// 01 / INVITATIONYou have been invited.
If you are reading this, it is because you are deemed to be a person of quality, by a person of quality.
You are reading this thanks to the power of W.O.M.B.A.T. A.F. — Word Of Mouth, Buy And Tell A Friend.
And no, this has nothing to do with wombats, cute animals or the latest meme.
The token is not a memecoin. Don't look at it through that lens. What if a token could be designed not as a trade, but as the beginning of a new asset class?
What if you could combine old-school networking and the concept of a scarce store of value with modern technology to create the perfect token launch and community — trustlessly?
We believe we have the perfect token: EthAu.
The problem to be solved in crypto is to launch a token and create an honest and fair distribution without any insiders or early snipers holding unfairly large positions, which they are then incentivized to dump on other people's heads.
We have the solution.
Firstly, eliminate the developer advantage. He must buy his position, like everybody else, and he gets no extra allocation.
Secondly, create a very large initial holder base, all with equal allocations. The age-old method of assembling a group of like-minded individuals has been by word of mouth.
“But that sounds like another cabal.”
No, it isn't. When EthAu goes live, anyone can buy at just a slightly higher starting price.
It begins by assembling 5,000 people — The 5000 — to contribute on identical base terms.
Now, imagine ETH at $3,000.
The launch is controlled by already-deployed, immutable smart contracts. The dev cannot modify the contracts or control the execution of the launch. He has no access to the contribution funds. This is verifiable on-chain.
At launch, the contract uses 100% of the ETH contributed and just under half of the EthAu supply to create the initial Uniswap pool.
That puts EthAu into the market at an initial valuation of around $6 million, with 5,000 holders, each starting with an equal base allocation of just 0.01% of the total supply.
Holders of the highest quality. Think about that for a minute.
And at this point, the project is still under the radar. It has spread quietly, person to person, by word of mouth.
Now that changes.
The 5000 can start promoting EthAu publicly and some may have enormous reach.
A veritable EthAu army.
And when it reaches the public, anyone can look at it and say: “That's fair. I haven't missed out. I truly am early.”
This is a new paradigm for launching a crypto asset — designed to give it a path to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond.
And the dev doesn't get a freebie that he can dump on you. He enters on the same terms as every one of the 4,999 who follow.
He is one of The 5000. From the beginning.
So why join The 5000 rather than simply wait for EthAu to launch and buy on the open market?
You can, but there are three huge advantages for committing before the market exists.
Firstly, more EthAu. For the same 0.2 ETH, members of The 5000 receive up to roughly 113% more EthAu than 0.2 ETH buys at the initial pool price, depending on contribution order.
Secondly, your allocation is secured before trading begins. No watching the clock and trying to buy as the pool goes live, with the possibility of an immediate price explosion.
Thirdly, every member of The 5000 receives a beautiful EthAu Rand — one of only 5,000 individually numbered Genesis NFTs created to commemorate the launch.
The earlier you contribute, the greater the token bonus advantage and the rarer the Rand.
The rest is worth understanding properly. Research it. Read everything on this site. Verify the contracts.
If you decide it's worthy, tell a couple of people you trust — the kind of people you would stand shoulder to shoulder with and ask them to do the same.
That's how we find The 5000. The best possible 5,000.
Don't shill it. Don't spam it. Don't tell everyone.
EthAu
A store of value. Hard money. Fixed supply.
There are roughly 7 billion troy ounces of gold above ground today. There will never be more than 7 billion EthAu.
That's it.
There are around 8.2 billion people on Earth.
Less than one ounce of above-ground gold per person.
Less than one EthAu per person.
A store of value. Hard money. Fixed supply.
There are roughly 7 billion troy ounces of gold above ground today.
There will never be more than 7 billion EthAu.
That's it.
There are around 8.2 billion people on Earth.
Less than one ounce of above-ground gold per person.
Less than one EthAu per person.
Gold is valuable because humans have chosen to value it. It is scarce, recognisable, durable and difficult to produce more of.
EthAu is deflationary — the hardest of monies.
7,000,000,000 EthAu at genesis.
From there, supply only falls.
Gold is measured in ounces.
Eth Gold is measured in EthAu.
The goal?
Flip gold.
