# FAQ
### The basics
#### What is TITHE in one sentence?
A token that pays its holders ETH on every swap, forever, by a contract that cannot be changed.
#### What chain is this on?
Ethereum mainnet. Layer one. The Covenant is sealed on the chain that matters.
#### Why Ethereum and not Base or Solana?
Mainnet has higher gas, lower throughput, and a more skeptical audience. We chose it because it is permanent, it does not depend on a sequencer or a foundation, and it is where serious capital lives. The brand is permanence. The chain matches.
#### Is this audited?
Yes. The full report is linked from the Contract Addresses page once available.
#### Who built this?
The Faithful built this. The founders remain pseudonymous. The contracts are audited and open. The team's identity is less important than the Covenant they wrote.
### The mechanic
#### How do I get the Blessing?
Hold TITHE in your wallet. When you want to claim, visit the Sanctum portal, connect your wallet, and click *Receive the Blessing*. Your accumulated ETH transfers to your wallet in one transaction.
#### How often is the Blessing distributed?
Continuously. The accumulator updates on every swap. You can claim every day, every week, every month, or never — your share keeps accruing whether you check it or not.
#### Does it cost gas to claim?
Yes. Approximately 50,000–80,000 gas units, which on mainnet at typical gas prices is a few dollars per claim.
#### Is there a minimum claim amount?
No protocol-imposed minimum. Practically, you should only claim when your accumulated ETH is at least 10× your expected gas cost. Otherwise you're spending most of your claim on gas.
#### Can I claim without using the portal?
Yes. Call `TitheHook.claim()` directly on Etherscan (Write tab) with any connected wallet. The portal is convenience, not infrastructure.
#### What if I sell my TITHE — do I lose the Blessing I earned?
No. Your accrued Blessing is settled into `pendingRewards[yourAddress]` when you sell. You can come back at any future date and call `claim()` to receive it, even with zero TITHE balance.
#### What if I move TITHE between my wallets?
Wallet-to-wallet transfers are not taxed. Your accrued Blessing is settled before the transfer, so the rewards stay attributed to the sending wallet. The receiving wallet starts accruing from the moment it receives the tokens.
### The fee
#### Is there a fee on regular transfers?
No. The 5% fee only fires on swaps through the official TITHE/ETH V4 pool. Wallet-to-wallet transfers, multisig deposits, lending protocol interactions, bridges, and Sablier withdrawals are all untaxed.
#### What if I trade TITHE on a different pool someone else creates?
The fee only applies to the official pool. Trades on other pools (a V2 fork, a V3 pool, etc.) do not pay the fee — and they also do not contribute to holder rewards. The official pool is the canonical venue.
#### Can the fee be changed?
No. The fee rate (5%) and split (4:1) are `constant` declarations in the hook bytecode. They cannot be changed by anyone, including the deployers. The functions that would change them do not exist.
#### Why is the fee 5% and not lower?
Below 3%, the holder yield is too thin to differentiate TITHE from any other token. Above 10%, the friction harms holders by pushing volume to alternate venues. 5% sits in the middle and produces meaningful yield while remaining competitive.
### Supply and tokenomics
#### How much TITHE exists?
Exactly 1,000,000,000 (one billion). Fixed at genesis. No mint function exists in the contract. The supply will only ever decrease, through optional burns.
#### Is there a team allocation?
No. The team holds no TITHE allocation. Compensation comes entirely from the 1% treasury fee on swap volume — meaning the team only earns when traders are using the protocol.
#### Where does the rest of the supply go?
73% to permanent LP, 20% to seed contributors (50% TGE + 30-day Sablier vest), 5% to KOLs (30-day Sablier vest), 2% to community airdrop. Full breakdown in Supply & Distribution.
#### Can the team add tokens later?
No. There is no exposed `mint()` function in the token. Supply is fixed.
### LP and liquidity
#### Is the LP locked?
Permanently. The lock is enforced at the hook contract — `beforeRemoveLiquidity` reverts unconditionally. There is no `unlock` function. The lock is not a third-party service with a timer — it is a property of the bytecode.
#### Could the LP be drained another way?
No path exists in either contract that allows LP removal. The only mechanism that decreases pool liquidity is normal trading activity (sells reduce the ETH side, buys reduce the TITHE side).
