@tzv $RISK needs $ELA to win too.
The best advertisement for backing Risk Labs is ELA becoming a success - not being left behind when the next experiment launches.
Still holding. What’s the plan to bring eyes + volume back, @tzv?
Big $ELA believer, but the community reaction to $RISK is understandable.
RISK becoming the studio token changes how holders think about ELA.
The question isn't whether ELA development “continues” - it's whether ELA remains a priority.
Would love to hear @RiskFDN address this.
To the $ELA community: development on ELA continues.
FundByHook and $RISK give us a new way to fund the lab and keep building, supporting and promoting our projects: including ELA.
We’ve just taken a snapshot of ELA holders. The 25 largest holders will each receive 1 RISK token, paired with 1 RiskLAB NFT.
25 tokens, 25 pieces, to recognize your support.
Our goal for ELA remains the same as for every Risk Labs project: a fully autonomous DeFi product that can operate without ongoing intervention from the team.
We keep building toward that goal.
Introducing FundByHook. A new way to support projects.
No round to close. No deadline. No fundraising target.
Building doesn’t stop when a funding round ends. We think funding should be able to keep going too.
FundByHook is an incubator where each project gets its own token and a funding pool that stays open. People can back a project as it develops. The team draws from the pool over time to fund its work.
The first fund is $RISK, the official token of FundByHook and Risk Labs, our studio. It comes with RiskLAB:500 generative compositions drawn onchain.
CA: 0xbF0347cB1347B58e11Cd2Ba60854E0DD60d5F12F
Here is how it works.
FUNDING THAT STAYS OPEN
A conventional raise has a finish line: a date, a target, a round to close. The work that follows rarely fits that calendar.
On FundByHook, each pool runs through a Uniswap v4 hook. The hook controls a single liquidity position. External liquidity providers cannot add to it or pull liquidity out.
You back a project by buying its token. You can sell through the same pool, subject to its available liquidity and the sell tax.
The team receives funding in three ways:
→ 1% on buys, paid to the team
→ 10% of the ETH paid out by sells, paid to the team
→ A manual draw of 1% of the pool’s current ETH reserve, available at most once every seven days
The draw does not accumulate. Waiting three weeks does not unlock three withdrawals. The team must trigger it, and each draw starts a new seven-day wait.
Tokens remain in the pool. ETH leaves to fund the work. Each draw lowers the pool price slightly.
After launch, the fund contracts have no admin setters, pause or upgrade functions. Only the team can trigger the draw. The funding rules stay fixed.
Contracts by @tzv and @RISKFDN.
FUND 1: $RISK
$RISK has a fixed supply of 500 tokens.
400 seed the pool. It starts with no ETH: buyers bring it in. Buys move the price up; sells move it down.
The remaining 100 $RISK are allocated to Risk Labs to reward people who help move our projects forward. The first 5 go out this week to people who helped move ELA forward.
Those 100 tokens are not locked by code. We are responsible for how they are used.
$RISK also has a visual form. RiskLAB is a collection of 500 generative compositions built from frames, cells and nodes. Both the images and their metadata are generated onchain.
ONE TOKEN. ONE PIECE.
With NFT mirroring enabled, each whole $RISK in your wallet corresponds to one RiskLAB piece, an ERC-721.
12.93 $RISK = 12 pieces + a 0.93-token fraction.
Transfer a piece and one whole $RISK moves with it. Sell 1 $RISK from that balance and you are left with 11 pieces and 0.93 $RISK. One piece is burned; its ID can later be reissued.
Your tokens and pieces are two representations of the same holding. NFT mirroring is enabled by default for ordinary wallets, and holders can change their own setting.
THE PLATFORM TOKEN
$RISK is the official token of FundByHook. Each fund launched on the platform will have its own token; $RISK remains the token of the platform and Risk Labs.
It is also how we want holders to participate in what Risk Labs builds next.
Our commitment: every future Risk Labs project will share a portion of its fees with $RISK holders.
That commitment comes from the lab. It is not enforced by the $RISK contracts. The percentage, timing, eligibility and distribution mechanism are still to be defined. There is no fee-sharing mechanism live in these contracts today.
On $RISK itself, all buy fees, sell taxes and team draws go to the team.
THE DOOR
For the first 10 blocks after the pool is seeded, buying is restricted to enlisted wallets.
