The token
$S500 powers paid upgrades, holder SOL rewards, and protocol liquidity.
What $S500 is for
Basic indexing is free. Paid services on the S500 app require burning $S500. The first of those, on Burn, are featured listings and boosted listings.
Launch pool
$S500 launched on a Meteora DAMM v2 pool quoted in SOL. The pool started with 500,000,000 $S500 (50% of supply) and a 3% fee collected in SOL.
Fee split:
- 2% → $S500 holders in SOL every hour
- 1% → protocol
Launch-pool LP is permanently locked. Trade it on the mint page.
Protocol treasury
Originally 500,000,000 $S500 was to be seeded for protocol liquidity activity. 450,000,000 of those tokens have been burnt. The remaining 50,000,000 will be used for protocol liquidity pool activities that will create volume for the main pool and fees that are shared with $S500 holders.
As the protocol liquidity pool grows, there will be additional burns of $S500 supply.
Holders will vote on the next protocol pair from Liquidity.
Holder loop
Hold $S500 → earn SOL from $S500 trading activity, plus a basket of paired tokens each rewards epoch.
Launcher
Tokens created on STONK500’s launcher pay pool tax on bonding and graduated volume, plus optional transfer tax on token transfers. There is one launch mode — no standard / reward switch.
Fee split on those launches:
- 80% → holders of the launched token
- 20% → protocol fees added to the protocol treasury
Trading terminal
Swaps on the token terminal charge a 1% fee. That fee splits 50 / 50:
- 50% → buy back and burn $S500
- 50% → protocol treasury
Deflation
$S500 is deflationary by design. The loops reinforce each other:
- App services burn $S500
- Half of terminal swap fees buy back and burn $S500
- As the protocol liquidity pool grows, additional $S500 supply is burned
- Trading across $S500 pools creates fees, buy pressure, and a supply sink
See tokenomics for the supply split.