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OuroLayer
OuroLayer is a fee-generating protocol on Robinhood Chain that converts a tax levied on trades of its native token, $OURO, into protocol-owned liquidity and recurring token airdrops to holders. The project applies a 5% tax, paid in Ether (ETH), to every buy and sell of $OURO, directing most of the proceeds into liquidity positions it owns permanently and the remainder into tokens it buys at market and distributes to qualifying wallets.[1] It describes itself as "the fee generating layer of Robinhood Chain," with LP fees "airdropped & compounded to holders."[2] The $OURO token runs on Robinhood Chain, and has a fixed total supply of one billion tokens with no mint function..[3]
History
OuroLayer launched on Robinhood Chain with trading in the $OURO token beginning on September 7, 2026.[4][1] From launch, the protocol routed its transaction tax into a treasury called the Reserve, which accumulates protocol-owned liquidity positions in Robinhood Chain pools.[3][1] The project later introduced vaults that pool smaller $OURO balances and allow depositors to choose their payout denomination, describing these vaults as live features of the protocol.[3][1]
Overview and Mechanism
Ouro's central mechanism is a transaction tax. Every $OURO trade pays a 5% tax denominated in the ETH side of the swap, collected on both buys and sells.[3][1] That 5% is divided into four fixed legs: 3.3% buys liquidity for a treasury called the Reserve and keeps it as a liquidity position (LP); 1% buys tokens at market and airdrops them to holders; 0.4% covers operations such as gas, infrastructure and listings; and 0.3% is the platform fee of letscash, the launchpad through which Ouro operates.[3][1] The project frames the contrast with other Robinhood Chain fee tokens such as HOOD10 or The Index, which "hand out every tax point and keep nothing," against Ouro's design of airdropping only 1% of a trade while retaining 3.3% as fee-earning liquidity "it never hands out."[3]
A defining feature of the model is compounding. The documentation states that 100% of every fee the Reserve's liquidity earns is returned to the Reserve rather than distributed, "so the next cycle earns more."[3][1] The protocol therefore separates two streams of value: the airdrop leg, which passes through to holders as tokens, and the liquidity leg, whose earnings are retained and reinvested.
Architecture and Contracts
Ouro's on-chain machinery is split across several contracts dedicated to distinct roles. Trades route through a letscash trading hook, where the 5% tax is enforced, and the ETH/OURO pool is a Uniswap v4 pool. A tax claimer contract pulls the collected tax, an airdrop wallet holds tokens staged for distribution, and an airdrop distributor executes the payouts, while the ETH used to fund airdrops is held in a 3-of-3 multisignature Safe requiring three signers.[3] A separate Reserve contract holds the protocol-owned liquidity.[3]
The protocol builds on Uniswap infrastructure forked onto Robinhood Chain, including the Uniswap v4 PoolManager and Position Manager, the Uniswap v3 Factory and Position Manager, and a Universal Router used as the swap venue. The documentation notes that the v3 Factory owner takes one-sixth of pool fees.[3] The project provides a canonical, publicly listed set of addresses for the token, pools, vaults, infrastructure, and WETH so that its reported figures can be independently verified against the chain.[3]
The Loop and Cycles
Ouro runs in repeating cycles. Each cycle deploys the accumulated tax according to the four-way split, then collects fees that the Reserve's positions have earned; unlike the tax, those collected fees are not split and go entirely back into the Reserve.[3] Airdrops are scheduled on a cadence of every two hours, and each top-up of the airdrop wallet is streamed over roughly 48 hours.[3][1]
The documentation treats timing as discretionary rather than hard-coded, stating that "cadence is policy, not code." A cycle can wait when gas is expensive, when a cycle is thin, when the amount owed is less than the cost of sending it, or when there are no trades. Waiting is described as forfeiting nothing, with owed amounts rolling into the next cycle.[3] A related threshold governs fee collection: the Reserve generally waits until at least $100 of LP fees have accrued before collecting, below which collection may be deferred until practical.[3] In practice, the project's analytics report that recent cycles have closed on a typical gap of about one hour, with 90% closing within roughly nine hours and the longest gap recorded at three days and twenty hours.[4]
The Reserve
