> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.familio.trade/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.familio.trade/start-here/quick-start.md). # Quick start You need a wallet on **Robinhood Chain** (chain id 4663) and some ETH for gas. Add the chain if your wallet has never seen it: RPC `https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com`, explorer [robinhoodchain.blockscout.com](https://robinhoodchain.blockscout.com). ## First connect: claim your name Connect a wallet with no familio profile and a sheet pops up asking you to **claim a handle** (`familio.trade/u/`). One free message signature — no transaction, no gas — claims it permanently, deals you a generated avatar, and signs the browser in. Handles are **permanent and never reused**; pick carefully. You can dress up the profile later from `/me` — including **verify with X** (OAuth round-trip to x.com) or **verify with Telegram** (a one-time link opens our bot in your Telegram app; press Start — no phone number). X and Telegram handles can't be typed at all — the only way one appears on a profile is through verification, so every @ you see wears a green checkmark. You can change it until you run a family; after that it's permanent, like the handle. Tap **not now** to snooze for the session. ## For heads: open a family 1. Go to [familio.trade/create](https://familio.trade/create) and connect the wallet that will be the head. 2. Pick a type. **KOL family** — you call, they ride, default 10% of realised profit and 5% minimum skin. **Friends family** — group chat, invite-only, no fee, no skin, co-pilots named up front. 3. Set identity: name, handle (`familio.trade/f/`), optional picture, one-liner, X and Telegram. 4. Set the door: open, approval, invite-only, or holders-only. Optional max members. 5. Set the money rules: performance fee (0–30%, can only go down later), minimum head skin (0–50% in the wizard), optional single-buy cap, **co-pilots** (start typing `@` and the box autosuggests existing familio profiles — tap a face to add them), and whether to **lock the crew**. 6. On the last step, choose public or private, set your **founding deposit**, acknowledge the risk, and confirm **once**. That one wallet confirmation deploys the vault, allow-lists co-pilots, stamps rules and off-chain metadata (name, handle, picture), and (for an ETH-quoted family) puts the founding ETH in as the first deposit. You become the first member. You are allow-listed through your own door automatically, so a closed door does not lock you out of topping up later. {% hint style="info" %} The founding deposit rides inside the deploy transaction. There is no second "unlock" or "first deposit" click. A family with a skin minimum needs a founding deposit above zero so trading cannot freeze before you are in. {% endhint %} After the receipt: * Share the **launch card** where your people are. * **Trade** from the family page itself — a collapsed bar at the top for heads and co-pilots (tap to expand). **Manage** (`/manage/`) still has the full panel plus payouts, door, locks, social, identity. * Connect [@FamilioTradeBot](https://t.me/FamilioTradeBot) from **social** so buys, sells and payouts land in the group. See [Telegram bot](/around-the-family/telegram-bot.md). ## For members: join, ride, leave 1. Open a family page (`/f/`) or an invite link (`/join/`). Sign in with your wallet if the family is private — that is a free message signature, not a transaction. 2. Read the door, the fee, the head's skin, the bags and the feed. Past PnL is not a forecast. 3. **Ape in.** Your deposit is quoted into the family's current mix (mirror entry) so you enter at today's bags, not yesterday's cash pile. You pay your own slippage. Confirm the transaction; you need ETH for gas. 4. Ride. When the head or a co-pilot trades, the vault trades once. Your slice of every bag moves with it. 5. **Payouts.** If the crew distributes quote, it sits in the vault as **claimable** until you pull it (family page or `/me`). Flip **auto-send** on with one small on-chain transaction and a keeper pushes each payout straight to your wallet every \~10 minutes. Flip it off any time; claiming yourself always works. 6. **Take your slice** whenever you want. You receive your share of every tracked bag plus quote, in kind. The vault does not sell for you. If a bag is frozen or an airdrop sits untracked, the app uses `leaveWith` so one bad token cannot hold you hostage. See [How a family works](/the-product/how-a-family-works.md). You cannot sell "just the PEPE" and keep the rest. Leaving burns shares and pays the whole mix. You can leave a percentage of your shares (25 / 50 / 75 / 100 in the UI); each leave is still a pro-rata slice of everything. ## After you are in * `/me` — every slice you hold, claim all, auto-send, families you run. PnL credits what you already claimed or had pushed — a fully-distributed slice reads flat, not −100%. Edit your profile here; verify X or Telegram to show them on your profile — handles can't be typed, only verified. * `/u/` — a profile. Green checkmarks on X/Telegram mean the platform itself confirmed the link, not familio. * `/leaderboard` — **heads** strip (people, career stats across every family they run) plus the **families** board below (7D / 30D / all-time / paid-out / biggest). A closed family drops off the family board; its history stays with the head's row. If a wallet pop-up asks you to approve tokens or spend something you did not just click, reject it. 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