How PoolsV2 works
You launch a token on pools.trade with its liquidity locked. You pick one of four engines. From then on, every five minutes, the token claims its own trading fees and the engine spends them.
The split you cannot change
Every pool on pools.trade charges 0.25% on each trade. Before anyone touches it, that fee is already divided. Sixty percent of the ETH side and all of the token side are folded straight back into the locked position by the protocol's own compounder. That part is automatic and nobody can redirect it, which means every token here deepens its own pool whether you ask it to or not.
The remaining forty percent of the ETH is the creator share. That is the part you are choosing what to do with.
The four engines
Chosen once when you launch and immutable after. There is no admin key that can switch it later.
Deepen Pool
The creator share goes straight back into the locked position. Liquidity grows with every trade and none of it can ever be pulled out.
- 01
Collect
Harvests the locked position's trading fees through the fee splitter.
- 02
Claim
The vault claims the creator share of the fees in ETH.
- 03
Deepen
Everything above the gas reserve is returned to the pool's compounding queue.
- 04
Repeat
Runs again five minutes later, forever.
Buyback & Burn
The creator share buys the token on its own pool and sends it to the dead address. Circulating supply falls every cycle and can never come back.
- 01
Collect
Harvests the locked position's trading fees through the fee splitter.
- 02
Claim
The vault claims the creator share of the fees in ETH.
- 03
Buy back
Swaps that ETH for the token on its own Uniswap v4 pool.
- 04
Burn
Sends every token bought to the dead address, provably forever.
Staking Rewards
Holders stake their tokens and earn the creator share as ETH, paid out pro rata every cycle. No claim button, the payout just arrives.
- 01
Collect
Harvests the locked position's trading fees through the fee splitter.
- 02
Claim
The vault claims the creator share of the fees in ETH.
- 03
Split
Divides the pot across every staked balance, proportional to size.
- 04
Pay
Sends ETH straight to each staker's wallet. No claiming required.
Holder Rewards
The creator share is paid out to every holder in proportion to their balance. Nothing to stake, nothing to lock, nothing to claim.
- 01
Collect
Harvests the locked position's trading fees through the fee splitter.
- 02
Claim
The vault claims the creator share of the fees in ETH.
- 03
Snapshot
Reads the live holder list straight from the chain explorer.
- 04
Pay
Sends ETH to every holder, weighted by balance, every cycle.
Staking, in detail
Staking a token means transferring it into that token's own vault. The vault records the balance and pays ETH against it every cycle, in proportion to how much of the staked supply you hold. The payout goes straight to your wallet, so there is no claim button and no reward that can expire. Unstaking returns the exact tokens you put in, and it needs a signature from the same wallet that staked them.
After launch
Each token gets its own vault with its own key. Every cycle that vault collects the position's fees, claims the creator share, keeps a small gas reserve, and runs the engine on the rest. Every step is an ordinary public transaction, and every one of them appears in the token's cycle log with a link to the explorer. If a step fails, nothing is lost: the funds stay in the vault and the next cycle picks them up.