THE RETARD
MECHANISM

retard.market connects the fixed-supply $RETARD token to permanent creator-token markets. The two token types stay separate. Creator tokens trade against Robinhood Chain ETH. Staking burns $RETARD and creates reward weight. Stakes of 30 days or more also create synthetic price support.

Buying a creator token does not buy $RETARD. Staking $RETARD does not deposit liquidity into the creator pool.

Launching costs network gas but needs no seed money. The creator gets no liquidity position and no trading fees. The creator can receive $RETARD rewards only while the Safe funds that market.

The fee is collected in the asset the trader supplied and belongs to protocol accounting controlled by the Bank Safe. Creators and stakers receive none of it. Internal refresh activity returns its self-paid fee to the same market bucket and is not booked as revenue.

A stake burns your liquid $RETARD and creates a position that you cannot transfer. The contract tracks your staked amount, reward weight, and price support separately.

The multiplier changes your share of funded staker rewards. It is not APY, a guaranteed return, or a multiplier on principal.

For active positions of at least 30 days, support credit C equals burned principal. The protocol applies a diminishing-return multiplier to the creator token's trade-derived base price:

The first 30+ day stake may need a tiny ETH payment. It fills the market's refresh fund up to 0.000099999 ETH. This payment is not a fee, reward, creator payment, or refundable deposit.

• Terms under 30 days pay no activation amount and create no support.
• After activation, later qualifying stakes add no external refresh funding.
• The protocol can reuse committed refresh principal for small same-pool swaps.
• If application fails, the stake remains open and the target queues for reconciliation by a later public swap.

If there are no eligible shares—or a schedule offers more than the capital caps can assign—the unused staker opportunity returns to its market accounting. It does not become creator income or dust-staker windfall.

A Safe root can be replaced prospectively. Replacement stops future vesting under the old schedule, but cannot erase rewards that already vested.

A finished position that remains open continues earning at 1× after its term boost expires. Reward-boost expiry is rounded to the next daily accounting boundary; principal maturity remains exact.

Because support changes an executable price without adding proportional native backing, a participant can create the support signal, trade around it, and preserve the principal claim until maturity.

1. 1

   Earlier buyers place real native value into a creator pool.

2. 2

   An actor buys creator tokens before a support change.

3. 3

   The actor burns RETARD into a qualifying 30–365 day position.

4. 4

   The protocol reanchors the same pool inventory at a higher marginal price.

5. 5

   The actor sells creator tokens into native inventory supplied by earlier buyers.

6. 6

   At maturity, the actor can remint the original RETARD principal.

This is the main tradeoff. Creator-token trading is open. Staked $RETARD can return at maturity. The stake can also move a real trade price. Together, those rules can let one trader sell into pool assets supplied by earlier buyers.

Creator markets have no terminal shutdown or LP-recovery path. That protects market continuity, but it also means bad markets, impersonations, thin liquidity, and unwanted creator associations cannot be deleted at the contract layer.

RULES HASH

395b3ebe4df85d4584e9f94cd573fdae461633d21aaff96a94b534f08a2e7835

SOURCE COMMIT

992869cbf7083d541bfc2a5722b54425b242e671

DEPLOYMENT BLOCK

53,530,713

Verified source code and passing tests do not prove economic safety. The current protocol has an internal code and economic review. It has not had an independent third-party audit.