STARTUP names the STARTUP vault as its creator fee recipient on pons, so creator fees and creator tax are swept into the vault. 80% is paid on to the creator; 20% goes to the BuybackBurner, where anyone can call buybackAndBurn(amount, minOut): the ETH is swapped for $STARTUP at a TWAP-floored price and the tokens are sent to the dead address. More volume on any launch means less $STARTUP in circulation.

Source
20% of creator fees + creator tax on every launch
Trigger
permissionless, in batches above the minimum
Price protection
TWAP floor, tolerance fixed at deploy; fails closed
Burn address
0x000…dEaD
Curve

pons bonding curve

Constant product with a phantom quote reserve. Every launch through STARTUP uses pons launch config 0.
Total supply
1,000,000,000
Team supply
the dev buy at launch, delivered to the vault
Phantom quote
1.68 ETH
Curve fee
1% + creator tax
Graduation
4.2 ETH raised
Snipe tax
99% in the launch second, decaying to 0 over 3 s
tokensOut = (quoteIn − fee − tax) · tokenReserve / (quoteReserve + quoteIn − fee − tax)
Vault

Team supply

The dev buy lands in the STARTUP vault in the launch transaction. The creator chooses how it releases; the sum is 100%.
CLIFFTime lock

The tranche is locked for 7–365 days and released in full at the end.

LINEARLinear vesting

Optional cliff, then continuous release over 30–365 days. Claimable at any time for the vested part.

MCAPMarket-cap milestones

Each milestone releases a share when the token’s ATH market cap crosses it. Releases ratchet and never reverse.

DROPHolder drop

The tranche is never claimable by the team. It is split into epochs and distributed to top holders by merkle root.

Drops

Holder rewards

Rewards the biggest holders, scaled by how long they have held. Every parameter is set by the creator at launch.
weight = balanceα × (1 + (Tmax − 1) · min(1, days_held / horizon))
share = weight / Σ weight over eligible wallets
Eligible set
top N wallets by balance (10–500)
α (alpha)
0.5–1.0, below 1 flattens whales
T max
1–5×, reached after the horizon
Horizon
7–180 days of continuous holding
Minimum hold
0–30 days to qualify at all
Epochs
1–52 epochs of 1, 7, 14 or 30 days

Selling any amount resets the hold timer. The indexer takes a snapshot at each epoch end, publishes the weights, and posts the merkle root to the HolderDrops contract. Claims are open indefinitely.

Boardroom

Top-50 chat

A wallet-verified room per token for the largest holders.

The top 50 wallets by balance can enter by signing a message (no gas). Seats are re-checked hourly; fall below the cutoff and access lapses until you are back in.

Members post messages and proposals. Proposals are non-binding signals with upvotes; the creator marks them accepted or declined. The creator can also post in the room and in the one-way Dev Notes feed.

Chain

Contracts

Robinhood Chain mainnet (chain id 4663). pons contracts are live; STARTUP's burner is filled in when deployed.
PonsV2LaunchFactorypons launch registry, fee policy, graduation0x7eD5…EC7e
PonsV2LaunchAndBuylaunch + dev buy in one transaction; the dev buy goes to the STARTUP vault0xe33E…2948
PonsV2BondingCurveconstant-product curve, 1% fee + creator taxper launch
STARTUP vaultcustodies team supply and creator fees, releases on the vault scheduleplatform wallet
BuybackBurnerbuys $STARTUP with the STARTUP fee and burns it0x… (TBD)
STARTUPthe token that gets burned0x… (TBD)
Solidity 0.8.xRobinhood ChainNo admin keys