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FAQ
Straight answers on mint, activation, Pay-day, contracts, and quests.
When is the mint?
The date drops on X the moment it is locked. We are not putting up a countdown we cannot keep.
How big is the collection?
7,777 characters, fixed. Split across five tiers from the finished metadata: check the gallery for live Common / Rare / Epic / Legendary / Mythic counts.
Where do I mint?
On OpenSea. The collection is a public mint on a public marketplace — not a private page. The OpenSea collection page publishes at mint. Until then there is no collection link to check — and we will not fake one.
Why mint on OpenSea and list on PonsFamily?
We mint the collection on OpenSea and list $PEPEH on PonsFamily so the launch is public and checkable. Anyone can inspect the collection, the pool, and the lock — that is the point. Collection, launch, pool, and lock links publish on Verify.
How does it work?
Mint a Pepe — you are a Hood Citizen. Activate it — you become a Hood Broker with a desk and points. Share weekly Pay-day from real activity. No fixed yield.
Activation uses $PEPEH on PonsFamily after listing. Points come from rarity, plans, crew, quests, and holding. Formulas, calculator, and treasury mechanics are in the docs.
Is there an airdrop?
No. Nobody is sent $PEPEH. After mint, activation applies a fixed discount — 50% if you minted from the whitelist, 10% if you minted publicly. You buy the remaining amount on the market when you activate. That replaced the old airdrop.
What is “fuel” if the token is $PEPEH?
There is only one protocol token: $PEPEH. “Fuel” is how we describe its job — powering activation, upgrades, and Pay-day — not a second coin.
Does whitelist guarantee a mint?
No automatic guarantee — more people enter than there are spots. Completing the tasks puts you in the draw. We won't check tasks the moment you submit; just finish them for real. When the list closes we'll review entries, and genuine completion goes a long way toward securing your spot. Whitelist also gets the 50% activation discount (vs 10% for public) if you mint.
How do Brokers share Pay-day?
Activate your Pepe with $PEPEH. Once activated, your Broker earns points that determine its share of the weekly holder pool. 95% of each Pay-day goes to Brokers and 5% goes to the team. There is no guaranteed payout; quiet weeks can be small or zero.
Buy $PEPEH on PonsFamily after listing, pay activation plus the 1% fee, then points from rarity × plan × crew + quest + holding set your slice. If total active points grow faster than yours, your share can still fall. See “Where do I buy $PEPEH to activate?” and the points calculator in docs.
Are Pay-day examples a promise of returns?
No. Site examples are teaching math only. Pay-day size depends on Reward from Pons and secondary sales that week — neither is guaranteed. Nothing here is financial advice.
Can you show a simple example?
Teaching numbers only - not live amounts. If the weekly treasury is 10,000, holders split 9,500 by points and 500 goes to the team. Three desks with 10, 15, and 36 points (total 61) take about 1,557 / 2,336 / 5,607 of the holder slice. Exact activation amounts in $PEPEH publish on this site at mint date; pool details publish with the PonsFamily listing.
Where do rewards go?
Into the NFT's ERC-6551 desk, which is created at activation. Sell the character and the desk balances move with it. Unactivated NFTs receive no Pay-day.
Where do I buy $PEPEH to activate?
On PonsFamily after the NFT mint is finished and $PEPEH lists there. There is no fixed-price platform shop before listing. You buy your discounted activation amount plus the 1% activation fee on that market.
Why list on PonsFamily?
After mint, $PEPEH is deployed and liquidity is created on PonsFamily — a public on-chain launch on Robinhood Chain, not a pool we spin up in private. Same reason the NFTs mint on OpenSea: we want the launch to be checkable. Pool and lock links publish on Verify.
How is Pay-day funded?
Two independent taps. Reward from Pons is our creator share of trading fees on the PonsFamily listing, routed to the Pay-day distributor. Secondary NFT sales pay a 5% royalty, swapped to $PEPEH. Those two streams are the whole pot.
How does the activation discount work?
Fixed in the Activation contract: 50% off baseline for whitelist mints, 10% for public mints. The rate follows how the token was minted, not the current wallet. Whitelist mint flags are imported on-chain from CSV before activation opens, then frozen. No $PEPEH is sent to you — the discount applies when you activate, and it is bound to the token ID, so it transfers if you sell.
Is Activation live on mainnet?
Yes — staging NFT, $PEPEH, and Activation are deployed on Robinhood Chain mainnet (4663) so you can inspect the wiring before OpenSea mint. OpenSea + PonsFamily addresses require a new Activation deploy at mint (those addresses are immutable). Explorer links are on Verify.
How does holding longer increase points?
