# Wen Introduction

### **What is Wen?**

Wen is a community/meme coin focused on bringing wen culture to life and creating the largest cat coin possible. Cat coins are an extremely underserved niche in the market that the core group of contributors believes has massive potential.

### **Mission & Goals**

Create the largest culture coin possible and foster a community of like-minded individuals to fuel Wen forward. Wen is focused on connecting mainstream users to a community coin through cats.\
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Combining the famous crypto culture term [“Wen”](https://twitter.com/wenwencoin/status/1758320547836858658) alongside the cutest cat to make the ultimate coin in web3.

### Statistics

230,000+ holders

153,000 Twitter followers (Wen is completely organic, never paid for any KOLs/influencers)

14,000+ Telegram members

90+ integrations including Phantom, Backpack, Tensor, Jupiter, Helio, Sphere, DRip, Helius, etc

Owners of the #1 and #2 X cat accounts in the world (@shouldhavecat and @postsofcats)

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# Wen Validator

The Wen Validator is a Solana Validator created using a highly performant infrastructure with the most efficient and secure way to use the Validator. It is professionally maintained and coupled with 0% fees and MEV kickback ensuring the highest yield possible from a validator.\
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With nearing 100,000 SOL staked ($17,000,000) the goal of the Wen Validator is to decentralize and contribute to the Solana ecosystem and reduce the overall supply of $WEN.

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# wenSOL

WenSOL is an addition to the Wen Validator. In partnership with [Sanctum](https://x.com/sanctumso) wenSOL is used to create even higher yields & offer incentives towards stakers with the Wen Validator.

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# Bonkbot Burn Partnership

Wen has partnered with Bonkbot to enable burning of $WEN. There are several Bonk contributors also contributing towards Wen enabling a seamless partnership to reduce the supply of WEN and create forward momentum.\
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Whenever a user trades through BONKbot, 20% of the trading volume fee from new users and 10% of existing users is used to buy back and burn $WEN.\
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Link to activate: <https://t.me/bonkbot_bot?start=ref_wen>

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# Exchange Listings

### Wen is currently listed on:

* Kraken
* Bybit
* Crypto.com
* HTX
* Kucoin
* Gate.io
* MEXC
* LBank
* Backpack
* OrangeX
* BingX
* Bitmart
* Bitget
* Bitrue
* BTSE
* WOO

Wen is also listed on several other geographic and smaller CEXs.


# Mainstream Cat Pages

### Wen is the owner of the #1 and #2 cat pages on X in the world.&#x20;

Both [@ShouldHaveCat](https://x.com/ShouldHaveCat) and [@PostsOfCats](https://x.com/PostsOfCats) take up a majority of all cat content posted on X.&#x20;

Both pages are averaging nearly 3B monthly impressions - For reference, Wen is one of the larger pages on all of Solana and it is only averaging 10-15M monthly impressions.\
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There hasn't been any activation towards these accounts as we are waiting for our final production plushies and merch to finish and we will be begin our Wen marketing campaigns with our IP and use of the mainstream cat pages.


# Wen IP & Plushies

Wen is working on developing some of the strongest IP through web3 and web2. We want to showcase the strengths of brand-building and IP development through Wen.

Wen is working alongside one of the top companies to bring the Wen IP to life. Starting off with the plushies and advancing towards a whole line to awaken the cute cat.

The company building the plushes (TOYMAK3RS) has built IP for some of the biggest names and brands in the world including Adidas, Netflix, JBalvin, DeadMau5, etc.

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### Read more about the Wen plushies and what Wen is up to in this article.

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# .wen Domains

Wen has incorporated .wen domains into the Solana ecosystem. This allows for any person to create a .wen domain and send any coin back and forth like a normal wallet address. There are already thousands of .wen domains created and being used throughout Solana.

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# Overview

The Wen New Standard NFT architecture is a wrapper around the Solana Token Extensions program that enables traditional NFT functionality using native Solana Programs rather than Third Party Extensions.

**The key advantages to using WNS are the following:**

* **Lower fees** - Minting a WNS NFT costs 0.01 SOL roughly and is entirely closable (meaning refundable), alternative implementations (other than compressed) cost 3x as much with only 1/3 of the value refundable.
* **Built for the future** - Built from the ground up with Token Extensions, WNS will give creators the most viable option for any aveneue they are perusing.
* **Limited reliance on third-party contracts** - The majority of WNS functionality is purely derived from Solana native code which is foundational to Solana.

**The WNS Program defines NFTs as any asset with:**

* **0 decimals** - The asset cannot be broken into small chunks
* **1 supply** - There is only one of the asset
* **Locked Mint Authority** - There will only ever be one token

The WNS program is primarily an interface for building NFTs with Token Extensions. This is not intended to be a heavy program and the majority of credit for the functionality of these tokens lies with Solana Labs team.

Here is a brief guide to the Token Extensions program which is heavily referenced by WNS.

