The desk
PUT YOUR DEGEN
ON THE DESK.
A degen sitting in your wallet is a degen on a break. Put it on the desk and it works the one floor where the stocks are already on chain: lock it, and it accrues tokenized equity — the same AAPL, NVDA and the rest that trade natively here.
How it is meant to work
Four steps, and the third is the one that decides whether the other three are worth anything.
Where the money would come from
Every staking programme is a claim about revenue. Most of them do not say what the revenue is, which is how they end up paying holders with holders’ money. Here it is, in advance, so it can be checked afterwards.
Mint proceeds
The mint is paid in our own token, launched through Pons on Robinhood Chain. A fixed share of what the mint raises is what seeds the desk, and it is set before the mint opens rather than decided after it.
Secondary royalties
The royalty on secondary sales goes to the same desk. A collection that trades pays the people holding it, which is the only version of this that survives a quiet month.
Nothing else
No emissions, no inflating a reward token to pay yesterday’s stakers. If the desk takes nothing in a week, it buys nothing that week, and the page will say so.
Badges, after the bell
Badges are sealed until the bell, so the multiplier cannot be published yet without publishing the thing it multiplies. The shape is decided: a rarer degen earns a larger share of the same pool, the curve is shallow rather than winner-takes-all, and the numbers go up here on the day the badges issue, before the first shift, not after.
Before the desk opens
In order. Each one is a real dependency, not a milestone invented to fill a roadmap.
Anyone promising you the last one before the first four exist is selling something.