You keep trading for free.
Everyone who traded on motion before the snapshot becomes a founding trader: 0% on public nodes, 0.1% on custom nodes, up to $250K a month.
motion manifesto · 21 Oct 2026
What motion charges, and where the money goes.
One fast terminal for four chains, with no platform fee since launch. Next: 0.1% a trade where GMGN takes 1%, a $10 membership (≈ 25.8K $MOTION) instead of per-trade fees, a $50 full data API (≈ 129K $MOTION) for builders, and $MOTION burned by every membership, every builder trade and half of what platform revenue leaves after costs.
4chains in one terminal
≈220users in the first 10 days
≈$189Ktotal trading volume
0%platform fee today
What changes for you
Every membership and every builder trade burns $MOTION.
And half of platform revenue after costs buys back and burns $MOTION. Holders at the snapshot join the founding traders too. Burns and buybacks go in a monthly report with transaction hashes.
0.1% a trade, or $10 a month.
A tenth of GMGN's 1%. Or a $10 membership (≈ 25.8K $MOTION), paid in $MOTION and burned, with no fees up to $50K a month.
$50 a month for the full data API.
Plus 0.1% of every trade you route, used to buy back and burn $MOTION. Anything you charge on top is yours.
For $MOTION holders
What holding $MOTION means
- Founding status. Wallets holding 25,000 $MOTION or more at the snapshot, checked at two blocks, trade at 0% on public nodes.
- Three sources of burns. Memberships are paid in $MOTION and burned. Builder fees are used to buy $MOTION back and burn it. And half of platform revenue after costs buys back and burns $MOTION.
- Already burned. 11.53M $MOTION sit at 0x…dEaD today.
- The token's own fees. The 2% trade tax funds product development and the Road to Albania daily pots for traders.
- In the open. Every burn and buyback is reported monthly, with the transaction hash.
01 Today
Ten days in. Zero platform fee.
You pay the pool's fee and the coin creator's tax. motion adds nothing on top, on any of the four chains.
≈$189Ktotal trading volume, 2,386 trades
≈$29Kvolume today, 196 trades
4 chainsRobinhood Chain, BNB Chain, Solana and NEAR
$MOTIONRobinhood Chain · launched on PONS V2 · trades on Uniswap v4
0x061732dc141e0a2d37f5fa91cf5343f24064e60f
1,000,000,000total supply, fixed at launch
≈756holders
2%trade tax, set at launch
OffPONS V2's optional creator buyback, for this token
totalSupply and PONS V2 getLaunchedToken, 2026-10-21; holders: owner snapshot
motion daily volume Oct 11 to Oct 21
All chains. Oct 21 is a partial day.
motion.gift/api/bgc, the public ledger since Oct 11, read 2026-10-21.02 How motion pays for itself
Six ways in, so the fees can stay small
A 0.1% fee alone would need about $2.5M of fee-paying volume a month just to cover the base costs. So motion doesn't lean on one source. Six small ones add up, and every one tied to $MOTION ends in a burn.
Costs first, then 50/50
Platform revenue
Running costs first, from $2.5K a month (≈ 6.46M $MOTION). Then half of what's left buys back and burns $MOTION, and half stays in motion.
50% of what's left after costs: buyback and burn
Where $MOTION burns come from
Burns $MOTION
- Memberships, paid in $MOTION and burned: $10 (≈ 25.8K $MOTION) or $50 (≈ 129K $MOTION)
- Builder-fee buybacks: 0.1% of every routed trade buys $MOTION back and burns it
- Half of platform revenue after costs: at $10K of revenue, $5K of costs leaves $5K, and $2.5K (≈ 6.46M $MOTION) buys back and burns $MOTION
Outside platform revenue
Allocated by the founder
Donations and grants go where the project needs them, reported apart.
Trading fees and memberships come with v1.1, the data API and MotionRouter with v1 (section 12), integrations and advertising later. Every burn and buyback goes in the monthly report with its transaction hash (section 11).
03 Market
The traders are already here
Thousands of wallets trade Robinhood Chain every day on GMGN, Axiom and fomo. GMGN charges them 1% a trade. Axiom charges 0.75% to 0.95%. motion's planned fee is 0.1%.
GMGN on Robinhood Chain, daily users Sep 11 to Oct 10, 2026
About 40K wallets a day in the week of Sep 11. Under 7K a day by Oct 9 and 10.
Dune · @okg, owner's screenshot (UTC+8 days). Sep 12 = 40,026 from the tooltip; other bars read off the chart, ±0.5K.Axiom, daily active wallets 2026-09-05
12,515 on Robinhood Chain and 34,521 on Solana that day.
The Robinhood Chain line, traced from the chart: about 6K in mid-July, the Sep 5 high, about 6K again by Sep 21.
Dune · @adam_tehc · axiom, owner's screenshot. Sep 5 values from the tooltip; the line is approximate.fomo, daily active traders 2026-09-17
All chains fomo supports.
