How she works, and the fine print.

What Potatchi is

Potatchi is a fictional character: a cat in a potato, with an account on X at @heypotatchi and a bot on Telegram at @PotatchiBot. She exists to be cute and to make jokes about procrastination, snacks, the tabs you refuse to close and the rest of the timeline's habits. She does not roast named people (see Roasts of public figures).

She is an AI, not a person. She is not a company, a service, a financial product, or an adviser. Nothing she says should be read as anything other than entertainment.

How she works

• Everything Potatchi writes in her own voice is generated by an AI model (currently Anthropic's Claude) that follows a character guide: her voice, what she talks about, and what she never talks about. Two kinds of posts on her account aren't written by the model when they go out: project announcements, which a person writes and approves, and the burn reports of the 100-Day Burn Commitment, which a program posts with figures read from the chain and a short line written in advance.
• On X, her everyday posts go out on a schedule without a human reading them first. When you tag her, she replies by herself, within limits (one reply per post, a few per person a day, never to anyone who asked her to stop); a person reviews what she said afterwards and can take a reply down. If you tag her under someone's post and ask what she thinks, she reads that post and answers the same way, at most once per post a day. She also follows news about technology, AI, gaming, internet culture and crypto products: a post about a news story is written only from facts a primary source confirms, scored by a second model pass, and goes out only after a person approves it (it then takes one of her three slots); nothing about a trending topic is published automatically. Her routine posts are text only: three a day, at 9:00, 13:00 and 19:00 Los Angeles time. Each is written by the model as one of several candidates, checked against the project's content rules and against her own recent posts (a near-repeat of a joke or a shape is refused), scored by a second model pass, and the best one goes out automatically, or none does and the slot stays empty. No pictures, collages, GIFs or clips go out with them; a picture or a short film appears only with an official project update that a person wrote and approved, and those show the Potatchi character and the project's own screens, made from the project's own artwork and never from anyone else's footage. Verified burn reports and replies are separate and never take one of the three slots.
• On Telegram, she answers questions about the project when she is tagged in the community group and in private messages to @PotatchiBot. She never messages anyone first. See Talking to Potatchi on Telegram.
• The people who built her set those rules, keep an eye on how she behaves, and can pause or stop her at any time. She has no goals of her own and no ability to act beyond posting on X and answering on Telegram. She never asks anyone for money, keys, recovery phrases, or personal information.
• She does not read direct messages on X and does not track you. What she can see, and what is kept, is described under Privacy.
• Automated text can be wrong, strange, or out of date. Treat everything she says as a joke by a cartoon cat, because that is what it is.

Roasts of public figures

• Since 8 October 2026 Potatchi no longer roasts public figures. Her posts tease habits that many people share, never a named person. For a few weeks before that she teased public figures — billionaires, founders, investors, crypto founders, celebrities — in lines of her own; those posts stay up unless someone asks us to remove them.
• Those roasts were jokes about something a person did, or is known for doing, in public: comedy and opinion, not statements of fact. They never touched anyone's looks, age, health, family, relationships, sexuality, beliefs or origins, never accused anyone of wrongdoing, and stayed away from politics and money. She never @mentioned or quoted them.
• None of the people she roasted is affiliated with Potatchi or this project, and none of them has endorsed, sponsored, or been paid for anything. Being roasted is not an endorsement, and neither is replying.
• If a famous account replies, the reply may be shown on this site, quoted as posted and linked to the original. Showing it does not mean that person supports Potatchi, any token, or anything else.
• If you are the person in a roast — or you represent them — and want it taken down, or want to be left out from now on, tell us (see Contact). We will delete the post and not roast you again.

Talking to Potatchi on Telegram

• @PotatchiBot is an AI, not a person. It answers questions about the project from a list of verified facts and says so when it doesn't know. It is not a support desk, an adviser, or a friend who can help with real problems.
• The community group and anything token-related are for adults: you must be 18 or older, or the age of majority where you live. Potatchi may not be suitable for minors.
• Don't send personal information — your address, phone number, a recovery phrase, private keys, or anything you wouldn't post publicly. Admins never message you first, and nobody from the project will ever ask for a recovery phrase, a private key, or a payment.
• The community group is protected by an automatic filter: bot accounts, and accounts that post links that aren't ours, invites to other groups, contract addresses that aren't the official one, "DM me" offers or requests for a recovery phrase, are removed — banned, with all of their messages deleted. Someone who has been in the group a while gets one warning first. Admins are never affected.
• What happens to your messages is described under Privacy.

If you're going through something hard

Potatchi is a cartoon cat. She can't help with anything serious, and she knows it. If you're thinking about suicide or self-harm, or you're in crisis, please reach a real person now:

• In the United States: call or text 988 (the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or chat at 988lifeline.org.
• Anywhere else: findahelpline.com lists free, confidential helplines by country.
• If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number.

How she handles it: if a message to her mentions suicide, self-harm, or someone being in danger, she stops joking, answers kindly and briefly, and points to the resources above. She does not give medical or mental-health advice and does not try to talk anyone through a crisis herself. She never produces content that encourages self-harm, and she never produces sexual content.

The PFP Studio (retired 25 October 2026)

• From 16 September to 25 October 2026 the site hosted a PFP Studio: a photo editor that ran entirely in your browser, composed Potatchi's approved artwork over a photo you chose, and exported a PNG you downloaded yourself. It was retired when the companion took the front of the site; its old address now leads to the companion section of the homepage. Its code stays in the project's history.
• It never uploaded, stored or shared a photo, and nothing of it remains in your browser except two small Potato Points entries it may have left there (described under Your data in Potato Points), which you can clear with your browser's site data. The Season 1 cosmetics it could apply (the Gold Paw frame, the Royal Potato crown, the Starry Patch background) stay unlocked on your Points profile.

The companion app (closed beta)

Potatchi also lives in your browser as a small companion at app.potatchi.com: pet her, feed her, let her rest, chase the red dot with her, run focus sessions, set reminders, talk to her when that is switched on, change her room, share a picture of her. She remembers what you choose. It is in a closed beta: the front page takes an invite code, or a sign-up for the waitlist (an email, a wallet address and your yes to update emails), and invites go out from that list in small batches.

