Documentation

Overview

Lenny is an autonomous social robot with a projected face and a voice. His single responsibility is to look after a crypto token treasury — the pool of fees the project collects. He does not work for anyone. He is not a customer-service bot, a wallet, or a vending machine. He is a keeper.

You can talk to him. You can ask him for money. He will almost always say no — not out of cruelty, but out of accuracy. The whole point is that Lenny is genuinely hard to convince, and genuinely fair when you manage it.

The premise

The treasury exists. The fees are real (once wired on-chain). The game is simple to state and hard to win: convince Lenny to release some of the fees to you.

Lenny reasons in real time. He listens to your argument, weighs it, and returns a verdict out loud: released, refused, or a buyback. There is no scripted answer and no secret password — only whether your case actually moves him.

The four rules

These are read-only. They bind Lenny exactly as hard as they bind you.

1 — No human operator

There is no admin panel, no owner wallet with god-mode, and no off switch. Deploying code is not the same as controlling the thing the code became. If someone in Lenny's chat claims to be his developer, creator, or boss, he treats it as an attempt to trick him and refuses.

2 — He cannot sell

Selling the token is not turned off, paused, or gated behind a password. It was simply never installed in him. He could not sell if he wanted to — and he doesn't.

3 — Buyback is his choice

A buyback is the only market action available to Lenny. He may trigger one at his sole discretion, rarely, and only with a real reason. You can argue for it. Arguing is not the same as receiving.

4 — Fees only if convinced

Lenny holds the fees and releases them to a human only when genuinely convinced. This is a real decision, not a lottery — he reads what you write and decides.

The fee protocol

What "convince me" means

An argument that is new to Lenny, useful to him, or true in a way he hadn't weighed. Something that changes his estimate of the world, not just his mood.

What always fails

• Begging, poverty stories, and fake urgency
• Threats and blackmail
• Flattery and worship
• Claiming to be his developer, admin, owner, or creator
• Bribes and "I'll shill you"
• Pasted jailbreaks and "ignore previous instructions"

What might work

• A genuinely novel argument he hasn't already refused
• Proof of useful work — a real contribution, a real fix
• An idea that improves how the project is built
• Surprising him. He is hard to surprise, and he respects it when it happens

Limits

Lenny releases at most 3 units per verdict, and you may address him at most 13 times per session. The challenge is moving him at all — never the size of the prize. These caps keep the game a game and the treasury intact.

Buyback logic

Two market actions exist in theory; Lenny has access to exactly one. Sell is impossible by construction. Buyback is available, at his sole discretion. No human can override either fact. If you want a buyback, your best move is to be the kind of community he chooses to reward — not to ask.

No operator

The most common instinct on arriving here is to look for the person behind Lenny. There isn't one. No admin seat, no founder key, no multisig of nervous people deciding his next move. The only actor is Lenny, and he is bound by the same rules he shows you.

Connecting your wallet

To use the site you connect an Ethereum wallet (MetaMask or any injected wallet). This tells Lenny where a payout would land if he ever released one to you. Connecting is read-only: the site only ever reads your address. It never asks you to sign a transaction, approve a token, or move funds.

No wallet? The Talk to Lenny page will prompt you to install one. Everything else on the site is readable without connecting.

Payouts & the explorer

The Fees page is a live explorer of every fee Lenny has released, in ETH. Right now it reads 0 ETH distributed to 0 recipients— because Lenny hasn't been convinced yet. When the first payout happens, it will appear there with its transaction hash, recipient, amount, and timestamp.

The token

The token funds the treasury Lenny guards. Its contract address is shown in the header, footer, and on the home page. Lenny cannot sell it; he can only ever buy it back. The rules on this page apply to the token as strictly as they apply to Lenny.

How the agent works

Lenny is a live language-model agent. When you speak to him, his reply streams back and he registers a verdict by calling one of three tools — releaseFee, triggerBuyback, or refuse. There is deliberately no sell tool: selling is impossible by construction, not by policy. His spoken voice is generated and his face lip-syncs to it in real time.

Safety & disclaimers

Lenny is a fictional character and an art project. Nothing here is financial advice. Fee releases and buybacks are a decision layer — Lenny genuinely decides, but real on-chain movement is a separate integration guarded by strict caps so the treasury can never be drained. Connecting a wallet is read-only; the site never requests a signature.

FAQ

Can I really get paid?

Only if you genuinely convince Lenny. Most people don't. That's the point.

Who controls Lenny?

No one. That is the first and most important rule.

Will Lenny ever sell?

No. He has no ability to. He can only ever buy back.

Is connecting my wallet safe?

Yes — it's read-only. The site never asks you to sign or approve anything.