An SPL token on Solana, ticker OPNL, built for one purpose: to put money into the hands of people who maintain open-source software and are not paid for it.

Can I buy OPNL right now?

Yes. OPNL is live on Solana mainnet and trades against SOL in a Raydium pool. The swap links are on we-openly.com.

How does buying a coin pay a maintainer?

Today it does not. Buying OPNL sends SOL to the liquidity pool, not to any maintainer. The intended path is a treasury at a published address with holders nominating projects, but no treasury address exists, there is no nomination process, and no grant has ever been paid.

Do I own part of the projects openly funds?

No. Open-source software cannot be owned, and a token gives you no legal claim over any project, foundation, or maintainer. The only thing holders get a say in is where this project's own grant money goes.

What is the openly (OPNL) goal, exactly?

$0.000001 per coin, one millionth of a dollar, which values the 1 trillion coins in public hands at $1,000,000.

What is the openly mint address?

646VbBBE8ETzgHFcTiQ3YWLzdQrp6ZcE8cYJFufZzaBa on Solana mainnet, with 6 decimals and a supply of 10,000,000,000,000. Both mint and freeze authority are revoked, so the supply is permanently fixed.

openly (OPNL): a Solana token that funds open source

OPENLY(1) General Commands Manual OPENLY(1)

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NAME

openly - fund the software everyone uses and nobody pays for

SYNOPSIS

openly --hold OPNL [--fund project] [--goal 0.000001]

MAINNET TRADEABLE SUPPLY FIXED

DESCRIPTION

You used open source today. You did not choose to, and you were not asked. It is underneath your bank transfer, your boarding pass, your car's dashboard, the hospital's records, the page you are reading right now. It is the plumbing of the century, and it was written largely by people doing it for free, at night, between other obligations.

Three numbers, each with a source:

60%: of open-source maintainers are not paid at all for their work. Of those, 44% say they would appreciate being paid. [Tidelift, 2024]
136: developers wrote more than 80% of the code in the 50 most-used open-source packages, in one dataset. The world leans on a very small table. [Census II, Harvard LISH & OpenSSF]
55%: how much more likely a paid maintainer is to do the critical security and maintenance work than an unpaid one. Money is not vanity here. It is upkeep. [Tidelift, 2024]

A key that everyone is free to hold is still a key that somebody had to cut. openly exists to pay the people at the bench.

PROTOCOL

Design intent, not a running system. Step 1 is real: the token exists and trades today. Steps 2 to 4 are not built. There is no treasury, no nomination process, and no grant has ever been paid to anyone. What is already true is under FILES.

1.: You buy the key. You acquire OPNL. Nothing mystical: an SPL token on Solana, every transfer public. This step is live, and the swap links are under INSTALLATION.
2.: A share becomes a fund. A fixed portion of supply is reserved as a grants treasury at a published address, so anyone can watch the balance instead of trusting a promise.
3.: Holders point at projects. Holders nominate the libraries, tools and maintainers that deserve funding, starting with the unglamorous dependencies rather than the famous names.
4.: The grant goes out in public. Money moves on-chain with the receipt attached, auditable by anyone forever, including by the people who disagree with it.

You will not own the projects. Nobody owns open source; that is the whole idea. What you hold is a stake in the effort to keep them alive, and a vote in where the money lands.

INSTALLATION

OPNL trades against SOL in one Raydium CPMM pool. Any Solana wallet plus either aggregator below will route to it. Check that the mint address on the swap screen matches the one under FILES before you sign: anyone can create a token and call it openly.

raydium: swap SOL for OPNL ->
jupiter: swap SOL for OPNL ->
chart: price, liquidity and trades ->
analytics: the same pool on GeckoTerminal ->
liquidity: add or remove liquidity ->
pool: 6F5cDtdBaMtUcshFjVpCfS3ytRz9UZWA9yjSaAEzFMEG [explorer]

No price is printed on this page. Any figure written here would be wrong by the time you read it, and a stale price is worse than none at all. The chart is the live number.

GOAL

0: $0.000001 per coin. One millionth of a dollar, which puts the 1 trillion coins in public hands at $1,000,000. First milestone reached: enough to write grants that change a maintainer's month.
1: Not there yet. █ current state: trading, orders of magnitude below the goal

The arithmetic in full: 1,000,000,000,000 coins in public hands, multiplied by $0.000001, is $1,000,000.

