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Every fee it touches turns to gold.

The floor is bullion, not belief.

Read the vault.

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NOT AUDITED · © 2026 MIDAS

A tree with golden foliage on a meadow hill under a bright blue sky, gold coins in the grass, roots reaching into the earth.

Every fee it touches turns to gold.

Trading fees become tokenized gold in a vault that never sells. The gold floor per token only rises. Burn $MIDAS, take your share.

Read the vault Receipts
A soil cross-section: thick roots holding a row of glowing gold coins in their pockets.

01 · the rule

The one rule

touch() is permissionless and runs once per epoch (PROPOSED: every 4 hours). It pulls the accrued creator fees from the Pons escrow, already denominated in GLD by the Pons fee hook, and locks them in the vault. There is nothing to swap. That is the whole machine. Nobody decides anything.

touch():  fees → GLD → vault.  never sells.
floor  =  vault / supply       — it only rises.

Most floors are made of promises. A promised floor is a bid somebody says they will place: it costs nothing to print and nothing to withdraw, and it dies the day the volume that funds it does.

This floor is a division: vault / supply. The numerator cannot fall, because the vault only receives and has no sell path. The denominator cannot rise, because supply is fixed at launch and falls with every burn. A fraction whose top cannot fall and whose bottom cannot rise has one direction available. That is not a roadmap. It is arithmetic.

Worked example — not live numbers

vault 12.40 oz · supply 940M

floor = 12.40 / 940 = 0.01319 oz per 1M

redeem 94M (10% of supply):

pays 1.24 oz · burns 94M

floor = 11.16 / 846 = 0.01319 oz per 1M

Redemption cannot dent the floor. It proves it.

02 · the machine

How it works

A golden hand touching a coin, the metal spreading from the point of contact.MIDAS — THE TOUCHLOOP 01 · 1:1

floor

0.0009

vault

0.91 oz

touches

1

  1. 01

    Trade

    Every $MIDAS swap pays the creator fee. It accrues in the Pons escrow, in GLD, untouched until the next epoch.

  2. 02

    Touch

    Once per epoch, anyone calls touch(). No permission, no keeper monopoly, no discretion. PROPOSED epoch: 4 hours.

  3. 03

    Gold

    The GLD is pulled from the escrow and locked in the vault. No swap, no route, no price. The vault never sells.

  4. 04

    Redeem

    Burn $MIDAS any time. redeem() pays amount × floor in GLD. Always open, no owner gate. This is what makes the floor real.

03 · the agent

Midas posts every touch.

An automated account. Past tense, numbers only. No opinions, no promises, no replies to price questions beyond one canned answer: read the vault.

X account · announced before launch

Specimen — no touches yet

agent

touch #— · +— GLD · vault — GLD · the floor rose.

The shape of every post the agent will ever make. The first real one is the launch.

04 · the ledger

Receipts

Full ledger →
EpochGLD inVaultFloor Δ
#1241980.91420.9142—
A deep golden cavern: a molten-gold river pooling into a radiant lake, ingots on the shore, roots reaching down from above.

The floor · GLD per 1M $MIDAS

VAULT / SUPPLY
0.0000

read live from MidasVault · the first touch is the launch

vault · 0.91 oztouches · 1supply · 1Bepoch · PROPOSED 4h

05 · the exit

Redemption

redeem(amount) burns your $MIDAS and pays amount × floor in GLD, straight from the vault. Always open, permissionless, no owner gate. The market can price the token wherever it likes; the vault pays the floor regardless.

Redemption removes gold and supply in the same proportion, so the floor survives it exactly.

Redeem

open
You burn— $MIDAS
The floor0.000914 GLD / 1M
You receive— GLD

06 · the risks

The myth cuts both ways

Midas is a cautionary tale, and we built the machine anyway: a thing that cannot stop turning fees into gold is exactly what you want only because it also cannot do anything else. Here is everything it cannot outrun.

R1
GLD is an ETF share, not bars
Robinhood's tokenized gold ETF share: exposure to the price of gold. There is no bullion in a basement. The word vault refers to the contract.
R2
The vault starts at ~zero
The ratio is the product, and we print it from block one. An empty vault reads as a dash, never as a projection.
R3
The emergency power exists
A two-step owner escape — signalEmergency(), a 24-hour public delay, then executeEmergency(to) — can move the entire vault. It is disclosed here because it is a trust assumption, not a footnote.
R4
The pool is priced in gold
$MIDAS is paired to GLD, which is what removes the swap route from the mechanism — the fee arrives as gold. It is also friction on the way in: buyers arrive with gold rather than ETH or USDG, so early liquidity may be thinner than an ETH-paired launch would give.
R5
The launchpad keeps a key
The Pons factory owner holds a 3-day-timelocked power to override any token's creator-fee recipient. It cannot reach the vault's GLD, but it could redirect future fees away from the machine. Timelocked, public, not ours.
R6
Not audited
This line stays on the site until it stops being true.
A half-gilded bust in the dark: the Midas touch, mid-transformation.
THE MYTHPLATE 03

07 · verify on Blockscout

Check it yourself

ContractAddressStatusExplorer
Pons factory0x7eD598BcEf8bd9Edd8C97A195C6d13f40801EC7eliveview ↗
Fee escrow0xd3AFEB2a57f70eF218Aa82451c51B2fb0416Ac9eliveview ↗
GLD token0xC9a981FEE1F9DEc688bb123ccDeCc63D0deBFC4esetview ↗
MidasVault0xb82ba972c767008493a2e2231BD15838823fEcf3deployedview ↗
$MIDAS0xd0e88f2141ba0d7f5d17a3fc547dc76c0c4b55c5deployedview ↗

The only source for the $MIDAS address is the X account. Verify any address you are given against this page; if it is not in this table, it is not ours.

08 · plain answers

Questions

What exactly is the floor?+

Vault GLD divided by circulating supply. It is not a promise or a target: redeem() pays it, on demand, to anyone who burns. The vault only receives and supply only falls, so between redemptions the ratio can only rise, and a redemption leaves it exactly unchanged.

What is GLD?+

Robinhood's tokenized gold ETF share on Robinhood Chain. It is exposure to the price of gold, not bars in a physical vault. We say this plainly because the brand is not allowed to outrun the contract.

Who can call touch()?+

Anyone, once per epoch (PROPOSED: every 4 hours). It has no parameters to abuse: it pulls the GLD the escrow owes the vault and locks it. There is no swap, no route and no price to argue with, so there is no discretionary path.

Can the team sell the vault?+

Not through any normal path: the vault has no sell function and no owner withdrawal. One disclosed exception exists: a two-step emergency escape (signal, then a 24-hour public delay, then execute) that can move the entire vault. It is a trust assumption and we print it as one.

Is this a price floor on exchanges?+

No. It is a redemption floor, denominated in GLD. Market price can trade anywhere; redeem() pays vault-share regardless of what any order book says.

Where do I find the contract address?+

Only from the X account, and it will always match the table on this page. Any address from anywhere else is fake.

A single unmarked gold ingot on black glass.
MIDAS — BULLION

The floor is bullion, not belief.

read the vault · every number is a contract read