We are thrilled to unveil our evolving collaboration with The Honey Jar (THJ), a partnership that dates back to before the launch of the Hungrybera NFT collection. The Honey Jar has been an indispensable ally and longstanding partner in our journey to be the token launchpad of choice on Berachain. While we had previously announced our partnership, our engagement with THJ has significantly evolved and deepened over the past few months, and we are excited to share the latest updates with the community.
About The Honey Jar and Apiology DAO
The Honey Jar plays a crucial role in the Berachain ecosystem, serving as both the gateway and a native community venture studio. For years, the organization has been instrumental in incubating projects, fostering public goods for builders, nurturing the ecosystem, and educating the next wave of users. Additionally, The Honey Jar operates one of the top validators on bArtio testnet, as ranked by BGT delegations. Their contributions and influence in Berachain, led by janitooor.eth, has been an immensely positive force within the ecosystem.
Apiology DAO, incubated by The Honey Jar, operates as a hive-like superstructure within the Berachain ecosystem, establishing mutually advantageous relationships among strategic partners. By strategically investing capital and resources into key protocols, Apiology DAO is dedicated to nurturing and advancing growth within the ecosystem.
On launches
Ramen is proud to be a Flagship Partner and the preferred token launchpad partner for The Honey Jar. Moving forward, THJ will direct new protocols to launch their tokens on Ramen. This collaboration will focus on building new relationships and expanding Ramen’s outreach by introducing THJ partners and new protocols.
In addition, THJ will invest resources in co-marketing campaigns with Ramen, promoting token launches through joint announcements, as well as co-host community calls and founder interviews through THJ’s social media channels, website, and community Discord server. Our shared goal is to maximize exposure for featured protocols, educate users, and get them involved in these new protocols. Together, we aim to help new protocols reach a broad and dedicated user base required for successful token launch campaigns.
Ramen will share 5% — 20% of token launch fees for every successful Curated Launch in collaboration with THJ.
On Standard & Paws
Standard & Paws, developed jointly by The Honey Jar, is a community-based ratings and assessment service designed to evaluate the credibility of new protocols within the Berachain ecosystem.
This service will be integrated into Ramen’s Curated Launches to provide an independent, fair, and thorough assessment, complementing due diligence efforts and background research into the track record and competency of these protocols and their core contributors.
The integration of the S&P service is underway, with both teams working to ensure the S&P reports are tailored for Ramen’s platform and presented in a user-friendly format.
On InterPoL
InterPoL is a protocol, co-developed by The Honey Jar, that allows teams to lock their liquidity (represented as LP tokens) for any duration without having to renounce the yields offered by various protocols.
This essential infrastructure ensures that protocol-owned liquidity is locked securely (rug protection) while enabling protocols to participate and benefit from the rewards from various protocols.
In our previous article on our Kodiak partnership, we described how funds raised on Ramen are deployed into whitelisted liquidity pools on Kodiak. The resulting liquidity provider (LP) tokens returned are securely locked in a locker on InterPoL, while retaining accessibility to claim rewards in BERA or other ERC-20 tokens offered from protocols such as Kodiak, Infrared, and Beradrome.
The LP tokens belonging to the protocols launching on Ramen will be locked for a minimum of 12 weeks. Protocols may also choose to voluntarily lock their LP tokens for a longer period of time, or even lock it permanently, which is in essence equivalent to burning their LP tokens without sacrificing yields associated with their protocol-owned liquidity.
Following the launch of the $RAMEN token, Ramen will also lock its LP tokens in a locker on InterPoL.
InterPoL takes a fee on all the rewards that the locker receives, which is set by the DAO governing it. Ramen will receive a perpetual 20% share of the fee as part of the referral program.
Integration with InterPoL will commence after the protocol has completed security audits and made open-source. You may read more about InterPoL here: https://docs.notinterpol.com/
Other details and terms of this partnership
- 15 ApDAO seats in exchange for 2,500,000 $RAMEN tokens (2.5% of total token supply) distributed as gRAMEN and vested linearly over 18 months
- Commitment from THJ to direct BGT emissions, capped at 20% of voting power controlled by ApDAO validator, to incentivize $RAMEN LPs
- Commitment from Ramen to delegate a minimum of 33% of treasury-owned $BGT to ApDAO validator
- Whitelist spots allocated for Ramen community members and Hungrybera NFT holders in the Mibera NFT mint
- Inclusion of HoneyComb NFTs and $HENLO as Genesis Airdrop Recipes for protocols to select the holders of these assets as whitelisted token claimdrop recipients
- Airdrop of 50 Hungrybera NFTs to THJ (delivered)
- 100 whitelist spots for Hungrybera NFT mint to THJ community and HoneyComb NFT holders (delivered)
Our partnership with The Honey Jar represents a significant relationship in our shared objective toward building a vibrant token economy on Berachain. This deepened collaboration with one of the most strategically aligned and bera-centric organizations in the ecosystem enables Ramen to offer unparalleled value to both emerging protocols and users.
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