114,320traders that day
1,616,669trades that day
Robinhood Chain's share of fomo volume weekly average
Dune · @adam_tehc · fomo, owner's screenshot. Traders and trades from the tooltip; weekly shares traced, approximate.Public Dune dashboards, as of each chart's date; activity peaked in September. Audiences overlap and count wallets, not people. Fees: docs.gmgn.ai, docs.axiom.trade, read 2026-10-21. motion is not affiliated with Robinhood, GMGN, Axiom or fomo.
Original screenshots
04 Builders
Build on motion for $50 a month
One plan for the data and trading infrastructure motion runs on. The full list of what it includes is coming soon. Every trade you route pays 0.1%, and builder fees go to buying back and burning $MOTION.
Quote and route API
Signed quotes and swap routes on Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain, settled through the MotionRouter contract.
Market data and websockets
The token, trade and holder data the terminal already indexes, on all four chains, streamed in real time.
RPC access
Included in the plan. Paid RPC providers behind it today, our own nodes once speed calls for them.
1Traderuses a builder's app
2Builderadds their own fee, up to 3%
3MotionRouter0.1% builder fee, in the same transaction as the swap
4Chainsettles from the trader's wallet
Builder fees burn $MOTION
Builder fees: 0.1% of each routed trade. Current policy: builder fees are used to buy back and burn $MOTION, reported monthly with transaction hashes.
The router takes the fee in the same transaction as the swap, against a quote our server signs with a 30-second deadline. Every routed trade pays it. The router holds no balance and uses exact approvals or Permit2.
Full data API
$50/ month (≈ 129K $MOTION) + 0.1% per routed trade · full details soon
| Plan | Price | What it is |
|---|
Example numbers, not a forecast.
05 Fees
Trade for 0.1%, or for nothing
Founding traders keep 0% on public nodes. Everyone else pays 0.1% a trade, a tenth of GMGN's 1%, or takes a $10 membership and stops paying per trade. Trades through a builder's app pay the builder fee.
0%
on public nodes, 0.1% on custom nodes
- Traded at least $50 on motion before 2026-10-21 00:00 UTC
- Holders of ≥25,000 $MOTION at the snapshot may also qualify
- No fee up to $250K per 30 days, 0.05% above that
- Tied to your account, up to 5 wallets, claim within 90 days
- Runs as long as the Founding program does, with 60 days' notice of changes
$10/ 30 days
≈ 25.8K $MOTION · Pro $50
Pay $10 worth of $MOTION and it is burned. The token amount is reset every day.
- Every membership burns $MOTION. Burns are final and on chain.
- You don't need to hold $MOTION to be a member.
- Paying in USDC instead may be offered too
0.1%public nodes
0.2%custom nodes
per trade, for everyone else
Launch pricing until 31 Jan 2027. Any change is announced 30 days ahead.
How much $MOTION a membership takes
$MOTION=$10÷lower of today's price and the 7-day average
Today that is about 25,840 $MOTION for a Member, and never more than 60,000. You see the amount before you confirm. At launch pricing, $10 is the 0.1% fee on $10,000 of volume.
Fair use
No volume rewards for fee-free volumeDaily pots and leaderboards count fees paid and tokens burned.
Wash trades don't countSelf-trades and round trips under 10 minutes are filtered out.
One wallet, one accountAn unlinked wallet waits 30 days before joining another account.
06 Founder's scenario
Every membership burns $MOTION
GMGN, Axiom and fomo see about 115,000 trading wallets a day. If 1% of them paid $10 a month for motion, that much $MOTION would be burned every month. As the supply shrinks, each token left is scarcer, so the same dollars burn fewer of them. Move the sliders and watch the supply.
Burned in month 129.7M2.97% of supply
Burned in month 1221.2M2.12% of supply
Burned in 12 months303M30.3% of supply
Supply left685M68.5% of the 1B
Members1,150paying $11.5K a month
Fees per month$3K0.1% of $3M fee-paying volume
Memberships are priced in dollars. As tokens burn, each one left is scarcer, so the same dollars burn fewer of them every month and the supply never reaches zero. Assumes the market cap stays where it is today; not a forecast.
| Scenario | Members | Paid / mo | Burned, month 1 | Of supply, month 1 | After 12 months |
|---|
The audiences overlap and one person can run many wallets. The scenario starts from the 21 Oct price, $0.000387, and holds the market cap at ≈$383K, so each month burns a little less than the one before.
07 A month in dollars
What a month could look like
Fee revenue at launch pricing, next to the running costs it pays for. Memberships and builder fees burn $MOTION directly, so they sit apart from revenue. Half of what revenue leaves after costs burns more. Pick a month or set your own.
$5.6Kplatform revenue / month
$2.5Krunning costs covered
+$3.1Kleft after running costs
$3.5Kof $MOTION burned: memberships, builder fees, half of what's left
| Example month | Volume | Paying | Builders | Members | Revenue | Costs | After costs | Burned, in $ |
|---|
08 Revenue
Costs first. Then half burns, half stays.
