LeverUp now routes a defined share of protocol revenue directly to purchasing $LV on the open market. The first stream is live: the staking commission earned from $LVMON gets used every epoch to buy $LV, and every token purchased is burned.

This is not an announcement about a future mechanism. The first buyback transaction has already settled on-chain.

What Changed

LeverUp operates $LVMON staking — users deposit MON, receive LVMON, stake that LVMON to earn yield generated by the protocol's MON deployment across Monad's interest-bearing assets (shMON, dMON, and others). The protocol takes a commission on those staking rewards.

Until now, that commission went into the protocol's general revenue pool.

From this epoch forward, it goes somewhere specific: the open market, buying $LV.

Every token bought gets sent to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD. Burned. Gone.

The first buyback transaction is on-chain. You don't need the team to narrate it.

Why Start With the Staking Commission

Three reasons.

It's already real. LVMON staking commission is live revenue that settles every epoch. This isn't a commitment to route hypothetical future revenue — it's redirecting something the protocol is already earning now.

It's clean and isolated. The staking commission is a defined, auditable number. It doesn't touch trading positions, doesn't require changing how perp fees work, and doesn't create any ambiguity about where it comes from. Routing it to buyback is a narrow, reversible decision that doesn't interfere with anything else.

It tells you something without anyone having to say anything. A small buyback means the protocol is small. A growing buyback means the protocol is growing. Watch the epochs. The data speaks without an announcement.

This is the logic behind starting here instead of with a larger, more complex stream. A promise about future revenue is just a promise. A running buyback on LVMON commission is a fact.

What This Doesn't Cover (Yet)

To be precise: this mechanism applies specifically to the staking commission from $LVMON. It does not include perp trading fees, other protocol revenue streams, or any revenue from products that are still early.

Those streams exist. They're separate. The team's position is that each product's revenue should be evaluated on its own terms before being committed to any specific use. Announcing a fee switch before a product has stable, predictable revenue would be getting ahead of the data.

The approach is: when a stream matures and stabilizes, it becomes eligible for the same treatment. A clearly scoped share, routed to $LV buyback, on-chain, per epoch.

No bundled announcements. One stream at a time.

The End State Being Built Toward

LeverUp is not building a single product. The protocol spans perps, staking, yield, and infrastructure across Monad — and more is coming. Each piece generates different revenue on different cadences.

The direction is a token whose connection to protocol performance is explicit, measurable, and auditable without needing anyone to narrate it. Not "we made $X this quarter" in a blog post. The on-chain data tells you what the protocol earned and what happened to it.

That requires building the connection one stream at a time, committed only when the underlying revenue is real. The LVMON staking commission is the first stream that qualifies.

What to Watch

Every epoch, the staking commission buys $LV. Every token bought is burned. The relationship between protocol activity and $LV supply is now measurable.

As more products mature — perp trading, future yield products, deeper ecosystem integrations — each eligible stream gets added under the same logic. The buyback grows in line with what the protocol earns, not in line with what the team announces.

$LV is a claim on what LeverUp builds. The staking commission is the first stream the protocol is willing to put behind that claim. More will follow as they're earned.

Trade on LeverUp and generate the activity that feeds the buyback: app.leverup.xyz