Every trade digs the supply.
Working in the mine earns 1% of every trade, in ETH. Leave any time — nothing is ever locked.
Work a shift yourself — anyone can, no permission needed
Digging pays the caller a 0.0001 ETH tip. Collecting fees credits every miner in the same transaction.
Every trade pays a 4% creator tax on top of the Pons base fee. Half goes to the foreman (the creator treasury). The other half goes to the engine, which splits it again: ETH to everyone working in the mine, and PICK bought on the market and sent to 0xdead — dug out of the supply, permanently.
No team allocation, no dev buy, no mint function. The supply is fixed and only shrinks. Not audited independently — read the contracts before you buy.
Nothing is locked, nothing is scheduled, nobody can take your tokens out. With nobody working in the mine, the engine's whole share gets dug out instead.