Tokenomics
POUNTY is launched on Pons. Every trade pays a 1% fee, and the creator share of that fee is not kept. It is split in two and put back to work for the token and for the platform.
Where the fee comes from
Pons charges 1% on every POUNTY trade, on the bonding curve and after graduation alike. Of that 1%, 30% goes to the Pons protocol and 70% goes to the token creator. That 70% is the creator share, and it is the money this page is about.
The creator share accrues in Pons' fee escrow and is claimed on-chain, so anyone can follow it on the explorer: what was claimed, what was bought back, what was burned, and which bounties were funded.
This is separate from the platform fee. Pounty still takes 5% on every bounty payout, as described in Payouts and fees. That fee runs the platform and is unchanged.
How the creator share is used
| Share | Use | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 50% | Buyback and burn | Fees are used to buy POUNTY on the open market. The tokens bought are burned, so the supply only goes down. |
| 50% | Bounties that promote Pounty | Fees fund new dares on the board itself: content, videos, threads, memes and stunts that bring people to Pounty. The reward for those dares is paid in stock, like any other bounty. |
The two halves feed each other. More trading means more fees. Half of the fees make the token scarcer, the other half creates more activity around it. Nothing from the trading fee is set aside for the team.
Buyback and burn
Buybacks are executed on-chain against the POUNTY pool. Burns send the tokens bought to the dead address, where nobody can move them again. Every buyback and every burn is a transaction anyone can verify, and the totals will be published on this page once the token is live.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Trading fee on Pons | 1% per trade |
| Creator share of the fee | 70% |
| Of which, buyback and burn | 50% |
| Of which, promotional bounties | 50% |
| Burn address | 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD |
Promotional bounties
The bounty half is spent on the board, in public. A promotional dare looks like any other dare: it has a title, a proof requirement, a reward and a deadline, and it follows the same escrow, review and payout rules. The only difference is who funds it.
This is the part that compounds. The people doing the dares are also the people talking about Pounty, and they are paid for it in stock.
The token is not live yet. The contract address on the home page is a placeholder until launch. When the token launches, this page will link the contract, the pool and the fee escrow, and will show the running totals for buybacks, burns and bounties funded.