How the 5% is divided
Transaction tax
| Allocation | Share of each taxed trade | Intended use | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 3% | NODAL product development, team and operations | Planned |
| Buyback and burn | 2% | Buys $NODAL on a public schedule and sends it to a burn address | Planned |
| Total | 5% | Every taxed trade, divided in full |
What each part is for
Development, team and operations
Pays for building and running NODAL: Trace Lab, Privacy CI, the wallet-flow examples, the research track (including privacy-routed RPC), the infrastructure they run on, the people doing the work, and outside engineering review before teams rely on them.
PlannedBuyback and burn
Used to buy $NODAL on the open market on a public schedule and send it to a burn address, with every transaction published. It reduces supply. It is not a payment to holders.
PlannedBuyback and burn: how it would work
Not automatic. On Pons the creator tax is fixed when the token is created and is paid in full to one creator fee recipient, in the asset the launch is priced in, not in $NODAL. Pons cannot route part of it to a burn. Pons also offers its own optional buyback, but that one locks the bought tokens for five years instead of burning them, so NODAL does not plan to use it. The 2% share is therefore handled by NODAL: the tax arrives in the tax wallet, 40% of it buys $NODAL on a public schedule, and the tokens go to a burn address. Each buyback and burn is published with its transaction link.
- Tax wallet (creator fee recipient) publishedUnverified
- Tax rate fixed at creation on Pons; the 3% / 2% split is a NODAL commitment, not enforced by the contractPlanned
- Schedule (for example daily) and minimum amount per buybackUndecided
- Burn address and the public record of every buyback and burnUndecided
- Which trades are taxed; whether plain transfers areUndecided
The schedule and the burn address will be published here before launch. Until then, nothing on this page describes a buyback that has happened.
Revenue stream: buybacks and burns
NODAL is developing a new revenue stream for the project. Once established, a disclosed share of product revenue is planned to fund further $NODAL buybacks and burns after launch. Details will be announced when finalized.
After launch, NODAL plans to use future product revenue to fund ongoing $NODAL buybacks. Tokens acquired through the planned buyback program are intended to be burned.
This comes on top of the 2% tax share. Both use the same method: buy $NODAL, send it to the burn address, publish the transaction.
- Buyback and burn from the 2% tax share, after launchPlanned
- Revenue streamIn development
- Share of product revenue used for buybacks and burnsTo be disclosed
- Buybacks and burns, after launchPlanned
- Schedule, method and on-chain recordsUndecided
- Currently activeNo
None of this is live. No revenue has been produced, nothing has been bought back and nothing has been burned.
Do not mix up the two 5% figures
50,000,000 $NODAL bought by the dev wallet at launch and locked in full. Not part of the tax and not paid out to anyone.
The flow on this page: 3% development, 2% buyback and burn.
Worked example. Taxed trades worth 1,000,000 $NODAL would produce tax worth 50,000 $NODAL: 30,000 for development, 20,000 for buyback and burn. That is arithmetic, not a forecast.