AURUM is launching soon. The contracts are not live yet: no DESK token, no sale, no mint. The official addresses will be published only on aurumdesk.network. Any token or link that claims to be AURUM before then is not ours.

How AURUM works

One desk, one equal share of the protocol's cash flow, paid in BEM and BNB.

DESK

Fixed supply of 1,000,000,000. Buying on PancakeSwap is tax-free; selling pays a 5% tax; moving DESK between wallets is free.
The tax is turned into BNB automatically, inside the next sell on PancakeSwap, and builds up until there is 0.03 BNB. Then it is shared out: 1% to the NFT Staking Pool as BNB, 2% to the Protocol as BNB, and 2% to the Desk Pot, half kept as BNB and half buying BEM. The rates are written into the contracts.

Desks

Minting takes two steps. First pay 100,000 DESK (burned) + 1 BEM (0.6 to the Desk Pot, 0.2 burned, 0.2 to the Protocol) for a set of 4 NAND + 2 LATCH chips from the AURUM processor on TapeOut. Then mint: the set is taped out into your desk circuit (the chips are burned) for the TapeOut tape-out fee. There will only ever be 5,000.
Every desk is a real TapeOut circuit of the AURUM processor, so it can be traded wherever TapeOut circuits are, such as firsto.ai. A desk does not have to be minted here: a circuit taped out straight on TapeOut also counts, if it uses exactly 4 NAND + 2 LATCH from the AURUM processor. Those chips only come from the chip swap. Circuits with any other chip count are not desks and cannot be staked.
Every desk is equal: no rarity, no tiers, no multipliers.

Staking

Only staked desks share in rounds. Minting and staking are separate steps.
A desk staked during a round period starts earning from the next round, so nobody can stake just before a round and leave right after.
Unstaking and claiming always work, even if rounds are paused for maintenance.

Rounds

When 0.03 BNB of tax has built up, a round shares it out: 1% to the NFT Staking Pool, 2% to the Protocol, and 2% to the Desk Pot, half paid as BNB, half buying BEM on PancakeSwap. BEM from chip sets waiting in the Desk Pot is added too.
There is no keeper or bot: rounds run by themselves inside sells, chip purchases and stakes, at most once an hour. Anyone can also press Run round on the Desk Pot page.
If the BEM purchase cannot be done safely (price moved too much, not enough liquidity), that BNB is kept for a later round; the BNB part is still paid.
If no desk is staked, nothing is paid and everything waits for the next round.

Vaults and claims

Each desk has its own vault. Rewards stay there until you claim them, all at once or in parts, BEM and BNB separately. There is no deadline.
Rewards belong to the desk, not to a wallet: if you sell a desk, what is left in its vault goes to the buyer.
The contract always holds enough BEM and BNB for every reward it has recorded.

Risks

Rewards depend entirely on DESK trading volume and mints; there is no fixed yield. Prices of DESK, BEM and BNB can fall.
Sell DESK with at least 6% slippage (5% sell tax, fee-on-transfer token). The contracts must be independently audited before launch.