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Turn any article into a market. Pay its authors.

Paste a link to a research paper, preprint or article and launch a token on it. A 2% author fee on every trade is held for the work’s verified authors and paid out in ETH.

Launch an articleI’m an authorHow it works
  • Fees enforced onchain
  • Non-custodial trading
  • Every payout on the explorer
Example article
SA

Sparse Attention

$SPARSE

Post-hoc head pruning for long-context transformers

arXivAuthors verified

Market cap

$61.4k

+12.8%

1.94e-8 ETH

1H1D1W
Author fee
2.00%
Accrued
3.12 ETH
Paid out
1.87 ETH

Payout sent

Confirmed
MO

M. Okonkwo

Verified author · Robinhood

0.42 ETH

Held for authors
accrued onchain, all articles
Paid out
verified authors
Author fee
2.00%
of every trade, 100% to authors
Graduation
Uniswap v4
at 4.2 ETH, liquidity locked

Works with

  • arXiv
  • bioRxiv
  • medRxiv
  • PubMed
  • SSRN
  • DOI links
  • Substack
  • Mirror
  • and any public URL

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How it works

From a link to a market in one transaction

Read the docs
  1. arxiv.org/abs/2409.01187
    1

    Paste a link

    arXiv, bioRxiv, a DOI, a Substack post. Title and authors are pulled in; you choose a name and ticker.

  2. $SPARSE1B supply
    Bonding curve38%
    2

    Launch on Pons

    Fixed 1B supply on a bonding curve. Metadata is locked onchain at launch. You pay gas plus Pons' ~0.0005 ETH fee.

  3. Trade1.000 ETH
    Author fee 2%0.020 ETH
    To treasuryheld
    3

    Fees accrue to authors

    A 2% author fee on every trade goes to a treasury held for the paper's authors. All of it.

  4. MO
    Verified
    Payout0.42 ETH
    4

    Authors verify, get paid

    DNS record, profile code, corresponding-author email or manual review. Verified authors receive ETH, split equally.

Fees

One fee for authors. Nothing hidden.

Every article carries the same 2% author fee, written into the token at launch. The treasury holds it for the work’s verified authors; balances and payouts are public on every article page.

  • Trading is non-custodial: you hold your tokens and ETH.
  • Author balances are published per article with explorer links.
  • Pons's owner can reassign a fee recipient after a 3-day public timelock.
ItemAmount

Author fee

Every trade

Verified authors, 100%

2.00%

Pons trading fee

Every trade

0.30% Pons · 0.70% Footnote platform

1.00%

Launch fee

Once, at launch

Pons and the network

~0.0005 ETH + gas

Unclaimed author fees

After 12 months

Open research fund

Remaining balance

The author fee is the Pons creator tax, fixed at 2.00% for every article launched here and enforced onchain.

Fee details

FAQ

Questions, answered plainly

Everything about fees, custody and verification is written down. If something is missing, the docs go deeper.

Full documentation
Do I need the authors' permission to launch?

No. Launching references a public work, and the economics are designed so the authors benefit from it. Use a respectful name and ticker: it is their work.

What does it cost?

Footnote charges nothing to launch: you pay gas and Pons’s ~0.0005 ETH launch fee. Each trade carries the 2% author fee plus Pons’s 1% trading fee. Verification is free.

What if an author never claims?

The fees keep accruing in the treasury. After 12 months without a verified claim the balance goes to the open research fund, and the article page shows that it did.

Is it custodial?

Trading is not. The author share is: the treasury holds it until verification. Balances are public per article and every payout links to the explorer.

Which chain is this on?

Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663), an EVM L2 with native ETH. Fees and payouts are in ETH. Explorer: robinhoodchain.blockscout.com.

Research deserves a market that pays its authors.

Launch an article in one transaction, or claim the fees that have already accrued on your work.

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