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01 / THE MARKET STANDARD

Own a fixed share
of SPY

rSPY is an elastic-supply Note measured against one SPY Stock Token. SPY sets the measure. Rebase moves the supply. Trade builds the reserve.

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02 / THE MECHANISM

How it works

Trade and earn real SPY

For every trade, Note Hook buys back SPY with the trading fee and transfers it directly to the treasury. Your assets are backed with more SPY for every trade.

03 / THE MARKET ENGINE

The Note Hook

PROTOCOL NOTE / 001rSPY

Note Hook is a rebase-native market engine built with Uniswap v4 hooks and v2-style reserve accounting.

Every trade in the pool pays a fee. The protocol converts 100% of collected trading fees into SPY Stock Tokens and adds them to the protocol-controlled reserve.

Fees rise on a square curve during the hour before each daily Rebase, when the market is most sensitive to manipulation. They return to the base rate during the fifteen minutes after Rebase and can never exceed the immutable maximum.

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04 / THE MONETARY POLICY

Parameters

Peg target
1 rSPY = 1 tokenized SPY, based on the oracle price
Oracle
24-hour time-weighted average of the pool (TWAP)
Rebase
Daily, 02:00 UTC
Response
Sigmoid, ported from Ampleforth mainnet: +5.0% and −7.7% daily limits, growth 45
Pool liquidity
100% protocol-owned and locked
Base fee
1%
Maximum fee
3.00%
Fee ramp
Square curve over the 60 minutes before rebase; linear return over 15 minutes after
Fee split
100% converted to SPY and added to the reserve
Issuance
Single public window at par. No allocation, no discount, no lockup, no team tokens
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05 / THE SETTING & THE INSPIRATION

Why Robinhood Chain

01Stocks, on-chain.

For four centuries a share of stock has been the most widely held financial instrument in the world, and for four centuries it has lived inside a broker. Robinhood Chain changes its form: tokenized SPY is an ERC-20, held in your own wallet, traded at 3 a.m. on a Sunday, and composable with any contract that can read a balance. The oldest asset in public markets has become a primitive.

02A stock as the unit of account.

Every protocol before this one has been denominated in a currency. Note Protocol is denominated in a stock. The reserve is SPY. The pool is priced in SPY. The target is one SPY. Rebase does not chase a dollar; it chases a share. Nothing in the system needs to know what a dollar is worth.

03Why SPY.

SPY is five hundred companies and their cash flows, priced continuously by the deepest market on earth. As a reference it is neither a policy nor a promise. It is the closest thing public markets have to a neutral measure of value, and it now exists on the same chain as this contract.

04Why elastic.

Ampleforth showed in 2019 that a supply can absorb demand so that a unit can hold its meaning. It aimed that idea at the dollar. We aim it at a share of stock — the first time an elastic unit has been quoted directly against an on-chain equity, in the venue where the equity trades, with the reserve held in the equity itself.

Not available to persons in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, following the eligibility of Robinhood’s stock tokens. rSPY is an experiment in monetary mechanics. It is not an investment, and nobody involved expects it to be one.

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THE MARKET, MADE ELASTIC.

Manifesto

Own a fixed share of SPY.

rSPY is an elastic-supply Note measured against one SPY Stock Token. SPY sets the measure. Rebase moves the supply. Trade builds the reserve.

Inspired by AMPL, and stocks in the real world. On Robinhood Chain.

Full manifesto forthcoming.