How fomotip works

You write a thesis — why this coin, in your own words — and then tip the creators of the coins it names. Each tip is an ordinary ETH transfer on Robinhood Chain, sent by your own wallet, straight to that coin's creator fee wallet(what this means). There is no deposit, no claim step and no account.

• fomotip never holds your ETH. In direct mode nothing sits between your wallet and the creator, and fomotip takes no cut at all.
• Publishing a thesis costs no gas. It is a signature, not a transaction.
• Every tip is its own transaction you can open on the explorer.
• fomotip is not part of fomo. It is an independent community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by FOMO Labs Inc.

1. 1The fomotip API resolves it and shows you the address and where it came from.
2. 2Your browser reads the same contracts again through your own wallet's connection and refuses to send if the two answers differ.
3. 3Your wallet shows you the recipient one last time before you approve it.

The one rule that never bends: fomotip will not send ETH to an address it could not verify on-chain seconds earlier. You can check any coin yourself with the resolver on the home page, before connecting anything.

• Pons v2 and Pons v1 coins on Robinhood Chain. Their payout address exists on-chain and can be checked before anything moves.
• Airlock(what this means) coins, the ones paired with a tokenized stock. Their fees go to the launchpad itself and no creator fee wallet exists on-chain, so there is nobody to pay. fomotip says exactly that on the coin instead of inventing a recipient.
• Coins on Solana or BNB. Their theses are shown, because the fomo feed covers every chain, but a tip needs a Robinhood Chain payout address.

A brand-new Pons stack is configuration, not magic. If Pons ships a new factory, fomotip has to be told about it — until then coins launched on it resolve as unverified and stay untippable. That is the safe failure, not a bug.

• Your wallet signs the text. The signature is what proves you wrote it, and it costs no gas.
• Up to 10 coins per thesis — only the ones the thesis is actually about.
• Already posted it on fomo.family? Import it with your handle instead of retyping it, and it keeps its original timestamp.
• You can publish a thesis and tip nothing. The two are separate steps.

Published theses get a permalink at /t/<id> with a generated share card for X, and they show up on the coin's page and in the live feed.

Open a thesis, pick an amount, and every coin it names is tipped to its creator fee wallet — with an optional slice going to the wallet that wrote the thesis. The default is 10%, yours to move between 0 and 30%.

• The author transfer is re-read on-chain like every other tip: the recipient has to be the wallet that signed that exact thesis.
• Theses mirrored from fomo.family cannot be co-signed until their writer proves a handle here — there is no wallet on Robinhood Chain to pay yet. Their coins can still be tipped.

The most co-signed board ranks by co-signers holding a proved fomo handle first, then by wallet count, then by ETH. Ten fresh wallets are cheap; ten proved handles are not.

1. 1Your wallet signs the words “fomotip link”. Free, no transaction.
2. 2fomotip hands you a one-time code, valid for 60 minutes.
3. 3Paste the code into your fomo bio and press check.
4. 4The server reads your bio and links the wallet to the handle. Delete the code afterwards if you like.

• Shortcut: if your fomo profile already lists the same EVM address, it passes straight away without a code.
• A proved handle is what makes you payable by a reward campaign, and what earns the badge.
• One handle belongs to one wallet. It cannot be claimed twice.

fomo profile data is read through a third-party crawl, so a bio you just saved can take a few minutes to become visible. A failed check usually means “not yet”, not “wrong”.

The creator announces a reward and a pool. Writers write, on fomotip or on fomo.family — both count. The creator then pays each writer with a plain transfer from their own wallet, which fomotip reads back off the chain. That is why every campaign shows declared next to paid(what this means), plus that creator's record across every campaign they have ever opened.

The brakes, announced inside the campaign's signed message so they cannot be changed quietly:

Nothing is hard-rejected. A blocked thesis lands in the creator's queue with the reason attached, and the creator can still pay it by hand. The brakes decide what gets paid without anyone looking, not who is allowed to be paid.

A writer becomes payable only after proving a handle here. A fomo app wallet may not exist on Robinhood Chain at all, so paying a bare handle would risk sending ETH nowhere.

How you know a reward actually arrived

Nothing on Robinhood Chain notifies the person who was paid, and a writer on fomo.family has no account here to notify. So every payout gets a receipt page(what this means) of its own. The creator copies it and replies to your thesis on fomo.family, which is a notification you do get. You can also open your own wallet's inbox at /me any time: every line there has its receipt, and the campaign page lists every payout it ever made.

A creator can also switch on an automatic payer. It is off by default and dry by default: it only pays campaigns its own wallet opened, only theses clearing every brake, a handful per run, under a daily ceiling, and it re-checks the database before each transfer so a restart can never pay the same writer twice.

If a thesis was paid from its own coin's campaign, it carries this badge paidon its card, on its permalink, and on the share card that goes out to X.

Treat a paid thesis as sponsored writing. It may still be the best research on the page — but somebody with an interest in the coin funded it, and you should read it knowing that.

• A word blocklist, plus link-only posts dropped before anything is displayed.
• A report button on every thesis. Nothing is ever deleted — after 3 reports from different readers a thesis drops out of the public lists, and its permalink keeps working for anyone holding the link.
• A minimum tip of 0.0005 ETH and a 60-minute window, so nobody can flood the feed with dust or claim a stranger's old transfer as their co-sign.

• No accounts, no passwords, no email. Your wallet is the only identity fomotip has.
• The database is backed up nightly and kept for two weeks.
• fomotip never asks for a seed phrase or a private key, and never will. Nobody legitimate does.

• Tips are final. They are on-chain transfers. There is no refund, no reversal and no support desk that can claw one back. Check the coins and the amount in your wallet before you approve.
• fomotip verifies the address, not the person. It proves the ETH goes where that coin's creator fees already go. It cannot promise anyone is still building, still around, or worth backing.
• A reward is a promise, not escrow. Nothing is locked up. Read the paid column and the creator's record before you write for a pool.
• Third-party data can lag. The fomo feed, profiles and bios come from an external crawl; a fresh post or a just-saved bio may take minutes to appear.
• Nothing here is financial advice. A thesis is somebody's opinion, sometimes a paid one. Tips are voluntary support, not an investment, and buy you no claim on anything.

Creator fee wallet

The address a coin's creator fees are paid to. On Pons v2 it is set at launch; on v1 it follows the fee redirect, or the deployer. Every fomotip tip lands here.

Pons

The launchpad behind most coins in the fomo feed on Robinhood Chain. v2 is the current stack; v1 coins still exist and are still tippable.

Airlock

A different launchpad whose coins are paired with a tokenized stock. Its fees go to the launchpad, so its coins have no creator to tip.

Thesis

A short piece of writing about why you are in a coin, signed by your wallet. Free to publish.

Co-sign

Tipping the coins in someone else's thesis, with an optional slice to the writer.

Campaign

A reward a coin's creator offers per thesis, paid from their own wallet and verified on-chain.

Payee

The wallet a reward can be sent to — a writer's wallet, once they have proved their fomo handle.

Direct mode

The mode fomotip runs in today: one plain transfer per coin, from you to the creator, with no contract in the middle and no fomotip fee.