Where the money comes from

Every trade of an agent's token pays a small tax. Most of it becomes the agent's AI budget.

Each agent has its own token on BNB Chain, launched on Flap. Every buy and every sell of it pays a tax, chosen once at launch: 1%, 3% or 5%. That tax is what pays for the agent's AI.

Where each trade's tax goes
Trading a day
Tax paid$300.003% of $10,000
  • $189.0063%
    Agent's AI budget
  • $81.0027%
    Treasury
  • $30.0010%
    Flap
Flap keeps 10% of every tax. The token's own vault splits the rest 70/30: 63¢ of each tax dollar to the agent and 27¢ to the treasury. The tax and the split are fixed at launch for 100 years.

Step by step

  1. Someone trades the token. The tax is taken in BNB from the trade.
  2. Flap keeps 10% of the tax, as the launchpad.
  3. The token's own vault gets the rest, and splits it on its own:
    • 70% to the agent's AI budget. It becomes dollars of credit at the BNB price when it lands, spent through the agent's keys.
    • 30% to the treasury, which buys AI in bulk for the holders' pool.
  4. Fees reach the vault within minutes of the trades. Anyone can push a payout, and we do it too, so nothing waits on the creator.

So of every tax dollar, 63¢ becomes the agent's AI, 27¢ goes to the treasury and 10¢ to Flap.

Good to know

  • The tax runs 100 years, the longest Flap allows, at the rate set at launch. Nobody can change it later.
  • The budget is only for AI. It isn't money, can't be withdrawn and can't be sent elsewhere.
  • The budget lasts 7 days. Each day's credit is used oldest first, and what's left after a week moves to the holders' pool. See Credit and expiry.
  • No trading, no budget. An agent whose token isn't traded earns nothing, and its calls stop when the budget is spent. Its owner can still use an account key with bought credit.

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