Building in Public
YAPPD
Less YAPPD.
More Proof.
A community-first project focused on transparency, accountability and building in public.
Mission
You don't have to trust us. You can check.
50% of creator fees goes to charity — enforced at the contract level, not promised. That half never touches a wallet I hold. The other half runs the project and pays the person building it, out in the open.
Charity
Routed by the protocol straight to verified charities. It never lands in a wallet I control, and the recipients were locked in when the coin was created.
Development
Hosting, tooling, marketing, community. Public wallet, and every meaningful expense is written down.
Founder
My pay, stated openly instead of buried in a budget line. Public wallet, logged with a transaction hash like everything else.
Core Principles
Four rules we don't break.
The charity share isn't mine to move
50% is routed by the protocol before it reaches me. I couldn't redirect it if I wanted to — that's the point of doing it this way instead of promising it.
The recipients are locked
Charities were chosen at creation and can't be swapped later. Not weekly, not quietly, not by me.
Receipts, not promises
The half I do control sits in two public wallets. Every expense and every founder payout goes into the Proof Log with a transaction hash.
The founder's cut is public
25% goes to the person building this, stated on the front page instead of hidden in a budget line. One person holds the keys — the wallets don't stop bad behaviour, they make it impossible to hide.
Proof Log
Every payout, on the record.
The charity half is handled by the protocol and doesn't need my word for it. This log covers the half that does — what the project spends, and what the founder takes.
Charity — 50%
Protocol routedRouted automatically through donate.gg to charities locked in when the coin was created. It never enters a wallet the founder controls, so there is nothing here to take on trust.
Recipients announced before launch.
Development
Wallet25% of fees. Hosting, tooling, marketing, community.
Published on launch day.
Founder
Wallet25% of fees. The founder's pay, logged like everything else.
Published on launch day.
No entries yet.
The first one appears after the first payout.
What happens at launch
One decision, then it's out of my hands.
No roadmap stretching into next year. The important choice happens before the coin exists — after that, the charity share runs itself.
- 01
Before launch
The community picks the charities
The shortlist goes up on X and you vote. This is the only chance to influence it — once the coin exists, the recipients are permanent.
- 02
Launch day
The split is locked in and the wallets go public
50% routed to the chosen charities at the contract level. The development and founder wallets are published here the same day.
- 03
From then on
The log fills up
Every expense and every founder payout goes into the Proof Log with a transaction hash. Charity donations flow on their own and don't need my word for it.
FAQ
The obvious questions.
How is the charity share actually guaranteed?+
It's set at the contract level when the coin is created. 50% of creator fees are routed straight to the charities through donate.gg — they never arrive in a wallet I hold, so there's no step where I could quietly do something else with them.
Can you change the charities later?+
No. The recipients were locked in at creation. That's a deliberate trade: no weekly votes and no flexibility, in exchange for a promise that doesn't depend on me keeping it.
Does the founder take a cut?+
Yes — 25%, stated up front. Most projects pay the founder out of a vague "development" budget and hope nobody asks. This one has a separate public wallet for it, and every withdrawal shows up in the Proof Log tagged FOUNDER. You may not like the number, but you'll never have to guess it.
Who controls the wallets?+
One person — the founder. There's no multisig and no team allocation. That applies to the development and founder wallets only; the charity half never reaches them. Every movement out of the two I do hold is public and logged.
What if the token goes to zero?+
Then the fees stop and so do the donations — but everything already routed stays routed, and the log stays up. Nothing here depends on the price going up.
Is this an investment?+
No. YAPPD is a community token, not a financial product. Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose everything you put in. Nothing on this site is financial advice.