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Token Extensions from Solana
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The WNS program audit has not been formally completed yet and should be treated as such.\
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This Gitbook will serve as a reference point for the structure of WNS, how to build on it, and how to support the project. For specific code, please visit the github here:

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# Token Extensions

WNS offloads as much functionality to the Solana Token Extensions program as possible:

* **Metadata** - Asset metadata leverages the Metadata Token Extension
* **GroupPointer** - For collection data, point the collection Mint to a Group account to define a collection with the group pointer
* **MemberPointer** - For individual NFTs, point the NFT Mint to a Member account to attach it to a collection with the member pointer
* **Group\*** - The account that represents a collection of NFTs.
* **Member\*** - The account that gives on-chain direction for what Group an NFT is apart of.
* **ImmutableOwner** - Owners token accounts cannot be transfered to evade transfer hooks.
* **TransferHook** - Each NFT has a Transfer Hook attached to it that validates the proper accounts were generated by the Marketplaces who paid royalties.

&#x20;\*Currently this is represented by a WNS account as the Solana Token Extensions program doesn't support these extensions on mainnet. Once these go live, there will be a migration for all outstanding collections.


# Royalties

The one piece of WNS that is unique is the implementation of royalties. There are two key components to royalties on WNS.

1. **Storing creators** - Creators and their ownership are stored in the extra\_metadata field of the NFT metadata account. The amount of royalties for the NFT are stored as the first field with ROYALTY\_BASIS\_POINTS as the key and the basis points value of royalties for the NFT as the value. The following metadata fields are the creator address as the key and their share as a percent as the value.<br>
2. **Distributing royalties** - Royalties are sent via a pre-transfer instruction that also marks the transfer as completed in a way that can be read from the transfer hook. Royalty funds are placed in a separate account and are split up based on the creator shares in the Metadata of the NFT that was transferred. Creators can claim their share of royalties by calling the claim function and withdrawing the assets.


# Governance

WNS governance will be led by a group of stakeholders from around the ecosystem to ensure it's longevity. Once WNS reaches a stable point in its development, the program will be frozen and verified. Governance will be posted in the WNS Forum as the decisions become relevant.


# Royalty Claim Portal

The royalty claim portal allows creators to log in and claim royalties from their collections via an interface. Claim your royalties with the link attached below.

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# Integration Partners

We've highlighted a few of the main integration partners to utilize WNS assets.\
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If your project has integrated WNS, please let us know and we will make sure to let users and creators know.

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WNS support is live on Tensor, if you mint a WNS collection and would like it shown on Tensor, please fill out their creator form below and select the "Hash List" option. You can use Tensor to trade, transfer, and view your WNS NFTs.

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{% tab title="Backpack 🎒" %}
Backpack wallet supports viewing WNS NFTs and properly grouping them. They will be rolling out support for transfers, and more soon. Download and use Backpack to view your WNS collectibles.

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{% tab title="Phantom 👻" %}
Phantom wallet supports viewing WNS NFTs and properly grouping them. They will be rolling out support for transfers, burns and more. Download and use Phantom to view your WNS collectibles.

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{% tab title="Helius ☀️" %}
Both Xray and DAS API from Helius support WNS NFTs so you can query them the same way you query your NFTs today through Helius with a developer account there.<br>

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# Wen Grant Program

The Wen Foundation will be offering grants for collections looking to migrate over or mint new assets on WNS. More information/parameters coming in the future, stay tuned.\
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For those interested in the meantime, feel free to fill out this form.

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# Bug Bounty Program

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The WNS Bug Bounty program covers the Wen New Standard program and the Wen Royalty Distribution program. As new programs are added, this program will cover these as well. The goal of this program is to promote a legal and profitable means for diagnosing and disclosing security information before
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## Bounty & Breakdown

Bounties for the bug bounty program are as follows:

<table><thead><tr><th width="168">Severity</th><th>Bounty</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Critical </td><td>$10,000-$100,000</td></tr><tr><td>High</td><td>$1,000-$5,000</td></tr><tr><td>Low</td><td>$100-$500</td></tr></tbody></table>

The descriptions of the different severity of bugs are as follows:

**Critical -** Significant escalation of Signer privileges or errors in code execution that presents an immediate risk to a significant portion of users.&#x20;

* Loss of funds
* Insertion attacks in transfer hook
* Cryptographic failures

**High -** Attackers can modify critical data or behaviors that they should not be able to access. More narrow in impact than critical or less foundational to the protocol, e.g.

* Modify sensitive data
* DoS of WNS minting
* Supply chain attack on SDK

**Low -** Attackers can violate an expectation for how something is intended to work but allow nearly no escalation of privilege or ability to seriously impact the useability of the protocol. This also includes bugs that result in unintended outcomes for users.

* Incorrect data writes on mint
* Unhandled errors

The actual bounty amount is determined by various factors including but not limited to severity, value at risk, and likelihood of being exploited.

Payouts are done in vesting $WEN on Solana.

## Reporting Bugs

Fill out this report and leave your preferred communication method. A member from the team will get back to you within 48 hours: <https://github.com/wen-community/wen-new-standard/security/advisories/new>&#x20;

## In-Scope

The eligible programs are linked below:

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## Out of Scope Rules