The Bull Case
The biggest bullish factor by far is YOU
The 5000 of 8.2 billion.
The biggest bullish factor by far is YOU
The 5000 of 8.2 billion.
Distribution Matters
Scarcity alone isn't enough. Who owns the supply matters too.
EthAu does it right.
Half the supply begins with The 5000 and almost half begins in market liquidity.
The dev is just one of the 5,000 wallets that each start with a base allocation of just 0.01 % of the total supply.
Phenomenal distribution, in the hands of quality holders.
Built to Be Held
Good assets reward patience.
Time in the market, not timing the market.
The thinking with EthAu should be extremely long-term. Something you put aside and don't watch. Something you might hold for a rainy day, retirement, or for generations to come.
Buy and hold.
EthAu has a big ambition: to become something people store wealth in.
A scarce asset with deep liquidity has the potential to decouple from crypto market cycles.
Make some decent money in a bull run — why put it all into fiat?
Store some in EthAu.
The mentality of the holders will determine its path.
The strength of the hands that hold EthAu will drive the appreciation of the asset.
Beyond Crypto
If EthAu succeeds as a store of value, the end game isn't simply a bigger crypto community.
It's a broader class of holder.
Individuals. Funds. Institutions. TradFi.
An asset bought not because it's this cycle's narrative, but because investors want exposure to a scarce, liquid, digitally native macro asset.
Bitcoin has already demonstrated that a crypto-native asset cancross that divide.
Native to Ethereum
If you're going to create digital hard money, build it on the value chain.
Ethereum is the most established decentralised smart-contract platform, with battle-tested infrastructure, enormous liquidity, stablecoins and a financial ecosystem built around assets that live entirely on-chain.
EthAu needs to exist somewhere secure, neutral and liquid.
Ethereum is THE chain on which to create a store of value.
And because EthAu is native to Ethereum, there is no wrapping, no bridge and no representation of the asset somewhere else.
That means it can plug directly into DeFi.
Liquidity. Lending. Borrowing. Collateral. Markets.
A scarce asset doesn't have to just sit there. It has the potential to become productive collateral — a store of wealth that can also sit at the base of an on-chain financial system.
EthAu has the potential to become a digitally native macro asset.
EthAu belongs on Ethereum.
Pure Eth Gold.
Genesis NFTs for The 5000
Every member of The 5000 receives a unique EthAu Rand when they contribute — an individually numbered Genesis NFT recording their place in the EthAu launch.
There are 5,000 contributors and 5,000 Rand.
The collection is divided into four editions according to contribution order, with each Rand bearing the number of the contributor who earned it. Each contributor can also add a personal inscription to their Rand, permanently recorded in the NFT metadata. A name, a message, a quote — whatever you choose becomes part of your Rand.
// CONTRIBUTOR #1The first EthAu Rand - four nines fine.
Reserved for the developer, whose 0.2 ETH contribution activates the contribution phase and makes him Contributor #1.
Personal metadata inscription :
“If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”
Only one exists.
Sorry lads, this one's mine - but we all get equal footing on the tokens.
// CONTRIBUTOR #2 - 20A historic first minting of the 916.7 grade EthAu Rand.
Crown gold.
The shield pays homage to the great hearts of those willing to blaze the trail — the first 19 to step forward and join the developer before The 5000 became an army.
They stand in defence of an idea and a principal :
// CONTRIBUTOR #21 - 100Beautiful 750 grade EthAu Rand.
As the bearers of the torch abide, so the light of self-sovereignty sweeps throughout the land.
I salute you.
Only 80 exist.
// CONTRIBUTOR #101 - 5000Hard 585 grade EthAu Rand.
The 5000 are a collection of elite pioneers and leaders. The spear symbolises their strength.
They will lead the army that follows them — thousands standing together, each sovereign in his own right.
Only 4,900 exist.
5,000 coins. One edition. Never again.
Every EthAu Rand is preserved by its immutable IPFS identity and stored redundantly on Filecoin. The collection itself is anchored by a single canonical IPFS root — a cryptographic fingerprint of the complete collection.
Independent retrieval directly from Filecoin has been verified against the pristine original using SHA-256 cryptographic hashes, confirming the artwork byte-for-byte.
The provenance and integrity of the collection can therefore be independently verified, preserving the EthAu Rands exactly as they were created.
