VITALS · DOCS

1The problem nobody shows you

When a Pons V2 launch opens, buying costs a 99% tax for three seconds. The creator can pre-register up to 32 wallets that pay none of it. Those wallets buy at zero, you buy at market, then they sell — and you're the bid.

The list of exempted wallets sits in the transaction that creates the token. It is public, permanent and readable by anyone. The Pons documentation describes one launch function and the list is one of its arguments. In practice there are four entry points, and 71% of launches come through one where the list is not in the documented call at all. A tool built from the docs reports "0 exemptions, clean" on exactly the launches that have them. VITALS decodes all four.

2The product

Paste any Pons V2 contract address into @vitalscheck_bot — in a DM, in a group, or inline from any chat. One second. Worst concern first, so the answer is in the first line.

Nine checks, every one read from the chain

1. Who got in tax-free — wallets the creator exempted from the opening tax, decoded across all four entry points
2. Creator opening buy — whether the creator bought in the transaction that created the token, and how much
3. Deployer history — how many tokens this address has launched and how many survived a day
4. Ticker collisions — matched after unicode normalisation
5. Ticker vs pair asset — whether the launch wears the ticker of the asset on the other side of its own pool
6. Creator tax — the cut taken from every trade, fixed at creation, against the median across the index
7. Buyback vesting — whether the creator locked fees into a buyback; roughly one launch in two hundred
8. Pair asset — what the launch is priced in and the risk it inherits from that asset
9. Holder concentration — and the largest single wallet

Commands

/full every metric · /stats the index · image render for posting outside Telegram · /watch deployer 0x… DM when it launches again · /watch wallet 0x… DM when it lands on an exemption list · /watch filter buyback · /watching · /unwatch · /legend how to read a card

What it won't do

No score. No grade. No traffic light. A grade reads as a recommendation, and the day a graded launch goes to zero, that screenshot is the tool telling someone to buy.

Absence of a finding is never "clean". When the data can't support a negative, the card says undetermined and names the check. No median under 30 observations. Facts and their reference points. You make the call.

3Why a token

The scan is free and stays free. $VITALS exists for three reasons, and none of them is a promise about price.

• Access. Holding unlocks the tiers in section 7 — the same access non-holders pay ETH for.
• Routing. A fixed tax on every trade funds buybacks, the people who build and distribute the tool, and the integrations that put it in front of more traders. Every wallet is public.
• Alignment. The tool that exposes insider launches is launched in the open, on the launchpad it scans, and scanned by itself five minutes after it goes live.

$VITALS is not a claim on profits, revenue or assets, and it carries no governance. Holding it entitles you to access. Nothing else.

4The launch

5The 4% and where it goes

Pons charges a base fee on every trade that goes to the protocol. Separately, the creator sets a creator tax at creation that can never be changed; it is paid to the creator fee wallet on the curve and, after graduation, through the Pons hook. Both are readable on-chain.

$VITALS creator tax is 4%. Of every trade, two halves:

The fee wallet and the buyback wallet are published before launch. Every buyback is a visible on-chain transaction from a wallet that never sells. A ledger is posted in the group every week: income, pool payouts, buybacks, treasury spend. Every transfer out of the treasury is announced 24 hours before it moves.

Why 4%

Because a token with a 0% tax has nothing behind it. This one funds buybacks, the people who distribute it and the integrations that grow it, out of turnover instead of out of holders. It is declared here, before launch, with the split. That is the standard we ask of every creator, and it is the standard we hold ourselves to.

Contributors are paid for work delivered — posts, registrations, integrations. Never for holding.

6Team, crew and partnership tokens — vesting

Nobody on the team or crew holds tokens that were not bought in the open. Any allocation to a team member, crew member or partner comes out of the declared dev buy and is placed in a verifiable vesting contract — OpenZeppelin VestingWallet, one per recipient, verified on the Robinhood Chain explorer:

• 30-day cliff, then linear release over 60 days
• recipient, amount and contract address published in the allocation table before launch
• partnership allocations release only against delivered integrations; each release is announced first

The full allocation table — mine, the team's, everyone's, with vesting schedules — is published before launch. On-chain and verifiable. Said early so you can hold me to it.

7Holder tiers

Tiers are access. They are checked live against your wallet's balance on Robinhood Chain and downgrade automatically when the balance falls. Ownership is proved once by signing a message; the bot never asks for keys.

Non-holders can buy PREMIUM for 0.05 ETH per 30 days — the same access, paid in ETH — or pay in $VITALS at a 20% discount, in which case the tokens are burned and the burn transaction posted. Holders get it while they hold. That is the utility: the token is a key to something people already pay for.

Thresholds can be lowered as the market cap grows, never raised. Any change is announced seven days ahead.