The Reserve is Ouro's treasury of protocol-owned liquidity, held in liquid Robinhood Chain tokens and described as positions "in the chain's deepest pools" that are "never handed out."[3][1] It opened with positions in CASHCAT and PONS, and microduck was added as a third holding paired against ETH.[3] The project's stated policy is to build toward five holdings, each capped at 20–25% of the treasury, with additions and retirements of positions carried out by public, on-chain governance.[3][1]
The CASHCAT and PONS positions are held in Uniswap v3 pools paired with Wrapped Ether (WETH) at a 0.30% fee tier, while the microduck position sits in a Uniswap v4 pool paired with ETH at a 1.00% fee tier.[3] Because the v4 pool reports its holdings differently from v3 pools — its position is read as an identifier inside Uniswap's PoolManager contract rather than from a standalone pool contract — the project rebuilds the microduck position's cost basis and fee income from the pool's own storage.[3][1] Both the ETH/microduck pool and the ETH/OURO trading pool are Uniswap v4 pools whose positions are read from the PoolManager.[3]
The project acknowledges a tradeoff against simply holding the underlying tokens, which it labels "divergence," and states that its public Ledger publishes both holdings and divergence so the two can be compared.[3] It also warns plainly that holding liquidity can underperform holding $OURO outright ("LP can lose to holding") and that the Reserve's constituent tokens are volatile and can fail entirely.[3][1]
Airdrops
The airdrop leg is funded by 1% of every trade, with tokens bought at market and handed out to holders in kind.[3] Eligibility requires holding at least 100,000 $OURO — equivalent to 0.01% of total supply — in a self-custodied wallet, with "nothing to stake, lock or claim."[3][1] Balances held on exchanges or bridges do not count; only tokens in the holder's own wallet qualify.[3]
Rather than paying in a single asset, Ouro distributes a basket of tokens purchased at market. The basket includes CASHCAT, PONS, AI and microduck, building toward approximately five tokens, mirroring the Reserve's own holdings.[3] The documentation is careful to frame these payments as a distribution of tax already collected rather than as earnings, stating that "an airdrop is a share of tax already paid. Not a yield promise. Not financial advice."[3] It also notes that the basket tokens are crypto tokens on Robinhood Chain that can include memecoins and that "they can go to zero."[3] Because the airdrop represents only the tax leg, it tracks trading volume and stops when volume stops, even though the Reserve continues to earn fees that remain inside the pools.[3][1]
Holders can inspect their own position through a portfolio page that, on connecting a wallet, shows its $OURO balance, every airdrop it has received along with the transaction that paid it, and its vault deposits.[3] The project states that figures shown across its interface are read directly from the chain and presented as trailing, recent-cycle metrics explicitly described as "not a forecast."[1]
Vaults
For holders below the 100,000 $OURO airdrop minimum, Ouro offers vaults that pool smaller balances so participants "clear the line together" and still receive payouts.[3] The vaults allow depositors to choose the denomination in which they are paid, settling in $OURO, ETH, dollars, or PENGU.[3] Four vault contracts correspond to these choices: an OURO-to-OURO vault (vOURO), an OURO-to-WETH vault (vOUROweth), an OURO-to-dollars vault (vOUROusdg) that pays in the USDG token, and an OURO-to-PENGU vault (vOUROpengu) that pays in PENGU.[3] The project describes the vaults as live.[1]
$OURO Token and Parameters
$OURO is a standard ERC-20 token on Robinhood Chain with a fixed total supply of 1,000,000,000 and no mint capability.[3] The project states that the token includes no freeze, seize or clawback functions and that the protocol cannot touch users' wallets.[3] The trading pool is configured with a 0% liquidity-provider fee fixed at creation, so trading cost to users comes through the 5% tax rather than a pool fee.[3] The canonical $OURO contract address is 0x8Ea0eB3505f5B3Bd2BbEa0fEBae0cE850cC73ecc.[2]
The team's allocation is locked in an uncancellable Sablier vesting stream (stream 156), with a cliff in March 2027 and the stream ending in September 2027.[3]
Partnerships
QwertiAI
OuroLayer secured a partnership with QwertiAI to ease the purchase of $OURO. They embedded QwertiAI directly into its website so that users can purchase $OURO on Robinhood Chain with either crypto or card in a single, continuous flow [5]
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