One month of paying hook authors

The marketplace opened with a hypothesis: if reusing a stack pays its author, the ecosystem converges on a few excellent stacks instead of a thousand mediocre forks. A month in, the reuse curve says the hypothesis is holding. Launches cluster hard on a handful of blueprints, and the head of the curve is not the flashy one.

The best-earning stack in the registry is a two-block guard: Anti-Snipe plus LP Rewards, published at a low single-digit royalty. Nothing about it demos well. It simply makes launch day survivable, and launch day is the only day most tokens get. Meanwhile the five-block showpieces get admired and rarely run, because every armed block is overhead a launcher has to justify to their own buyers.

There is a lesson here that generalizes past this platform: royalties reward reliability over novelty, because reuse compounds and novelty does not. The author of that guard stack did not have a marketing channel. They had a stack that other people's launches kept not dying on.

The failure mode we watched for, spam publication squatting on obvious combinations, mostly did not materialize. Publishing costs gas, identical stacks compete on royalty rate, and a launcher picking between two copies of the same combination takes the cheaper one. The market clears at boring efficiency, which is the nicest thing you can say about a market.