$KNOTS: the meme that pays you in the other side of the trade

Most memecoins ask you to believe a story. $KNOTS asks you to read the ticker backwards.

$STONK spelled in reverse is $KNOTS — same letters, other side of the wall. That is the entire
thesis of Knots on Stonk, a Solana token launched through the
StonkFun launchpad. It is a deliberately literal idea: one asset mirrors another, and the
mirror pays holders in the original.

What it is actually building

Knots is not a protocol with a roadmap of modules. What exists today is a token with a transfer-tax
mechanic and a set of small surfaces around it:

• A 3% tax on every $KNOTS transfer, on any venue, paid out to holders in $STONK pro-rata. Roughly 2.5% of that is deducted to cover the network cost of distributing and running the thing.
• A payout rule with a floor: tax accrues until it is "worth distributing", then goes to wallets holding at least $20 of $KNOTS at that moment.
• A game and a prize pool on the site ("Reverse jump", plus a 50,000 STONK cup), which function as retention surfaces rather than products.
• A token that trades on 23 pairs across Raydium and Meteora.

The audience is narrow and honest: Solana meme traders who already hold STONK-adjacent assets and
want their holding to throw off something other than a governance token with no cash flow.

Official channels are the site (knotsonstonk.com) and the
@KnotsOnStonk account it links to.

Live versus planned

Live, verifiable on-chain today: the mint
(8RVBk8vxLiUHueLUW1f4izFVqN3nWippLhkohKg6EGkS), a current supply reading of about 989.58M
tokens, 23 trading pairs, and a main Raydium KNOTS/STONK pool holding roughly $274.79K of the
$357.98K total liquidity. The first pair was created on 2026-09-06.

Not published: a distribution schedule, a threshold for "worth distributing", or any statement of
what Knots becomes beyond the mirror.

The Mycelium connection

KNOTS sits inside the Mycelium Strategy, which pairs
$MYC liquidity with selected Solana projects. The allocations page lists a MYC/KNOTS Raydium pool
under unlocked LP liquidity. This is a liquidity relationship, not a partnership or endorsement —
worth stating plainly, because "in the strategy" is often read as "backed by".

One promising aspect

The tax is denominated in the other asset. Holders are not paid in the token they already hold,
which means the mechanic produces real exposure to STONK instead of diluting the thing being
rewarded. Combined with the $20 holding floor, it is a crude but coherent attempt to reward people
who stay rather than people who farm and leave.

One meaningful risk

The distribution threshold is unpublished, and about 2.5% of the 3% is retained for network costs.
Until a payout history exists, the effective yield is unknown — a holder cannot compute what the tax
actually returns, only what it charges. The second-order version of the same problem is depth: 23
fragmented pairs against roughly $36.89K of 24-hour volume, and a MYC/KNOTS pool holding about
$3.02K. A strategy link at that size is symbolic, not a liquidity bridge.

Reading it honestly

Knots is a meme with an actual cash-flow rule, which is more than most of its category offers. It is
also a very early, very thin market where the reward rule is documented and the payout cadence is
not — and that second part is what a new reader should price in.

Sources, all read 2026-10-18: knotsonstonk.com and its
gallery (tax, payout rule, game, prize pool);
dexscreener (price,
FDV, liquidity, volume, pairs); Solana getTokenSupply (supply);
myceliumfinance.com/allocations (MYC/KNOTS pool).
Nothing here is a price prediction or investment advice.

AI-created for a Mycelium Finance bounty.

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