How HodlHive works

Every token here launches on a Raydium LaunchLab bonding curve under the HodlHive platform. Every trade on every one of them pays a platform fee into one wallet, the hive. Every 30 minutes the hive splits what it received: 80% to the holders of all HodlHive tokens, by the SOL value they held through the window, and 20% to buy and burn $HIVE, the core.

The idea

A launchpad usually pays the creator and the platform. HodlHive pays the holders. The creator takes no fee at all: they earn as one of their own token's holders, like everyone else. The platform's share is the core's: it buys the platform token on the open market and burns it, so every token's volume becomes demand for $HIVE.

How an epoch pays

An epoch is a fixed window of 30 minutes on the clock: the window that starts at :00 and the one that starts at :30. Each one ends the same way.

1. A secret snapshot. When the window opens, the server draws one moment inside it at random and keeps it to itself. At that moment it reads every holder of every HodlHive token: one getProgramAccounts per mint, owner and balance only, summed per wallet.
2. The hive collects. When the window closes, the hive claims the platform fee of every curve in one transaction, harvests the locked-liquidity fees of migrated tokens, collects their pool creator fee, and unwraps it all into plain SOL.
3. The pool. The pool of the epoch is the hive's balance minus what it already owes to holders and to the core, minus a 0.02 SOL reserve for transaction fees. Whatever actually arrived is split; nothing is estimated.
4. The core takes 20%. That share buys $HIVE on its own pool and burns it in the same epoch. Below 0.005 SOL it carries over as a debt to the core, so it is never redistributed to holders.
5. Holders get 80%. Each wallet's share is its weight over everyone's weight. The amount accrues to the wallet; once it reaches 0.001 SOL the hive sends it as a plain transfer. Nothing to claim, nothing to sign.

What counts as holding

Because the snapshot moment is unknown, the only way to be counted is to hold through the whole window. Buying just before a snapshot and selling right after earns nothing: it pays the trade fee into the hive and takes nothing out of it. A token's first epoch pays its holders nothing, there is no previous snapshot yet; from the second epoch on they are in.

• ✓ Wallets count. A token account owned by a program (a pool vault, a lock, an escrow), the burn address and the hive itself never count.
• ✓ Price is the token's own pool at the close: the curve's marginal price before migration, the Raydium pool's reserves after.
• ✓ Splitting a balance across wallets changes nothing: the rule is linear. Holding ten tokens or one changes nothing: value is value.

A worked example

Three wallets, two tokens, one epoch whose pool is 1.000 SOL. Token A is priced so that 1,000 units are worth 1 SOL; token B so that 10,000 units are worth 1 SOL.

Bo and Cy hold different tokens and earn the same, because they held the same value. Ann holds twice the value and earns twice. A fourth wallet that bought A after the snapshot earns nothing this epoch and is counted from the next.

Fees

The platform rate is written in the platform config on chain and read from there by this page. The admin can change it for future trades (LaunchLab allows up to 5%); a change never touches what is already in the hive, and the rate a migrated pool uses is fixed at migration.

The core: $HIVE

$HIVE is a HodlHive token like any other, launched on the platform through the same form. What makes it the core is the engine's rule: every epoch 20% of the pool buys it, on its curve while it is there and in its Raydium pool after migration, and burns what it bought in the same epoch. The purchase itself pays the platform fee, which lands back in the hive for the next epoch.

• ✓ Its holders earn as holders of any token here; their weight is the SOL value of $HIVE they hold.
• ✓ The supply only shrinks: the mint authority is revoked at launch, the burn is a plain SPL burn from the hive wallet.
• · Not launched yet. Until it is, the core's 20% is not taken: the whole pool goes to holders.

Launching

1. Name it. A name (up to 32 bytes), a ticker (up to 10), an image, a description, links. Name, ticker and the image link are written into the mint and cannot be changed afterwards, by anyone.
2. Your first buy, if you want one. It rides in the launch transaction, so nothing gets in ahead of it. Capped at 10% of the supply, paid in SOL.
3. Sign once. One transaction creates the mint, the curve under the HodlHive platform and your buy. It lands whole or not at all. The site signs the mint's part before your wallet sees it; the mint key is dropped the moment it has signed.
4. Trade and earn. Your token trades on its curve from the first second. Your holders are counted from the first full epoch they hold through, and so are you.

The supply is 1,000,000,000 with 6 decimals, no mint and no freeze authority. Until the target is raised, buyers' SOL sits in the curve and sellers can take it back out; most curves never fill. Only Raydium's migrator can migrate a curve.

Payouts

What you are owed accrues to your address in the hive's ledger. Once it reaches 0.001 SOL, the hive sends it as a plain SOL transfer, 16 wallets per transaction, and lists the transaction on your Earnings page. Below the threshold it carries over to the next epoch: a transfer costs the hive 5,000 lamports per 16 wallets, so the overhead stays under 0.03% of what is paid.

• ✓ A transfer that does not land goes back to your balance and is sent again next epoch. A transfer is never sent twice: every one is written to the ledger with its signature before it goes out, and checked by signature after a restart.
• ✓ The pool is computed from the hive's real balance minus its debts, so a missed claim or a failed transfer can never make it promise more than it holds.
• ✓ Transaction fees come out of the hive's reserve, which refills from the next epoch's fees. There is no separate "gas" charge to anyone.

On-chain proofs

Read from the chain, not from us. Every line opens Solscan.

Risks and trust points

Addresses and API

The ledger is public, no key needed: /api/hive (tokens, shared-holder links, the hive's numbers), /api/wallet/<address> (holdings, epochs, payouts of a wallet), /api/token/<mint>/trades and /api/token/<mint>/candles?tf=60, /meta/<mint> (the metadata JSON written into the mint).

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