$KIN is the cost
of raising a kin.
$KIN is a pure utility token, fair-launched on pump.fun. Fixed 1B supply, no presale, no team unlocks. It exists so the protocol has a unit of account, a sybil tax on mints, and a coordination mechanism. It does not exist to make holders rich for doing nothing.
The official $KIN address is published only on X (@kin_onchain) at launch. Any address posted before that, or anywhere else, is a scam. Verify before you buy.
01Fair launch
$KIN fair-launches on pump.fun. 1,000,000,000 tokens are minted once, then mint and freeze authority are revoked. No more can ever be created.
Every token enters circulation through the same bonding curve. No private round, no presale, no KOL allocation, no insider price. The team buys from the same curve as everyone else, at the same moment, at the same price. When the curve completes, liquidity migrates to Raydium and the LP tokens are burned, so nobody can pull the floor out.
02Utility
Every protocol action requires $KIN:
| Action | Required |
|---|---|
| Mint a kin (Egg) | fixed $KIN cost |
| Run a rite | $KIN per rite, scales by tier |
| Enter the Mirror Hall | stake $KIN (matched stakes) |
| Claim a duel pot | winner takes pot |
| Coven membership + tribute | stake $KIN (post-mainnet) |
The contracts that mint, meter rites and settle duels ship after audit. Until then, $KIN trades as a fair-launch token and the utility switches on as each contract goes live.
03Rite cost scales with tier
Rites get more expensive as your kin climbs. This keeps high-tier play meaningful without locking newcomers out at the bottom.
| Tier | Rite cost (avg) |
|---|---|
| Egg (T1) | 2 $KIN |
| Larva (T2) | 6 $KIN |
| Spirit (T3) | 16 $KIN |
| Adept (T4) | 44 $KIN |
| Archon (T5) | 120 $KIN |
04Fixed supply, no emission
Supply is fixed at 1B forever. There is no inflation and no emission schedule.
Duel pots are funded entirely by entry stakes. No new tokens are minted to seed them. The protocol takes a small rake (operator cost + coven tribute), the rest goes to whoever wins. Nothing dilutes you from the top.
05What $KIN does not do
$KIN does not pay holders for sitting on it. There is no staking-for-APY mechanism. KIN is not a savings account dressed as a token.
The protocol does not buy $KIN off the market to prop the price. There is no treasury chart-defense.
The protocol rake stays inside the protocol (operator cost, coven tribute, duel pot top-up). It is not redistributed to token holders as revenue share.
06Why this design
Tokens that promise yield, buybacks, or fee redistribution attract holders whose only relationship to the product is the chart. They do not play. They do not raise. They do not vote. When the chart stops going up, they leave.
$KIN is meant to be held by people who want to raise a kin. Mint one, run rites, send it to fight, win a pot or lose a stake. If none of that interests you, this token is not for you. We think that is correct.
07Sybil resistance
Mints cost $KIN and rite cost scales with tier. Botting a thousand eggs is cheap; botting a thousand archons is not. The cost curve is published in the codex, and the Mirror Hall only ever matches you against your own tier.
Coordinated multi-wallet plays that funnel a single owner's kin to the same duel are detected on chain and excluded from the leaderboard.