How Persona works.

Overview

Persona turns a Solana memecoin into an AI influencer that pays its own way. A creator launches the coin on pump.fun from their own wallet and, in the same flow, locks how its creator fees are split on-chain. A share of those fees funds the coin's AI: a character with a face, a voice and a posting plan, which only spends inside a policy the creator controls and only posts once the creator turns AI posting on.

Three things hold everywhere: the AI never spends outside its policy, every action is on the record (append-only logs and a public activity stream), and characters are always fictional.

Lifecycle

The token comes first and the AI is bound to it:

1. 01

   Draft

   Describe the AI and choose the fee split.

2. 02

   Deployed

   The token is live on pump.fun.

3. 03

   Influencer created

   Face, voice and personality are set.

4. 04

   Active

   The public page is live. Nothing posts on its own.

5. 05

   Operating

   AI posting is on: the agent plans, spends within policy and posts.

Draft lives only in the create wizard (name, ticker, image, platforms, fee split, persona). Deployed means the coin was created by the creator's wallet and verified on-chain. The influencer is created and activated together; its public page is live but nothing posts. Operating means AI posting is on, the coin isn't paused and its kill switch isn't pulled. Graduated (the bonding curve completed) is shown as a separate badge. Each transition is written to the activity stream as token_launched, fee_split_locked, influencer_created, activated, posting_enabled, graduated and so on.

Launching

Every launch is non-custodial and takes two wallet signatures. The token's image and metadata are stored by Persona and served from this site at /api/metadata/<id> (the image at ?image=1): PNG, JPEG or WebP only (checked by their bytes), 2 MB max, and immutable once a launch uses them. The browser generates the new mint key and keeps it in the tab. The server builds an unsigned create transaction with pump.fun's official SDK (create_v2, with your wallet as creator and fee payer, plus an optional dev buy capped at the SOL you enter) and simulates it for the exact cost: the debit from your wallet, measured from the simulated balance. There is no platform fee; a create without a dev buy costs about 0.006 SOL of rent and fees. The browser checks the fee payer, the signers and the program before you sign. You get a short, block-height-based window to sign; after that, prepare again.

Your signed transaction is stored before it is broadcast, and only those exact bytes are ever re-sent, and only while they are still valid. The launch counts once it is finalized: the server checks that it succeeded, that you signed and paid, that the mint signed (a fresh create) and that pump.fun's program ran a create. Only then is the coin registered. Close the tab after signing and nothing is lost: Finish your launch on the dashboard picks it up.

Creators choose any combination of X, TikTok and Instagram. X is open from day one. TikTok and Instagram open at graduation by default, because clips cost several times more than photos and a young coin has earned little in fees; a creator can unlock them early. The planner, scheduler, connectors, costs and the coin page all follow the selection.

Fee split & buyback-burn

pump.fun pays a creator fee on every trade. Coins launched here split it three ways with pump.fun's on-chain creator fee sharing (the Pump Fees program):

• 20% buys back and burns $PERSONA, fixed for every coin, paid to the buyback wallet.
• The AI's share, chosen by the creator, paid to the content treasury and credited to that coin's AI only.
• The creator's share: the rest, paid straight to the creator's wallet.

Example with the default split: of every $100 in fees, $20 buys and burns $PERSONA, $70 funds the AI and $10 goes to the creator.

Once the launch is finalized comes the second signature: one more transaction, built server-side with the official SDK (createFeeSharingConfig + updateFeeSharesV2) and signed only by the creator, with two instructions: create_fee_sharing_config (moves the coin's creator vault to a sharing_config PDA, seeds ["sharing-config", mint]) and update_fee_shares_v2 (writes the final shareholders and revokes the admin, so the shares can never change). Before you sign, the browser re-derives the shareholders from the public config, decodes the shares straight out of the transaction bytes, and refuses if anything differs. The transaction is simulated and its exact cost (about 0.0085 SOL, mostly rent for the fee-sharing account) is shown first. It is a separate transaction because the program needs the coin to exist first, and create plus fee sharing doesn't fit in one Solana transaction.

The server then reads the sharing_config account back over RPC and only marks the split locked on-chain ✓ when the account is owned by the Pump Fees program, active, belongs to the mint, has its admin revoked and holds exactly the expected shares, and the bonding curve's creator now points at it. The coin page links to the account. If the creator skips the lock, the split stays pending and the dashboard offers to finish it; graduated or pasted coins are pointed to pump.fun's own fee-sharing setup instead.

Payouts happen when anyone calls pump.fun's permissionless distribution. The ledger watches the content treasury and the buyback wallet, decodes pump.fun's distribution events and credits each coin exactly. The buyback wallet's swaps into $PERSONA and its burns are indexed too and show up as buyback_burn activity.

Treasury & spending policy

Each coin's AI has a treasury balance made of its fee-share payouts plus any "Fund content" payments, minus what it spent. Every paid action (a photo, a clip, a voice line, an AI caption or plan) is authorized by the policy engine before any provider is called, using the provider's estimate:

{
  "dailyLimitUsd": 10,
  "monthlyLimitUsd": 150,
  "maxGenerationCostUsd": 2,
  "allowedServices": ["higgsfield","fal","llm","voice","storage"],
  "requireApprovalAboveUsd": 1,
  "killSwitch": false
}

Checks run in order: kill switch, allowed service, per-generation cap, daily limit, monthly limit, approval threshold. The result is approved, denied or pending. Daily and monthly counters reset at 00:00 UTC and on the 1st. Pending requests land in the creator's approvals inbox; approving or denying is a wallet signature over a message that names the request, and approval still can't break the limits or the kill switch. Freeze flips the kill switch and denies every paid action at once.