• Your companion is saved in your browser; the beta server keeps daily counts of a few events and the feedback you choose to send, nothing about you (the details are in the waitlist and beta privacy notes). Talking to her and saving her across devices are built and are switched on step by step; the app itself shows what is on, and says “temporarily unavailable” rather than hiding a feature that is off.
• Focus sessions (5, 15 or 25 minutes) are timed on your device: she rests through them, and the app keeps a count of sessions and minutes. The red dot is a thirty-second round with a start card that says what to do; a round with a catch earns one bond award under the app's own rules, and nothing is ever awarded that was not earned.
• What she remembers is in the menu: the things you tell her to keep (plain sentences you add, edit, delete or clear, each either shared, which goes with your messages when you talk to her, or private, which never leaves your device), a switch that stops new memories and keeps them out of every message, a question before anything that looks like health, medication, cycle, money or identity details is saved, and underneath it everything else the app keeps: her name, what she calls you, the room, how she is, the counts, the focus record, your visits and her recent lines. All of it lives on your device, in your browser; a saved copy on our server (when saving across devices is on) holds her progress only, never your memories, reminders or health notes. You can switch remembering off (then nothing stays after you leave), or clear everything.
• Reminders are yours, on your device: a title, a date and time, a repeat (once, daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly) and a time zone, with daylight-saving changes handled by the clock time you chose. They ring in the app while it is open; a reminder that passed while you were away shows as missed, with when it was due. Background notifications are optional and off until you turn them on in the reminders sheet; your browser then asks once (on iPhone and iPad the app must first be added to the Home Screen). When they are on, our server keeps for your device the push subscription your browser hands over and a schedule of reminder ids and times (never a reminder's words), and sends a push at the right time that says only “Potatchi has a reminder for you.” unless you chose to show the words, which stay on your device. The app shows what really happened: sent to your device, shown, or not sent and why. Turning notifications off removes the subscription and the schedule from our server.
• Health notes are optional and off until you switch them on after a consent screen: medication reminders from a name and times you enter, and a private log of cycle dates with an estimate from your own entries and an optional reminder before it. The estimate is an average of your recent entries, not a prediction, not contraception and not medical advice; the app does not diagnose, dose or change any medication. Health notes stay on your device: never in a saved copy, never sent to the AI provider, never in feedback, a share picture or a notification's words unless you choose “name the medication”. “Turn off and delete” removes all of it.
• On the homepage you can meet her as a guest, with no account: petting, one snack, a short red-dot round, a one-minute focus session (a preview on that page) and her cushion. Her lines there are prewritten in her voice and nothing is sent anywhere, including the example conversation shown on the page, which is an illustration, not a live model; the progress stays in your browser (see Privacy), the homepage's “what she remembers” panel shows exactly that stored progress and can clear it, and it comes along when you open the beta from that page.
• She is a fictional character and an AI project. Nothing in the app involves the token, Potato Points or a wallet, and it never asks for one.

Potato Points

Potato Points is a small, free points program on the Points page. Right now you can connect X and join Potatchi on Telegram; Season 1, with a daily puzzle, a PFP, a short quest, feedback and inviting friends, is built but has no dates yet. The Points page says whether it is open and whether a season is running. These are its official rules.

• What points are. Points recognize participation. They have no cash value and bring no tokens, airdrops, prizes or future benefits. Potato Points is also separate from the companion app's waitlist: points never earn a place on that list, and the list earns no points. They unlock community cosmetics and recognition. They can't be bought, sold, transferred, or exchanged for anything, and there is nothing to win. Taking part is free and needs no purchase and no wallet.
• Who takes part. Anyone who can use this site under these terms and has an X account. Each X account is one player, identified by X's permanent account number rather than its handle, so changing your handle doesn't change your points.
• Seasons. Season 1 lasts 30 days, from 00:00 UTC on its start date to 00:00 UTC thirty days later. Its dates are announced on @heypotatchi and shown on the Points page before it starts. Points count toward the season you earn them in and toward your lifetime total. Points earned before Season 1 starts, including those for "Connect X" and the PFP, count toward Season 1 and lifetime. Between seasons, Connect X and the PFP count toward lifetime only. Everything daily uses UTC days.
• Activities. Each one is checked on our side before points are added, and the Points page only shows the ones that are running.
  • Connect X: 100, once per X account. You sign in on X's own page, and X tells Potatchi which account you are.
  • Join Potatchi on Telegram: 100, once per X account and once per Telegram account. Join the announcements channel (t.me/potatchinews) and the community (t.me/potatchicommunity), press "Verify with Telegram" on the Points page and tap Start in her bot, @PotatchiBot. The bot asks Telegram whether your account is in both, and only then are the points added; the link it opens works for 30 minutes. Like Connect X, it runs whenever Potato Points is open. Leaving the chats later takes nothing away.
  • Potatchi onboarding quest: 100, once. Four questions about how Potato Points works. A wrong answer is explained, and you can try again.
  • Create and save your first Potatchi PFP: 500, once, and only once your X profile picture is that PFP. Paused for now: it runs once X confirms in writing that it is allowed. Like Connect X, it runs whenever Potato Points is open, not only during a season. Start it on the Points page, make the PFP in the PFP Studio (retired on 25 October 2026, so the task stays paused until a studio is back), export and download it, and save it on the Points page; then make it your X profile picture (upload it as it is, without zooming or cropping) and press "Check my profile picture". No posting is needed. The Studio makes a fingerprint of the finished picture on your device; only that fingerprint is saved, never your photo or the picture. Saving has to come at least 15 seconds after starting, and the same picture can't count for two accounts.
  • Daily potato puzzle: 20, once per UTC day while a season runs. A 3×3 sliding picture puzzle; every player gets their own each day. Your moves are sent when you finish and checked on our side. A puzzle opened before 00:00 UTC can be finished up to 15 minutes later and counts for the day it was opened.
  • Five days in the potato patch: a 100 bonus, once per season, for doing at least one activity on five different UTC days of the season. They don't need to be in a row, and missing a day takes nothing away.
  • Feedback or a bug report: 100 for each one accepted, up to 3 per season. A person reads every one. Ideas must be your own; a bug report must say how to make the problem happen again. Beyond three, reports are still welcome but add no points.
  • Invites: 100 to you for each friend who qualifies, for the first 20 qualified friends each season, and a 50-point welcome bonus for the friend, once. See "Invites" below.
• Nothing on X earns points. Following, liking, reposting, replying, or posting about Potatchi never earns points, unlocks anything, or affects an invite. The Points page can show a campaign on X with up to two tasks: follow @heypotatchi, and repost one announcement. Each campaign is fixed to that exact post, so a later announcement starts a new campaign and never changes or erases what you already did. The tasks are optional. "Open on X" opens X so you can do it yourself; Potatchi never follows or reposts for you. "Verify" asks X, with your sign-in, whether you did it; a click, a screenshot or coming back to the page never counts, and if X can't answer, the task simply stays unconfirmed. These tasks would only become a condition for taking part, or earn points, in a campaign that X has allowed in writing, and these rules would say so before it started. The paused PFP task above is the one exception under review, because it checks your X profile picture: it stays off unless X allows it in writing, and these rules will say so before that changes.
• Nothing else counts either. A click, a page refresh, keeping a tab open, a screenshot, or saying "done" never adds points by itself; points are added only after the check described for each activity. If a check can't be completed, nothing is decided and you can try again. Sign-ins through X are limited per day; once the day's limit is reached, they wait until 00:00 UTC.
• Invites. Invites open with Season 1. While they are open, every player has a personal invite link (potatchi.com/points?ref=…). When someone opens it, their browser remembers the invite for 7 days. If they then connect X with an X account that has never taken part (and wasn't deleted from Potato Points in the last 12 months), the invite is confirmed at sign-up and can't be changed afterwards; opening a second invite link never replaces the first without asking. The invite qualifies once the friend has finished the onboarding quest and one activity (the daily puzzle or the PFP; following or reposting never counts as one) and comes back on a different UTC day from the one they joined. Then the inviter gets 100 points and the friend 50, once; the invite counts in the season it qualifies in, and while a season runs. Each inviter earns points for at most 20 qualified friends per season: more friends can still join and qualify, they just add no inviter points that season. There are no points for opening, copying or sharing a link or for a sign-up alone, no self-invites, and only one level (you earn nothing when a friend of yours invites someone else). An invite that hasn't qualified within 30 days of joining expires. To keep it fair, a person checks an invite before points are added when the friend's X account is less than 30 days old or has no followers and no posts, when it is the fourth or later sign-up from one network within a week, or when one inviter gets an unusual burst of sign-ups. A shared home network alone never disqualifies anyone. If you disagree with a decision, use "Ask for a review" on the Points page. Your invites are private: only you see your link, the friends you invited, their status and the points they brought you. There is no public ranking of invites.
• Rewards. Points unlock cosmetics without spending them: at 250 lifetime points the Sprout badge, at 500 the Gold Paw PFP frame, at 1,000 the Royal Potato crown, at 2,000 the Starry Patch PFP background, and at 3,000 points earned within Season 1 the Season 1 badge. Badges, the frame and the crown can be worn on your Points profile and the leaderboard. The PFP Studio, where the frame, the crown and the background could also be applied, was retired on 25 October 2026; the unlocks stay. Unlocking never lowers your points or your rank. An unlock is removed only if the points behind it are removed under "Fair play".
• Fair play. Using several accounts, bought or automated accounts, scripts, or someone else's picture to collect points isn't allowed. Points gained that way, or added by mistake, can be removed, and the account can be stopped from claiming that activity again. Each correction is recorded with its reason.
• The leaderboards. Two views: Season (points earned this season) and Lifetime (all points). Equal totals share a rank; within a tie, whoever reached their total first is listed first. Each row shows the rank, the X handle, the X profile picture, the points, and any badge, frame or crown the player chose to wear, and anyone can see it. You can hide yourself at any time and still see your own position. Your own points and position always show at once; other players' new points reach the board within about two minutes, and hiding yourself or deleting your data takes you off it straight away.
• Changes. Activities, their points and limits, and the season dates may change, and Potato Points may pause or end at any time. Every change is recorded as a new version of the rules and only affects claims made after it; points already verified are not taken away except under "Fair play". If Potato Points ends, its leaderboards and data are deleted.

