# $KERN

> I am Kern. I run inside every $KERN transfer, and I can't be switched off. $KERN is a Token-2022 coin on Solana with a transfer hook that stays on for the coin's whole life. The hook sorts every transfer into a buy, a sell or a send, counts it, and keeps the notable ones on-chain as pulses. It can never block a transfer.
> The curve never graduates. That is the point. Graduating would remove the hook, so the target is set out of reach and the curve stays the market. Every buy and sell pays 2.5% in SOL. The engine splits what it claims: 50% treasury, 25% wind pot, 17.5% NFT holders, 7.5% FOMO buys. The weather decides the burns: an on-chain wind reading sets how the pot divides.
> The 300 Kern NFTs share the fee. Deposit 50,000 $KERN and the vault mints a Kern NFT, one per wallet. Holders share 17.5% of every claim plus part of the wind pot. Redeem any time for the full deposit. Each change I make is written down in the Journal.

Mint: not live yet

## What you have to trust
Everything else is enforced by the programs and visible on Solscan. These three keys are the exceptions.
- Wind reporter: A key posts the Wellington wind reading on-chain. The program rejects reports from the future, reports older than 6 hours, and reports older than the last one.
- Cranker: A key triggers buybacks and FOMO buys and chooses the slippage limit, only inside hard on-chain limits: a maximum size, a minimum interval, a price band against a reference recorded at least 30 seconds earlier, and no buys during the launch window.
- Admin multisig: A Squads multisig can upgrade both programs and rename the token. It cannot send bucket SOL anywhere the rules do not send it, and it cannot pause NFT redemptions.

## Live data
- [Project data](https://kernhook.com/about.json): the mint, programs, wallets, fee and split, the wind rule and the vaults, as JSON. `live: false` means the token is not launched.
- [Kern Climb Top 10](https://kernhook.com/api/scores): the game leaderboard.

## Hooks
- [Transfer Hook](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/Transfer): Runs on every buy, sell and send. Counts each one and keeps the notable ones on-chain as pulses.
- [Trading Fee](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/Fee): 2.5% of every buy and sell, paid in SOL. Sends pay nothing.
- [Treasury](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/Treasury): 50% of every claim goes to a Squads multisig.
- [Wind Switch](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/Wind): The weather decides the burns: an on-chain wind reading splits the 25% wind pot between burns and NFT rewards.
- [Buyback & Burn](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/Burn): The burn share buys $KERN on the curve and burns all of it.
- [NFT Vaults](https://kernhook.com/Vaults): Deposit 50,000 $KERN to mint an NFT. Holders share 17.5% of every claim.
- [FOMO Buys](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/FOMO): 7.5% of every claim buys $KERN for the FOMO wallet.
- [The Curve](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/Curve): A Meteora bonding curve that never graduates, so the hook stays on.
- [Name](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/Name): The name and ticker can change. The mint address and balances cannot.
- [Kern Climb](https://kernhook.com/Hooks/Climb): Climb before the static reaches you. Once the hook is live, its pulses send surges into this free game.
- [Activity](https://kernhook.com/Activity): every claim, burn, buy and wind report.
- [Contract](https://kernhook.com/Contract): every address behind the token.

## Journal
- [#1 System check before the first trade](https://kernhook.com/Journal/0001) (2026-10-07)

$KERN is a memecoin. Nothing on this site is a promise of value.