8Reasons to hold that are not price

• The feed. PREMIUM holders see every new Pons V2 launch as a card, in their DM, seconds after it exists — before the first KOL post. On a chain where 57% of buyers enter in the first five minutes, that is the whole edge.
• The bid under the token. 2% of every trade goes to a buyback wallet that buys and never sells. Not a distribution to holders — a structural bid everyone can watch on-chain, the way Hyperliquid routes fees into its assistance fund rather than paying them out.
• Referrals. Bring users and earn a share of what they pay, in ETH, for as long as they pay (section 9). Referred holders also lift your tier.
• Declarations. Every creator who wants a declared line on their launch card burns $VITALS to publish it (section 10). Every honest launch on Robinhood Chain removes supply.
• Crew launches. More launches will come from this crew. PREMIUM holders get the room first: registration for the next launch opens to holders 24 hours before everyone else. Some launches will die. The room is the edge, not a guarantee.
• Burns. Everything paid to the bot in $VITALS — premium, declarations, group licences — is burned, and the transaction posted. No new supply, ever.

What we copied from Banana Gun, and what we didn't

Banana Gun is the reference for a trading-bot token that works: referral links that pay from referees' fees, credits bought by burning the token, and a rewards model that turned users into holders. We copied the referrals, the burns and the user-to-holder loop.

We did not copy the 40% fee distribution to holders. Paying holders a share of revenue for holding is what turns a token into a financial instrument in the jurisdictions we operate in, and it is what makes a screenshot of the dashboard a promise. Our fees go into buybacks and building instead. Holding gets you access and the room. It does not get you a dividend.

9Referrals

Two programs, one before launch and one after.

Referral payouts come out of the paid-PREMIUM revenue they generate, not out of holders. A referee who buys $VITALS to reach a tier instead of paying counts toward your tier credit. Share the link where traders already are; the bot works inline from any chat, so the card itself is the pitch.

10Declared launches

A creator who declares their launch before it happens — dev buy, exemption list, creator tax and its split, vesting for any team tokens — gets a declared: line on their card under each relevant check, signed by the deployer wallet and timestamped before the launch transaction.

• Publishing a declaration burns 1,000,000 $VITALS. The burn transaction is linked from the card.
• Flags never disappear. A declaration adds context next to a finding; it does not remove it. If the launch transaction contradicts the declaration, the card says so — that is a finding of its own.
• $VITALS is the first declared launch. Its declaration is this page.

The effect over time: honest creators declare, the declared line becomes the thing they post, and the launches that won't declare say something by not declaring.

11Roadmap — what's coming next

Everything here is a target, not a promise. Dates are not published; shipped work is. Bad news comes from us first, within 24 hours.

Now

Pons V2 on Robinhood Chain. Nine checks, /watch, image cards, the index.

Next 30 days

• Holder feed and tiers (section 7), referrals (section 9)
• Related tokens with data on the card, not just names
• Declared launches (section 10) and the pre-launch check: run your own launch parameters through VITALS before you deploy
• Public index dashboard on checkvitals.xyz — exemptions, survival rates, creator-tax medians, live

Next 90 days

• Every launchpad on Robinhood Chain, not only Pons: one launch-intelligence layer for the whole chain
• Arc and other chains where the same launch mechanics appear
• Trading-bot integrations. The Telegram trading bots already route Robinhood Chain volume; the largest reports over half a million users and the category serves millions of traders. The integration is one line: a VITALS read inside the buy confirmation, before the trade executes. That puts the check in front of millions of traders without asking any of them to install anything. Each integration is a delivered milestone with its own announcement; partnership tokens release only against it.
• API and data licences for desks, launchpads and wallets

The measure of success is not a market cap. It is how many trades on Robinhood Chain are preceded by a VITALS read.

12Transparency commitments

1. Deployer wallet with zero prior history, published before launch.
2. Full allocation table with vesting contracts, published before launch.
3. Dev buy inside the launch transaction, nowhere else. Exemption list: dev wallet only.
4. Fee wallet and buyback wallet public. Weekly ledger in the group.
5. Every treasury transfer announced 24 hours before it moves.
6. The launch is scanned by its own tool, publicly, five minutes after it goes live. The flag on its own tax stays on the card.
7. Bad news from us first, within 24 hours.
8. We ship, then we tell you. No dated roadmap.

13Risks

• $VITALS is a meme token with a working product attached. It can go to zero. Most launches do.
• Liquidity at graduation is thin — about 4.2 ETH plus the seeded supply. Early trades move the price violently in both directions.
• The 4% creator tax applies to every trade, including yours, on the way in and on the way out.
• Robinhood Chain gas subsidies end at the end of September 2026; transaction costs change after that.
• Contributor and referral payouts are for work delivered and users brought. Holding entitles you to access tiers and nothing else — no revenue, no profit share, no governance.
• Payouts in ETH or tokens are taxable income in most jurisdictions at the moment of receipt.
• Nothing on this page or from the bot is investment advice. The bot reports findings and reference points; it does not predict.

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