How it works.

Quote routes trading fees from a token to the author of a single, locked X post. The author does not sign up, connect a wallet, or approve the coin. This is how it works, and what it is not.

A deployer launches or attaches a pump.fun token and points it at a single X post. The token’s creator fees are claimed on-chain by Quote. Of each claim, 80% is converted to dollars and paid to the post’s author through X Money. 20% market-buys $QUOTE and burns it. Every payout posts a public receipt.

At launch, Quote writes a config account for the mint containing the source tweet id and the author’s X user id. This account is immutable after initialization.

The recipient is always the author of the locked post. The deployer cannot type a different handle, and the destination cannot be edited later. If the post is deleted, the routing key still resolves to the same author user id.

An indexer watches every registered mint. When claimable creator fees exceed the dust threshold, Quote submits the claim on-chain. The claimed amount is split:

• 80% is routed to the author as a dollar payout.
• 20% market-buys $QUOTE and sends it to the burn address.

Both legs settle on-chain and are listed publicly.

The 80% is converted from SOL to dollars over an existing offramp rail, then sent to the author’s X user id through X Money — the same transfer any user can send to any other user.

If the author has X Money turned off, is in an unsupported region, or a send otherwise fails, the funds are held in escrow keyed to the author’s X user id and shown as pending on the payments feed. When the author enables X Money, the escrow releases.

After a payout, Quote composes a public receipt: the amount, the author, the token, and the source tweet. Where the API allows, the receipt is posted as a reply under the source post; otherwise it is posted to the Quote account timeline.

Every receipt is also listed on the payments feed and on the token and post pages.

pump.fun is supported first. A token can be created on pump.fun through Quote, or an existing pump.fun mint can be attached. Additional venues may be added later; the routing primitive is the same.

• Quote is not X, X Money, or pump.fun.
• Quote is not the author. A payout is not an endorsement by the author.
• The token is not a security issued by the author. The author does not launch, review, or approve any token.
• $QUOTE is not governance, not a fee discount, and not required to launch or receive.

Authors control what reaches them.

• Disable incoming X Money. Any user can turn X Money off in their X settings. Quote cannot send to an author who has it disabled; funds hold in escrow.
• Stop future payouts. An author can request that Quote stop routing future payouts to their handle. Pending escrow can be released or returned.

Opt-out requests are handled per X user id and apply to all tokens routed to that author.