WHY TOKEN

Most tokens are a logo attached to a hope. This one is a key to a venue. Every utility below is enforced by the trustless darkpool contract — not by a roadmap.

ACCESS

The darkpool is token-gated at the contract level. Posting a block requires minPost, filling one requires minFill — checked onchain in the same transaction as settlement. No token, no execution. The gate can't be faked, scraped around, or begged past: the contract is the bouncer.

VIP DARKPOOL

Blocks flagged VIP are a second, quieter room. Holding the minVip threshold unlocks seeing them in the terminal and — enforced onchain — the right to post and fill them. The biggest size migrates to where fewer eyes are. Access to that flow is the product. Scarcity does the marketing.

FEE ECONOMICS

The protocol takes 0.5% of the quote side of every settled block — hard-capped at 1% in the contract, forever. Fee flow scales with settled volume, not with hype. Post-launch: a share of fees is routed to market buybacks of the token — volume becomes bid. Holder fee discounts are on the same lever.

SUPPLY & LAUNCH

Fair launch on Pons — Robinhood Chain's biggest launchpad. Fixed 1B supply, no presale, no team allocation — straight into a permanently locked Uniswap V3 / WETH pool, tradeable from block one. The pool's 1% swap fee pays a 90% creator share to the treasury — a second fee stream funding buybacks on top of darkpool fees. Graduation = the 4.2 ETH liquidity milestone.

THE GATES — WHAT THE CONTRACT ACTUALLY CHECKS

Gate	What it controls	Status
minPost	Minimum token balance to post a block into the darkpool. Your escrow, your price, your expiry — but you hold the key to the door.	SET AT GRADUATION
minFill	Minimum balance to fill anyone's block. Takers are gated too — the whole venue is holders-only once gates are live.	SET AT GRADUATION
minVip	The VIP tier. See, post, and fill hidden blocks. The highest threshold — deliberately. VIP is meant to be earned, not farmed.	SET AT GRADUATION
cancel	Never gated. Makers can always reclaim their escrow — your funds are never hostage to a threshold.	ALWAYS OPEN

THE FLYWHEEL

SIZE NEEDS EXIT→ BLOCKS SETTLE ONCHAIN→ 0.5% FEE FLOW→ TOKEN BUYBACKS→ GATE + VIP DEMAND→ DEEPER BOOK→ MORE SIZE COMES

STRAIGHT TALK

Read this before you ape:

The darkpool contract is an unaudited v1. Escrow logic is intentionally simple (single file, no upgradability, no admin power over funds) — but unaudited means unaudited. Size accordingly.
Gates are dormant at launch and flip on after graduation (the 4.2 ETH liquidity milestone), on a schedule we announce publicly. Until then the pool runs open — that's deliberate: flow first, walls second.
Onchain state is public. VIP visibility is gated in the terminal; VIP execution is gated by the contract. A chain-reader can see block metadata — truly sealed blocks (commit-reveal auctions) are the v2.
The token is a utility key to a venue, not a claim on profits, not equity, not a promise of number-go-up.