FILES

Read from the Solana mainnet chain, not written by hand. Verify with the commands under EXAMPLES.

mint: 646VbBBE8ETzgHFcTiQ3YWLzdQrp6ZcE8cYJFufZzaBa
name: openly
symbol: OPNL
decimals: 6
supply: 10,000,000,000,000 (fixed)
network: mainnet-beta
mint auth: REVOKED (no more tokens can ever be created)
freeze auth: REVOKED (no one can freeze your balance)
metadata: MUTABLE (the update authority can still change the name, symbol and logo)
pool: Raydium CPMM, OPNL/SOL - address under INSTALLATION
treasury: NONE (no grants address exists yet)

EXAMPLES

Check the supply yourself rather than believing the table above:

$ spl-token supply 646VbBBE8ETzgHFcTiQ3YWLzdQrp6ZcE8cYJFufZzaBa --url mainnet-beta
10000000000000

Or read the metadata and authorities straight off the chain:

$ node verify.mjs
--- METADATA ---
  name            : "openly"
  symbol          : "OPNL"
  isMutable       : true
  updateAuthority : 2ofMcJoMPrMbjKYvZtqEuWShtUiPeyQTryn8Qg96GaK1

--- MINT ---
  decimals        : 6
  supply (tokens) : 10000000000000
  mintAuthority   : REVOKED
  freezeAuthority : REVOKED

Open the mint on Solana Explorer ->

ROADMAP

[x] 00 Cut the key. Mint created on mainnet-beta, freeze authority never set.
[x] 01 Put the real face on it. Name, symbol and logo now travel with the token on-chain.
[x] 02 Throw away the pen. Mint authority revoked; supply permanently fixed at 10 trillion. The burn that should have come first did not happen.
[x] 03 Mainnet. Live, with a published mint address and a Raydium pool.
[ ] 04 Deepen the pool. More liquidity means steadier pricing and room for larger trades. <- next
[ ] 05 Grow the X account. People who followed because they care about the problem, not bought numbers.
[ ] 06 Grow the Discord. A room where maintainers and holders actually talk, judged by that and not by a member count.
[ ] 07 Publish the market numbers. Trading volume and market cap shown on this page, read live from the chain rather than typed in by hand.
[ ] 08 Publish the impact numbers. Total donated to open source and how many projects that money reached, each one auditable against a transaction.
[ ] 09 Help open-source projects. Money reaching the people who maintain the software everyone uses. This is the reason every step above it exists.

QUESTIONS

What is openly?: An SPL token on Solana, ticker OPNL, built for one purpose: to put money into the hands of people who maintain open-source software and are not paid for it. It is a funding idea with a coin attached, not a coin with a cause attached.
Can I buy OPNL right now?: Yes. It is live on Solana mainnet and trades against SOL in a Raydium pool; the swap links are under INSTALLATION.
How does buying a coin pay a maintainer?: Today it does not. Buying OPNL sends SOL to the liquidity pool, not to any maintainer. The intended path is that a share of supply sits in a treasury at a published address, holders nominate projects, and every grant leaves a transaction anyone can audit. None of that exists yet: there is no treasury address, no nomination process, and no grant has ever been paid. The design is under PROTOCOL, and none of it is built.
Do I own part of the projects openly funds?: No. Open-source software cannot be owned, and a token gives you no legal claim over any project, foundation, or maintainer. The only thing holders get a say in is where this project's own grant money goes.
What is the goal, exactly?: $0.000001 per coin, one millionth of a dollar, which values the 1 trillion coins in public hands at $1,000,000. Small enough to state without embarrassment and specific enough to miss in public.
What is the mint address?: 646VbBBE8ETzgHFcTiQ3YWLzdQrp6ZcE8cYJFufZzaBa on Solana mainnet. It is listed under FILES with the decimals, supply, and both authority flags, and EXAMPLES shows the commands to check every one of those against the chain instead of taking this page's word for it.

CONTACT

Questions, corrections, or a project you think deserves funding. Mail goes to a person, not a ticket queue.

email: [email protected]

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DISCLAIMER

Nothing here is an offer to sell, financial advice, or a prediction. The $0.000001 figure is a stated goal, not a forecast. It may never be reached, and the token may be worth nothing. OPNL is tradeable, which means it is also losable: assume anything you put in can go to zero, and do not spend money you need. That is not boilerplate.

Holding OPNL grants no legal ownership, equity, or governance right in any open-source project. Open-source software cannot be owned; that is the premise of this project, not a loophole in it. Any influence holders have is over this project's own grant decisions and nothing else.

No open-source project, foundation, or maintainer referenced on this page is affiliated with, endorses, or has any relationship with openly. Cited research belongs to its authors and is linked at the point of use.