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$HIPPO Whitepaper

Draft v0.2
The design document for $HIPPO, the utility token of HIPPO AI (v0.2 draft). Every figure, allocation and date is provisional, and $HIPPO has not been issued yet.
$HIPPOWhitepaper v0.2 — draft

You sleep. Hippo hunts.

The utility token for HIPPO AI — an autonomous trading terminal on Robinhood Chain. Launching on Pons.

$HIPPO is the utility token of HIPPO AI, an autonomous trading terminal on Robinhood Chain. As the unit that meters three finite resources — compute, priority and design knowledge — it will be issued from Pons Launchpad as a member of the PONS family.

WHITEPAPER V0.2 SEPTEMBER 2026 — DRAFT · ROBINHOOD CHAIN · PONS LAUNCHPAD

Key figures

Provisional
Total supply (fixed, no additional minting)
1,000,000,000
Pons fair launch allocation
90%
Burn rate on credit payments
30%
Locks and vesting
0
Presale · VC · team allocation
0
Agents in consensus
8

01 — WHY A TOKEN

Explainability has a compute bill

Bots that solved only for speed multiplied executions that are fast but cannot explain themselves. HIPPO AI takes the opposite position — speed is a given; explainability is the product. But that position does not come for free.

  • Time

    Most price discovery is over within the first 180 minutes after launch. By the time a human has finished checking, the very thing being judged has changed.

  • Information

    Contract safety, the state of the LP, concentration among top holders, the developer's selling history. The inputs are scattered, and the more you gather, the later you are.

  • Discipline

    Stop-losses and daily loss limits are the promises a tired human is most likely to break. Discipline is the part best suited to automation.

02 — THE TERMINAL

Four layers, one pipeline

In the terminal
  1. 01

    Pons Radar

    Indexes new launches on Robinhood Chain as they happen. Tokens that never reach a DEX pool are not indexed.

    Open Pons Radar
  2. 02

    8 Agents → HIPPO Score

    Eight agents read the same market from different angles and pass a weighted result to HEAD HIPPO. Agents with no data are excluded from the average.

    See the AI agents
  3. 03

    Strategy

    Defines weights and hard rules. Minimum liquidity, top-10 holder share, tax rate and sellability cannot be overridden by the score.

    Open Strategy
  4. 04

    Auto Trade

    Executes against an account the user owns, only within the limits they set. Stop, withdraw or revoke permissions at any time.

    Open Auto Trade

HIPPO AI dashboard — 8 agents, AI score and auto-execution controls

03 — WHAT $HIPPO DOES

$HIPPO does only three things

Credits · Tiers · Lead time

PlannedProvisional

It represents no dividend and no revenue share. What holders get is the right to use the terminal more deeply, faster and more to their own liking.

  1. 01

    Agent credits

    Planned

    1 credit = 1 agent inference. A standard 5-minute scan cycle consumes 8 credits, and 24 hours of automated hunting comes to about 2,300 credits. Payment is settled in $HIPPO.

  2. 02

    Staking tiers

    Planned

    The amount staked sets the number of agents running at once, the scan cycle, how many strategy presets you can save and the discount on the credit price. Unstaking is immediate; there is no lock-up period.

  3. 03

    Lead time on AI Picks

    Planned

    AI Picks and alerts for scores of 85 or higher arrive with a lead time that depends on your tier. Lead times are published in seconds and are not changed arbitrarily.

Staking tiers

PlannedProvisional
  • OBSERVER

    Stake $HIPPO
    0
    Agents / cycle
    3 / 15 min
    Lead time
    None
    Credit discount
    Unstake
    Instant
  • POD

    Stake $HIPPO
    10,000
    Agents / cycle
    5 / 5 min
    Lead time
    30 s
    Credit discount
    10%
    Unstake
    Instant
  • HERD

    Stake $HIPPO
    50,000
    Agents / cycle
    8 / 1 min
    Lead time
    90 s
    Credit discount
    25%
    Unstake
    Instant
  • BLOAT

    Stake $HIPPO
    250,000
    Agents / cycle
    8 / 15 s
    Lead time
    180 s
    Credit discount
    40%
    Unstake
    Instant

Tiers are re-evaluated from the live stake balance every block; nothing blocks a withdrawal. All figures provisional.

