Tipping
Kumbaya runs on tips. When you trade, comment, or interact, you build up a balance in your Tip Jar that you can send to creators and posters whose work you appreciate. Tips go directly on-chain - Kumbaya doesn't custody them.
Where tips come from
Two ways your Tip Jar fills up:
Tip bonus on every buy. When you buy a token on the launchpad, a tiny portion of the trade (typically 3%) is credited to your Tip Jar instead of you. It's a "tip bonus" - credit you can later send to whichever creator or post you want.
Direct credit deposits. Some flows (rewards, platform-side seeding) credit your Tip Jar directly.
Your Tip Jar is on-chain (held in the launchpad's tip ledger contract). You can see your balance any time - the Tip Jar button is in the top header and the left nav.
How to tip
Every yap in a token thread has a small $ button in its action bar (next to the like / dislike controls). Hovering it shows a tooltip with the post's tip totals, your share so far, and your available balance for that token.
To tip a post:
Tap the $ button once to queue a single tip unit. Or hold the button (long-press) to keep adding units rapidly - useful when you want to tip more than the minimum.
As you queue units, a small popover opens under the button showing:
The amount you've queued (in token / USD).
Whether it's coming From Jar (your tip credits for that token) or From Wallet (a fallback if your jar balance can't cover what you queued).
A countdown bar - the tip fires automatically a moment after your last tap, so quick repeated taps stack into a single transaction instead of one tx per tap.
Wait out the short countdown. The queued tip is relayed on-chain by Kumbaya's guardian, so you don't pay gas. Your wallet may prompt you to sign a one-line gasless message; that's the only signature needed.
The tip lands in the recipient's bucket on that token. They claim it from their Tip Jar → Received tab.
The token doing the tipping is automatic - it's whichever token's thread the post is in. There's no per-tip token picker; if you're tipping a yap in the $FOO thread, you're tipping in $FOO credits.
⚠️ You can't tip yourself. The contract rejects self-tips, so tipping your own content is not possible.
💡 Cancel a queued tip. If you tap once and change your mind, click outside the popover before the countdown ends - the queued tip is dropped without firing.
How tips reach creators
When you tip a creator their token's tip credits:
Pre-graduation, the tip splits into a liquid portion (the creator can withdraw immediately) and a vested portion (locked until the token graduates, then unlocked).
Post-graduation, the full amount is liquid - no waiting.
Your tip balance - what you can (and can't) do with it
The tip credits in your Tip Jar are denominated in specific launchpad tokens - i.e. if you bought $FOO and got tip-bonus credits, those credits are $FOO credits. They live inside the launchpad's tip ledger; they're not freely transferable like a normal ERC-20 balance.
The only thing you can do with them is tip them to someone else (a yapper, a creator, anyone except yourself). You can't withdraw your own tip-jar credits to your wallet, and you can't sell or trade them - they're a use-it-or-lose-it credit.
⏱ Use them before they're burned
Tip credits are not held indefinitely. Once a token graduates, a burn countdown starts on those credits. If you haven't tipped them by the time the countdown elapses, they're permanently destroyed.
The Tip Jar surfaces this directly: as soon as a token graduates, each credit balance for that token shows the time remaining next to it (formatted as Xd Yh, Xh Ym, or Xm). Hover the countdown for a reminder: "Credits burn in {time}. Tip some content before it's too late."
The countdown duration is set by Kumbaya governance (1–90 days). Pre-graduation there's no timer - credits stick around for as long as the token sits on the bonding curve. The clock only starts at graduation.
Note: this only affects your tip-jar credits - i.e. credits you earned from buying but never tipped. Tips you've already sent to creators are safe in their buckets and aren't subject to the burn.
Receiving tips on your posts
If you post yaps in token threads, other users can tip them. The tip lands in your bucket on that thread's token - i.e. a tip on a yap in the $FOO thread arrives as $FOO credits. Each token whose threads you've been tipped in shows up as a separate row.
To collect, open the Tip Jar from the jar icon in the top header and switch to the Received tab. Each row shows the token, the total tipped, and a Withdraw button that pays your liquid balance out to your wallet. (Pre-graduation tips are split into liquid + vested portions - the vested portion unlocks on your first post-graduation withdraw on that token.)
There's no platform-side custody - the credits sit in the tip ledger contract until you withdraw, and the contract pays out to your wallet directly.
Where to next
Comments and yaps → - posting in threads
Creator fees → if you've launched a token
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