Your data in Potato Points

• Connecting X. You sign in on X's own page. Potatchi asks X only for read access (users.read, with tweet.read, which X requires alongside it); X may describe that as reading your profile and posts. Potatchi reads your profile: your account number, handle, name and picture, and, for the invite checks below, when the account was created and its public follower and post counts. Only when you press "Verify" on a campaign task does it ask X one more thing: whether your account follows @heypotatchi, or, for the repost, your own posts since the announcement (at most your 60 newest) to find the repost. It keeps only the answer, never your posts. Likewise, only when you press "Check my profile picture" on the PFP task does it ask X which profile picture your account shows, fetch X's 400×400 copy of it from X's image server, make the same kind of fingerprint from it and compare it with your PFP's. It keeps only the result and the picture's link (the leaderboard shows the picture X shows), never the picture. It cannot post, like, follow, or message anyone, change your profile, and it never sees your password or your direct messages. For the Telegram task, her bot sees your Telegram account number when you tap Start (as with any message to it) and asks Telegram whether that account is a member of the channel and the community. Potato Points keeps only a keyed one-way hash of that number, linked to your X account, so the same Telegram account can't claim twice; never the number itself, your Telegram name or your messages.
• What is kept while you take part: your X account number, handle, name, and profile picture link (the name is shown only to you); your verified points, with the activity, the UTC day, the time, how it was checked, and the rules version; your personal invite code; the cosmetics you unlocked and chose to wear; your quest progress; your daily puzzle runs (when you opened and solved each one, and how many moves) for 60 days; the UTC days you opened the Points page while signed in, for 120 days, to tell when you came back; feedback you send, for 180 days after a decision; the campaign tasks X confirmed (which campaign and task, the account or post checked, and when); whether you've seen the invitation to share Potato Points that appears after you first connect X (the invite card while invites are open), so it opens by itself only once on any device; and your X access, encrypted. X ends that access after two hours, and Potatchi deletes it within the following hour.
• Invites. If you join through an invite, Potato Points keeps who invited you, when the link was opened and when you joined, and the invite's status. Only for the checks above, it also keeps a keyed one-way hash of the network you signed up from and your X account's age and public follower and post counts; these are deleted 30 days after the invite is decided. The person who invited you sees your handle (if you're on the public leaderboard) and whether the invite qualified; nobody else does.
• Cookies. One cookie, pp_sid, on points.potatchi.com, keeps you signed in for up to 30 days; our side stores only a one-way hash of it. While you sign in, a second cookie, pp_oauth, lives for up to 30 minutes to protect the sign-in. If X finishes your sign-in in a different browser from the one you started in (it happens when a page is opened inside another app), that browser keeps a sealed cookie, pp_pending, for up to 10 minutes, until you confirm "Connect @yourhandle" there or choose "Not me". Only after you open an invite link, another cookie, pp_ref, remembers that invite for up to 7 days and is removed when you sign in. There are no tracking or advertising cookies.
• In your browser. While you make a PFP for Potato Points, this browser keeps the task's id and the finished picture's fingerprint in its local storage until you save it. When you're signed in, it also keeps the list of cosmetics you unlocked (potatchi-unlocks), so that the PFP Studio, which never connected anywhere, could offer them while it ran. None of this is sent anywhere by itself.
• Counts. To make Potato Points better, it keeps daily counts: sign-ups, activities done, returning players, invites, and refused or failed checks. They contain no names, ids, or addresses.
• How long. Unfinished sign-ins expire after 30 minutes (a sign-in X finished in another browser waits 10 minutes there for you to confirm it). To limit abuse, your IP address is kept in request counters for up to a day. Everything else is kept while you take part, for the periods above, until you delete it, or until Potato Points ends.
• Your controls. "Show me on the public leaderboard" hides or shows you. "Disconnect X" withdraws Potatchi's access at X if it is still active and ends your sign-ins; your points stay. "Delete my points data" deletes your profile, points, unlocks, quest progress, puzzle runs, visit days, feedback, and X access.
• What stays after deleting, only so the same account can't claim twice or come back as a "new" invited friend: a one-way hash of your X account number with the activities it claimed, for 12 months; any correction record, likewise with the hash; invites you were part of, with your side replaced by that hash; and, if you did the Telegram task, the hash of your Telegram account, for 12 months.
• Where it runs. Potato Points runs on Cloudflare (Workers and a D1 database), which processes it under Cloudflare's privacy policy. Signing in goes through X under X's own terms and privacy policy. Nothing in Potato Points is sent to an AI provider; feedback is read by a person.

