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mikelewis

(4,596 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 05:28 PM Wednesday

I am experimenting with unique market dynamics and would love some players.

I am trying to learn how to program in Solidity and it's not simple. So I decided to start with a token that has been percolating for some time.

And please try it before you judge the idea... but I wanted to see if I could use concepts from engineering in a defi environment. To do that, I created a trainer that let's you play with the actual system I envisioned using real market mechanics. It's more of a game and a teacher than anything.

When you start, you have 4+ players and they can invest different amounts of USDC and just see how the market dynamics react. You advance time and see how the yeild farming evolves over time and you can also change the settings to make the system more or less constrained. So this is more of an experiment than anything...

I do know a lot of people on DU don't really like crypto but what's cool is... if I can port it properly, I can actually create this token on the blockchain. I don't need permission or even a group of coders. I can dream up some scheme and do it myself.

I will deploy it but I don't plan on actually pushing it much farther than a free page on Github but... if you're into Defi and you want to play with a completely unique idea... click the link.

https://gemini.google.com/share/e6d0da2235ee
Well... links... that first link was a quick overview. It's not great.

https://gemini.google.com/share/059f8b69d282
This is the link to the trainer. Consider it more of a video game... and hit F11 and run it in full screen or it's hard to see it all.

The Poseidon token is just a token that I'm deploying to learn how to actually build a real token on the blockchain that's tied to yeild farming and also using Uniswap's V4 webhooks. Those two things are not really simple to do and getting the Solidity code just right is even harder. I built this trainer so I could build the actual token and see what would work and what wouldn't.

Once it's live... I would highly caution against investing in it. When you play the game, you will see you can easily get wrecked if you don't know what you're doing. While getting wrecked sucks... it does mean your errors fed the rest of the holders who know the system better. That was the idea anway...

So I hope you get a chance to play with it. Please don't take it too seriously and if there's bugs... there's bugs... it's a massive file to build and I only needed it for the Solidity contracts so I won't be fixing much. I do hope you enjoy it. And I hope it sparks some debate as I put some hard rules in this token and it's brutal to the untrained trader. Good luck😬

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I am experimenting with unique market dynamics and would love some players. (Original Post) mikelewis Wednesday OP
Upgraded with specialized trading bots... mikelewis 15 hrs ago #1

mikelewis

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1. Upgraded with specialized trading bots...
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 06:34 PM
15 hrs ago

Last edited Thu Feb 26, 2026, 07:23 PM - Edit history (1)


I've Upgraded Poseidon to include new trading bots. You can turn on an automated trading bot that is specially designed to play to it's financial strengths.

Poseidon is not your average crytocurreny. It's not like Bitcoin or Ethereum where they are established utility tokens or like Doge or Shiba Inu which are purely meme coin speculative assets. No Poseidon is an experiment really.

I wanted to create a self governing market. I wanted to see if I could build a market that doesn't need a Google search or doesn't react to a Trump tweet. I don't want elon musk to be able to jerk my token around on a whim.

Poseidon is designed as sort of a whale trap. It's not really but you can see that for yourself if you play the whale or watch how the trading bots work when you click the 🤖 icon on the player tab. You click that and it starts autotrading. I wired in algorithms that will trade successfully with this scheme. You have to give it time and watch how the whale jerks the pool around...

After a few rounds... ensure you turn the Shark and Bob on autopilot. Or better yet, try to play as Bob and not get wrecked. I suggest leaving the autopilot on for a while till you get the hang of it. Staking raises swap fee... unstaking lowers them. Since you have to unstake to sell... the swap fees have to go down before your trade a large volume.

You can sneak out trades for free through the knee. There is a free space where you can slip out without paying the swap fees. How? Poseidon is a two digit token and USDC is a 6 digit token... when you floor the swap fee percent... even if it's 99.99%, you can sell 1 token with no tax.

There can conceivably be a 100% sales swap fee but as you have to unstake to sell and that lowers the swap fees so you'll always be able to sell 1 at a time... per hour. If the taxes are low you can sell a lot more without paying the swap fees as they floor() out at a deeper step.

Like I said, this is a horribly complicated token but this trainer is turning out to be a fun tool to test out different token deployments. Even if you're not into dabbling in a crypto that has a 100% sales fee as a possibility, it's still a fun game to try.
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