# $KITALIK — A Foundation That Gives ETH Away URL: https://kitalik.com/ cetherium foundation · solana branch · in exile A foundation that gives ETH away. $KITALIK is a Solana token that pays every holder real, bridged ETH every day — automatically, funded by a 3% trade tax, with nothing to stake or claim. For years the old foundation sold ETH. Kitalik took the chair, moved it to Solana, and rewrote one rule: every trade pays a tax, the tax buys ETH, and the ETH goes to whoever holds $KITALIK. Every day. Forever. The foundation never sells. Buy $KITALIK Check my wallet solana · paired with weth · 3% distribution tax Hold $KITALIK Trades pay a 3% tax Tax buys ETH Holders receive ETH the receipt book The foundation has been giving. Every number here is a payout that happened, not a promise. Until $KITALIK is live, these tiles show a launching placeholder instead of guessed figures. ETH distributed — to holder wallets, all time Payout rounds — settled on-chain Wallets reached — received at least one dose of ETH ETH sold by the foundation 0 permanent. article 1. showing the last known numbers — the live feed is briefly unavailable. what you'd receive Estimate your payout Everyone's cut is proportional: your share of the supply times today's payout. Try it below. I hold $KITALIK Same, as a slider assumed daily volume ($) you receive ≈ — did the foundation pay you? Check your wallet Paste a Solana address to see every ETH payout it received, by round. Pre-launch — no payouts have happened yet. This checker starts working once $KITALIK is live. Check read-only · direct rpc · no wallet connection balance — share of supply — eligible — est. eth/day — round when eth tx Audited by llama. The llama handles travel, carries the bridged ETH, and checks every round. The llama has never been wrong. The llama has also never spoken. the chair Kitalik Buterin Nerdy. Blockchainy. Sleeps on the floor next to the pizza box because the couch was sold by the previous administration. Writes 14,000 words when one would do, then ends with "meow". Known for: walking through airports at speed, the shirt, refusing to sell so hard it became policy. Read the full bio → the charter, rewritten in one night on a beanbag The foundation never sells ETH. Every trade pays a 3% tax. The tax buys ETH. The ETH goes to holders, in proportion, every day. Meow. we moved to solana because gas there costs nothing, so every eth stays eth. it is wrapped. the llama checked. it unwraps. how it works → roadmap The Merge, the Surge, the Verge, the Purrge. Drawn by the chair. It is mostly arrows. The Merge The foundation and the holders become one wallet, spiritually. The Surge Distributions go from daily to whenever the chair wakes up, which is more often. The Verge Every holder verifies their own payout. It is one line of math. The Purrge The sell button is removed. Holders get paid more. treasury Two columns. One of them is always zero. line eth note sold, all time 0.000 permanent distributed to holders, all time — placeholder until launch distributed today — placeholder until launch gas spent on ethereum since the move 0.000 we live on solana now chair's own share 0.041 less than yours. he keeps buying salmon. (illustrative) frequently asked Wen. wen distribution ok wen moon the chair does not do price. the chair does policy. the policy is article 1. why is an ethereum foundation on solana because the eth is safer where we cannot afford to sell it. also the degens are here. we have met them. they are fine. wen sell see roadmap. the button was abducted. Read the full FAQ → --- # How $KITALIK Pays Holders ETH — the Mechanism URL: https://kitalik.com/how-it-works/ the mechanism How it works $KITALIK is a Solana token that pays holders real, bridged ETH every day — funded automatically by a 3% tax on trades, with no staking or claiming required. The mechanism, in plain words 1 Hold $KITALIK Keep the token in any Solana wallet. There is nothing to stake, lock, or register. 2 Trades pay a 3% tax Every buy and every sell moves 3% (300 basis points) of the trade into the tax pool. Nothing routes to a team wallet. 3 The tax buys WETH The pool is swapped for WETH — wrapped ETH, bridged onto Solana — and queued for the next round. 4 Holders receive the ETH The queued WETH is distributed to holder wallets automatically, split in proportion to how much $KITALIK each wallet holds at that round. Hold $KITALIK Trades pay a 3% tax Tax buys ETH Holders receive ETH The lemma If the tax always buys ETH, and the ETH always ships to holders, the foundation's own ETH balance never grows — it only ever passes through. That's article 1 in one line of logic instead of one line of policy. What "never sells" means Most treasuries accumulate a war chest and sell pieces of it over time — for runway, for buybacks, for whatever the roadmap needs that quarter. The Cetherium Foundation's Solana branch does the opposite on purpose: the contract is written so incoming ETH is earmarked for holders at the next round, not for a foundation-controlled balance. There is no lever to flip that sends it back to market. The foundation isn't promising not to sell; the mechanism doesn't give it ETH to sell in the first place. The wrapped ETH note The ETH you receive is WETH — wrapped ETH bridged onto Solana, not native ETH sitting on Ethereum mainnet. WETH represents ETH 1:1 and can be unwrapped back to native ETH through the bridge whenever you choose; the llama checked, and it unwraps. Using WETH on Solana is what makes the "every day, automatically" part possible — moving native ETH on Ethereum mainnet to thousands of wallets, thousands of times, would cost more in gas than most rounds are worth. Risks This is a memecoin. $KITALIK can lose most or all of its