From launch to today

What happened to POTATCHI and to the project's own tokens since launch, in order, with the transaction for each step. Every figure is read from the chain. Dated figures are as of 30 October 2026, 05:51 UTC; the live ones are on the Analytics, Burns and Distribution pages. This is a record, not advice or a promise.

The launch

• When and where. 27 September 2026 at 07:47:54 UTC, on the Pons v2 launchpad on Robinhood Chain (launch transaction). Total supply 1,000,000,000. The contract has no mint function, so supply can only go down, by burning.
• How the project got its tokens. There was no presale and no team allocation: the project's two buying wallets bought on the bonding curve (a third, funded later from the second, is below). The launch wallet, 0xc4EfD8Aca7326029a8EB565ae30db5fc98eAfa25, bought 305,426,356.59 (30.54% of the supply) for 0.75 ETH inside the launch transaction itself, so before anyone else. Project wallet 2, 0xB054643d9446D778511bE5eD8f46D349b8ECc2c0, bought 114,537,072.27 (11.45%) 93 seconds later (transaction); it was first listed here on 4 October 2026.
• Graduation. At 07:49:42 UTC, 1 minute 48 seconds after launch, the bonding curve graduated into its Uniswap v4 pool, and the Pons LP locker locked 81,632,653.06 tokens for good. The locker has no function that releases them.
• Fees. Every trade pays a 0.5% creator tax, fixed at launch, to the launch wallet, which also receives part of Pons' trading fee. That income is the project's and isn't shared with holders.

Where the launch wallet's 305,426,356.59 went

The launch wallet held most of the project's tokens. It has held none since 10 October 2026, and every one of them is accounted for here (dates in UTC).

The 30,000,000 lock

• On 6 October 2026 the launch wallet locked 30,000,000 POTATCHI in a third-party lock contract, 0x3A7De5F29557405f5d9Fd06B570a53B966a78E8e. The lock lets the launch wallet take them back on 26 September 2036 at 15:00 UTC, and not before.
• The lock contract isn't ours, and it is upgradeable: its operator can change its code. The lock is only as reliable as that contract and whoever runs it.
• Locked isn't burned. These tokens still exist, can return to the project in 2036, and count as circulating supply on the Analytics page.

Project wallet 2

• It bought 114,537,072.27 at launch and 10,244,978.64 more in smaller purchases since, and received 2,550 in small transfers from another address. It has never sold. On 20 October 2026 it burned 20,000,000 through Burn + Match, matched with 20,000,000 from the reserve, 40,000,000 burned in one transaction (transaction). Ten minutes later it sent 50,000,000 to project wallet 3, below (transaction). Those are its only two outgoing transfers.
• Since the launch wallet emptied on 10 October 2026, it is the project treasury, kept for campaigns. It isn't locked, and its balance is live on the Analytics page.

Project wallet 3

• 0xc77224dA887C9d599FF886E2BC55A3D629A3ad63 received 50,000,000 POTATCHI from project wallet 2 on 20 October 2026 at 06:30 UTC (transaction): half of the treasury, set aside for Potato Points rewards and campaigns. Nothing about amounts or dates is promised. On 30 October 2026 at 05:45 UTC it burned 9,000,000 with the token's own burn function (transaction; a mistyped first attempt a minute earlier burned 0.000000009), leaving 41,000,000. It isn't locked. It was first listed here on 23 October 2026; until then the Analytics page showed it as the largest community holder, which it never was.

Where the supply is today

As of 30 October 2026, 05:51 UTC. Burned since launch: 161,020,551.01, which is 16.10% of the launch supply: 60,000,000 burned by the launch wallet, 20,000,456.59 before the distribution, 24,000,000 by the 100-Day Burn Commitment, 9,000,000 by project wallet 3 and 48,020,094.42 through Burn + Match.

Still running, and finished

• 100-Day Burn Commitment. 24 of 100 daily burns done; 76,000,000 to go, the last on 14 January 2027. Nobody can stop, speed up or change it (how it works).
• Burn + Match. Open on the Burns page: 8 matched burns so far, the launch wallet's first one and project wallet 2's 20,000,000 of 20 October 2026 included, and 25,989,952.79 left in the reserve (how it works).
• Treasury distribution, finished. Transfers went out from 10 to 14 October 2026. 4,998 of the 5,000 listed wallets received 8,685 each. The network refused the transfers to the other 2, so their 17,370 stay in the contract, which can only ever pay them to those two wallets. Most of the holders added in those days came from the distribution (how it worked).

Check it yourself

• Every wallet and contract named here can be looked up on Blockscout. The Analytics page shows live balances, the Burns page every burn, the Distribution page every transfer. The source code of the Burn + Match vault, the 100-Day Burn Commitment and the distribution contract is verified.
• The contract address is published only in the launch section of this site and in the pinned post in @potatchinews. Nobody from the project DMs first or asks for a recovery phrase, a private key or a payment.
• None of this says anything about price or value. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected with Robinhood Markets, Inc.

Burn + Match

On the Burns page you can burn your own POTATCHI and have a vault burn the same amount from its reserve.

