# VISION.md — What "done" looks like

## What is harb

A DeFi protocol with a price-floor-backed token (KRK), governed by an AI-evolved optimizer that manages liquidity positions on Uniswap V3. Three user funnels: passive holders (buy and hold a floor-backed asset), stakers (leveraged directional exposure via Harberger tax as sentiment oracle), and competitors (snatch underpriced stakes for profit). The optimizer evolves through Push3 evolution and red-team adversarial testing.

## North star

Get live, learn from the market. The primary goal is having a real protocol with real users generating real data — not perfecting things in isolation. Everything else follows from that.

This project is AI-operated. Development, review, deployment, community support, analytics — all run by agents with minimal human escalation. The human sets direction and makes judgment calls. The machines handle execution, quality, and day-to-day operations. A high-quality project with a solid roadmap and growing community, delivered by an autonomous factory.

## Phase 1 — Quality gate & release pipeline

Before anything goes live, build confidence that the product works:

- **E2E quality gate**: automated tests covering every button, every page, desktop + mobile + all major browsers
- **Conversion funnel verification**: landing → Uniswap swap → staking app flow is smooth and measurable
- **Release pipeline**: fast, repeatable releases for frontend/backend updates. Contracts are immutable except the optimizer (upgradeable via UUPS).
- **Reusable for every release** — the quality gate runs on every deploy, not just launch

## Phase 2 — Coordinated launch

Not a soft launch. A planned, date-specific event:

- **Pre-launch**: create a pitch deck / PDF explaining the protocol to influencers — what KRK is, how to buy, how to stake, what the floor means
- **Influencer outreach**: coordinate with crypto influencers to amplify on the same date. They buy supply, stake, and market to their audience simultaneously.
- **Launch day**: deploy LiquidityManager, register token, create Uniswap pool. Coordinated influencer push creates initial volume → price action → organic discovery.
- **Goal**: broad base of holders from day one, not a slow trickle

## Phase 3 — Operations

Post-launch, the project needs sustained operations:

- **Analytics**: measure churn on landing page and staking page, track conversion funnel, user feedback loops
- **Fast iteration**: regular releases to fix issues, ship improvements based on user feedback
- **Influencer waves**: organize repeat coordinated pushes — influencers combine forces to create new bull cycles in the protocol
- **Community**: Discord (or similar) with:
  - AI support bots trained on the protocol (help users swap, stake, understand the floor)
  - Sentiment monitoring + regular community health reports
  - Direct feedback channel to dev team
- **Optimizer governance**: release new evolved optimizers, eventually create a staker voting system for decentralized community-selected optimizer upgrades
- **txnBot**: automated on-chain operations — recenter triggers, protocol health monitoring, transaction execution

## What we're NOT building

- No governance token (KRK is the token, staking IS governance exposure)
- No cross-chain (Base only for now)
- No yield farming / liquidity mining incentives
- No centralized exchange listings (Uniswap is the market)
- No mobile app (responsive web only)

## What "launched" means (minimum)

1. Quality gate passes on landing + staking app (desktop + mobile)
2. Pitch deck exists and is reviewed
3. At least 3 influencers committed to launch day
4. LiquidityManager deployed on Base mainnet
5. KRK token registered, Uniswap pool created and funded
6. Analytics in place (basic funnel tracking)
7. Community channel open with at least one support bot
