$GAUGE

$GAUGE and the burn

What $GAUGE is, where its buy pressure comes from, and how to check every burn.

$GAUGE is Fuelgauge's token. It has one job: it is what every listed coin's 5% buys and burns.

#Why $GAUGE exists

Fuelgauge needs a way to pay for itself that does not ask anyone to trust it. $GAUGE is that way. Each listed coin gives up 5% of its creator fees, written into its locked split, and that share can only buy $GAUGE and burn it. Fuelgauge's own running costs come from $GAUGE's creator fees, through $GAUGE's own public budget vault. Nobody at Fuelgauge is paid from the 5%: it waits in the burn wallet, which Fuelgauge runs, only until the next buy, and every buy and burn is public.

So the token's utility is tied to the product's use: every coin that lists and trades adds to the burn, for as long as it trades.

#Where the burn comes from

Every coin on Fuelgauge sends 5% of its creator fees to one burn wallet. That 5% is set in each coin's pump.fun split and locked, so it cannot be switched off coin by coin.

Each keeper cycle, the burn wallet:

1. keeps a small reserve of SOL for network fees;
2. buys $GAUGE with the rest, at most 1% of the market's SOL side per buy (on the bonding curve before graduation, on PumpSwap after);
3. burns every $GAUGE it holds.

The burn wallet's address, every buy and every burn are on the $GAUGE page.

#$GAUGE's own creator fees

$GAUGE is a pump.fun coin listed on Fuelgauge like any other. Its creator fees go:

• 95% to its own budget vault, which pays Fuelgauge's servers, the keeper's network fees and development, with every payment on its coin page;
• 5% to the same burn, which buys $GAUGE.

The $GAUGE page shows that vault's gauge and budget lines, and links to its full coin page with every receipt.

#Facts

#What $GAUGE is not

• Not a share of revenue. The 5% is spent buying and burning $GAUGE, never paid to holders.
• Not a vote. It does not control any vault or setting.
• Not needed to use Fuelgauge. Creators and holders never need to hold it.