GOLD protocol documentation

Supply architecture

MAX_SUPPLY: 1,000,000,000 GOLD. FOUNDER_MINT: 100,000,000 GOLD minted once to the immutable treasury at deployment. CURVE_SUPPLY: 900,000,000 GOLD. Curve issuance closes when curve-minted supply reaches 891,000,000 GOLD, or 99% of its allocation.

How minting works

Send ETH directly to the contract, call mint(minTokens), or call mintTo(to,minTokens). The contract separates the immutable treasury fee and the 0.30% vault tithe. Net ETH advances the exponential curve and newly implied GOLD is minted.

q(e) = C × (1 − exp(−e / S))

S is the immutable curve depth selected at deployment. The contract refunds excess ETH if a mint reaches the permanent curve halt.

How burning works

Call burn(amount,minEth). GOLD is destroyed and the inverse curve determines gross ETH released. The treasury fee is paid to the immutable treasury, the 0.30% tithe stays in the vault, and the remaining ETH is sent to the burner.

Δe = S × ln((C − s + b) / (C − s))

Fees and founder revenue

Treasury fee: supplied in basis points at deployment, hard-capped at 5%, immutable, and paid automatically on each mint and burn. Vault tithe: fixed at 0.30% and remains in the contract. Founder allocation: 100M GOLD minted to the treasury at deployment. DEX fees: earned by whoever controls the canonical concentrated-liquidity position.

Reserve and risk

The contract has no owner, pause, proxy, or reserve-withdraw function. ETH leaves only through burn payouts, mint refunds, and the immutable treasury fee. This does not remove economic risk. Curve parameters, fee rates, founder allocation, rounding, and the ability of all fungible GOLD—including founder tokens—to participate in burns require independent economic and security review.

DEX market

Anyone can create a pool on a permissionless exchange. The project should publish one canonical pool address and fee tier, clearly label unofficial markets, disclose LP custody, and avoid transfer restrictions that break integrations.

Rewards and utility possibilities

Use a separate audited rewards vault rather than curve reserve ETH. Possible modules include time-weighted staking, fixed-budget campaigns, loyalty tiers, fee rebates funded by a treasury, token-gated analytics, premium APIs, governance over external program budgets, referral quests, partner redemptions, holding-streak badges, and non-transferable membership credentials.

Wallet and network

The dashboard can request Robinhood Chain through wallet_addEthereumChain and add GOLD through wallet_watchAsset. RPC, explorer, contract, token image, WalletConnect, DEX, and social settings are supplied through Render environment variables.

Deployment checklist

Run all contract tests, commission an independent audit, model several values of S, deploy to testnet, verify the exact source and constructor arguments, test mint/burn/refund behavior with multiple wallets, secure the treasury and LP NFT with a multisig, configure a private production RPC, and publish all immutable parameters before accepting value.