Every trade feeds the fire.
One tax, one treasury, one rule: fees come in, supply goes down. Below is exactly what is charged, where it lands and how to check it — with the live numbers read from the chain.
Live
transfer tax
…
50 bps, on every transfer and swap
burned so far
…
… of supply
treasury $PENTA
…
collected tax, before spend
treasury ETH
…
keeper, relayer and swap fees
Read from the token and the treasury address at block …. Treasury holds both the collected $PENTA and the ETH that fees have brought in.
What is charged
| Fee | Rate | Who pays / where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Transfer & swap tax | 0.5 % | anyone moving $PENTA wallet-to-wallet or through a pool → treasury |
| Whisper Market sale | 1 % | the seller → treasury |
| Private Swap | 0.5 % | paid by the burner, never by your wallet → treasury |
| Whisper NFT mint | free | permissionless — only the gas |
| Gifts at a door | 0 % | the protocol takes nothing from a gift in ETH |
| Uniswap v4 pool fee | 1 % | to liquidity providers, not to the protocol |
| Private chat | 25 $PENTA | burned for 20 prompts — deflationary, not a fee to us |
Where it goes
- Buyback & burn. Treasury $PENTA buys $PENTA from the open market and burns it. Supply only falls, and every burn is visible on Etherscan.
- Keepers and relayers. The keeper inscribes tier 4+ echoes on the WhisperWall and mints the NFT; relayers withdraw from the privacy pools so a withdrawal is never linked to a deposit. Both cost gas.
- Nothing else. There is no team vesting schedule, no staking contract paying itself and no admin mint.
Who is exempt
The protocol's own contracts are tax-exempt — EchoBroadcaster, PentaDoorstep, the deployer and the token contract itself. That is deliberate: a burn must destroy the amount you asked for, not pay tax on the way in. Tax applies to ordinary wallet-to-wallet transfers and to trades.
Verify it
- The token — the
TaxCollectedevent is emitted on every taxed transfer. - The treasury — every incoming and outgoing transaction.
- Analytics — supply, burned, treasury balances, the v4 pool and the privacy pools.
- Docs — the functions, the tiers and the owner powers, written out.
The treasury address is a plain wallet today. It can be moved by the owner with
setTreasury() — the only reason that power exists is so it can move to a multisig. There is no mint, no pause and no blacklist on the token.