#### Can I provide my own liquidity to the pool?
You can add liquidity, but you cannot remove it. The hook blocks all `removeLiquidity` calls on every position. Adding LP to this pool is a one-way operation. Most market makers will not find this attractive.
#### Why is the pool's standard LP fee zero?
Because all fee logic is in the hook. The hook captures 5% on the ETH side of every swap. Routing that through the standard pool fee tier would create a parallel fee surface — confusing and unnecessary. Setting the pool fee to zero means the hook is the only fee collector.
### Vesting
#### When do seed contributors get their tokens?
50% directly at TGE. The other 50% streams linearly over 30 days via Sablier Lockup Linear. No cliff. Withdraw whenever you want during the 30 days.
#### Do vested tokens earn the Blessing?
Tokens still in Sablier earn the Blessing — but the ETH accrues to the Sablier contract address, not directly to your wallet. To capture rewards efficiently, withdraw from Sablier promptly to your personal wallet.
#### Can the team take back vested tokens?
No. Once funded at TGE, Sablier streams are autonomous and irrevocable. The team cannot pause, accelerate, modify, or claw back.
### Security and immutability
#### Can the team rug?
The protocol has no rug surface. The team cannot change the fee, mint additional tokens, drain the LP, pause transfers, or modify any protocol parameter. The token's owner role is renounced post-deploy. The hook is ownerless from genesis.
The remaining risk surface is the treasury multisig — but the treasury only controls ETH it has already pulled, which is a fraction of the protocol's TVL. The protocol itself cannot be compromised by the multisig.
#### What if the audit misses something?
That risk is real. If a critical bug surfaces, the contracts cannot be patched — they are immutable. Mitigation would be community coordination to migrate. This is the trade-off of immutability and is disclosed in Risk Disclosure.
#### Is the team doxxed?
No. The team operates under pseudonyms. The protocol's properties do not depend on the team's identity. Once deployed, the contracts run autonomously.
### Trading and integrations
#### Can I trade TITHE through 1inch / Matcha / Paraswap?
If the aggregator supports Uniswap V4 with hooks, yes — and the fee applies to the portion routed through the official pool. Aggregator V4-with-hooks support varies; check the specific aggregator.
#### Can I use TITHE as collateral in lending protocols?
Subject to the protocol listing TITHE. The token is a vanilla ERC-20, so technically it can be listed. Whether specific protocols choose to integrate is up to them.
#### Can I bridge TITHE to other chains?
The protocol does not natively bridge. If a third-party bridge chooses to support TITHE, you could bridge — but the Tithe mechanic only applies on Ethereum mainnet (the only pool is on mainnet). Bridged TITHE on another chain would be a normal ERC-20 with no reflection accrual.
#### Will TITHE be listed on CEXes?
Possibly. Listings are at the exchange's initiative. We will not pay listing fees. CEX-held TITHE accrues the Blessing on behalf of depositors, but exchanges are unlikely to distribute it without explicit integration.
### Practical questions
#### What gas should I budget for?
* Buying TITHE: standard V4 swap gas (\~150,000–200,000 gas)
* Selling TITHE: standard V4 swap gas (\~150,000–200,000 gas)
* Wallet-to-wallet transfer: \~80,000–95,000 gas (slightly higher than vanilla ERC-20 due to settlement)
* Claiming the Blessing: \~50,000–80,000 gas
#### What wallets work with TITHE?
Any wallet that supports Ethereum mainnet ERC-20 tokens. MetaMask, Rabby, Frame, Coinbase Wallet, Trust Wallet, hardware wallets (Ledger, Trezor) — all work.
#### Where can I see my pending Blessing?
Either:
* Visit the Sanctum portal, connect your wallet.
* Call `pendingRewardsOf(yourAddress)` directly on `TitheHook` via Etherscan.
#### How do I verify the contracts myself?
See the verification steps in Contract Addresses and Immutability Guarantees. The full verification takes about 10–15 minutes.
Where do I report a bug?
The bug bounty is hosted on Immunefi or Cantina. Critical findings are paid up to $5,000 from Sanctum. Disclose responsibly. See [Audit & Bug Bounty](file:///3539486/security/audit-and-bounty.md).
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