$FLOW is the platform’s native token. It is on-chain: a real ERC20 deployed at 0x2680...6511 on BSC testnet through factory.launch("dpnm", ...).
It is not a virtual credit, not a Postgres balance, not an off-chain unit of account. Every buy and sell is a real on-chain transaction; every fee, marketing payout and pool credit is a state change in the contracts.
Earlier drafts of this documentation described
FLOW as a 1 USD = 1 FLOW off-chain credit. That model is gone. The token below is what shipped.Mechanics in one paragraph
$FLOW is paired with USDT (MockUSDT on testnet, 0x55d3...7955 on mainnet). Price is algorithmic: pool_USDT / total_supply. Every buy adds USDT to the pool and mints tokens; every sell burns tokens and removes USDT. Buy fee is 20% (10% to phenomenal-tree marketing, 10% retained in the pool to grow price). Sell fee is 10% (5% to pool, 5% to treasury). The fee is compensated 1:1 in GWT (FlowGrowToken), which can be redeemed for income-limit headroom. The token never leaves the protocol contract — there is no DEX graduation.
Why a closed system
Every buy retains a portion of the inflow inside the pool. Supply increases, but the pool grows faster, sopool / supply only goes up over time. There are no liquidity providers to rug, no DEX pair to drain, and no path for a whale to dump into infinite liquidity — sells always go through the same contract that priced the buys.
The trade-off: the closed system caps your daily inflow and your lifetime income per dollar invested. See Closed system for why this matters and Income limit for the math.
Where to read next
Buy / Sell
Daily limit, the 20% / 10% fees, and how the GWT compensation lands.
Income limit
Why a 100 — and how that limit gets burned at sale.
Phenomenal tree
The 3 × 10 marketing tree that pays even non-inviters via spillover.
GWT
How the protocol token compensates fees and how to redeem GWT for income limit.
Comparison with other tokens on the platform
| Surface | Template | Pair | Price | Exits to DEX? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
$FLOW (platform token) | dpnm | USDT | pool / supply | Never |
| Memecoin / agent token | virtuals | USDT | x·y=k curve | Yes — PancakeSwap V2 at threshold |
virtuals. Tokens that need long-term price-only-goes-up dynamics — affiliate programs, ecosystem currencies, things you’d pay vendors with — use dpnm.
See Onchain → Overview for the factory + template architecture.