DefiLlama's September holder revenue reached $193.2M, the highest since November 2025, driven by three value-return mechanisms: Hyperliquid's buyback machine (+$12.8M), Uniswap's burn machine (+$6.2M), and Aerodrome's voter machine (+$10.3M). The number of protocols paying holders expanded to 241, with the top three's market share declining to 58.7%.
PlayOnMint's whitepaper launched on Robinhood Chain, detailing a tiered bear NFT system where spending $MNTD tokens upgrades assets and burns half the spend permanently. Token generation event is scheduled for October 20 at $0.033 per $MNTD with a fixed supply of 1 billion; no public sale means early Season 1 participation and airdrops are the primary allocation mechanisms.
PlayOnMint is launching a token ecosystem on Robinhood Chain with $MNTD (1 billion fixed supply, no public sale) targeting October 20 TGE at $0.033 reference price. The platform uses XP for Season 1 rewards, transitioning to a seven-tier status system based on $MNTD staking, with MintABear NFTs and staking mechanisms determining user benefits. Separately, Potatchi is burning 20 million tokens from FOMO rewards and distributing tokens to active Robinhood Chain wallets.
A discussion of the $PONS token's buyback and burn mechanics, noting that fee-driven buybacks currently represent only ~12% of fees collected, with daily fees declining ~90% from $6M in early September to $604K by October 7. The protocol is initiating a new burn cycle with doubled burn rates and $1.7M in allocated funds to clear over approximately 20 days.