The Launch
0.2 ETH each.
No more. No less.
Launch or refund.
The contracts are already deployed.
The launch refers to the moment the EthAu / ETH liquidity pool goes live on Uniswap V2 and trading begins.
First, The 5000 must be assembled.
Each contributes exactly 0.2 ETH and secures a base allocation of 700,000 EthAu — an equal share of half the entire token supply.
No whale can contribute 20 ETH.
Every member of The 5000 enters on the same base terms.
Perfectly fair to each individual.
0.2 ETH each.
No more. No less.
Launch or refund.
The contracts are already deployed.
The launch refers to the moment the EthAu / ETH liquidity pool goes live on Uniswap V2 and trading begins.
First, The 5000 must be assembled.
Each contributes exactly 0.2 ETH and secures a base allocation of 700,000 EthAu — an equal share of half the entire token supply.
No whale can contribute 20 ETH.
Every member of The 5000 enters on the same base terms.
Perfectly fair to each individual.
The dev goes first
The developer must make the first contribution.
Exactly 0.2 ETH — the same contribution as every member of The 5000.
That first contribution activates the launch sequence and makes the developer Contributor #1.
Only then can the remaining authorized contributors begin to join.
Authorised Participation
Every contribution address must first be authorised. The authorisation is cryptographic and specific to that address so it can't be passed to somebody else.
Once authorised, that address can contribute its 0.2 ETH to the launch contract.
Once.
The objective is to find 5,000 individual people, each participating on the same base terms.
The dev controls who is authorised to participate during the contribution phase. That's where the dev's control ends.
The dev cannot withdraw participant ETH, change participant allocations or mint additional tokens. Once the launch conditions are met, anyone can call the launch function.
At launch, the dev receives the predetermined 0.3% developer allocation.
These aren't promises. They're rules enforced on-chain by verifiable smart contracts.
WOMBAT AF
WOMBAT is how The 5000 are assembled.
Pure word of mouth.
It starts with people the dev knows and trusts.
They research the project. If they think it's worthy, they tell people they trust — people whom they would want as fellow holders.
Those people contact the dev on X, ask to join The 5000, and if authorised, do the same.
It spreads:
This can spread very rapidly.
Word of mouth has been distributing ideas for considerably longer than crypto has been distributing tokens.
We're going to use it to assemble The 5000.
Who Are The 5000 ?
Not wallets. People.
The 5000 isn't simply the first 5,000 addresses through the door. It's a curated network of people.
The objective is 5,000 unique individuals, each participating on the same base terms.
People who can research and verify, and are prepared to commit 0.2 ETH to an idea.
Positive people with patience, conviction and means. These make the best holders.
And again, congratulations if you're reading this. You have the attention span to have made it this far. That barrier to entry alone will have weeded out anyone incapable of reaching the “contact the dev on X” link above. Hahaha.
Some may have large audiences, but each applicant will be screened by the dev. He will have a look at their X account and those who look to authentic , ethical individuals will cut the mustard.
The network matters more than any individual account.
If you're in The 5000, you're amongst people of similar ilk.
Tell The Right People
This part matters. WOMBAT isn't about sending this to everyone you know. Quite the opposite.
Research first. Read the tokenomics. Understand the launch. Look at the contracts.
Then decide whether this is something you actually want to be part of.
If it is, don't tell everyone.
Tell the right people.
That's WOMBAT.
What Happens to the ETH?
The maths is beautifully simple.
5,000 × 0.2 ETH = 1,000 ETH.
The ETH contributed during the WOMBAT phase is locked in the launch contract until the launch conditions are met. The dev cannot withdraw it.
If the launch conditions aren't met before the deadline, the launch expires and participants can reclaim their ETH.
Launch or refund.
At launch, the 1,000 ETH is automatically paired with the predetermined EthAu liquidity allocation to create the initial Uniswap V2 market.
The contribution creates the liquidity.
The 5000 provide the ETH that creates the initial market.
Why Join The 5000 ?
Why not just wait for the pool to launch and buy then?
You can, but The 5000 have three advantages for committing early.
First advantage is the bonus tokens which are issued according to the order of contributions.
Now, at the initial pool price; 0.2 ETH = 655,197 EthAu.
