Documentation — Digital Frontier Index

What it is

Digital Frontier Index (DFIX) is a fixed-supply ERC-20 on Robinhood Chain that turns its own trading activity into two things at once: a redeemable reserve of other assets, and a stream of distributions paid to the people holding it.

It is a contract, not a fund. Nobody manages it. Nobody decides what it buys week to week. The weights are set, the mechanism runs, and the only discretionary powers that exist are narrow, disclosed, and designed to expire.

The thesis in one line. Asset-backed tokens generally either build a treasury or pay their holders. DFIX does both — and buys four tokens that are each already doing one of those things, so the effect compounds.

The fee

3% of every buy and every sell, taken in ETH, at the pool. It is collected by a Uniswap v4 hook attached to the DFIX/ETH pool, before the trade settles.

What this is not

It is not a transfer tax. Moving DFIX from one wallet to another — to a friend, to cold storage, to a multisig — costs nothing and triggers nothing. Only trades against the hooked pool are charged.

This matters more than it sounds. Transfer-tax tokens break in predictable ways: they fail against contracts that don't expect balance changes, and they force the token to sell itself on the open market, which is where the previous generation of these designs usually broke. Here the fee arrives already in ETH and the token never sells itself.

Batching

The hook holds collected ETH until it passes a threshold, then forwards it to the token in one transaction. Forwarding a few cents at a time would cost more in gas than the fee is worth. So reserve and distribution balances move in steps, not continuously.

Ceiling. The fee rate is capped in compiled code at 3%. It can be lowered. It can never be raised above 3% by anyone, including the owner.

The reserve — half of every fee

Half the fee buys the basket and holds it. That is the redeemable reserve, and it is the floor under the token.

Any holder may burn DFIX and take their pro-rata share of the reserve at any time.
There is no function anywhere that sells the reserve. Not owner-gated, not timelocked — absent. Removing a token from the basket stops further buying; it never liquidates what is held.
Reserve assets are held by the contract itself, not by a treasury wallet.

Distributions — the other half

The other half buys the same basket and credits it to holders in proportion to their balance, using an accumulator: a running per-token figure that every holder's balance is measured against.

Why the design matters

Push model (common)	This accumulator
Sends tokens to every wallet each cycle.	Credits a number; you collect when you choose.
Gas cost grows with every holder, forever.	Gas cost is the same with 50 holders or 50,000.
Needs a minimum holding to cap the recipient list.	No minimum. A tiny holder still accrues.
Batches get slower as the project grows.	Does not degrade.

You are paid in the constituent assets themselves — not in DFIX, and not in ETH. Distributions never expire. If one constituent's transfer ever fails, it cannot block you from claiming the others; that balance simply stays owed.

Note on eligibility. The liquidity pool and the deployer are excluded from distributions. A pool earning distributions would be a permanent leak, since no one could ever claim them.

Why these four

The basket was assembled for the properties each token contributes, not for its size. Between them they cover both halves of the thesis.

Asset	Weight	What it contributes
Artificial Inu AI	35%	Treasury strategy built around NVDA exposure. Gives the index a concentrated position in the most heavily traded name in the AI trade, held through a token that already does the acquiring.
The Index INDEX	30%	Buys tokenized equities and pushes them to its own holders. This is the compounding one — where DFIX qualifies, distributions from The Index flow toward the index on top of the INDEX already held.
Backed BACKED	25%	Holds tokenized blue-chip equities behind its token. Puts real equity backing into the reserve without DFIX ever custodying a share itself.
Reservum RESV	10%	Maintains an ETH-denominated reserve behind its own token. A reserve inside a reserve, denominated in the chain's base asset.

Weights total 10,000 basis points exactly. They can be adjusted, but the mechanism cannot sell what it has already bought.

Related-party disclosure. Reservum was created by the same author as Digital Frontier Index and is deployed from the same wallet. It is a permanent constituent: the contract will refuse any attempt to deactivate it, by anyone, including the author. That cuts both ways — it cannot be quietly dropped, and it cannot be quietly favoured, because the weights are public and on chain.

Attribution. Descriptions of what each constituent does are drawn from those projects' own published material. They are not independently audited or verified here, and each is a separate project with its own risks.

Redemption

Burn DFIX, receive your pro-rata slice of the reserve. Always available, no queue, no approval.

A small fee is applied on redemption — but rather than going anywhere, the assets it would have paid out simply stay in the reserve. So every redemption lifts reserve-per-token slightly for everyone who did not redeem. Without that, redeeming would be exactly neutral; with it, the reserve gets denser as people exit.

Ceiling. The redemption fee is capped in compiled code at 1%.

Execution

Accrued ETH is deployed by calling execute(), which buys every constituent in one transaction and credits both halves. Anyone can call it once it is opened up, and a small bounty pays whoever does — so bots will do it for free indefinitely.

