An open letter · October 18, 2026
$SPIN is now STANZA.
A name should mean something before it means money. The work has to live up to the name.
That's why the token is now STANZA, by SpinWave. SpinWave is the project — the repository where scholars publish as stanzas and earn directly from reader licenses. STANZA is the token that powers it. One name for the work, one name for the money, and the straight line between them.
What changed, plainly
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Launched October 17, 2026, on Base. 100 billion supply: 85% in the liquidity pool, 15% in creator vesting (one year, 30-day cliff — nothing claimable before mid-November).
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The first deployment, September 27, 2026. The pool went up and never saw a single trade. It stays on the record — on-chain and on our token page — because history you can verify is worth more than history you hide.
Nothing about the mission moved. Scholars do the work; publishers take the cut — paywalls for readers, pennies for researchers. STANZA is the on-chain repository where that ends: scholars publish as stanzas, readers license directly, everything verifiable on-chain.
What's next: the build. A working repository, live on spinwave.tech, where the earn-and-license loop runs for real. We're building it in the open and telling you exactly where it stands — that's the whole covenant.
Verify everything yourself. The contracts are on Basescan, the history is on the token page, and any address you see anywhere else should be treated as fake until it matches what's published there.
Nothing here is financial advice. We're early, and early is thin. But the name means something now — and the work is going to live up to it.
— D'Vaughn