To compare against that:
Contributors 1 -20 get: 1,400,000 so 113.7 % extra
Contributors 21 -100 get: 1,050,000 so 60.26 % extra
Contributors 101 -5000 get: 735,000 so 12.18 % extra
Now, at the initial pool price; 0.2 ETH = 657,300 EthAu.
To compare against that, this is what the different contributor tiers get:
1 -20 get 1,400,000 so 112.99 % extra
1 -100 get 1,050,000 so 59.75 % extra
101 -5000 get 735,000 so 11.82 % extra
The second advantage is that your allocation is secured before the market exists. No watching the clock, trying to catch the moment the pool goes live. If there is a lot of hype, which can be expected with a holder base of five thousand suddenly promoting, there could be significant and immediate price appreciation.
Your allocation is already secured.
The third advantage is something that can never be acquired by buying EthAu after launch.
Every member of The 5000 receives a unique EthAu Rand — one of only 5,000 Genesis NFTs created to commemorate the EthAu launch, individually numbered according to contribution order.
Your Rand is a permanent record that you were there at the beginning.
And just like the bonuses, the earlier you contribute, the rarer the Rand.
Your contributor number is incorporated directly into the artwork.
Once a tier is gone, it's gone.
When EthAu becomes a global asset with millions of holders, imagine the scarcity and prestige of owning one of the original 5,000.
5,000 contributors. 5,000 Rand.
Then EthAu Goes Live
Once the launch executes, the Uniswap pool is funded and trading can begin.
The 5000 can claim their immediately available EthAu. The public can buy EthAu directly from the market.
From that point forward, WOMBAT has done its job.
Join The 5000
Joining The 5000 is straightforward. Here's how to contribute.
01 — Contact the Developer
Contact the developer on X (Twitter) and provide two things:
- Your public Ethereum wallet address — the address you intend to contribute from.
- Your personal inscription — a short message of your choosing that will be permanently recorded in your EthAu Rand's NFT metadata.
02 — Receive Your Authorisation
The developer will provide you with a unique cryptographic authorisation generated using your Ethereum wallet address and personal inscription.
Keep this authorisation handy. You'll need it when making your contribution through the Wombat smart contract.
03 — Make Your Contribution
Open the Wombat smart contract on Etherscan, select Write Contract, connect your Ethereum wallet and expand the contribute function.
Complete the three fields:
- payableAmount (ether): Enter
0.2. - inscription_ (string): Enter your personal inscription exactly as provided to the developer.
- signature (bytes): Paste the authorisation supplied by the developer.
Click Write and confirm the transaction in your wallet.
Once confirmed, your contribution is recorded on Ethereum and your individually numbered EthAu Rand is issued directly to your wallet.
Tokenomics
allocation #1 — dev - 0.01 %allocations #2–5,000 - 49.99 %
Each of the 50 segments above represent 100 equal allocations. Allocation #1 belongs to the dev — bought on exactly the same terms as 4,999 that follow. Yes, I know, it is barely visible.
5,000 equal holders of 700,000 tokens each.
50 % of the total supply.
A veritable army of holders. An outstanding token distribution.
Maximum supply 7 billion EthAu.
Every token is minted and accounted for from the beginning.
No additional minting possible. No hidden allocation.
Pure code. Verifiable on-chain.
The 5000 — 3.5 billion EthAu
50 % of the total supply is allocated equally to The 5000.
Each authorised participant contributes 0.2 ETH and receives a base allocation of 700,000 EthAu.
The maths: 5,000 × 700,000 = 3,500,000,000 EthAu
No participant can increase their base allocation by contributing more ETH.
Early Contributor Bonuses — 213.5 million EthAu
There is one deliberate inequality.
The earlier you commit, the larger the bonus.
But those bonus tokens come with a long-term commitment.
Contributors 1–20
Base allocation: 700,000 EthAu
Bonus: +700,000 EthAu
Total allocation: 1,400,000 EthAu
Contributors 21–100
Base allocation: 700,000 EthAu
Bonus: +350,000 EthAu
Total allocation: 1,050,000 EthAu.
Contributors 101–5,000
Base allocation: 700,000 EthAu
Bonus: +35,000 EthAu
Total allocation: 735,000 EthAu
All bonuses are locked over 10 years, with 10% becoming claimable each year.