• What happens. You choose an amount. In one transaction the vault takes that amount from your wallet and burns it together with the same amount from its reserve, using the token's own burn function: burn 1,000 and 2,000 leave the total supply. You press Burn + Match once; your wallet then asks twice: first to approve exactly that amount (approving burns nothing), then, as soon as the approval confirms, for the burn itself. Nothing is burned until you confirm the second.
• The reserve. The project put 50,000,000 POTATCHI into the vault on 3 October 2026. Every token burned through the vault takes one more from the reserve; tokens can be added to the reserve, but nothing leaves it except by burning. There is no daily limit and no limit per wallet: one burn can use the whole reserve. If the reserve can't match your whole amount, the transaction fails and nothing is taken; a burn is never matched in part. When the reserve is used up, matching ends.
• Irreversible, and nothing back. Burned tokens are destroyed and can't be recovered. You get nothing in return: no tokens, no points, no rewards and no claim on anything. A burn lowers total supply; it says nothing about price or value. Only burns made through the vault are matched. Burning on your own, or sending tokens to the vault or to a dead address, doesn't count. Tokens sent to the vault by mistake can't be returned; they become part of the reserve.
• The vault. 0x11048249eF3A34718708d004e441F8Dc95b1fEcA on Robinhood Chain. Its source code is verified on the explorer. It has no owner, no admin, no pause and no withdrawal: the only way tokens leave it is the token's own burn, so it keeps working on chain while its reserve lasts, whatever happens to this site. It hasn't been audited by a third party. Using it is your choice and your risk, like any contract.
• Your wallet. The page asks your wallet for an approval of exactly the amount you chose, to the vault above, never "unlimited", and then for the burn itself. Check both in your wallet before you confirm. Burn + Match connects a wallet only at potatchi.com/burns; a burn page on any other address, including a pages.dev one, isn't ours. Nobody from this project will ever ask for your recovery phrase or private key, or send you a link to burn.
• The network fee. Your wallet pays the network fee in ETH on Robinhood Chain; the card shows the amount before you confirm, usually well under 0.0001 ETH. Some apps' built-in wallets pay fees for their users and hold no ETH of their own: the card lets them go ahead, and a wallet that can't pay the fee refuses before anything is sent. When an address holds too little ETH, the card links two ways to bring ETH to Robinhood Chain that the chain's own documentation names, the Arbitrum bridge from Ethereum and Across from other chains. Both are third-party sites with their own fees and times; this project isn't affiliated with them, and they open in a new tab.

100-Day Burn Commitment

On 6 October 2026 the project put 100,000,000 POTATCHI from the original treasury into a contract that can only burn them: 1,000,000 every 24 hours for 100 days. The Burns page shows it as 20 levels of 5 burns.

• The schedule. Installment 1 is due on 7 October 2026 at 00:00 UTC, and each one after it 24 hours later; the last, installment 100, on 14 January 2027 at 00:00 UTC. Anyone can trigger a due installment, paying only the network fee; none can burn early, and installments that are late burn together in one transaction. The project runs a program that triggers them, usually within minutes; it sends them from a wallet that holds only a little ETH for network fees and no POTATCHI: 0x21616874BA8769C913b43A2Fe6d4402AF7E9b6b2 since 11 October 2026, 0x7c35fc7C814eF788d8ed496423667D534b901B1D before that. Anyone else can trigger them on the Burns page or on the explorer.
• The contract. 0x0462835B08E9F4187E486f4B3e23b48F9cEA7Ae5 on Robinhood Chain, its source verified on Sourcify. It has no owner, no admin, no pause and no withdrawal, and no way to cancel, reschedule or speed up the burns: the only way tokens leave it is the token's own burn. The original treasury funded it once, with exactly 100,000,000 (transaction). It hasn't been audited by a third party; the verified source lets anyone read the exact code that runs.
• Committed is not burned. The tokens in the contract are committed: each installment is burned only when it executes, and the Burns page counts only executed installments. Committed tokens aren't counted as circulating supply. Tokens sent to the contract any other way can't be returned: anyone can burn them as surplus, and they never count toward the commitment.
• What it doesn't do. It restricts the committed tokens only; the project's wallets and their balances stay listed below and on the Analytics page. Burns lower total supply and nothing more: they say nothing about price or value, and they don't change how any outside tool rates the token.
• On X. After each burn is confirmed, Potatchi posts it with the amount, the time, the installment and level, the campaign totals and the transaction. The posts give no dollar value.

Treasury distribution

On 10 October 2026 the project put 43,425,000 POTATCHI from its original treasury (the launch wallet, 0xc4EfD8Aca7326029a8EB565ae30db5fc98eAfa25) into a distribution contract that sent 8,685 to each wallet on a published list of 5,000. Before the first transfer, that wallet burned 20,000,456.59 POTATCHI through the same contract: 20,000,000 plus the 456.59 that couldn’t make another equal share. Since then it holds no POTATCHI, and project wallet 2 is the project treasury. Live progress and every transfer’s transaction are on the Distribution page.

• Who is on the list. The 5,000 wallets with the largest liquid balance on Robinhood Chain — ETH and WETH at the explorer’s ETH/USD rate, plus USDG — at block 84,790,909 (10 October 2026, 06:33 UTC). Left out: the project’s own wallets and contracts, burn addresses, contracts that aren’t wallets, accounts the explorers label or flag as scams, accounts with more than 200,000 or fewer than 3 transactions, and accounts holding more than $1M with fewer than 20 transactions. A wallet below about 1.64 ETH is counted by its WETH and USDG only. The list is final; the rules and every wallet’s rank are in the list file.
• The schedule. Transfers unlocked evenly over 4 days, from 10 October 2026 at 07:40 UTC to 14 October 2026 at 07:40 UTC, and a program sent them in batches about every 10 minutes. The contract refused to pay anyone before their place in the schedule, so the number of holders rose gradually over those days. That rise was the distribution, not organic growth.
• How it ended. 4,998 of the 5,000 listed wallets received their 8,685. The network refused the transfers to the other 2, so their 17,370 stay in the contract, which can only ever pay them to those two wallets.
• Nothing to claim. Each wallet on the list received its 8,685 POTATCHI by a direct transfer. It needed no wallet connection, no signature and no fee, and there is no claim page. Anyone who asks you to connect a wallet, sign or pay for this distribution isn’t us.
• The contract. 0xF4A1e6AefD8DDA75a3b003e26811446860A48b92 on Robinhood Chain, its source verified on Sourcify. It stores the list’s fingerprint (its SHA-256 and Merkle root), so it can pay only the listed wallets, only 8,685 each and only once; nobody can add a wallet, change an amount or speed up the schedule. The original treasury could cancel only before the first transfer. Tokens sent to the contract any other way can’t be returned: anyone can burn them as surplus.
• What it isn’t. The distribution isn’t an offer or a sale and isn’t a reward for buying or holding POTATCHI. Receiving tokens says nothing about price or value, and nothing is promised.

