Launching a coin

One signature, a $1 opening buy, and your coin is trading in the same block. Here is the create form, top to bottom.

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Step 1 — Choose your pair

Direction. Long or short. A long coin's floor rises when the stock rises; a short coin's floor rises when the stock falls.

Underlying. The stock, index, metal or commodity your coin will be backed by. Search by ticker or name. Everything in the catalogue is there: Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, the S&P 500, gold, oil and more.

Leverage. Pick the multiple, from 1× up to that market's cap. The cap is the lower of two numbers: the product ceiling of 5×, and what Avantis (the venue that holds the position) allows on that pair. Most names go to 5×; AMD, Intel, Micron and Sandisk stop at 3×; Alibaba, Circle, Cerebras, SpaceX and SK Hynix at 2×. The form opens on the cap and only shows the pills the market allows. The factory enforces the same limit on chain, so a coin can never promise a multiple its hedge cannot hold.

Your three choices name the tracker your coin will bond onto: NVDAx5 for Nvidia long at 5×, TSLAx3S for Tesla short at 3×. Every coin that picks the same three shares the same tracker. See Leveraged trackers.

Step 2 — Name it

• Name — free text.
• Ticker — up to 10 letters or digits, uppercase.
• Description — optional.
• Image — pinned to IPFS the moment you pick it. A coin with an image whose pin failed does not launch; the form retries, and tells you if it cannot.
• X / Twitter, Telegram, Website — optional.

The name, ticker, image and links go into a metadata file that is also pinned to IPFS and written into the token. They are yours to fill in and nobody else's to change.

Step 3 — Your opening buy

You buy the first coins yourself, in the launch transaction. Minimum $1. The presets are $1, then 1%, 2%, 3% and 5% of the supply, each costed at the opening price — so a button labelled "2%" costs exactly what 2% costs.

You choose what pays for it:

• USDC — approve once (never again), then launch. Wallets that can batch do it in one confirmation.
• ETH — one signature, no approval, no USDC. The launcher swaps just enough ETH for the seed inside the launch itself and sends the unused ETH straight back. The form quotes the ETH cost before you click.

The form picks USDC when your wallet has enough, ETH when it does not, and lets you choose when both would work.

You are guaranteed to be the first buyer: in the launch block the token only lets your seed buy receive coins. Nobody can snipe in front of you.

Step 4 — Launch

Click Launch. When the transaction confirms:

• all 1,000,000,000 coins exist, and all of them are in one Uniswap V3 pool against USDC;
• the pool position belongs to a locker with no withdraw function;
• your coin is priced, listed on the board, and reachable by any bot, aggregator or wallet through the standard router;
• 0.7% of every swap starts accruing to your wallet.

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What every coin shares

There are no per-launch knobs for supply, fees, range or lock duration — on purpose. A creator cannot configure a coin into something more dangerous than the one next to it, beyond the multiple in its tracker's name.

There is no mint function, no owner able to change the supply, no pause, and no transfer tax. The token charges nothing on transfer, which is exactly why every router and bot can trade it.

The first twelve seconds

Snipers are held off inside the token itself, where no router can route around it:

• in the launch block, only your seed buy can receive coins;
• for the next 5 blocks, no single buy from the pool exceeds 5.5% of supply and no wallet may come to hold more than 5%;
• selling is never restricted — in any block, under any condition.

Base blocks are two seconds, so the whole window lasts about twelve seconds and then lifts on its own. No administrator lifts it and nobody can extend it. A mechanism that could block an exit would be a trap whatever it was called; this one only ever slows buying.

Why no capital is needed

The launch position holds only your coin, spread from the opening price upward. Nothing has to be paired against it, so nothing has to be funded — the $1 seed is a purchase you keep, not a deposit.

For the curious: the pool is initialised exactly on the lower bound of that range, which is what lets a position of pure coin exist with no counterparty. The coin's address is also mined so it always sorts below its quote token, which keeps every chart and tracker pricing it the right way up. The maths is in The single pool.