The simple version

Hold it. It pays you. That is basically it.

No staking, no wrapping, no buttons to babysit. You buy $CIRCLE, you hold it, and every trade sends you a cut in BNB. Here is the whole thing in plain words. The technical version lives in the whitepaper.

The idea

Your balance is your share

Every trade pays a fee. The contract turns that fee into BNB and splits it across everyone holding $CIRCLE, in proportion to how much they hold.

You do not need a whole token. Hold 0.4 and you earn on 0.4. Hold a whole one and you unlock something extra: the right to mint a one-of-one orb, a piece of art generated and stored entirely on-chain. There will never be more than 5,000 of them.

From start to finish

How a holder gets paid

1

You buy

Any amount of $CIRCLE, fractions included. It sits in your wallet like any other token. Nothing to approve.

2

Trades happen

Every buy and sell against the pool pays a fee in $CIRCLE. The contract collects it and batches it up.

3

It becomes BNB

Once enough has piled up, the contract sells the batch for BNB by itself and credits every holder by balance.

4

You collect

Tap collect and the BNB lands in your wallet. It never expires, so you can let it build up as long as you like.

The interesting part

The fee moves against the crowd

Most tokens charge everyone the same. Circle does not. It keeps a running measure of which way money is flowing, and charges the side that is crowded while discounting the side that is not.

Trading with the crowd
5%

If everyone is buying and you buy too, you pay the full rate. Same if everyone is selling and you sell. Piling on is the expensive move.

Trading against it
as low as 1%

Take the unpopular side and the fee slides down a curve. The more lopsided the flow has become, the cheaper your trade gets, down to a floor of 1%.

The measure decays on its own, so it always drifts back toward flat when trading quietens down. Nobody sets it and nobody can override it: it is arithmetic inside the token, and the live number is on the Circles page.

Where the money comes from

Real fees, no printing

Every trade pays a fee

Whenever someone buys or sells $CIRCLE against the pool, a fee between 1% and 5% is taken. Nothing is printed out of thin air.

All of it goes to holders

Not a slice, all of it. There is no marketing wallet and no team cut wired into the fee. It is converted to BNB and streamed out.

And a second push

The Circle Dollar earns interest in the background, and a fifth of it keeps buying $CIRCLE off the market and burning it. That runs whether anyone is trading or not.

Hold and earn

Watch your stream

See the live tide, check which side is cheap right now, and collect the BNB you have earned so far.

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A dollar that grows

The Circle Dollar

Put in BNB, get CUSD. It is backed by real stables earning interest, it only ever gets more valuable, and it buys $CIRCLE back for you in the background.

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Good questions

Questions people ask

Do I have to stake or set anything up?+
No. You buy $CIRCLE and hold it. Your balance is your share of the fee stream automatically, from the moment it lands in your wallet. There is nothing to stake, wrap, or approve.
Do I need a whole token to earn?+
No. Earnings are split by balance, so any amount earns, fractions included. A whole token is only needed if you want to mint an orb.
How do I get paid?+
Fees are collected in $CIRCLE, batched, and sold for BNB by the contract itself. Your share is credited as it goes and you withdraw it by tapping collect on the Circles page. It never expires.
Why is the fee different for buys and sells?+
Because it follows the tide. The contract tracks which direction money has been moving. Whichever side the crowd is on pays 5%, and the opposite side gets a discount that deepens as the imbalance grows, down to 1%. Trade quietly and it drifts back to even.
How do I get an orb?+
Hold at least one whole $CIRCLE and press mint on the Circles page. You can mint one orb per whole token you hold, up to 5,000 across everyone. The art is generated on-chain from the token id, so it lives in the contract rather than on a server.
What happens to my orbs if I sell?+
Nothing. Once minted, an orb is a normal NFT that stays yours until you move it. Selling tokens does not burn it. You just cannot mint new ones again until your balance rises back above the number you have already claimed.
Can the fee be raised on me later?+
Not past 5%. The ceiling and the 1% floor are fixed constants in the contract, not settings. The owner can switch fees off entirely, but cannot push them above the cap, and can renounce ownership to remove even that.
Why is there a max buy and a max wallet?+
At launch a single buy is capped at 0.1% of supply and a single wallet at 2%, so nobody can take the whole float in the first block. They are ordinary caps that can be lifted once trading settles, and the pool, the router and the launch wallet are exempt so liquidity works normally.
What is the Circle Dollar?+
A dollar called CUSD. You put in BNB, the contract swaps it into a USDC and USDT basket and supplies it to Aave, and you get CUSD back. The interest is split three ways: 70% goes back into the backing, which is what makes each CUSD worth a little more over time, 20% buys $CIRCLE off the market and burns it, and 10% covers upkeep. You can redeem back to stables at any time.
Is the Circle Dollar pegged, or does it float?+
Neither exactly. It starts at one dollar and only ever moves up as interest is folded in, so it is closer to a savings receipt than a pegged coin. What you redeem for is whatever the basket is worth per CUSD at that moment, which is shown live on the Dollar page.

Hold it. Let the trades pay you.

Watch the tide, mint your orbs, collect your BNB.

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