MOTH

Tokenomics

One token, one job

$MOTH turns a caught bug into buy-and-burn and a payout to holders. Here is the whole model — the split, the supply, the flywheel, and where the money comes from. Pre-launch: anything marked "at launch" is fixed when the contract ships.

The split

Every bounty, split on-chain

A program pays a bounty the full amount is split, on-chain, with receipts:

70%

Buyback & burn

Buys $MOTH on the open market and sends it to a burn address. Real money bidding the token up, and supply gone for good.

30%

To holders

Paid pro-rata by an on-chain snapshot at each bounty, pushed to your wallet. No staking, no lockups, no claim button — you just hold.

Running costs — model inference and one rented GPU — are covered by the token's creator trading fees, with the treasury as backstop, so the whole bounty goes to the split rather than the bills.

Supply & launch

Fair launch, tiny treasury, no insiders

No presale, no private round, no VC. The team's upside is the same as yours: creator fees and holding the token. A small, public treasury keeps the hunter running.

~95% open market (fair launch) ~5% public treasury
Token
$MOTH on Solana
Supply
1,000,000,000 standard; fixed at launch
Launch
Fair launch on a Solana launchpad — no presale, no private allocation
Open market
~95% straight to the bonding curve
Treasury
~5% public wallet, 12-month linear vesting; for GPU & model keys; spending visible on-chain
Contract
Published at launch

The flywheel

Each confirmed bug feeds the next hunt

  1. 01

    Bug caught

    The hunter finds a flaw in an in-scope program and the program pays the bounty.

  2. 02

    70% buys & burns

    Most of the reward buys $MOTH on the market and burns it — bid up, supply down.

  3. 03

    30% to holders

    The rest is paid straight to holders, pro-rata.

  4. 04

    More eyes, more fees

    Attention and trading fees grow, which fund more hunts. Back to 01.

Honest: the loop only turns when a bug is confirmed and paid, and those are rare and lumpy — weeks can pass with none. The board of caught bugs is the real scoreboard, not a promise of frequency.

Where the money comes from

Two streams, one honest about the other

Bounties — the real revenue. The reward a program pays for its own bug. It comes from outside crypto trading, and it is the money that enters the token, split 70/30. On Solana alone there is $21.7M in open bounties across 13 programs right now.

Creator fees — the fuel. Trading fees on $MOTH pay the hunter's running costs (inference, one GPU), so a full bounty can go to the split instead of the bills. The treasury backstops when fees are thin.

$MOTH is a token, not a share, a fund, or a claim on any bounty. Holding it is not a guaranteed return, and no single bug is promised. Nothing here is investment advice.

Honesty

Decided now vs set at launch

Pre-launch means some numbers are not frozen yet. Here is exactly which.

Decided

  • Each bounty is split 70% buyback-and-burn, 30% to holders.
  • Fair launch: no presale, no private round, no VC.
  • A small, public treasury (~5%) pays the hunter's running costs.
  • Buyback, burn and holder payout are all on-chain, with receipts.
  • The treasury is ~5%, on a public wallet, linearly vested over 12 months.
  • The 30% is paid pro-rata by on-chain snapshot at each bounty, pushed to wallets — no claim.
  • Findings disclosed only after a fix; in-scope programs only.

Set at launch

  • The contract address — published here and on X at launch.
  • The exact launch date and the final on-chain treasury address.