DOTSDAQ is a brokerage that took garbage internet companies public in 1999, never filed for bankruptcy, never admitted the bubble popped, and simply moved the trading floor onchain.
Every NFT is a seat on the floor — 5,048 of them, one for every point of the peak. A seat on its own earns nothing. A seat on shift takes a cut of everything the tape moves.
SEATyou hold it
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BURN $DOTSclock on
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ON SHIFTtake the 2%
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STAKEmultiply it
We don't ask what it does. We ask if it has a dot in it.
$DOTS — the tax, the burn, and why there is no 404.
The sale has not opened. When it does, a button appears here and the tape says so first.
HOW IT WORKS
FIVE STEPS · NOTHING HIDDEN
1
Get $DOTS
The token of the firm. You will need it twice: once to clock on, and again if you want a multiplier. Every transfer of it carries a 2% house fee.
2
Take a seat
Buy one of the 5,048 seats. It is a plain NFT and nothing more exotic than that — no ERC-404, no fractions, no redemption. Your seat does not turn into tokens and tokens do not turn into a seat.
A seat you merely hold is dark. It earns nothing at all.
3
Burn to clock on
Burn $DOTS against your seat and it goes on shift. The tokens are destroyed, not staked and not held by the firm — clocking on is the only way $DOTS permanently leaves circulation.
4
Collect the tape
The 2% taken from every $DOTS transfer goes to the seats that are on shift at the time, split between them. Trade all day; the desk earns either way.
5
Stake for a multiplier
Once you are on shift you can stake $DOTS behind your seat to raise your share of that 2%. Same pot, bigger slice. Off shift, staking does nothing.
Numbers are not final. The burn required to clock on, the length of a shift, and the shape of the multiplier curve are still being set. They will be published here before anything goes live.
THE SHIFT
BURN TO CLOCK ON · 2% TO THE FLOOR
$DOTS does not exist yet. The token, the house fee and the shift are described on this page as designed, not as deployed. No contract has been published and no address has been given out. When that changes it appears here and on the tape, in that order.
Clocking on. The tokens do not come back.
A seat has exactly two states, and the difference between them is the entire economy of this firm.
State
How you get there
What it earns
DARK
Default. You bought a seat and did nothing else.
Nothing. Not reduced — nothing.
ON SHIFT
You burned $DOTS against the seat.
A share of the 2% house fee on every $DOTS transfer, for as long as the shift runs.
Where the 2% comes from
Every transfer of $DOTS pays a 2% house fee. It is charged on the move itself, so it does not matter whether the market is going up or down — a panic pays the floor exactly as well as a rally does. That fee is not kept by the treasury and not sold; it goes straight to the seats that are on shift, divided between them.
ANY TRANSFERof $DOTS
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2% HOUSE FEEtaken on the move
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ON-SHIFT SEATSsplit it
Why burning, and not staking
Clocking on costs you tokens you never get back. That is deliberate. A staking gate would let anyone flip the switch, collect, and withdraw untouched — the cheapest possible commitment. A burn means every shift ever worked has permanently removed supply, and the fewer $DOTS remain, the more each one has to carry.
The burn is a cost, not a deposit. There is no unstaking and no refund at the end of a shift.
Shifts end. When yours runs out the seat goes dark again and you burn to clock back on.
Nothing is retroactive. Fees collected while your seat was dark went to the people who were working. The tape does not remember you fondly.
Every seat is equal
There are no tiers, no ranks and no rarity bonuses. Two seats on shift with nothing staked earn identically. The only thing that changes your share is the multiplier, and anyone can buy one.
THE MULTIPLIER
STAKE WHILE YOU WORK
$DOTS does not exist yet. The token, the house fee and the shift are described on this page as designed, not as deployed. No contract has been published and no address has been given out. When that changes it appears here and on the tape, in that order.
Same pot. Bigger slice.
The burn gets you onto the floor. Staking decides how loud you are once you are there.
While your seat is on shift you can stake $DOTS behind it. Staking raises your weight in the split of the 2%, so you take a larger slice of the same pot. It does not mint anything new and it does not create a second reward — there is one source of income at this firm and it is the tape.
ON SHIFTbase weight
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STAKED $DOTSadded weight
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BIGGER SLICEof the same 2%
Rules
Staking only counts on shift. Tokens staked behind a dark seat earn nothing — the seat has to be working first.
Staked is not burned. The clock-on burn is gone forever; the stake is yours and can be withdrawn.
Withdraw and your weight drops immediately. The desk pays for what you have behind you right now, not what you had last week.
It is a share, not a yield. A bigger multiplier when the tape is quiet still pays you a bigger slice of very little.