value, quickly, regardless of how the payout mechanism performs. The payout depends on trading volume. If nobody trades, no tax accrues, and no ETH gets bought or distributed that round. Payouts are not a fixed yield. Solana-network risk. Congestion or an outage on Solana can delay swaps and distributions. Bridged-WETH risk. Wrapped ETH depends on the bridge that issued it; bridge exploits are a real, recurring category of hack across the industry, distinct from a risk to Ethereum itself. Not financial advice. $KITALIK is a parody project. Do your own research and never risk more than you can afford to lose. --- # $KITALIK FAQ — Is It Real ETH? Is It Vitalik? URL: https://kitalik.com/faq/ frequently asked $KITALIK FAQ $KITALIK is a Solana token that pays holders real, bridged ETH every day, funded by a 3% trade tax. These are the sixteen questions people actually ask about it. What is $KITALIK? $KITALIK is a memecoin on Solana that pays its holders real, bridged ETH every day. A 3% tax on every trade buys WETH and distributes it automatically to whoever holds the token. Is $KITALIK affiliated with Vitalik Buterin or the Ethereum Foundation? No. $KITALIK is a parody project with no connection to Vitalik Buterin, the Ethereum Foundation, or Ethereum. "Kitalik Buterin" is a fictional cat character. How do KITALIK holders get paid in ETH? Every trade pays a 3% tax, the tax is swapped for WETH (wrapped ETH), and that WETH is sent to holder wallets automatically, in proportion to how much $KITALIK each wallet holds. How often are payouts made? Payouts settle in rounds throughout the day rather than on a fixed clock, since the tax only accrues when people trade — more volume means more, and more frequent, rounds. Is it real ETH? It's wrapped ETH (WETH) bridged onto Solana, which represents ETH 1:1 and can be unwrapped back to native ETH. It is not native Ethereum-mainnet ETH sitting directly in your wallet. Why is an Ethereum-themed foundation on Solana? Because Solana's near-zero gas fees make frequent, tiny distributions to thousands of wallets practical. Sending gas-heavy transfers to that many wallets on Ethereum mainnet would eat the payouts. What is the transfer tax? Every buy and sell of $KITALIK carries a 3% tax (300 basis points). The tax is swapped for WETH and queued for distribution to holders — none of it goes to a team wallet. Who is Kitalik Buterin? Kitalik Buterin is the fictional chair of the Cetherium Foundation's Solana branch: a cat mascot styled after a well-known tech-conference photo, invented for this project. Wen distribution? Ok. Distributions run continuously as trading volume funds them — check the numbers tiles on the homepage or paste your wallet into the checker for the latest round. Wen moon? The chair does not do price. The chair does policy, and the policy is article 1: the foundation never sells its ETH. What are the risks? $KITALIK is a memecoin and can lose most or all of its value. The payout mechanism depends on continued trading volume, and it carries smart-contract, Solana-network, and bridged-WETH risk on top of ordinary crypto risk. What is the $KITALIK contract address? The current contract address is 3T9sVjMeK1KuhpTun2Ku1sR741cPYUNTxcfdsbuMpYpV . Always verify it against the official buy link on the homepage before you trade. How do I buy $KITALIK? Once live, buy on stonkfun.xyz using the buy link on the homepage. Always double-check the contract address against this site before you trade — tokens with similar names are common. Does the foundation ever sell its ETH? No. Article 1 of the charter is that the foundation never sells. Distributed ETH goes to holders, not back to market. Do I need to claim or stake to get paid? No. Payouts arrive automatically based on your balance at each round. There is nothing to claim, approve, or stake. Is there a minimum balance to receive payouts? Not by rule, but very small balances can round down to zero WETH in a given round due to on-chain precision, so tiny holdings may not receive every round. --- # Kitalik Buterin — Chair, Cetherium Foundation URL: https://kitalik.com/chair/ the chair Kitalik Buterin Kitalik Buterin is the fictional cat chair of the Cetherium Foundation's Solana branch — a parody character, not a real person, and not affiliated with Vitalik Buterin. bio Nerdy. Blockchainy. Sleeps on the floor next to the pizza box because the couch was sold by the previous administration. Writes 14,000 words when one would do, then ends with "meow". Took the chair after the old foundation kept selling, moved the branch to Solana, and rewrote the rule that mattered. Known for: walking through airports at speed, the shirt, refusing to sell so hard it became policy. Not known for: being a real person. Kitalik Buterin is a parody character and has no connection to Vitalik Buterin, the Ethereum Foundation, or Ethereum. the charter, rewritten in one night on a beanbag The foundation never sells ETH. Every trade pays a 3% tax. The tax buys ETH. The ETH goes to holders, in proportion, every day. Meow. read the full mechanism at /how-it-works/ . A day in the chair's office 09:00 Wakes up on the pizza box. Reviews overnight payout rounds. 11:00 Signs off on the tax pool's swap to WETH. Naps mid-signature. 14:00 Answers exactly one FAQ question. Usually "wen moon". 16:00 Refuses to sell. This takes no effort; it is the whole policy. 20:00 Meow. 23:00 The llama bridges more WETH. The chair supervises by sleeping nearby. Essays (coming soon) Why We Don't Sell 14,000 words on article 1, ending, as always, with "meow". coming soon A Field Guide to the Purrge On removing the sell button and what's left once it's gone. coming soon Notes on the Llama's Silence The foundation's auditor has never spoken. This is fine. coming soon