How it works,
in full.
Every number a ripper pays, every control that holds the custody, and every thing the token is not allowed to do. Written so a disagreement is testable rather than a matter of tone.
What Pokemint is
Pokemint is a broker. You pay in USDG on Robinhood Chain, a vault on Solana opens a pack of real graded collectible cards, and the slab that comes out is custodied for you. You keep it, sell it back at a posted floor, or have the physical card shipped.
Everything a normal card gacha hides, this one prints: the machine's expected value, its posted odds, the vault's house edge, our fee, and the buyback spread. Before you pay, not after.
- You stay on one chain. Solana appears only as a proof link on the receipt.
- The odds belong to the vault's VRF. Nobody — not a holder, not us — can tilt them.
- The free tier runs the same odds as the paid one, using real cards from the live feed.
- Every rip, paid or free, mints a receipt anyone can verify without a wallet.
Real rips are not open yet. They require a resale permission from the vault, an isolated signer and a funded float. The paper rip, the terminal and the token do not wait for that.
The paper rip
Three free rips a day, no wallet and no signup. Pick a machine, crank it, and the widget draws a tier using that machine's own posted odds, then pulls a real card of that tier from its live winner feed.
The card is real because inventing one would make the demo a sales pitch. Drawing from the feed means the cards you see are cards the machine actually produced, at the frequency it actually produces them.
- The receipt shows what you would have paid, fee included, next to what the pull is worth.
- A daily streak and a weekly league run on top; league prizes are paid in $MINT and claiming needs a wallet.
- Rate limiting is per device. Farming anonymous rips earns nothing, because prizes settle to a claimed wallet.
- Holding $MINT at Ripper tier raises the daily allowance from three to five.
A paper rip is a demonstration of odds, not a lottery and not a promise. Single pulls prove nothing in either direction; the edge is what shows up over many.
Mint credits
Credits are prepaid tickets, one to one with USDG. You deposit once on Robinhood Chain and the payment listener credits a server ledger the moment the transfer confirms. Rips then clear against that ledger in about a second, while the Solana float settles with the vault in the background.
- Rate
- 1 credit = 1 USDG, fixed
- Minimum deposit
- $10
- Withdraw fee
- 0
- Withdraw minimum
- $20
- Instant withdraw
- up to $500; larger amounts are reviewed
- Transferable
- no — credits cannot be sent, traded or lent
- Yield
- none. They are tickets, not a deposit product
Two onchain moments exist: deposit and withdraw. Everything between them is a ledger we can audit, cap, reconcile hourly against the wallets, and alarm on. If the reconciler finds drift beyond a threshold, withdrawals freeze before anything else does.
Fees and the edge
Three costs sit between a rip and its expected value. All three are printed next to the price rather than folded into it.
- Vault house edge
- roughly 5–8% depending on the machine, set by the vault, not by us
- Pokemint rip fee
- 3% on top of the vault price
- Buyback spread
- 1.5% below the vault's posted floor
- $MINT discount
- up to 25% off the fee — never off the price, never on the odds
Where the fee goes
The pool is a share of fees actually collected, sized by volume. No fixed rate is promised, so none can be broken, and nothing is funded by new emission.
Provably fair, across two chains
The randomness fires on Solana, under our custodial account. Left alone, that would mean asking you to take our word for it. So every rip permanently stores its trail and the receipt hands you all of it.
- The credits that left your balance, fee itemised
- The vault pack-open transaction hash
- The VRF request and its proof
- The resulting card, its grade and its insured value
The receipt links to the explorer and to a public verify page where roll, tier and card each trace back to the same proof the machine used. No wallet is needed to open it, so the link works for a stranger.
Custody and security
Holding real value makes a product a target. The controls are published rather than implied, because a custodial service that will not describe its controls is asking for blind trust.
- Hot and cold split, with cold seed phrases never touching a server
- An isolated signer service that holds the keys and nothing else
- A destination allowlist: the signer can pay the vault and approved buyback targets, and cannot pay anything else
- Per-transaction and daily limits, so a successful attack still hits a ceiling
- An alarm on every outflow, because the damage is decided by the gap between it happening and us knowing
- An hourly reconciler comparing the ledger against hot, float and cold balances
- Published treasury and float addresses, auditable by anyone
Custody always requires some trust. What controls can do is bound the damage. Anyone claiming a custodial product is trustless is selling something.
$MINT
$MINT is a utility token for the application. It buys discounts, access, seats and a share of collected fees. It never buys better odds, and rips are never gated behind holding it.
- Supply
- 1,000,000,000, fixed
- Launch
- pons.family V2 fair launch, LP locked at graduation
- Team allocation
- 0% pre-mine; a small disclosed creator bundle bought at market in the launch transaction
- Presale
- none
- Creator tax
- 0% — a round trip costs the 2% curve fee rather than 4%
- Spectator
- any balance — catalog, feed, paper rip, EV and PnL
- Ripper
- 100k — fee discount, alerts, CSV, five paper rips a day
- Collector
- 1M — larger discount, free-rip pool, whale feed, first in line when rips open
- Whale
- 10M — maximum discount, API, governance signal, first seat at Mint Night
Sinks
- Mint Night tickets are bought in $MINT and burned entirely. The ticket buys a seat at a scheduled batch, never a better pull.
- Twenty percent of every fee event market-buys $MINT and destroys it.
- Reward weight is amount multiplied by consecutive days held, with a seven-day cliff. Selling any resets the streak, so splitting wallets gains nothing.
Eligibility and disclosure
A rip is a randomised outcome with real-money value. That is a regulated activity in some places and prohibited in others, and this product treats it as exactly what it is.
- Pure chance. There is no skill element and none is claimed.
- Expected payout after buyback sits below pack price. Entertainment and collecting, not income.
- Restricted jurisdictions are geo-blocked and an age gate sits ahead of any paid rip.
- The slabs, the vault, the VRF, the base odds and the shipping belong to Collector Crypt. Pokemint is independent and unaffiliated.
- Card names and trademarks belong to their owners and are used only to identify the cards.
Pokemint does not provide legal, tax or financial advice. $MINT is a utility token, not an investment product, not a security, and not a claim on revenue. DYOR. NFA.
This manual describes the product as designed. Real rips open only once the vault resale permission, the isolated signer and the float are all in place; until then the paper rip, the terminal and the token are what is live.