The curve is not set. How fast the multiplier grows with the size of a stake — and whether it is capped — is still being decided. The intention is a curve that flattens, so a large desk cannot simply price everyone else off the floor.
$DOTS
THE TOKEN OF THE FIRM
$DOTS does not exist yet. The token, the house fee and the shift are described on this page as designed, not as deployed. No contract has been published and no address has been given out. When that changes it appears here and on the tape, in that order.
HOUSE FEE2%
FEE GOES TOSHIFT
SEATS5,048
SUPPLY↓ ONLY
$DOTS. One token, one letter, no fractions.
The 2%
Every transfer of $DOTS pays a 2% house fee, and all of it is distributed to seats that are on shift. The firm does not take a cut of the cut. There is no marketing wallet in the fee path and no treasury skim — the fee exists to pay the floor.
Supply only goes down
Clocking on burns $DOTS. Every shift ever worked has removed tokens permanently, and there is no mechanism anywhere in the system that issues new ones. Emission is not zero by policy — there is no emission function.
There is no 404
DOTSDAQ is a normal NFT collection and a normal token, kept separate on purpose.
A seat is an NFT. It does not fractionalise into $DOTS.
$DOTS does not accumulate into a seat.
Selling tokens never costs you your seat, and selling your seat never touches your tokens.
ERC-404 collections tie the two together, so every token trade churns the NFT supply and the floor price becomes a function of token volume. This firm wants the opposite: token volume should pay the seats, not shred them.
What the token is for
Use
What happens to the tokens
Clock on a seat
Burned — permanently removed from supply
Stake behind a working seat
Locked, still yours, withdrawable
Trading it
Pays 2% to whoever is on shift
Not published yet: total supply, launch mechanism, liquidity arrangements and contract addresses. When they exist they appear here and on the tape — in that order, and nowhere else first.
THE HOUSE ACCOUNT
THE DREAM IS IMAGINARY · THE BOOK IS NOT
The back office after hours.
The 2% pays the floor. The house account is the other side of the firm: mint proceeds and secondary royalties collect there, and the house account buys real tokenized equities on Robinhood Chain.
The universe is deliberately narrow and deliberately funny: the survivors. Companies that were listed on the tape in 1999 and are still listed today. The firm spent twenty-seven years selling the dream and is finally buying the ones that turned out to be real.
Flow of funds
Line
Policy
2% transfer fee
Straight to seats on shift — never touches the house account
Mint proceeds
To the house account
Secondary royalties
To the house account
The house account buys
Tokenized equities on Robinhood Chain
Eligible names
Listed in 1999, still listed today — "the survivors"
The book
Published onchain — anyone can read what the firm holds
This page describes a mechanism, not a position. No holdings are claimed, and none of it is investment advice — DOTSDAQ is a collectible with a treasury policy, not a fund.
THE FLOOR
5,048 DESKS · SOME LIT · SOME DARK
The floor, front wall removed. Every lit desk is a seat on shift.
This is the whole firm in one picture. Every desk is a seat, and you can tell at a glance which ones are working: a lit desk has a broker, a green screen and a fire in the wastebasket beside it — tickets burning, the shift running. A dark desk has a dead monitor and an empty chair. Same desk, same furniture, no income.
There are 5,048 desks on this floor and the firm will never build another one.
Read these as the design, not as a running system. The seats are the part that is being sold. $DOTS, the house fee and the shift are not deployed, and every answer below describes how they are meant to work.
Is this a real brokerage?
No. DOTSDAQ is a fictional firm and an NFT collection built on the dot-com bubble. Nothing here is a financial product, a security or advice, and the firm has never actually taken anyone public.
Is it a 404?
No, and deliberately not. The NFT is an NFT and the token is a token. Neither converts into the other.
Do I have to burn tokens to earn?
Yes. Burning $DOTS is what puts a seat on shift, and only seats on shift receive the 2%. A seat you simply hold earns nothing.
Do I get the burned tokens back?
No. The clock-on burn is a cost, not a deposit. Staking is the part that stays yours.
Does a rare seat earn more?
No. Every seat on shift is treated identically. The only thing that moves your share is how much you have staked.
Where does the 2% come from?
Every $DOTS transfer. It is charged on movement, so selling pressure pays the floor exactly as well as buying does.
What if nobody trades?
Then the 2% is small and so is your share. This desk is paid out of activity, and the docs are not going to pretend otherwise.
When?
Soon, and on the tape first. Anyone telling you otherwise is not from this firm.
Est. 1999 — never delisted. If it has a dot in it, we're long.