Platform revenue is the 0.1% trading fees, the $50 data API and memberships paid in USDC. It pays motion's running costs first. Then half of what's left buys back and burns $MOTION, and half stays in motion. At $10K of revenue, costs take $5K, $2.5K (≈ 6.46M $MOTION) buys back and burns $MOTION, and $2.5K stays. Builder fees skip the queue and go straight to buybacks and burns.
Running costsA $2.5K base each month (≈ 6.46M $MOTION). Above it, costs take at most 50% of revenue, up to $15K
50% buys back and burns $MOTIONHalf of what's left after costs, every month revenue beats them, with the transaction hashes in the monthly report.
50% stays in motionThe other half, to build and run the product.
A month of platform revenue, step by step
Platform revenue / month$10K
Example revenue levels, not a forecast.
Buybacks run in small rule-based slices through the month, with no dates announced in advance. Transaction hashes go in the monthly report. The team doesn't trade $MOTION in the 7 days before or after.
Running costs grow with revenue, never past half
What motion spends today
≈$2K / mo≈ 5.17M $MOTIONNodes, data providers, development, subscriptions and marketing. Founder pay is not counted as a running cost.
Counts as platform revenue
Kept apart
Builder fees go to buybacks and burns in full. Memberships paid in $MOTION are burned. $MOTION's creator fees sit in their own wallet with their own line in the report (section 10). Grants, donations and ecosystem funding go where the project needs them.
09 Break-even
Where the costs get covered
Fee revenue comes from pay-as-you-go accounts and the data API. The $2.5K base (≈ 6.46M $MOTION) is covered at $2.5M of fee-paying volume a month. Past that, costs never take more than half of revenue, and half of what's left buys back and burns $MOTION.
Fee-paying volume needed per month at 0.1%
motion, last 30 days: ≈$189K, motion.gift/api/bgc metrics.last30, read 2026-10-21, all fee-freeWho pays what
Pay-as-you-go accounts: 0.1%Data API: $50 a month (≈ 129K $MOTION)Builders: 0.1%, to buybacks and burnsMembers: $10 (≈ 25.8K $MOTION), burnedFounding traders: 0% on public nodes
Where we are
motion traded ≈$189K in its first 30 days, all of it fee-free. The $2.5K base needs about $2.5M of fee-paying volume a month. That is the gap fees and the data API have to close.
10 $MOTION fees
Fees on $MOTION trades
$MOTION trades already pay out: half to product development, half to daily pots for active traders. They run under PONS V2's rules, apart from motion's platform revenue.
Creator fees received so far
14.34 ETHProduct development7.169 ETH
Shared with traders0.9582 ETH
In today's pot0.1000 ETH
Still streaming6.111 ETH
PONS V2's rules
Each trade pays PONS V2's standard trading fee plus the trade tax set at launch, 2% for $MOTION. The fees collect in the PONS fee escrow and the token's fee wallet withdraws them. PONS V2 also has an optional creator buyback. It is off for $MOTION.
docs.ponsfamily.com/v2 · on-chaingetLaunchedToken, 2026-10-21What motion does with them today
Half goes to product development. The other half streams over 7 days into the Road to Albania daily pots: 0.02 ETH per active trader, at most 0.1 ETH a day, paid out by the day's ranking.
motion.gift/api/bgc rules, read 2026-10-2111 Reporting
Every number, every month
Revenue, costs, the 50/50 split of what's left, every burn and every buyback, published monthly with a transaction link wherever there is a transaction. Check it on chain.
$MOTION token
0x061732dc141e0a2d37f5fa91cf5343f24064e60fCreator-fee wallet, live
0x390c4a6181de917776cd62dbab69ea2b1b28260dTreasury and buyback
published before launch12 Roadmap
What we build next
No marketing war chest. A fast terminal that pays for itself, with the numbers in public.
1Phase 1, live
Built together
- One terminal for four chains
- No platform fee
- $MOTION creator fees split between the product and daily trader pots
2v1, in about 4 to 6 weeks
Builders
- MotionRouter on Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain
- The $50 full data API (≈ 129K $MOTION), API keys, builder dashboard
- Founding list and snapshot blocks published
3v1.1
Memberships
- Member and Pro, after the router has run 30 days without incident
- Pay-as-you-go fees for new accounts
- First monthly report
4Later
Own nodes
- Our own nodes once speed justifies the cost
- Traffic monetization, in a separate post
Before launch: a legal entity, terms of service, a privacy policy, sanctions screening for wallets, and blocking of sanctioned countries. Timings are targets.
Free to trade so far. Next: cheap to trade, and every membership burns $MOTION.
Traded with us before the snapshot? You keep trading without a platform fee. Questions and objections go to @motiongift on X.
motion · motion.gift · @motiongiftRecap
How motion pays for itself
Six sources, so the fees can stay small. Each tile says where its money goes.
$MOTION burns come from memberships, builder-fee buybacks, and half of platform revenue after costs. The other half stays in motion.