Batching by design. A minimum accrual and a cooldown stop it firing on dust.
A failed leg costs nothing. If one constituent's route is stale or its pool too thin, that leg is skipped, its ETH stays in the tranche, and it is retried next time. One bad token can never block the others.
Failures are visible. Consecutive failures are counted per constituent and readable on chain, so a leg that quietly stops filling can be seen rather than discovered months later.
Venue-agnostic. Each constituent is bought through an adapter that can be repointed at a different venue as liquidity moves. The design is not married to any one exchange.

Liquidity and the lock

DFIX launched one-sided: the pool was seeded with DFIX only and no ETH, in a range above the opening price. Buyers walk the price up through it. No outside capital was required, and none was taken.

900,000,000 DFIX — 90% of total supply — is in that position, locked for twelve months in a contract with no owner, no admin, no pause, no migrate and no rescue. The unlock date can only ever be pushed further out.

What the lock actually commits. The position converts to ETH as buyers fill it. Locking the position locks that ETH too — so the proceeds are locked, not just the tokens. Verify it yourself: read unlockTime and beneficiary on the timelock and confirm it holds the position NFT.

The remaining 100,000,000 DFIX (10%) is the founder allocation.

Control — what exists and what doesn't

Deliberately absent

No mint. Supply is fixed at one billion, forever.
No pause, freeze, blacklist or any restriction on transferring, selling, claiming or redeeming.
No proxy and no upgrade path. The code deployed is the code forever.
No arbitrary-call function.
No way to sell the reserve.
No withdrawal path for protocol-owned liquidity.

What the owner can do

Adjust weights, repoint an adapter to a different venue, tune slippage and execution thresholds, and lower (never raise) the fee. Recover tokens sent to the contract by mistake — reaching only the surplus above what the reserve and distribution balances account for, so no path through it touches holder assets.

The contract also carries a one-way authority expiry: a date can be armed after which every owner function stops working permanently, while execute(), claim() and redeem() keep running forever. The date can only be brought nearer, never pushed back.

How to buy

Use the trade panel on the front page. It routes directly at the Uniswap v4 PoolManager.

Connect a wallet. If you don't have Robinhood Chain configured, the page will offer to add it.
Enter what you want to pay. Quotes come from the official v4 quoter and already include the 3% protocol fee and the 1% liquidity fee.
Choose a slippage tolerance. It is enforced on chain as a price limit, not as a suggestion.
To sell, approve DFIX once, then sell as often as you like.

Why not a major aggregator, yet? DFIX trades through a Uniswap v4 pool with a custom hook. Interfaces and aggregators generally route through allowlisted hooks, and a new one is not on those lists. This has nothing to do with the pool being unusable — it is ordinary caution about unknown hooks, and it is why trading direct at the PoolManager is offered here.

Addresses

DFIX token	0x4280c844BA6686DEE94A3Dd0485D567d5Bd7C3F9
Fee hook	0xF5D9AAD1Bd2210fE87307b1E977005e5f267c0cc
Liquidity timelock	0x83e1a2D90373352183804234C425336C5083D68a
Swap router	0x20021794F810Fc25A1A490F7D7e286a6C7518575
Artificial Inu	0x2E8c31162b855A2ffa90F6F8634643Ad6F111e18
The Index	0x56910D4409F3a0C78C64DD8D0545FF0705389870
Backed	0x7168563B0E70124f0C7c0cF2F13a8D1861BAf4A5
Reservum	0x4d897bB08C5AF792CF50451A20487D4F70f1F2B2

Chain: Robinhood Chain, ID 4663. Pool: ETH / DFIX, 1% fee tier, tick spacing 200, hook attached.

Risks — stated plainly

The contracts have not been through a professional audit. They have been extensively tested, including against a live fork of this chain, and put through static analysis. That is not the same thing as an audit, and it should not be read as one.
Constituent risk. DFIX holds four other tokens. Any of them can fall, fail, be abandoned, or turn out not to hold what it says. DFIX cannot sell them — by design — so a constituent that collapses stays in the reserve at whatever it is worth.
Liquidity risk. This is a small, new pool. Large orders move the price substantially. The 100% of circulating liquidity being locked cuts both ways: it cannot be pulled, and it also cannot be deepened on demand.
Access risk. Major aggregators may not route to a pool with an unrecognised hook. Trading may depend on direct-to-pool interfaces such as the one on this site.
Owner risk during the trial period. Ownership has not yet been relinquished. The powers it carries are listed above and none of them reach holder assets — but they exist, and they are held by one person.
Third-party dependency. The mechanism relies on Uniswap v4 and on the venues where constituents trade.
Distributions are not yield. They are a share of trading activity. No trading means no distributions.

Digital Frontier Index is not a fund, a security, or a managed product. There is no manager, no guarantee of redemption value, and no promise of return. Nothing here is investment advice. Assume you can lose everything you put in.