The Flywheel

The flywheel is the heart of Monsterion's economy: trading volume continuously funds a yield-bearing reserve for stakers, deepens locked liquidity, and pays the keepers that automate it — all through immutable on-chain rules that no one can change.

The flagship split (PYUSD Flywheel)

A portion of captured trading fees on $IONS (and any launchpad token using this module) flows into the FeeRouter, which splits it on a hardcoded, compile-time-asserted 70 / 15 / 15:

Meteora DBC / DAMM fees → FeeRouter
  70% → swap to PYUSD → Kamino → harvest realized yield → RewardDistributor → stakers
  15% → locked DAMM v2 liquidity
  15% → permissionless keepers

Leg	bps	%	Destination
Reserve	7,000	70%	swap → PYUSD → Kamino → realized yield → stakers
Liquidity	1,500	15%	locked DAMM v2 liquidity
Keeper	1,500	15%	permissionless keepers / automation

The website states it plainly: "1% volume split: 70% staking rewards, 15% locked liquidity, 15% keepers."

The non-negotiable rules

• Principal stays in Kamino. Only realized yield is ever distributed — the reserve itself is never paid out by default.
• Users never deposit PYUSD. The reserve is protocol-owned, funded entirely by fees. You only ever stake $IONS; you never hand over the reserve asset.
• Splits are hardcoded and immutable per launch. The FeeRouter's split is asserted at compile time to sum to 10,000 bps and has no admin path — it can never be changed.
• PYUSD is the only allowed swap output. No other routing is permitted.

Why it's a flywheel

        more trades
            │
            ▼
   more fees captured ───► bigger PYUSD reserve ───► more yield to stakers
            ▲                                              │
            │                                              ▼
   deeper liquidity ◄──── 15% locked liquidity        more reason to
   + buyback pressure                                  hold & stake $IONS

Each turn reinforces the next: volume funds the reserve and liquidity, rewards and deepening liquidity attract holders and stakers, and staking + skin buybacks reduce sell pressure — which supports volume. The keepers keep it spinning without the team.

Variants

The same machine can hold its reserve in different assets:

• PYUSD Flywheel (flagship) — reserve in PYUSD, parked in Kamino lending.
• JupSOL Flywheel — reserve held as JupSOL (Solana staking via Sanctum); auto-compounds on-chain, and the realized yield delta above principal is harvested to stakers.

See Fee Modules for every launch type, and Staking → Weights & Rewards for exactly how harvested yield becomes a per-staker payout.

Disclaimer: rewards are variable and not guaranteed. They depend on trading volume, reserve size, market rates, and total staking participation. See the full disclaimer.