Community takeover (CTO)

A community takeover hands a token's creator role to the community after the original creator disappears. The token keeps trading the whole time; a CTO changes who earns from it, nothing else.

What a CTO changes

One thing: who receives the token's creator fees. After a takeover, all future fees pay the new address.

What a CTO can NOT change

Everything else is out of reach for everyone, including Qian:

• Supply stays fixed. Nobody can mint.
• Liquidity stays locked in the QianLocker. Nobody can pull it.
• Taxes, hooks, and launch settings stay exactly as deployed.
• Fees already claimed stay claimed; a CTO only redirects the future stream.

A Qian token never needs "rescuing" the way tokens elsewhere do. The liquidity was never in the creator's hands, so an absent creator can't hurt the token. The only thing going to waste is the unclaimed fee stream, and a CTO redirects it to the people still building.

When a CTO makes sense

• The creator wallet has gone silent and nobody is claiming or using the creator fees.
• An active community wants to fund marketing, a team, or development from the fee stream.
• The creator themselves wants to hand the token over and asks for the transfer.

How to apply

Every token page has an Apply for CTO button next to its address:

Press it to open the application:

You give your name, an email, an optional Telegram, the reward wallet that should receive the creator fees, and your plan for the token. Then you connect your wallet and sign a message. No transaction, no gas: the signature proves you control the reward wallet, and it's baked into the signed message so nobody can swap that wallet out later. If we accept, the creator fee share transfers to your reward wallet.

We review requests by hand. Expect to show real community backing rather than one holder trying to redirect the fees to themselves. If the original creator resurfaces and objects with proof of ownership, that outweighs everything else.

After the takeover

The new creator address starts earning from the next trade. Press Claim fees on the token page to collect, same as any creator. See Creator fees.