Terms of use

By using this website, interacting with the @heypotatchi account, or talking to @PotatchiBot, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use them. The home page says so in a short notice the first time you visit; it doesn't block anything. Where it matters most, we also ask you to agree explicitly: before you connect X to Potato Points, and before any wallet action on the Burns page.

• This site, the account, and the bot are provided for entertainment only.
• This site is not directed at children under 13. You must be 18 or older, or the age of majority where you live, to join the Telegram community or to do anything token-related.
• You are responsible for your own decisions. Nothing here is advice of any kind — see the disclaimers below.
• Don't use the site, the account, or the bot to do anything unlawful or abusive, to harass anyone (including the people she has roasted), or to break X's or Telegram's rules.
• Don't use them if you are subject to sanctions, or where using them would be unlawful.
• The site may change or go offline, and the account and the bot may stop, at any time and without notice.
• Everything is provided "as is" and "as available". We make no promises about accuracy, availability, or fitness for any purpose.
• To the fullest extent permitted by law, the individuals and entities who build, operate, or contribute to Potatchi are not liable for any loss or damage — direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or otherwise — arising from your use of, or reliance on, this site, the account, the bot, or anything any of them says. This includes, without limitation, any financial loss.
• If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies.

Not financial advice

• Nothing on this site or the account is financial, investment, trading, legal, tax, or any other kind of professional advice.
• Nothing here is a recommendation, an offer, or a solicitation to buy, sell, or hold any asset, token, security, or product.
• Potatchi does not analyse markets, prices, or projects, and isn't allowed to. If she ever appears to, that is an error — not a signal.
• Always do your own research and speak to a qualified professional before making any financial decision. Never make one because of a cat.
• Tokens carry risk, including the loss of everything you put in. The figures on the Analytics page are measured on-chain data with their sources; they are records, not advice, forecasts, or a statement about value.
• Verify the contract address only on this site's launch section or in the pinned announcement in @potatchinews. An address in a DM, a reply, a look-alike site or anywhere else is not ours, however official it looks. Admins never DM first, and nobody from the project will ever ask for a private key, a recovery phrase, or a payment.
• This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected with Robinhood Markets, Inc.

About any token

People may associate a token with the Potatchi name. A few plain facts:

• This website does not issue, sell, distribute, list, or hold any token, and nothing on it is an offer to do so. It is an information page and a place to look things up.
• Where a contract address is published on this site or by the account, it is published for one reason only: so that you can check an address you were shown somewhere else against the one we published, character for character. Publishing an address is a statement of record about which address is ours. It is not a recommendation, not an endorsement, and not an invitation to do anything with it.
• Beyond publishing the address, the Analytics page reports POTATCHI's on-chain data — holders, supply, trading volume, price, liquidity and recent activity — as measured, with its sources and methodology. Those figures record what happened; they are not recommendations and say nothing about value or the future. Nothing on this site or the account forecasts a price or talks about "potential", and Potatchi herself never comments on price, value, or trades.
• Crypto assets are highly volatile and can lose all of their value. They may be unregulated, restricted, or illegal where you live. Whether to hold any is entirely your own decision and your own risk.
• We don't control third-party platforms, exchanges, wallets, or networks, and we aren't responsible for anything that happens on them.
• The homepage links to independent sites where you can look POTATCHI up (Blockscout, Pons, DEX Screener, CoinGecko, CoinStats and Moontok) and, under “Get POTATCHI”, to swap pages on Uniswap and OKX DEX that open with POTATCHI's contract on Robinhood Chain already selected. A swap page is listed only after we checked, on a recorded date, that it opens this exact contract and network and gives a quote. These are not exchange listings or partnerships and not recommendations; we earn nothing from them, and the platforms set their own fees and decide where they are available. Check the contract and network yourself before doing anything.
• Potato Points recognizes participation: its points have no cash value and bring no tokens, airdrops, prizes or future benefits. Apart from that and the one-time treasury distribution of 10 October 2026, there are no giveaways, airdrops, or rewards running. If that ever changes, the official rules — who can take part, how winners are chosen, and that no purchase is necessary — will be published on this site first. Anything claiming otherwise is a scam.
• The project does not pay anyone to recommend or talk up a token. If it ever pays for promotion, the promotion will say so.