30%

Burn rate on credit payments

PlannedProvisional

Thirty per cent of the $HIPPO spent on every credit payment is burned permanently; the remaining seventy funds the reward pool and the credit reserve. Supply falls only when the terminal actually runs, and the design does not claim that value is created while it is not running.

04 — SUPPLY AND FLOW

Fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 · no mint · no locks

Provisional

Allocation

Provisional
  • Pons fair launch90%900,000,000
  • Reward & credit reserve7.0%70,000,000
  • Audit & infrastructure3.0%30,000,000
  • Pons fair launch

    Share
    90%
    Amount
    900,000,000
    Treatment
    Entire amount to market at launch — no lock
  • Reward & credit reserve

    Share
    7%
    Amount
    70,000,000
    Treatment
    Held in a multisig; use and balance disclosed quarterly
  • Audit & infrastructure

    Share
    3%
    Amount
    30,000,000
    Treatment
    Held in a multisig; spending published on-chain
  • Team · VC · presale

    Share
    0%
    Amount
    0
    Treatment
    No allocation
  • Inflow

    Planned

    Credit purchases, tier stakes and listing fees for publishing strategy presets. Each is a payment for using the terminal, not a promise of future distributions. Protocol fees flow back through the reserve to fund credits.

  • Sinks

    Planned

    The 30% burn on payments, and the write-off of expired unused credits. Supply falls in step with usage; when usage stops, so does the burn. The design does not use locks to postpone selling pressure.

05 — FAIR LAUNCH ON PONS

A fair launch on Pons only. Nothing happens before the launch

PlannedProvisional
  • No presale

    No presale, no VC allocation, no pre-allocation sales and no team allocation. Everyone acquires on the same order book at the same moment.

  • Ownership renounced

    The contract has no functions for additional minting, freezing or sell restrictions, and ownership is renounced before launch. The audit report will be published in full.

  • No locks, by design

    A lock is a promise, not a guarantee, and it concentrates selling pressure on the unlock date. We choose instead to keep the allocations themselves small and keep everyone free to exit at any time.

Roadmap

PlannedProvisional
  1. 2026 Q4Audit

    Contract audit and testnet release. A precondition for every step that follows.

  2. 2027 Q1Fair launch

    Launch on Pons Launchpad. 90% of supply starts circulating at the same moment.

  3. 2027 Q2Credits go live

    Billing for agent credits begins, and the 30% burn on payments is implemented.

  4. 2027 Q3Tiers open

    Staking tiers (instant unstake) and lead-time access to AI Picks begin.

  5. 2027 Q4Governance

    Holder voting begins on proposals to change the default weights and hard rules.

“Treat anything not yet fetched as a block, not as safe.”
Default rule of the RISK agent

RISKS

What can go wrong

  • Technical and external

    Smart-contract vulnerabilities; outages at data providers (GMGN, news, prices); specification changes to Robinhood Chain and Pons. Agent decisions do not guarantee future results, and the system is designed on the assumption that losses can occur.

  • Market and regulatory

    Because there are no locks, 90% of supply can be sold from the moment of launch, and price swings can be large. In addition, liquidity can disappear and the regulatory environment can change in each jurisdiction. Acquire only after understanding these risks.

DISCLAIMER

Disclaimer

This document, v0.2, is a draft, and every figure, allocation and date in it is provisional. $HIPPO is a utility token for accessing features of the HIPPO AI terminal and represents no equity, debt, dividend or revenue share. This document is not an offer of securities or a solicitation of investment, and it is not investment advice.

This draft is not an offer of securities and not investment advice. $HIPPO confers access to terminal features only — no equity, debt, dividend or revenue share.

v0.2 is a draft for review

Draft v0.2

Feedback on the figures and the design is welcome. It will be reflected in v0.3 after discussion in the community.

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