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You Only Die Once

Kitchen table. If this page and the constitution fight, the constitution wins. Nothing here is live, audited, or a promise that $1.21B happens.

The joke, then the rule

YOLO was a choice. YODO is inevitable. One billion tokens. Destination $1.21 billion fully diluted — $1.21 a coin at that supply. Cultural nod, not movie IP, not a forecast.

Price can go to zero. A fat market cap is not cash in a box. Thin liquidity can lie.

Why hold if the chart is a casino

The product is inheritance, not hopium. When someone sells on a recognized pool:

• 1% of that YODO dies (burned).
• 2% becomes the Death Dividend (still YODO).
• Buys and wallet-to-wallet: 0%.

If a destination rung confirms, you claim from that era’s vault only. Nobody prints extra YODO to pay the prize. Quiet era, small vault. That is the honest rule.

Default claim is YODO. Passport does not zero a win. HOOD Stock Tokens are an opt-up of the same score, only where lawful — not Nasdaq shares, not a bigger prize. If HOOD cannot be delivered, you still get YODO. The vault stays YODO until you pick a door; nobody pre-swaps the pot into HOOD (that would lock people out).

Score is how much you held × how long you held it. Extra wallets do not multiply tokens. A fresh wallet does not inherit “age.”

The split

90% public / liquidity. 8% longevity principal: locked LP, artifact grants (same rubric for everyone), frozen reserve — not official chats; cannot mint. 2% developer, locked until the first $1.21B rung, then a 30-day drip.

No mint. No pause. No blacklist. No upgrade. Fees do not get “adjusted” later.

Rungs

Rung n is n × $1.21B FDV against a 1 billion max supply. Burns do not move the target. Developer 2% unlocks once, at rung 1. There is no last rung.

Onboarding without fake yield

We will not add points, referrals, extra emissions, or siphon the 3% / the 8% into DexScreener, KOLs, or volume bots. Those ads are labeled billboards you pay in dollars, or they are wash trading. Organic charts come from a real pool. POL is the 4% that is allowed.

We don’t care if you can’t pay attention. We aren’t your doctor or your ADD medication. Attention pays 0 YODO. Ignore us: your problem. Fade us: because you want to be us. Buying late is better than not at all. Weak hands? Skill issue.

Snipers who dump pay the 3% on the way out and earn ~0 token-time. We do not tax buys. Extra “hold rewards” would be a mint or a raid on the vault — both delay $1.21B. The hold reward is already the Death Dividend. Quiet era, small vault.

Enter the crypt. Face FEAR of Death. Life is short. Death is quick. The loops are: hold and inherit; look at the art; optional voluntary burn (meme, no extra dividend). Chats gather organically. Winners win. Losers lose.

Check-in is theater until a contract exists. Stage A does not ask your wallet. A later look-in is read-only: which address is looking. It cannot spend, approve, or claim. Progress stays labeled theater until contracts exist.

How to play · Crypt · Die · Map · Constitution lives in the repo as docs/YODO-SPEC.md