/// Reading the chain
/// Founding a DAO
One transaction founds an empire
You supply exactly three things — a name, a ticker, and a staking rebase cadence. Everything else — the curves, the treasury, the senate, the floor — is protocol, and it is identical for every DAO ever founded here.
/// The founding call
What the founder decides
Founding a DAO is a single call. The founder passes three inputs and signs once; the factory deploys the token, both Uniswap v4 curves, the staking stack, the bond depository, and the senate in that one transaction. There is no multi-step wizard of economic knobs to turn — the economics are the protocol’s, not yours to set.
1 · Name
The display name of the DAO — how it reads across the forum and every treasury it appears in.
2 · Ticker
The symbol of the DAO token. Its staked and governance wrappers derive from it automatically.
3 · Rebase cadence
How often staking rebases — one of 1h, 2h, 4h, or 8h. It changes only the tempo of emissions, never the daily amount. See staking & cadence.
Standard termsfixed for every DAO
- ✦$5.00 launch price × 2,500 supply — ~$12,500 starting FDV
- ✦two single-sided stepped v4 curves — 70% WETH / 30% gROHM
- ✦dynamic fee ~1% steady, up to ~30% over a ~120s MEV window
- ✦swap fees split 50/50 — DAO treasury / ROHME
- ✦2.5% ROHME grant paid as the DAO gTOKEN — no founder allocation
- ✦10 gROHM launch fee, burned on founding — set by ROHME, changeable anytime
- ✦redemption floor always on · bond markets gated at launch
/// The honest part
No founder allocationNo presale, no raise, no founder tokens
There is no presale and no founding raise. No allocation is minted to the founder, to insiders, or to ROHME’s treasury as a cut of supply. The founder starts with zero DAO tokens and buys their own supply from the curve like anyone else, at the same price, into the same MEV window.
The only protocol-side receipt is a 2.5% grant to ROHME, and it is paid in the DAO’s own governance token — the gTOKEN — not in a reserved slice of the float. Founding here is a claim on a fair start, not a head start.
/// The starting book
The two curves
Launch price$5.00per token
Supply at genesis2,500tokens
Starting FDV~$12,500price × supply
Curve split · WETH / gROHM70 / 30single-sided legs
Every DAO opens on two single-sided, stepped Uniswap v4 curves. The book is seeded 70% against WETH and 30% against gROHM, so the DAO has real, whitelisted backing from its first block — those curve legs are what let staking emit and bonds open at all. See how backing is valued.
Steady fee~1%normal trading
MEV cap~30%top of the window
MEV window~120sdecays to steady
The dynamic fee opens high — up to ~30% — and decays across a ~120-second MEV window down to the ~1% steady rate, so the snipers who race the open pay the DAO for the privilege instead of extracting from it.
/// Where the fees go
The 50/50 split and the 2.5% grant
Every swap
Fee split50 / 50DAO treasury / ROHME
Swap fees are split evenly: half accrues to the DAO’s own treasury as backing, half to ROHME as the protocol’s revenue. The same rule holds for every DAO and cannot be tuned per-launch.
The grant
ROHME grant · paid as gTOKEN2.5%not a supply reservation
ROHME receives a 2.5% grant denominated in the DAO’s governance token. Because it is the gTOKEN and not raw float, it is stake that must be governed, not a pre-mine that can be dumped on the open.
/// The first block
What happens at open()
When the DAO opens, the two curves go live and trading begins under the decaying MEV fee. From that first block:
- Curves are tradeableThe 70/30 book is seeded and swaps route through it under the ~120s decaying fee.
- Backing exists immediatelyThe curve legs are counted as reserves via a per-DAO CurveLegReceipt, so the DAO is backed at birth — not after some later bootstrap.
- Emissions are on but gatedStaking rebases from genesis, but only mints against excess reserves; with no excess it simply mints nothing and never reverts.
- The floor is already openHolders can rage-quit for their pro-rata share of the liquid reserves from the very first block.