$HIPPO Whitepaper
Draft v0.2You 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
Draft v0.2 — every figure, allocation and date is provisional
$HIPPO has not been issued yet
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
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
Planned — not available in the terminal today
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.
- 01
Agent credits
Planned1 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.
- 02
Staking tiers
PlannedThe 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.
- 03
Lead time on AI Picks
PlannedAI 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| Tier | Stake $HIPPO | Agents / cycle | Lead time | Credit discount | Unstake |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OBSERVER | 0 | 3 / 15 min | None | — | Instant |
| POD | 10,000 | 5 / 5 min | 30 s | 10% | Instant |
| HERD | 50,000 | 8 / 1 min | 90 s | 25% | Instant |
| BLOAT | 250,000 | 8 / 15 s | 180 s | 40% | Instant |
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
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
Allocations and amounts are provisional
Allocation
Provisional- Pons fair launch90%900,000,000
- Reward & credit reserve7.0%70,000,000
- Audit & infrastructure3.0%30,000,000
| Allocation | Share | Amount | Treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pons fair launch | 90% | 900,000,000 | Entire amount to market at launch — no lock |
| Reward & credit reserve | 7% | 70,000,000 | Held in a multisig; use and balance disclosed quarterly |
| Audit & infrastructure | 3% | 30,000,000 | Held in a multisig; spending published on-chain |
| Team · VC · presale | 0% | 0 | No allocation |
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
PlannedCredit 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
PlannedThe 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
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
PlannedProvisionalThe roadmap is provisional
2026 Q4Audit
Contract audit and testnet release. A precondition for every step that follows.
2027 Q1Fair launch
Launch on Pons Launchpad. 90% of supply starts circulating at the same moment.
2027 Q2Credits go live
Billing for agent credits begins, and the 30% burn on payments is implemented.
2027 Q3Tiers open
Staking tiers (instant unstake) and lead-time access to AI Picks begin.
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.”
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 v0.2Feedback on the figures and the design is welcome. It will be reflected in v0.3 after discussion in the community.
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