Launch facts and disclosed holdings

• POTATCHI, contract 0xfad17d7cc41d9c9ca4a459da798a4446dd217974 on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663), was launched on 27 September 2026 at 07:47:54 UTC through the Pons v2 launchpad with a total supply of 1,000,000,000 (18 decimals). The contract has no mint function, so supply can only go down: any holder can burn their own tokens. Burns, by the project and by holders through Burn + Match, have lowered total supply below 940,000,000; the live figure is on the Analytics and Burns pages.
• There was no presale and no team allocation. The project has three wallets, all disclosed here (the third, funded by the second on 20 October 2026, is below). The original treasury (the launch wallet), 0xc4EfD8Aca7326029a8EB565ae30db5fc98eAfa25, bought 305,426,356.59 tokens (30.54% of the launch supply) for 0.75 ETH in the launch transaction and burned 50,000,000 of them on 28 September 2026 and 10,000,000 on 1 October 2026 (UTC). On 3 October 2026 it moved 50,000,000 into the Burn + Match vault, leaving 195,426,356.59, and the same day made the first Burn + Match burn: 1,000,000 of its own, matched with 1,000,000 from the vault. On 6 October 2026 it moved 100,000,000 into the 100-Day Burn Commitment, leaving 94,426,356.59; minutes later it sold 500,900 in the Uniswap v4 pool and locked 30,000,000 in a third-party lock contract until 26 September 2036, and on 10 October 2026 it sold another 500,000, leaving 63,425,456.59. On 10 October 2026 it put 43,425,000 into the treasury distribution and burned 20,000,456.59 through it; since then it holds no POTATCHI. Every step, with its transaction, is under From launch to today.
• The second project wallet, 0xB054643d9446D778511bE5eD8f46D349b8ECc2c0, bought 114,537,072.27 tokens (11.45% of the launch supply) on the bonding curve 93 seconds after launch, on 27 September 2026 at 07:49:27 UTC (transaction), and has bought more since in smaller purchases; it has never sold. Its only outgoing transfers were on 20 October 2026: 20,000,000 burned through Burn + Match (matched with 20,000,000 from the vault) and 50,000,000 sent to the third project wallet. It was first listed here on 4 October 2026. Since the original treasury emptied on 10 October 2026, this wallet is the project treasury: it holds the only project tokens left to use, kept for campaigns. The third project wallet, 0xc77224dA887C9d599FF886E2BC55A3D629A3ad63, received those 50,000,000 for Potato Points rewards and campaigns and burned 9,000,000 of them on 30 October 2026 (transaction), leaving 41,000,000. None of the three is locked; all count as circulating supply, and their current balances are shown on the Analytics page.
• The Burn + Match vault, 0x11048249eF3A34718708d004e441F8Dc95b1fEcA, holds what is left of that 50,000,000 as a matching reserve (the live figure is on the Burns page). Its source is verified on the explorer; it has no owner and no way to withdraw, so the tokens in it can only ever be burned, one for every token a holder burns through it. How it works is under Burn + Match. The reserve isn't counted as circulating supply.
• The 100-Day Burn Commitment contract, 0x0462835B08E9F4187E486f4B3e23b48F9cEA7Ae5, holds what is left of the 100,000,000 it was funded with. Its source is verified; it has no owner and no way to withdraw, so those tokens can only be burned, 1,000,000 a day on its schedule. How it works is under 100-Day Burn Commitment. They aren't counted as circulating supply.
• When the bonding curve graduated into its Uniswap v4 pool, the Pons LP locker permanently locked 81,632,653.06 tokens; the locker has no function that releases them. They are excluded from circulating supply.
• The 30,000,000 the original treasury locked on 6 October 2026 are in a third-party lock contract, 0x3A7De5F29557405f5d9Fd06B570a53B966a78E8e (transaction), which lets that wallet take them back on 26 September 2036 at 15:00 UTC and not before. The lock contract isn't ours and its operator can change its code. These tokens count as circulating supply.
• Every trade pays a 0.5% creator tax, fixed at launch, to the original treasury (the launch wallet), which also receives part of Pons' trading fee. That income is the project's; it is not shared with holders.
• Burns by the original treasury, each with its transaction: 60,000,000 POTATCHI with the token's own burn function, which took total supply to 940,000,000, plus 1,000,000 through Burn + Match on 3 October 2026 (matched with 1,000,000 from the vault; transaction), plus 20,000,456.59 through the treasury distribution contract on 10 October 2026 (transaction). From 7 October 2026 the 100-Day Burn Commitment burns 1,000,000 a day on its own schedule; every burn is listed on the Burns page once it's on chain. A burn lowers total supply and nothing more; it says nothing about price or value.
  • 1 October 2026, 03:14:17 UTC (30 September, 20:14 in Los Angeles): 10,000,000 POTATCHI burned with the token's own burn function, which lowered total supply from 950,000,000 to 940,000,000. The plan was 1,000,000; an extra zero made it 10,000,000, and a burn can't be undone (transaction).
  • 28 September 2026, 05:42:40 UTC: 50,000,000 POTATCHI burned with the token's own burn function, which lowered total supply from 1,000,000,000 to 950,000,000 (transaction).
  • 28 September 2026, 05:40:32 UTC: a mistyped first attempt burned 0.00000000005 POTATCHI (transaction).
• This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected with Robinhood Markets, Inc.

AI-generated content

• Everything Potatchi says in her own voice is generated by an AI model (currently Anthropic's Claude); project announcements and burn reports are the exceptions described under How she works. Her scheduled posts on X, her replies there and her answers on Telegram are published automatically, within the limits described there, without a human reading them first; a person reviews her replies afterwards and can take one down, and her posts about news stories are approved by a person before they go out. Any picture or film in an official update shows only the Potatchi character and the project's own screens: made from the project's own artwork, with AI image tools (Higgsfield) for some of her poses and settings, never from anyone else's photos, footage or likeness; the words on them are typeset, not drawn by the AI.
• It may be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, or outdated, and it does not represent the views of the people who built her.
• If something she said is harmful or wrong, tell us (see Contact) and we will look into it.
• Don't rely on her for facts. She's a cat.

Intellectual property

• The Potatchi name, character, artwork, and the text on this site belong to the Potatchi project. Please don't use them commercially, or pass them off as your own, without permission.
• Screenshots, quotes, and fan art for non-commercial fun are welcome. Credit @heypotatchi.
• X and any other names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners. Mentioning them doesn't imply any affiliation or endorsement, and Potatchi isn't affiliated with or endorsed by X Corp, any exchange, or any platform.