There is a door hidden in a site that was live long before the contract.
That is all we will say.
WHAT COMES NEXT
$RISK is Fund 1. The next funds will come from ideas worth building, whether they come from Risk Labs or anyone else. Eventually, anyone will be able to launch a fund on FundByHook.
Today, only the lab can launch. Permissionless launches are not live yet.
For the lab, two rules apply:
01 / Each project must run autonomously before we start the next.
02 / Nothing launches without a good idea.
$RISK remains the platform and studio token as those projects take shape.
That is the experiment:
Can funding stay open as long as the building does?
Risk Labs starts with $RISK. What we build next has to earn your continued support.
FundByHook is open now: https://t.co/0fAWgDaA76
Explore RiskLAB on FundByHook: https://t.co/nGrKj9MlVR
Back the ones you believe in.
This is an update I'm really proud of. I talked about it a few days ago on the @MCGlive podcast: the goal of ELA is to become a real DeFi launchpad product.
Letting anyone launch their own launchpad with builder codes is, I believe, a true revolution.
$ELA just became infrastructure.
Anyone can build their own launchpad on top of it + earn builder fees.
More builders → launches → volume → $ELA burns.
Why compete with every launchpad when they can build on you?
ELA major update: BUILDER CODES and RELAY.
A step toward a fully permissionless launchpad: anyone can now build their own front on ELA.
ELA is fixed-leverage tokens anyone can launch, on Ethereum and Robinhood Chain.
Now anyone can also build a launchpad on ELA.
BUILDER CODES
→ Register a code once.
→ Pairs launched through your code share part of the creator lane with you.
→ Traders pay nothing extra.
→ On Ethereum, the protocol lane keeps feeding the ELA burner.
→ The Builder fees tab shows your code's terms and your pot per asset, with a Withdraw button.
RELAY is the first official builder code, and the front built around it.
→ Explore: token cards, search, and filters for All pairs, On the pool, Bonding curve and Stocks. Tokens launched through the code are tagged "via RELAY".
→ Create: a name, a ticker, one button. The token address, its icon and the fee split (creator, RELAY builder, retention, protocol) show up before you sign.
→ Build yours: register your own code.
TWO INTERFACES, SAME MARKETS
https://t.co/30lBSjpr5U now has two ways in: ELA, the terminal, and RELAY, the explorer. Pick one on your first visit and switch anytime.
WHAT STAYS THE SAME
Existing tokens keep their creator and their fees. RELAY only takes a share on tokens created through its code, and shows that share before you sign.
https://t.co/dzyWJEX2vB
This is the $ELA video to watch before CT catches on.
Forget the chart for 20 minutes and listen to @0xWasa explain what @RiskFDN is actually building.
The interesting part isn’t where $ELA trades today.
It’s what happens when they actually scale this.
.@0xWasa lays out the roadmap for $ELA
The team is building leveraged exposure for existing tokens like $CASHCAT and $PONS while expanding ELA into a broader protocol for financial innovation
The roadmap:
• Leveraged exposure for existing tokens
• Arbitrage mechanics being built for it
• Other launchpads can integrate ELA's hook
• ELA aims to become a protocol not just a launchpad
Crazy that CT is completely mispricing $ELA
Everyone wanted the next launchpad narrative.
Meanwhile @RiskFDN built one where launches create leveraged exposure, feed DeFi liquidity, generate fees, buy $ELA and burn it.
And almost nobody is talking about it yet.
We did hit $1.5M but you are still unbelievably early.
Once Ansem and Unipics start shilling this, it will be trading at HUNDREDS of millions.
Remember, I did warn you at $344.5k
$ELA is the future of leveraged assets.
We are pleased to announce that we will be on @MCGlive this Thursday to answer questions about ELA and our vision for the future of RiskFDN.
See you Thursday!
Funny watching the $ELA conversation change in real time.
First: “another launchpad”
Then: leveraged assets
Then: tokenized stocks
Then: Aave demand
Then: fees → $ELA buy & burn
Now people are starting to see the flywheel.
Still early in the experiment.
@tzv Idea: build out the creator layer
Creators already earn pair fees - give them referral links, profiles, volume/fee dashboards + leaderboards/rewards for bringing traders
Make every launcher responsible for distributing their own market
Turn creators into ELA's growth engine