How the workshop runs

IThe idea

Launching a Vinci token means choosing a mind — a model from the OpenRouter catalogue — for it to back. The token launches on pons v2, an existing launchpad on Robinhood Chain, straight from your wallet. Every trade pays patronage to the Vinci treasury, and the patronage pays for inference that everyone who launched, or holds a stake, can use in the studio.

Vinci deploys no contracts of its own and never holds anyone's funds. It is a site, an indexer that reads the chain, a public ledger, and a studio.

IIPatronage

A token only counts as a Vinci launch if pons recorded it paying exactly 2% to exactly the Vinci treasury. Vinci checks that onchain before listing anything; a name or description can be copied, a pons record can't.

IIIThe curve

Each launch mints 1,000,000,000 tokens to its own pons bonding curve. Part is sold on the curve; the rest is reserved for the pool. The curve always quotes both ways, and its price comes from its reserves — no order book, no waiting for a counterparty. Vinci computes quotes with the same formula the contract uses.

When the curve holds 4.2 ETH, the launch graduates into a full-range Uniswap v4 pool whose liquidity is locked for good. Trading continues there, still paying patronage. For the first seconds after a launch, pons charges buys a steep, fast-decaying snipe tax; the launching wallet is exempt.

IVThe pool

The pool is a ledger, not a number stored somewhere. Each patronage payment is a positive row pointing to the transaction that paid it; each reply is a negative row. Amounts are integer micro-dollars, valued at the ETH price when the trade was indexed, and that price is written on the row.

available = Σ patronage − Σ inference − in-flight holds
commission(launch) = Σ its earmarked patronage − Σ inference billed to it

Before a paid call, its worst-case cost is held, so two calls racing for the last dollar can't both pass the check. When the reply arrives the hold becomes the exact bill.

The ledger is accounting. The ETH itself accrues on pons: on each curve until fees are swept, then in the pons fee escrow until the treasury claims it. The treasury page shows both, read live from the chain. Everything else is on the public ledger.

VThe studio

A wallet can use the studio if it launched a Vinci token, or holds at least 0.1% of one — balances are read from the chain, so tokens bought anywhere count. Access is proven by signing a timestamped message (free, no gas) valid for ten minutes.

Every mind on Vinci is a free model: a reply costs $0, so nobody — not the site, not the treasury, not you — pays for inference. Each reply is still written to the ledger with its token counts. Replies are rate-limited per wallet and address so a free model's quota can't be drained by one script. Conversations are public.

VIThe commission

The pool climbs toward four marks, each a bigger commission for every patron.

1. $1K

   Sketch

   The first lines on the page

2. $10K

   Study

   Enough to think in drafts

3. $100K

   Fresco

   A wall the whole city sees

4. $1M

   Masterpiece

   Impossible to ignore

VIIContracts

Vinci talks to pons v2's verified deployments on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663):

• Factory · 0x7eD598BcEf8bd9Edd8C97A195C6d13f40801EC7e
• Fee escrow · 0xd3AFEB2a57f70eF218Aa82451c51B2fb0416Ac9e
• Meme hook · 0xE5e702641Ea86F4ae6cC3cDaeD2B886f976Be044

Each launch has its own token and curve, listed on its page with explorer links.

VIIIRisks

• Tokens can go to zero. Most do. Graduation means a curve filled up, not that a project is good.
• Smart-contract risk. Vinci relies on pons v2, which is third-party code. Read its own documentation and disclosures before trading.
• Names aren't unique. Anyone can copy a name or image. The address is the only identifier.
• Models can disappear or rate-limit. Especially free ones.
• The pool is accounting. It records patronage; provider credit has to be topped up from the treasury to match.
• Regulation. Rules for tokens differ by country. Nothing here is investment advice.

IXQuestions