Total Contributor Bonuses
14 million + 28 million + 171.5 million = 213.5 million EthAu
That's 3.05% of the total supply.
The bonuses reward the people willing to commit earliest, while the locks prevent those bonus tokens from becoming immediate sell pressure at launch.
The bonus is for being early. The lock is for proving you mean it.
Initial Liquidity — 3.2865 billion EthAu
Now account for everything.
7,000,000,000 EthAu total supply
minus 3,500,000,000 EthAu base allocation to The 5000
minus 213,500,000 EthAu contributor bonuses
leaves:
3,286,500,000 EthAu
That's 46.95% of the entire supply.
Those tokens are paired with the 1,000 ETH contributed by The 5000 to create the initial EthAu/ETH Uniswap V3 liquidity pool.
Almost half the entire EthAu supply goes directly into initial market liquidity.
Permanently Locked Liquidity
The initial liquidity position is permanently locked.
There is no unlock date and no admin function that can withdraw it.
No promise not to pull the liquidity.
No ability to pull it.
Programmed Burns
The permanently locked liquidity continues to generate trading fees with the EthAu contract as the beneficiary.
The ETH side of these collected fees goes to the developer and the EthAu side is sent to the burn address.
Those EthAu are gone permanently, creating a permanent deflationary mechanism.
Increasing scarcity. The hardest of hard money.
100 % Accounted For
Bonus Unlocks
The long bonus vesting schedule is intentionally boring.
All bonuses vest over 10 years, at 10% per year.
Each year, 21,350,000 EthAu becomes claimable.
That's just 0.305% of the total supply per year.
A very light, transparent unlock schedule. After ten years, it's done and dusted.
And remember: an unlock is not automatically a sale.
Don't trust. Verify.
The EthAu protocol was written and deployed by the developer, but it now exists independently on Ethereum. Its contracts are immutable, with no administrative privileges allowing the developer to change their rules.
The contribution funds are held by the Wombat smart contract. There is no developer withdrawal function or administrative key that can release those funds. The ETH can move only under the conditions defined in the deployed code.
These are not promises. They are properties of the code, independently verifiable on-chain.
// DEPLOYMENT// WOMBAT// ETHAU RAND// GENESIS #0001// CONTRIBUTIONS// LAUNCH CONDITIONS// LIQUIDITY// EthAu// SOURCE CODE// IMMUTABILITY// REFUNDS// TOKEN ALLOCATIONNFT Artwork Preservation
The 5,000 EthAu Rand artworks are stored redundantly with two independent Filecoin storage providers, under their original IPFS identities.
Canonical collection CID: QmcNRoQdFMfJVLpSht73vmVyNX83LjBL6ctw8rHLLaBJRu
Filecoin storage records:
- Provider 1 — Datasets 1688 and 1690
- Provider 5 — Datasets 1689 and 1691
All 5,000 artwork CIDs have been indexed through IPNI. Direct retrieval from Filecoin has been independently tested, with the retrieved artwork matching its original SHA-256 hash byte-for-byte.
Testing & Verification
The EthAu protocol underwent extensive automated testing before its deployment to Ethereum mainnet.
The production test suite completed 140 tests successfully, covering contribution authorisations, allocation calculations, bonus vesting, refunds, access restrictions, contract interactions and failure conditions.
Beyond individual contract tests, the complete launch sequence was executed on a fork of Ethereum mainnet using the production contracts and existing Uniswap V3 and Fort Locks infrastructure.
All 5,000 contributions were executed, depositing a total of 1,000 ETH and minting 5,000 individual EthAu Rands. The protocol then successfully completed its full launch sequence: creating the fixed 7-billion EthAu supply, establishing Uniswap V3 liquidity, permanently locking the liquidity position in Fort Locks, and activating contributor claims. Swaps were also executed against the newly created Uniswap V3 pool to verify its trading functionality.
The refund mechanism was separately exercised against the deployed Wombat contract on an isolated mainnet fork, confirming that contributor funds could be recovered following an unsuccessful campaign, that the Genesis Rand remained with its owner, and that a second withdrawal was rejected.
All tests were conducted without modifying the frozen production code. Mainnet-fork testing took place in isolated environments without affecting live Ethereum state.