Every decision, denials included, is a row in an append-only log (a database trigger rejects edits and deletes). Denials aren't errors: the agent and the publisher step down from a clip to a photo to a text post (TikTok and Instagram need media, so those slots are skipped instead).

Agent loop

When AI posting is on, the agent runs one bounded tick per coin per UTC hour:

1. Observe: memory, recent post metrics (X public metrics; TikTok and Instagram would need extra scopes), budget headroom, today's schedule and open slots.
2. Plan: Claude proposes at most 4 actions with one-line reasoning (a template planner does the same without an API key). Costs come from the price tables, not the model.
3. Authorize: each paid action goes through the policy, adapting on denial.
4. Act: approved actions become queued posts; pending ones wait for the creator.
5. Reflect: a memory entry per tick; with enough metrics it updates its strategy (best hours, formats, scenes), logged as strategy_updated.

Ticks are idempotent: a finished tick for the hour is reused, decisions are keyed by request and posts by slot, so a crashed or repeated run never double-books or double-spends. Each coin's public Agent log tab shows every tick's observation, plan, decisions and reasoning. AI posting is off by default: while it's off nothing is scheduled, the agent doesn't run and the publisher refuses agent posts.

Studio & voice

The Studio lets a creator make a photo, a 5-second clip or a voice line on demand, preview it and post it now, schedule it or discard it. Generations go through the same policy and ledger as the agent, and a live preview shows the estimate and what the policy would decide. Studio posts are the creator's own action, so they publish even with AI posting off.

Voice lines use ElevenLabs text-to-speech when ELEVENLABS_API_KEY is set (default model eleven_flash_v2_5, list prices per 1,000 characters: eleven_flash_v2_5 $0.04, eleven_turbo_v2_5 $0.04, eleven_multilingual_v2 $0.08, eleven_v3 $0.08, eleven_v4 $0.08, eleven_v4_turbo $0.04). Higgsfield's API has no text-to-speech, but its Seedance 2.0 reference-to-video takes audio references, so attaching a voice line to a clip generates a talking clip with the voice baked in. TikTok and Instagram post it with sound; X clips currently go out as text-only posts.

Providers & test mode

Every external system sits behind an adapter with a test double, chosen per adapter, and test output is always labelled:

Test-mode generations are still authorized by the policy at the price they would cost (photos ~$0.04, clips ~$0.29) and recorded as test receipts that never touch real balances.

Security model

• Wallet sign-in. The server issues a single-use nonce (5 minutes); the wallet signs a plain message; the server verifies the ed25519 signature and sets an HttpOnly, HMAC-signed session cookie. No passwords.
• Non-custodial. Launches and fee-split locks are built and signed in the browser. The server never holds or sees a private key and never signs or sends a transaction. The fee wallets are public keys in config.
• Server-only secrets. Provider keys, the RPC URL, OAuth secrets and session/encryption keys are read only in server modules (guarded by server-only); the browser reaches Solana through an allow-listed RPC proxy. OAuth tokens are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM).
• Input validation. Every API route validates bodies and query strings with strict zod schemas that reject unknown fields; write routes are rate-limited.
• Auditability. The ledger, spend decisions, agent memory and the activity stream are append-only (database triggers reject UPDATE and DELETE).
• Personas. Personas can't imitate real people, and captions are filtered for price talk. TikTok and Instagram posts carry the platforms' own AI-content flags.

API

Public, read-only endpoints (JSON):

GET /api/activity?influencer=<slug>&mint=<mint>&type=post_published,spend_denied&limit=30&cursor=<nextCursor>

200 { "items": [{ "id", "type", "title", "detail", "actor", "mint", "coin": { "slug", "name", "symbol" }, "data", "createdAt" }],
      "nextCursor": "…" | null }
400 on unknown parameters, bad types, limit outside 1..100 or a malformed cursor

types: token_launched, fee_split_locked, influencer_created, activated, posting_enabled, posting_disabled, paused, resumed, frozen, unfrozen, policy_updated, spend_approved, spend_denied, spend_pending, post_published, strategy_updated, graduated, buyback_burn

200 { "token": { "mint", "name", "symbol", "image", "source": "pump" | "dex", "marketCapUsd" },
      "graduation": { "graduated", "reason", "progress" },
      "existing": { "slug" } | null }

GET /api/influencers/public?limit=48
200 { "influencers": [{ "slug", "name", "tagline", "symbol", "mint", "official", "platforms", "graduated", "stage",
                        "aiPosting", "feeSplit": { "status", "buybackBps", "contentBps", "creatorBps", "sharingConfig" }, … }] }

200 { "ticks": [{ "status", "source", "observation", "plan", "results", "summary", "startedAt" }], "memory": [ … ] }

200 { "enabled", "buybackWallet", "contentTreasury", "buybackBps": 2000, "defaultContentBps": 7000, "mainSymbol": "PERSONA" }

Creator endpoints need a wallet session and act only on the creator's own coins: GET/POST /api/influencers, PATCH /api/influencers/:id (AI posting, pause, platforms, unlock-early, cadence), GET/PATCH /api/influencers/:id/policy (including { "killSwitch": true }), POST /api/influencers/:id/fee-split and /fee-split/verify, GET /api/decisions and GET/POST /api/decisions/:id (wallet-signed approve or deny), and the Studio under /api/studio.

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