The distribution
layer for tokens
SPOKE turns conviction into distribution. Open a Spoke for any token, make your case, share your link, and earn rewards when it drives a completed trade — settled onchain, non-custodially.
Great tokens don't fail because they're bad. They fail because nobody hears about them. SPOKE is the layer that pays the people who carry a token to the people who'd buy it — publishers and curators who put their reputation behind a call and get a share of the fee on every trade they actually drive.
The one-line model
A 0.35% fee is charged on the quote leg of a completed trade. Of that fee, 70% goes to the publisher who drove it, 10% to the token's creator, and 20% to the protocol — most of which buys back and burns $SPOKE.
How it works
Four steps, from opening a Spoke to getting paid.
Open a Spoke
Pick any token and open a Spoke for it — a page that binds you (the publisher) to that token onchain. Your presentation lives off-chain; the (publisher, token) link is on-chain and immutable once active.
Make your case
Say why the token matters. A Spoke is your argument plus a shareable link — no custody of anyone's funds, ever.
Share your link
Post it anywhere. When someone follows your link and trades, the router attributes that trade to your Spoke.
Earn rewards
On every completed trade you drive, you receive 70% of the 0.35% page fee — accrued onchain and claimable at any time.
Spokes
A Spoke is the on-chain monetary identity of a promotion: a binding between a publisher and a single promoted token. Anyone can open one for any listed token.
- Immutable binding. Once a Spoke is active, its (publisher, token) pair can't be changed. That's what lets rewards be attributed trustlessly.
- Off-chain presentation, on-chain truth. How a Spoke looks is flexible; what it is — who's promoting what — is fixed onchain.
- Gasless publishing. Activation is a publisher signature that a relayer can submit, so you can open a Spoke without holding gas.
- Non-custodial. A Spoke never touches a trader's funds. It only earns a share of the protocol fee on trades it drives.
Attribution & rewards
You earn only when your link drives a completed trade — not for clicks, impressions, or follows. Attribution is measured onchain by the router at settlement, so rewards can't be faked or double-counted.
Rewards accrue to your Spoke as trades settle and are claimable at any time. There's a short 72-hour commitment after a Spoke's first referred trade before it can be retired — this keeps promotions honest and prevents bait-and-switch.
What counts
The fee is charged on the quote leg (what the trader pays in) of a successful buy, and only on the amount actually spent at the venue. If a trade partially fills, the unfilled portion is refunded and never charged a fee.
Fees & the split
SPOKE charges a single, immutable fee: 0.35% (35 bps) on the quote leg of a completed trade. Every fee resolves into the same four destinations, and the split is fixed in the contract.
| Destination | Share of fee | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | 70% | The Spoke that drove the trade |
| Creator | 10% | The token's attested creator |
| Protocol | 20% | Operations + buy-and-burn |
The protocol's 20% is split again: the majority is routed to a buyback that buys back and burns $SPOKE, with the remainder funding operations. The fee and split are Router V1 constants — they cannot be changed by governance mid-trade.
Example: on a completed 1,000 USDC buy, the fee is ~3.50 USDC — ~2.45 to the publisher, ~0.35 to the creator, ~0.70 to the protocol.
Reputation
Not all promotion is equal. SPOKE scores publishers and curators on legitimate outcomes only, and discovery ranks by that reputation — so the people who consistently drive real, healthy trades rise, and spam sinks.
Reputation is earned from signals like:
- Unique real traders — distinct wallets, not sybil clusters.
- Attributed volume — value actually routed through your Spokes.
- Hold-through / anti-dump — did the traders you brought hold, or immediately dump? Scored on trader outcomes, not the token's price.
- Survivorship — do the tokens you back endure?
- Curator consensus — agreement with other credible curators.
The system is fraud-gated: wash trading, self-dealing, and sybil clusters are detected and excluded, and they push a publisher's reputation down. Reputation also has dormancy — go quiet and you drop from the active set and pause forward accrual, but you keep what you've already earned and reactivate instantly.
Picks & the Backer Lock
To keep quality high, each publisher can only run a limited number of active Picks at once — counted by unique token, so variant Spokes for the same token share one Pick.
- Base
- 3 active Picks.
- With a qualifying Backer Lock
- 5 active Picks.
A Backer Lock is a commitment of $SPOKE that signals skin in the game; qualifying publishers earn a larger slate of Picks. Scarcity of Picks is what makes a publisher's endorsement mean something — you can't spray-and-pray across the whole market.
$SPOKE & buy-and-burn
$SPOKE is the network's token. The protocol's share of every fee funds a continuous buy-and-burn: the buyback engine uses fee revenue to buy $SPOKE on the open market and burn it, permanently reducing supply as real trading volume grows.
Designed to be verifiable
The buyback path is one-way and monitored: committed revenue is reconciled against executed burns, so the amount bought always equals the amount burned. Buys and burns are onchain events anyone can check.
The Backer Lock (see above) gives $SPOKE a second role: locking it earns publishers more Picks, tying the token to the network's core loop rather than to speculation alone.
For publishers
You're a curator, an alpha caller, a community lead — anyone who can point the right people at the right token.
- Open a Spoke for a token you believe in.
- Make your case and share your link.
- Earn 70% of the fee on every trade you drive.
- Build reputation from real outcomes; unlock more reach and Picks (and more with a Backer Lock).
Your endorsement is scarce and scored — which is exactly why it's valuable.
For creators
If you launched a token, SPOKE turns third-party promotion into a distribution flywheel — and pays you for it. The token's attested creator earns 10% of the fee on every trade any publisher drives, with no work required beyond a one-time attestation that proves you control the token.
You can also open your own Spokes and set a creator-preferred signal that credible curators can rally behind.
For traders
You follow a Spoke's link and trade as normal — non-custodial, settled onchain, routed to the best available venue. A flat 0.35% fee applies to completed buys; there are no hidden spreads, and any unfilled amount is refunded fee-free.
Because discovery ranks by reputation earned from real outcomes, the Spokes you see surface aren't the loudest — they're the ones with a track record of pointing traders somewhere worth going.
Network & venues
SPOKE launches on Robinhood Chain. Trades are routed to the best available venue for each token — a Pons bonding curve pre-graduation, or an AMM like Gigadex or Uniswap v4 once liquidity is deeper — always measured by net output to the trader.
- Best-execution routing. The router picks the venue that gives the trader the most output after fees, and binds the quote to the exact route so it can't be re-pointed.
- Measured settlement. Fees, refunds, and rewards are computed from actual balance changes, never an adapter's claims.
- Non-upgradeable core. The Router V1 fee and split are immutable.
FAQ
- Do I need to hold a token to promote it?
- No. Opening a Spoke doesn't require holding or custody — you're promoting, not market-making.
- When do I get paid?
- Rewards accrue onchain as the trades you drive settle, and you can claim them at any time.
- What stops people from gaming rewards?
- Attribution requires a completed onchain trade, and the reputation engine detects and excludes wash trading, self-dealing, and sybil clusters — which also lowers the offender's reputation.
- Can the fee or split change?
- No. The 0.35% fee and the 70/10/20 split are fixed constants in the non-upgradeable Router V1.
- Is it live?
- Not yet — SPOKE is pre-launch. Follow @spokefam for the launch.