How A Launch Works

Six steps from an idea to the weekly Index — with the parts that protect you enforced by code, not promises.

TokenName, ticker, image
Dev buy0.0 SOL
STEP 1

Submit your token

You give us three things: the token's name, ticker and image, plus the SOL for your dev buy. That's the whole form.

The dev buy is hard-capped at 3% of supply — the slider physically stops there. You can take less, or none. You never see or touch the contract address at this stage, because it doesn't exist yet.

Contract address
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Sealed until block 0
STEP 2

The contract stays sealed

The mint keypair is generated inside the launch engine and never leaves it. Not the dev, not us-on-Twitter, not a Telegram group — nobody holds the CA before launch.

This kills the classic scam where insiders get the address early and load up before the public. On index there is no "early". The address is revealed to everyone in the same second it goes live.

BLOCK 0Create tokenDev buy ≤3%
BLOCK 1Bundler — too late
BLOCK 2Sniper — public price

Creation and dev buy land in one atomic transaction — nothing can squeeze between them.

STEP 3

Block 0 is already taken

The engine fires token creation and the dev buy as a single bundled transaction. By the time any bot sees the token exists, block 0 has happened.

Bundlers' whole edge is beating the crowd to the first block. Here the first block is structurally occupied, so the best any sniper gets is the same curve price as every other buyer.

$20k $47k $73k $100k graduation launch floor — every token starts here $20k

Buys walk the price up the curve · sells walk it back down

STEP 4

Trading opens at a $20k floor

Every token opens at a $20k market cap on the bonding curve — no near-zero entry for bots to hoover up. From there the curve itself is the stabiliser: aggressive buying makes each next token dearer, aggressive selling makes each next sale worth less.

Overbuying and overselling both get priced in automatically, trade by trade. And at this stage index takes 0% — no platform fee on the curve.

Market cap Graduated $18k
0%
index takes nothing while the token trades on the curve
✓Liquidity moves to Raydium — a real, deep pool
✓LP burned — liquidity can never be pulled
✓Fee switches on — 1% of pool trades, nothing before
STEP 5

Graduation at $100k

When a token's curve fills to a $100k market cap, it graduates: liquidity migrates into a Raydium pool and the LP is burned, so it can never be pulled.

Only now does index start earning — a 1% share on the graduated pool. If a token never gets there, we never made a penny on it. Our incentive is your token working, not your launch fee.

1% fee on every trade of a graduated pool 60% Index drop paid to $INDEX holders 25% War chest buybacks on heavy selling 15% Points rewards for traders
STEP 6

Fees feed the Index

Post-graduation fees flow three ways: the weekly Index — hold $INDEX and every Monday you're distributed the top five tokens launched here, rebalanced by volume; each token's war chest, which buys back into heavy selling; and points for active traders.

No new supply is ever minted to pay rewards — everything is funded by fees that only exist because tokens graduated.

Common questions

Can the dev buy more after launch?

From a normal wallet, like anyone else, at public curve prices — yes. What they can't do is get priority: the only privileged buy is the single ≤3% that rides in block 0, and it's visible on-chain forever.

What stops index itself from sniping?

The launch transaction is atomic — create and dev buy only, nothing else fits inside it. The engine's wallets hold no token allocation, and every launch transaction is public and auditable on-chain.

Why do tokens here start at $20k instead of $4k?

Low starts are sniper food: bots buy the first block at near-zero and dump on the crowd at 10–25×. Starting at $20k compresses that edge to the point it isn't worth the gas. It also means graduated tokens open on Raydium with real liquidity.

What exactly do $INDEX holders receive?

A weekly distribution of the current top five tokens launched on the platform, weighted by graduated-pool volume and rebalanced every Monday 00:00 UTC. It's paid from fees, never from minting.