$YIELD, the Truffle Pool and buybacks

$YIELD is the game’s token: an ERC-20 on Robinhood Chain. Truffles pay in it, the Farmer pays in it, and later staked Deeds will earn it. The game’s own copy says: “You never need $YIELD to play. Earn it from the Farmer, or trade it on Uniswap.” Verified

Truffles are paid from the Truffle Pool, the pot that holds the players’ share of $YIELD. The pool is refilled by the Buyback vault, which takes the game’s fees in ETH and buys $YIELD with them. Every ETH of fees ends up, slowly, as $YIELD for Truffle finders.

Players

pack ETH →

CornHubpays Market sales in ETH

Sale fees →

Buyback vaultbuys $YIELD with the fees, over time

$YIELD →

Truffle Poolpays $YIELD every night

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Truffle finders

The $YIELD token

What the official docs say

Taxes, as the docs describe them

• A buy tax and a sell tax (the percentages are redacted). “No LP fee”: the tax is the only cost of a trade.
• Heavy selling: once net selling passes a set level, the sell tax climbs to a hard cap and then eases back. Buys cancel out sells; splitting a sale does not avoid it.
• Launch protection: right after trading opens, buys pay a much higher tax that “falls steadily back to normal”.
• Where taxes go: part of the regular $YIELD tax goes to the Deeds’ Root Cellars (rate not announced), with a small cut to the team; the heavy-selling extra goes to the Farmers Co-op; the launch tax is “100% put back into the game”. “The tax caps are hard-coded.”
• The token declares its one official Uniswap v4 pool on chain and blocks copycat pools.

What the game shows

• The token is a plain ERC-20 with a fixed supply that holders can burn. There is no tax inside the token: taxes live in the pool. Verified
• The game’s $YIELD screen shows “Price per $YIELD”, “Your bag”, “Market cap” (supply × price), “Supply” and “Volume 24H” (Coming soon), and the fee line “Buying costs X in fees. Selling costs Y, up to Z during heavy selling.” Verified
• The Farmer only opens after the launch tax: “The Farmer opens once the launch tax settles.” Verified

The team’s stated launch plans

Not confirmed: the team has said it is leaning towards these numbers. May change

• A starting market cap of roughly $250k.
• A launch tax that starts around 90 % and declines over about 24 hours.

How $YIELD is earned

Official source The split between new emission (Truffles) and conversion (Farmer) is our reading. Inferred

The Truffle Pool

Mainnet has no Truffle Pool yet. The Truffle Pool holds the players’ $YIELD and makes the nightly payouts. Claims are signed by the game and each one can be used once. Verified

The Buyback vault

The Buyback vault uses the game’s fees to buy $YIELD over time and puts all of it in the Truffle Pool. The game’s copy: “Every buyback refills the Truffle Pool.” Verified

The Buybacks tab in the game shows the vault’s balance, “Spends X a day”, “Sent to Truffles” all-time, and recent buybacks. Its footer names crop sales and $YIELD trades among the game fees that fill the vault: “It buys $YIELD back on Uniswap all day and sends all of it to the Truffle Pool.”

What fills the vault

The official docs describe a Farmers Co-op fed by “Co-op Dues from every crop sold” and a share of $YIELD taxes. Official source Sale fees go to the Buyback vault, which is most likely the docs’ Farmers Co-op. Inferred

Still REDACTED

• When the token launches on mainnet, and its mainnet supply, tax rates and launch-tax curve.
• How Deed rewards will be funded and shared in detail.
• The Deed reward the docs list next to Deed rewards and the Silo (see What a Deed earns).
• Which buyback design ships on mainnet is not announced.
• What the Farmers Co-op is “seeded with on day 1”, and the docs’ classified answer on “volume”.
• How the mainnet Truffle Pool is funded beyond buybacks, and the claim limit the game sets.
• The mainnet sale fees.
• Where the Truffle Pig’s ETH goes.