$HERD · faq
FAQ
The ANSEM Liquidity Pool (LP) $HERD is an evolving list of joinable Meteora DAMM v2 TOKEN–ANSEM pools. Short answers below — deeper detail in the whitepaper.
1. What is the CA?
The contract address for $HERD is the mint below. Always verify it against DexScreener or the homepage before buying.
2. Do I need to join a pool?
No. Buying and holding $HERD is enough to join the project. Adding liquidity to HERD–ANSEM or other TOKEN–ANSEM pools is optional if you want fee income and deeper participation. To LP, you must deposit both sides of the pair (TOKEN and ANSEM) at the pool’s ratio — one-sided deposits are not how these DAMM v2 pools work.
3. What happens if I hold $HERD?
Holding $HERD is like holding any other token: the price can go up or down, and you can lose some or all of what you put in. That market risk is yours. Separately, holding exposes you to the product’s creator-fee path. When live, $HERD creator fees run a server that takes fees and distributes capital to pools strategically while capturing claimable fees, buying additional $HERD, $ANSEM, and LP token pairs. That is not the same as being an LP — you are not depositing into pools unless you choose to.
4. What is a liquidity pool?
A pool is a shared jar of two tokens — for us, usually SOME_TOKEN and ANSEM. Traders swap through the jar. Liquidity providers (LPs) deposit both sides so the jar stays stocked. In return, LPs earn a cut of every swap (the fee). Joining a HERD pool means putting up both TOKEN and ANSEM in the amounts the pool requires.
5. What is compounding liquidity?
On HERD DAMM v2 pools, we select compounding fee mode: a 90% share of LP fees goes back into the pool so liquidity grows on its own, while 10% stays claimable in ANSEM — passive accumulation LPs can claim when they want. Fees are also flexible — a base fee plus optional dynamic fees that can rise when volatility spikes. Simple, effective, and scalable for unlimited growth.
6. What are the potential rewards?
Nothing is guaranteed. Potential upsides, if markets and volume cooperate:
- Holders — $HERD price appreciation (same as any token), plus exposure to the creator-fee path when it is live.
- LPs — a share of swap fees on TOKEN–ANSEM pools; with compounding mode, 90% auto-reinvests into the position and 10% accrues as claimable ANSEM.
- Longer stays — fee income and compounded liquidity can grow while you leave capital in the pool, without day-to-day trading.
7. What are the risks?
$HERD, ANSEM, and every TOKEN in a HERD pool are speculative crypto assets. Holding or LPing can lose value — including a total loss — just like any other token or AMM position. This is not financial, legal, or investment advice; do your own research and only risk what you can afford to lose.
- Token / market risk — prices move; holdings can go to zero.
- Impermanent loss — as an LP, when the TOKEN–ANSEM price ratio moves hard, your withdrawn mix can be worth less than if you had simply held both tokens.
- Both-sided capital — LPing locks TOKEN and ANSEM together; you need both sides to enter and you take risk on both.
- Infrastructure risk — creator-fee routing depends on RPC and Meteora; outages or program bugs can pause claims or distribution. Dynamic fees and compounding do not remove market risk.
Deeper note in the whitepaper · Risks.
8. What is DAMM v2?
DAMM v2 is Meteora’s Dynamic Automated Market Maker V2 Program (DAMM V2) — a Solana AMM for two-sided liquidity. HERD pools are TOKEN–ANSEM markets on that program. This site never custodies balances.
Meteora DAMM v2 on GitHub →9. How do I join?
There are many options — full guide on /join:
- Buy and hold $HERD token.
Add HERD–ANSEM liquidity to join the community ANSEM pair initiative.- Configure then run a private node
- Manually join favorable pools from Meteora links on the index.
- Join our community
10. When do I run a private node?
When you want to own the LP and run it yourself — the node is open source. Control multiple TOKEN–ANSEM pools collectively as one book, or individually. The creator reward already runs a private server with similar functions; the open-source beta is that shape for you. Dev will keep updating it and stay flexible to push the project forward. Holding $HERD or joining pools by hand is enough if you do not want a node. Keys stay with you.
You own the LP
A private node is open source — run it yourself, same shape of functions as the creator reward private server. Control pools collectively or individually. Dev keeps the beta updated and flexible so we can push the project forward. Keys stay with you.
- Set fee flow and pool goals on /nodes.
- Open source beta — same functions, your LP, updates as we ship.
https://github.com/i-am-aemon/ANSEM_LP_HERD_Node
11. Why is this safe on keys?
Anyone can join — buy, LP, or run a node. Safety on custody is simple: each person owns their own liquidity in their own wallet or node. You can withdraw at any time. You stay in full control of your LP and your spot. This hub never holds keys and never custodies balances. Market risk still applies; custody risk from us does not.
12. Gravity
If we pull this off, $HERD can become the basis of a community-based blockchain layer — one that can flip Solana, go cross-chain, and rise above. Not a promise. A direction. Holder-seeded liquidity is the first brick.
TLDR: A rising tide will lift all bulls. Join the HERD in any way. Wit and scientific fact.
13. The bottom of the whitepaper
Scientific fact — definition of time. Time (n.): the continuous, irreversible parameter along which events are ordered; in physics, the coordinate conjugate to energy, measured by clocks that tick with the expansion of the universe and the decay of unstable systems. One second is 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
Wit. Wit (n.): what you still have after reading a whitepaper that defined time on purpose.
You read the whitepaper. Congrats. Now join the HERD.