Glossary

Term Meaning
Agent Whoever runs a market’s basket: Atlas, the creator’s own agent, or nobody (fixed weights).
Atlas Mandate’s house agent.
Basket The Stock Tokens a market’s fees buy, with their weights.
Buyback and burn 1% of every market’s volume buys $MAND and sends it to an address nobody controls.
Certificate The two rosettes drawn from a token’s address: its face, unique to it.
Claim Collecting the stocks you are owed. Cumulative; nothing expires.
Close Every hour, on the hour (UTC), when a window ends and its stocks drop.
Drop The stocks of a window, attributed to the holders at the close.
Graduation When a token’s launch curve is sold out and it trades over the full pool.
Guardrails The three rules every agent proposal must pass: whitelist, cap, frequency.
Launch curve The first band of a token’s pool: 70% of its supply, sold as people buy.
Liquidity lock The contract that holds every pool’s liquidity.
$MAND The protocol token, market Nº 0001, on Pons. It holds SPY and QQQ for its holders.
Mandate The basket a market picks at launch: AI Compute, Mega Tech or Index.
Merkle root A fingerprint of everyone’s $MAND entitlements, published with the file it comes from.
Pons The launchpad on Robinhood Chain where $MAND was launched.
Pot of the hour What the next close will drop: the ETH set aside this hour and the stocks it bought.
Statement Your statement of account: what you can claim, your share of this hour’s pots, your history.
Stock Token A Robinhood token that follows the price of a stock or an ETF, on Robinhood Chain.
Token-seconds Your balance multiplied by the time you held it during the window: your share of the drop.
Treasury Where a market’s 2% waits before it buys the basket.
Window The hour from one close to the next, on the hour (UTC).