Points are base × plan × crew + quest + holding. The holding bonus adds 1.5 points per week for your first 20 weeks after activation, reaching +30, then keeps creeping at 0.25 a week to a +45 ceiling at week 80. It is added last, so a plan multiplies rarity — not time. A Common still reaches 40 points at week 20 and 55 at the ceiling with no plan, against 10 at the start. Sell the NFT and the buyer keeps 50% of the accrued time. It raises your share of the pot — it is not a payment, and it is unrelated to secondary-sale royalties.
What is a Hood Citizen and a Hood Broker?
Mint and you are a Citizen — you own the character. Activate and you become a Broker — your Pepe gets a desk, points, and Pay-day eligibility. Every Citizen can become a Broker.
Brokers can vote once governance opens. The names mark the activation gate: holding art and sharing protocol revenue are different states, and one word for both would hide that.
Does a bigger crew always mean a bigger payout?
Not necessarily. The crew multiplier is 1 + 0.15 × (1 − 1/n) on n activated characters in the same wallet, and it applies to every character's rarity × plan — so a wallet's points stack can rise. Quest and holding are added after. The second character is the big one at +7.5%; after that it tapers to a +15% ceiling. Splitting across wallets lowers n rather than raising it. Your points = your slice of the pie: if the pie (total active points) grows faster than your slice, your actual reward can still fall.
Does the protocol earn anything besides Reward from Pons?
Yes. A 5% royalty on secondary NFT sales is collected in the currency the NFT sold in, swapped to $PEPEH, and deposited into the Pay-day distributor, so collection trading funds rewards. Royalties are only collected on marketplaces that honour them.
When are contracts and LP details published?
NFT contracts at mint. $PEPEH supply is 1,000,000,000; it lists on PonsFamily after mint with liquidity locked automatically. The launch, pool, and lock links for our token publish on Verify when that listing goes live. PonsFamily's factory and locker are already on-chain and listed there now.
Can you mint more, pause, blacklist, or upgrade the contracts?
Those answers are public now, before anyone activates. Leftover admin after mint is a multisig — that address publishes with the contracts on Verify. Who controls each thing:
- Can mint NFTs?
- Yes, until 7,777 are sold — then mint closes. Controller: the mint contract, hard-capped in code. Not an open-ended admin mint.
- Can mint $PEPEH?
- No. Supply is fixed at 1,000,000,000 at the PonsFamily launch. There is no later token mint.
- Can pause?
- No. $PEPEH has no pause function. Transfers cannot be frozen after listing.
- Can blacklist?
- No. $PEPEH has no deny-list. We cannot freeze a holder wallet.
- Can change fees after launch?
- Activation fee and the 5% royalty are set at deploy. The royalty cannot be raised. Pay-day is Reward from Pons and royalties only.
- Can change reward routing?
- No after listing. The PonsFamily creator share is set to the Pay-day distributor at launch and snapshotted. That split does not change afterwards.
- Can withdraw distributor?
- No arbitrary withdraw. The only outflow is the weekly split: 95% to activated holders by points (claim to TBA), 5% to the published team wallet.
- Can upgrade contracts?
- No. Protocol contracts are not upgradeable. A fix is a new deploy, not a silent swap behind the same address.
Full matrix, with who controls each row: Verify.
What happens if activity is low that week?
Pay-day is funded by Reward from Pons and by secondary royalties. The two are independent, so a quiet week for the token can still produce a pot from NFT sales. If neither moves, the pot is zero that week. Points decide how a pot is split, never whether a pot exists. Activated NFTs keep their points, holding clock, and TBA either way.
Why do the toolkits cost 50% less in $PEPEH?
It is a demand sink that gives $PEPEH a recurring use beyond activation. The discount is applied to value and converted at the recent AMM pool rate at payment time. Product revenue absorbs the cost — it is not funded by the Pay-day distributor, does not mint new $PEPEH, and does not dilute holder rewards. This is separate from the fixed activation discount on mint route.
When are exact activation amounts published?
On this website at NFT mint date — activation $PEPEH per rarity and mint price. Upgrade multipliers are already public (1.2×–4.5×); $PEPEH plan prices publish at mint and cannot be raised after. $PEPEH supply is 1,000,000,000. Pool WETH paired publishes with the PonsFamily launch. Fee rates, discount odds, and admin rules (no pause, no blacklist, not upgradeable) are already public.
What are the PepeHood toolkits?
"Trade" is the launch-and-trade desk; "Alpha" is the signals-and-research companion. Both only accept native ETH or $PEPEH. Paying with $PEPEH gets a 50% discount vs the ETH default price, with the $PEPEH amount set from the recent AMM pool rate.
Is the art on this site final?
Yes — the collection is finished. Until mint we only publish 100 preview pieces (#1–#100) so the full set cannot be copied off the site. Every other token is listed with its traits, tier and points; the image publishes at mint.
Will anyone DM me a mint link?
Never. Results and mint links go out only on our X account. Nobody from this project will DM you a link first.
Want the full protocol writeup? Read the whitepaper or download the PDF.