Protocol

The mechanism

TAOTANIC is a proposed TAO-accumulation protocol for Robinhood Chain. Each stage of the route, the parameter that governs it, and the authority that does not yet exist behind any of them.

PROPOSEDNOT DEPLOYED

The route, and the rule at each stage

select a stage to mark its parameters below

Standing of the rules

Parameters proposed: 8; none approved, modelled against real liquidity, or reviewedPROPOSED
With an authority to change them: 0 of 8; no authority has been designedUNAVAILABLE
With a delay on a change: 0 of 8; no timelock has been specifiedUNAVAILABLE
Pause authority: Unresolved; the rule is specified for acquire and position; who may trigger it is notUNAVAILABLE

Scenario the interface models

SIMULATION

One scenario input can tighten a rule. Where it does, both values are shown, named apart.

Standard activity enforces every parameter at its proposed value. No qualifier applies.

Framing

Parameter registry

Every value is proposed. A value with no authority and no delay behind it is a suggestion, and the registry says so in the same row rather than in a footnote.

PROPOSED

The registry scrolls sideways.

Parameter registry. Each row gives the proposed value, the stage it governs, the range it may move within, the authority that could change it, the delay that would apply, the evidence behind it and its status.
Parameter	Proposed value	Allowed range	Authority	Delay	Evidence	Status
Protocol feeCharged by the v4 hook on swaps through eligible TAON pools only. The token itself has no transfer fee.	30 bps	0–100 bps	Unresolved	Unresolved	Matches a common Uniswap v4 fee tier. Not modelled against real flow.	PROPOSED
Acquisition shareShare of the captured fee used to acquire TAO for the reward reserve.	80%	Must total 100% with the treasury share	Unresolved	Unresolved	Asserted by test: the two shares always account for the whole captured fee.	PROPOSED
Treasury shareShare of the captured fee retained for protocol operations. Never paid to stakers.	20%	Must total 100% with the acquisition share	Unresolved	Unresolved	No operating budget has been modelled, so the split is a placeholder proportion.	PROPOSED
Execution thresholdPending capital must reach this before an acquisition runs, so gas does not consume small batches.	0.1 TAO	Above the gas cost of one acquisition	Unresolved	Unresolved	Robinhood Chain gas costs for a v4 swap have not been measured.	PROPOSED
Execution cooldownMinimum gap between acquisitions. Limits how precisely an observer can front-run the executor.	1h	15m–24h	Unresolved	Unresolved	Chosen to blunt front-running, not derived from observed mempool behaviour.	PROPOSED
Stake lockHow long a stake must be held before it can be withdrawn. Stops a staker from entering purely to capture a pending credit.	24h	0–7d	Unresolved	Unresolved	Stops a position entering purely to capture a pending credit. Not tuned.	PROPOSED
Slippage ceilingAn acquisition that would exceed this reverts rather than filling at a bad price. The batch is retried later.	100 bps	25–300 bps	Unresolved	Unresolved	TAO book depth on chain 4663 is unmeasured, so this is unvalidated.	PROPOSED
Claim thresholdSmallest claimable amount, so a claim cannot cost more in gas than it returns.	0.0005 TAO	Above the gas cost of one claim	Unresolved	Unresolved	Prevents a claim costing more in gas than it returns. Gas cost unmeasured.	PROPOSED

Parameter
Protocol feeCharged by the v4 hook on swaps through eligible TAON pools only. The token itself has no transfer fee.
Proposed value
30 bps
Governs
Allowed range
0–100 bps
Authority
Unresolved
Delay
Unresolved
Evidence
Matches a common Uniswap v4 fee tier. Not modelled against real flow.
Status
PROPOSED
Parameter
Acquisition shareShare of the captured fee used to acquire TAO for the reward reserve.
Proposed value
80%
Governs
Allowed range
Must total 100% with the treasury share
Authority
Unresolved
Delay
Unresolved
Evidence
Asserted by test: the two shares always account for the whole captured fee.
Status
PROPOSED
Parameter
Treasury shareShare of the captured fee retained for protocol operations. Never paid to stakers.
Proposed value
20%
Governs
Allowed range
Must total 100% with the acquisition share
Authority
Unresolved
Delay
Unresolved
Evidence
No operating budget has been modelled, so the split is a placeholder proportion.
Status
PROPOSED
Parameter
Execution thresholdPending capital must reach this before an acquisition runs, so gas does not consume small batches.
Proposed value
0.1 TAO
Governs
Allowed range
Above the gas cost of one acquisition
Authority
Unresolved
Delay
Unresolved
Evidence
Robinhood Chain gas costs for a v4 swap have not been measured.
Status
PROPOSED
Parameter
Execution cooldownMinimum gap between acquisitions. Limits how precisely an observer can front-run the executor.
Proposed value
1h
Governs
Allowed range
15m–24h
Authority
Unresolved
Delay
Unresolved
Evidence
Chosen to blunt front-running, not derived from observed mempool behaviour.
Status
PROPOSED
Parameter
Stake lockHow long a stake must be held before it can be withdrawn. Stops a staker from entering purely to capture a pending credit.
Proposed value
24h
Governs
Allowed range
0–7d
Authority
Unresolved
Delay
Unresolved
Evidence
Stops a position entering purely to capture a pending credit. Not tuned.
Status
PROPOSED
Parameter
Slippage ceilingAn acquisition that would exceed this reverts rather than filling at a bad price. The batch is retried later.
Proposed value
100 bps
Governs
Allowed range
25–300 bps
Authority
Unresolved
Delay
Unresolved
Evidence
TAO book depth on chain 4663 is unmeasured, so this is unvalidated.
Status
PROPOSED
Parameter
Claim thresholdSmallest claimable amount, so a claim cannot cost more in gas than it returns.
Proposed value
0.0005 TAO
Governs
Allowed range
Above the gas cost of one claim
Authority
Unresolved
Delay
Unresolved
Evidence
Prevents a claim costing more in gas than it returns. Gas cost unmeasured.
Status
PROPOSED

Unresolved8 of 8 authorities and 8 of 8 delays. Until both exist a proposed number is not a rule anyone is bound by.

The two shares must account for the whole fee. That is asserted by a test, not assumed: if a future edit made them sum to anything but 100%, the build fails rather than quietly leaking capital.

Four responsibilities, one custody boundary

No single contract both holds user principal and executes market orders. That separation is what lets acquisition pause without freezing claims.

The diagram scrolls sideways. Every box is also described in the mechanism sections below.

Mechanism

The four rules that need more room than the chain gives them.

Unresolved governance

Eight questions the design has not answered. They are listed rather than omitted, because an unanswered governance question is a risk whether or not a website mentions it.

Proposed contracts

None written, none compiled, none deployed, none reviewed.

NOT DEPLOYED

What could go wrong

TAOTANIC is not TAO, not wrapped TAO, and not an official product of the Bittensor Foundation, Robinhood Markets, Inc., or anyone else. It is not a Bittensor subnet and performs no validator, miner or emissions role. Rewards are denominated in τ and depend entirely on realised eligible volume. Current readiness