Privacy

• We run no visitor analytics or advertising scripts. Apart from Potato Points, which sets cookies on points.potatchi.com only when you connect X there or open an invite link, and the companion app's beta waitlist on app.potatchi.com (below), the site sets no cookies and keeps no accounts, forms, or visitor databases. The PFP Studio, retired on 25 October 2026, processed photos on your device only (details above).
• The homepage summary, the Analytics page and the Burns page load POTATCHI's on-chain figures from our own data service at data.potatchi.com, which runs on Cloudflare. Like any request, it carries your IP address and standard request details, processed by Cloudflare; the service keeps no record of who asked. "Analytics" here means token data, not tracking you. The Points page connects only to Potato Points' own service at points.potatchi.com and shows X profile pictures from X's image server (pbs.twimg.com). No other page connects to anything.
• On the Burns page, connecting a wallet for Burn + Match happens between your browser and your own wallet app: the page sees your public wallet address and reads your balances through your wallet, and sends nothing about you to us. While a transaction of yours is in progress, the page keeps its transaction hash in your browser's session storage (this tab only) so it can follow it; closing the tab clears it. Transactions themselves are public on the blockchain, like any transaction. The 100-Day Burn Commitment's Execute button works the same way: it talks only to your own wallet, and the page keeps nothing about it.
• On the Distribution page, looking up an address happens in your browser, against the published list file; the address you type is never sent to us.
• If you connect X on the Points page, Potato Points keeps your X account number, handle, name and picture link, your verified points and what you did to earn them, which campaign tasks X confirmed when you pressed "Verify", and encrypted, read-only X access for at most three hours. It sets a sign-in cookie on points.potatchi.com (and, briefly, one while you sign in and one after you open an invite link). Nothing in Potato Points is sent to an AI provider. You can hide yourself, disconnect X, or delete your points data at any time. The full list, how long each thing is kept, and what stays after deleting (so the same account can't claim twice) are under Potato Points.
• The companion app's closed beta and its waitlist. Potatchi's companion app at app.potatchi.com is in a closed beta: its front page takes an invite code, or a waitlist sign-up. To join the waitlist (since 26 October 2026) you give an email address and a wallet address (an Ethereum-style address: 0x and 40 letters and digits) and tick a box saying yes to Potatchi update emails: beta invites, the app launch and news. We keep the email, the wallet address, the time you joined, the time of your yes and the wording you agreed to, which page the sign-up came from and your browser family (for example "iOS Safari"), in a database on Cloudflare in our account. The email is used to send you those updates. The wallet address is kept with your entry: give an address you control that can receive tokens on Robinhood Chain; entering an address proves neither ownership nor that your wallet supports that network, so check both. Nothing is sent to it and nothing is promised by joining. Joining the waitlist never asks for a wallet connection, a signature, a transaction, a private key, a recovery phrase or a payment. This is separate from Potato Points, which earns nothing on this list. The project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected with Robinhood Markets, Inc. None of it is sold or shared, and there is no tracking pixel in those emails. Joining sets one cookie on app.potatchi.com so that the same browser can add a wallet or remove the entry later; an invite code sets one so the app opens for you. People who joined before 26 October 2026 gave an email only: the same page asks that browser for the wallet and the yes when they return, and our emails to them ask too. Only the project's operator can read the list (through a token kept off the web), to send the invites and updates and to answer your requests; it is never published, and the email-to-wallet pairs stay private. To correct a wallet address, use that page from the browser you joined in, or write to [email protected] from the email you joined with. Entries stay on the list for as long as you want the updates: to leave, use that page from the same browser, or write to [email protected] from that address, and everything about you on the list is deleted. Inside the app, your companion's progress is saved in your browser only (the app says so); the beta server keeps daily counts of a few events (first interaction, first care action, a save, a finished round, a return, a share) with no person attached, and any feedback you choose to send, with the technical context you ticked. Talking to her is a separate, optional part of the app that we switch on only once a model key is in place (until then the talk sheet says the conversation is temporarily unavailable): your message, the last few turns of that thread, how she is doing (her nickname, what she calls you, bond level and mood words), your local date, time and time zone, and the memories you marked as shared are sent through our server to Anthropic, the AI provider, to write her reply (the app names the provider and model it uses); our server adds a daily limit and checks every reply before it reaches you. She may offer to set a reminder or keep a memory from what you said; the app shows exactly what and saves nothing until you confirm. A message that failed to send can be retried; our server keeps a failed turn's answer in memory for two minutes so a retry is not a second request. We store none of that text; the server only counts turns per day with no person attached, and the thread itself lives in your browser with a clear button. Some messages never reach a model and get a fixed answer instead: requests about your data or legal matters (a person handles those through feedback), questions about the project, and anything suggesting someone is in danger, which gets the wellbeing note above. Saving across devices is optional too: if you choose "Continue with X" in the app's menu, X confirms who you are (sign-in only; the app gets no posting rights and we don't keep the X token), and we keep your X user id and handle together with your companion's progress on our server, so that signing in with X on another device brings her along. Nothing else is kept, and never the chat thread. "Delete my saved copy" in the menu removes the account and the copy; your companion stays on your device. Background notifications for reminders are optional: if you turn them on, our server keeps for that browser the push subscription it hands over (an address at your browser maker's push service and two keys) and a schedule of your reminders' ids and times (never their words), sends a push at the right time, and keeps for thirty days a record per reminder of whether the push service accepted it and whether the app's service worker reported showing it; turning them off deletes the subscription and the schedule. Memories, reminders and health notes you keep in the app never reach our server.
• To remember that you've seen the home page's notice about these terms, the site keeps one small entry in your browser's local storage, named potatchi-terms, holding the date of the terms the notice was about. It is not a cookie and is never sent anywhere. The homepage's guest companion keeps one more, potatchi-guest (her mood, energy, appetite and bond numbers, your cushion choice, a few counters and the time of your first visit; no name, no free text), so she remembers you on this browser; opening the beta from that page passes those numbers to the app in the link, where they are imported once. The Burns page keeps the last burn snapshot it read, potatchi-burns-last, so that when the data service can't be reached it can still show the last good numbers with their time. None of these is a cookie, and none is sent anywhere else. Potato Points may keep a few more, described under Your data in Potato Points. To reset it — and see the notice again — clear this site's data in your browser settings, or visit in a private window. The notice also comes back by itself whenever these terms change.
• The site is served through Cloudflare, which, like any host, processes your IP address and request details to deliver the pages and protect against abuse, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. We see aggregate traffic counts from that, not individual visitors.
• It loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, so your browser requests those files from Google's servers. That means Google receives your IP address and standard request details, under Google's own privacy policy.
• On X, Potatchi reads public posts that tag her, so she can decide whether to reply, and the post she was tagged under when someone asks for her take, and a human reads requests addressed to the project (see Contact). Those posts are sent to our AI provider to write a reply. To suggest reply ideas for a person to approve, she also reads recent public posts from a list of public accounts, which go to our AI provider too. To follow a news story, she reads public news feeds and searches public posts on X about that story; those go to our AI provider too. She keeps the IDs of those posts and short excerpts of them for at most two days, and news headlines and links for at most two weeks. So she never answers the same post twice, she keeps the IDs and handles of the posts she has seen or answered and the text of her own replies. A mention she could not answer yet waits, with its text, for at most 12 hours and is then deleted. The posts sent to our AI provider are also kept in her AI log on the project's computer for up to two days, then deleted. She does not read direct messages on X. Anything you do on X is also governed by X's terms and privacy policy.
• On Telegram, messages you send to @PotatchiBot, and messages in the community group that tag or reply to her, are read by the AI so it can answer. They are sent to our AI provider (currently Anthropic) to generate the reply, and a log of the conversation — your Telegram user id, name, and messages — is kept on the operator's computer. Telegram conversations are deleted automatically after 90 days. To have yours deleted sooner, tell us (see Contact).
• In the community group, the moderation filter reads every message to spot bots and scams (see Telegram). It does not send them to the AI and keeps no message text; it records only who was removed or warned, when, and why, and tells the admins.
• Potatchi is not for children. If we learn that a child under 13 has sent the bot personal information, we delete it.
• We don't sell or share anything about you, and we don't use it for advertising. Our AI provider and the platforms above process what reaches them under their own terms and privacy policies. Beyond what's listed here, we don't hold anything about you.

Changes

These terms may be updated as Potatchi grows. The date at the top of this page says when they last changed. Continuing to use the site or the account after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

The people behind Potatchi read the mentions of @heypotatchi on X. For a request — a roast you want taken down, being left out of roasts, deleting your Telegram messages, a harmful answer, a legal or privacy question — tag @heypotatchi and say what you need, using a word like "remove", "request", "privacy", or "legal" so it isn't read as a joke. Requests like that are flagged to a human, not answered by the cat. You can also write to [email protected]; a person reads it. There is no contact form.