$VIBES is the platform-level utility token. Its live utility is staking eligibility and the backer challenge mechanism; governance and other benefits are potential future utilities, not rights at launch. Distinct from project-specific Vibetokens.

For project Vibetokens, see Vibetokens & Utility.

$VIBES has a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, launched on Base through Vibestarter's own raise: the same router, escrow, and vesting contracts every project on the platform uses. The full supply was allocated on-chain at launch; nothing is minted afterwards.

Token contract: 0xefFC88…421Acb. The live allocation breakdown and vesting timeline are on the $VIBES raise page. The $VIBES raise's pool liquidity on Base is locked permanently in a contract with no withdrawal path: Liquidity and the LP lock.

Vibestarter runs raises on Base and Robinhood Chain, so $VIBES lives on both. The Robinhood Chain contract is the same token: the same source as the Base contract and the same 1,000,000,000 supply. A bridge adapter on each chain keeps the two in step. The Base adapter holds every $VIBES that has been sent across; the Robinhood Chain adapter holds the unbridged part of that chain's supply as a reserve. Sending from Base locks $VIBES in the Base adapter and releases the same amount from the reserve; sending back locks into the reserve and releases on Base. At every moment the amount locked on Base equals the amount in circulation on Robinhood Chain.

Move $VIBES between the two chains at the bridge; a one-time approval is needed in each direction. Staking reads the Base contract only. The two pools price independently. The seed liquidity on Robinhood Chain is held by the treasury multisig and is not raise LP.

The first Robinhood Chain contract (0x49ec…ff87) was retired on 5 September 2026; every wallet that held it received the new token one-for-one.

Stake $VIBES to become eligible to receive a share of every new raise launched on the platform. Your share of each allocation is proportional to your share of the total staked pool at the time of each raise finalization.

Staking more at any time increases your share for future raises. If you have a pending unstake request, staking will cancel it (see below).

Unstaking is a three-step flow. The 7-day cooldown starts when you request to unstake, not when you stake. You stay in the staker pool during the cooldown window.

Every successful raise allocates 2.5% of its token supply to the $VIBES staker pool. Your share of that allocation is proportional to your share of the total staked pool at the moment the raise was finalized.

Allocations are claimable from the staking tab of your portfolio. You receive vibetokens from each raise, not $VIBES. Each allocation is a fixed 2.5% of that raise's token supply, distributed by contract; no rate, schedule, or payout is promised.