TL;DR: We deploy LP Bonds for KNINE within weeks. Users provide liquidity to a KNINE-GMI pool that gets locked long-term at the protocol level, but users aren’t trapped because the Bond NFT is tradable immediately (and fractionalized bonds are available to trade as ERC-20 tokens). Rewards accrue inside the bond instead of streaming out daily, reducing sell pressure. Zero cost to K9, we are seeking a mutual win-win.
Hey K9 community, Tommy here from GonnaMakeIt. Some of you may remember our original proposal from October. A lot has changed since then, so we’re bringing this back with a fresh proposal tailored to where K9 is now.
The Problem K9 Faces Right Now
K9 is down heavily on the year. The Shibarium hack crushed confidence. Without a concrete plan to stabilize the token and rebuild liquidity, KNINE will continue to bleed. The community deserves better.
What We’re Proposing
We deploy LP Bonds for KNINE. We’re already live on both Base and Ethereum so it’s just a matter of deploying the smart contracts for K9’s pools. We can have this live within weeks, not months.
Users deposit into a KNINE-GMI liquidity pool. That liquidity gets locked for 20 years by smart contract. In return, users receive a Bond NFT earning 100%+ APR.
Important: users are NOT locked for 20 years. Only the liquidity is. The Bond NFT is tradable from day one on our marketplace. Want out? Sell your bond. Don’t want a full bond? Buy a fractionalized one. The liquidity stays locked, but users always have full flexibility.
How the Yield Works
Yields come from GMI token emissions allocated over 20+ years. But here’s the key difference from normal farming: rewards accrue inside the bond. Think of it like a zero-coupon bond in traditional finance. You don’t get daily payouts that hit the market and create sell pressure. The value builds up inside your Bond NFT over time. When you sell the bond or it matures, all that accrued yield transfers with it.
This is why the yield profile is different from normal farming. The important part isn’t the headline number, it’s that zero rewards are streaming out and creating sell pressure. The system can offer strong yields to bond holders while having a completely different market impact than standard “drip” farms.
This isn’t a traditional bond or OHM fork. The tradable NFT layer and zero-coupon yield structure are fundamentally different from anything that’s been tried before.
“But I’m Locked for 20 Years?”
No. This is the most common misconception so let’s be clear. The liquidity is locked for 20 years. You are not. Your Bond NFT can be sold anytime on our marketplace. You can also buy or sell fractionalized bonds directly as ERC-20 tokens, meaning you don’t even need a full bond to participate. Think of it like real estate - the building stays put, but ownership changes hands freely.
Why This Matters for K9
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Reduces sell pressure - Every KNINE that goes into a bond is off the market for 20 years. Not days, not months. Twenty years. That’s tokens that cannot be dumped.
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Permanent on-chain liquidity - K9 gets deep, growing liquidity that literally cannot shrink. No more mercenary LPs pulling out during downturns.
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K9 champions a new DeFi primitive - LP Bonds are live on 8+ chains. This is cutting edge liquidity infrastructure and K9 can be an early partner behind it on Base. That’s a real narrative, not just hype.
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Buy pressure that compounds - Pools are 50/50. As GMI appreciates, the pool automatically rebalances by buying more KNINE. Those purchased tokens stay locked for 20 years.
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Liquidity routing to every major pair - By pairing with GMI, K9 taps into all existing GMI pools including ETH-GMI, USDC-GMI, and USDT-GMI across multiple chains. Trades can route through GMI to any major pair on any chain we’re deployed on. K9 gets deep liquidity connections across the board without having to build each pool individually.
Security
Let’s address the biggest concern upfront since K9 just got burned by infrastructure it didn’t control. The biggest security risk with locked liquidity is how the LPs are stored. We currently store them behind a 3/5 Gnosis Safe (gold standard of multi-sig). For K9, we’re willing to make it a 4/6 multi-sig with 3 keyholders from our end and 3 elected by the K9 community. No single party can unilaterally move the LPs. K9 maintains direct oversight of its own locked liquidity.
We’re Taking Risk Too
This isn’t a one-sided deal. If KNINE trends down, the 50/50 pool rebalances by selling GMI to buy more KNINE. That means our token takes a hit. This is exactly why we’re selective about who we partner with. We don’t do this for everyone. But we see long-term value in K9 and sincerely want to help KNINE recover. We’re willing to put that on our shoulders.
What This Costs K9
Nothing. Zero. We’re offering this at no cost. All we want is co-marketing support, to let K9 absorb the technology so we mutually benefit. I’m a big believer that 1+1 = 100 with the right partners, and I think we have that potential here.
Why Now is the Perfect Timing
We originally built LP Bonds because we wanted top-tier tokenomics for ourselves. Once we solved it, we realized every token project faces the same bleeding problem and we could help. That’s why this exists.
K9 doesn’t need to spend years building new tech from scratch to come back strong. We’ve already spent those years building it. This wasn’t a simple smart contract deployment. LP Bonds required building an entire NFT marketplace as the foundation, then layering the bond vault, yield engine, upgrade system, and secondary market on top of that. It was a massive technical undertaking that took years to get right.
That work is done. LP Bonds are battle-tested across 8+ chains with active partnerships including Camelot DEX on ApeChain, HelloDEX, Bulla DEX, and more in the works. K9 can fast-forward past the rebuilding phase and immediately champion a powerful new DeFi primitive that most projects haven’t even heard of yet. Instead of playing catch-up, K9 leads. That’s a way stronger comeback story than just migrating to a new chain and hoping for the best.
Our Track Record
I founded Energi blockchain in 2017 and invented Decentralized Enforcement (a technology for a DAO built into the blockchain to freeze and recover stolen funds, built exactly to stop the sort of crime that occurred on Shibarium). I’ve been in crypto since 2012. LP Bonds are a new DeFi primitive, but is now fully built and live and deployed across Ethereum, Base, ApeChain, Abstract, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Monad, Polygon, and more in the works. Again this isn’t a concept, it’s a fully, live and working product to help solving some of the biggest pain points hundreds of projects face (charts going down due to sell pressure) and having long-term locked liquidity (which is normally very expensive).
And the tokenomics behind LP Bonds aren’t theoretical. Our token is up 40% since launch several months ago, while most other coins are down including the majors which have seen ~50% drawdowns during the same period. You can verify for yourself: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/gonnamakeit
That matters because when GMI appreciates, the pool rebalancing kicks in and automatically buys more KNINE. A healthy GMI chart directly benefits every partner token paired with it.
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You’re Not Just a Partner, You’re Part of This
I want to be clear about something. We want to see the K9 community as our own, and we already know and are friends with many K9 community members, and ultimately hope to see the merging of our communities. We want K9 as an early partner and champion of LP Bonds, and we’re bringing the weapons needed to fight against this bear market. K9 retains joint multi-sig control over its own liquidity, input on marketing strategies and any other strategies to make this big, and ultimately a seat at the table as we bring this technology forward. When LP Bonds take off, the K9 community gets to proudly show the difficulty it traversed and the powerful and decisive pivot that was made at the critical time. That’s not a small thing. And again, as the GMI token price rises, due to the 50/50 pool rebalancing, it will help pull KNINE up with us (major benefit of being early).
Bottom Line
K9 is at a crossroads. The sunset is happening. The question is what comes next. We’re offering permanent liquidity infrastructure, real sell pressure reduction, and a fresh narrative for the community to rally behind. At zero cost.
Appreciate you taking the time to read the whole post, and happy to answer any questions right here.