Understanding Donut: An innovative inscription protocol combining social inscriptions and friend.tech, deployed on BEVM
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Understanding Donut: An innovative inscription protocol combining social inscriptions and friend.tech, deployed on BEVM
A Guide to Understanding Donut's Gameplay
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Web3CN Editor
Yesterday, an interesting social inscription + FriendTech protocol called Donut was discovered on BEVM.
Donut combines elements of FriendTech and inscriptions. I'd define it as a protocol for launching inscriptions with built-in influencer-style promotion mechanics and strong FOMO incentives. Experience it here:
https://bevm.dnt.social/account-info/@Web3CN_Pro
Below is an overview of how it works:
Key Roles in the Donut Protocol:
1. The Donut Protocol
The Donut protocol is a platform where users can publish inscriptions and launch personal IP Shares. IP Shares are similar to FriendTech's keys — essentially "personal social credit tokens" governed by smart contracts with bonding curves that cause their prices to fluctuate based on buy/sell activity.
Anyone can publish an inscription on Donut. However, to mint a specific inscription, one must do so through a link from a KOL who has published an IP Share. In other words, participation in minting requires using a promotional link from a KOL promoting that inscription. This tightly couples inscription minting with influencer-style promotion.
2. Inscription Deployer
Anyone can deploy an inscription on the Donut protocol, but the deploying account must first publish its own IP Share.
When publishing an inscription, several parameters must be set — including inscription name, total supply, maximum per wallet, fee, and deployer revenue share.
Note: The mint fee (around $0.05 per transaction) goes to BEVM network validators. The additional service fee is split into three parts: up to 20% is used to directly purchase the inscription deployer’s IP Share; up to 80% goes toward purchasing the promoting KOL’s IP Share; and about 3% enters a Fomo3D-style prize pool for periodic raffles. See the official Donut website for full details.
3. IP Share Publisher / Inscription Promoter — “Linker”
Anyone or any KOL can publish their own IP Share on Donut and act as an inscription promoter, which Donut calls a "linker."
When a linker mints an inscription, a tweet with their unique referral link is automatically posted. Other users who mint via this link trigger fund flows according to the deployer’s rules — part of the proceeds (up to 80%) automatically buys the linker’s IP Share, thereby increasing its price over time with increased demand.
4. Inscription Minter — Regular User
Regular users can mint inscriptions directly through a linker’s referral link. According to the inscription deployer’s settings, the payment amount is split into three portions: funds allocated to purchase respective IP Shares and contributions to the Fomo3D prize pool.
5. IP Share Staker
Whenever funds are used to purchase an IP Share, not only does the price rise, but new IP Shares are also minted. These newly issued shares are distributed among stakers proportionally based on their staked share of the total.
Various Strategies on Donut:
1. Become an Inscription Deployer
If you're a project team looking to launch your community via an inscription (and plan to add utility such as token airdrops or whitelist access), you can use your official Twitter account to publish an inscription directly on Donut and invite KOLs to promote it.
2. Become a KOL Promoting Inscriptions
KOLs can promote inscriptions they believe in. How do they profit?
Each time a user mints an inscription through a KOL’s link, funds flow into the KOL’s IP Share, driving up its price. By staking their own IP Share, KOLs benefit both from price appreciation and from receiving newly minted shares generated during purchases.
Moreover, a single KOL can promote multiple different inscriptions. Choosing high-potential projects can bring sustained inflows to their IP Share.
3. Become a Smart Investor in Inscriptions and IP Shares
How Can Regular Users Participate?
Regular users can maximize returns by staking the deployer’s IP Share, staking IP Shares of top-performing promoters (KOLs), and then minting relevant inscriptions.
This works because a fixed portion of funds will automatically flow into the deployer’s IP Share, and similarly, strong promoters’ IP Shares will see consistent buying pressure.
If you don’t want to invest in others’ IP Shares and prefer to act purely as a minter, you can stake your own IP Share, set 99% of incoming funds to auto-buy your own IP Share, and mint via your own link — effectively recycling most of the funds back into your account.
Summary
Donut is an inscription protocol deployed on BEVM, a Bitcoin L2. It blends social inscriptions with FriendTech-like mechanics and fully leverages Twitter’s social graph, turning inscription minting and distribution into an engaging game. With diverse gameplay strategies catering to different user types, it’s definitely worth exploring.
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