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How Lancio works

One supply, one curve, the same rules for every token. Written into the contracts before the first one shipped.

A galley sliding down the slipway of the Venetian Arsenale into the lagoon

Lancio is a token launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Anyone can launch a token here, and every token is launched under the same rules. The rules were written into the contracts before the first token shipped, and nobody can change them for a token that is already live.

Lancio is Italian for launch. In Venice, galleys were built on dry land at the Arsenale and sent down a greased slipway into the lagoon. Everything a ship would later be known for began with those few seconds on the ramp. The rules came first. The legend came later.

The life of a token

  1. Launch. A creator picks a name, a ticker and an image, and signs one transaction. The contract mints 1,000,000,000 tokens. There is no launch fee, only gas.
  2. The first two blocks. For the launch window, no wallet can buy more than 1% of the supply.
  3. The curve. The price follows a constant-product curve. Every buy moves it up, every sell moves it down.
  4. Graduation. When the curve has raised 8 ETH, it closes. In the same transaction, all 8 ETH and the 200,000,000 reserved tokens go into a pool on Robinhood Chain.
  5. The lock. The pool position is locked for good. It keeps earning trading fees, split 50/50 between the creator and Lancio for as long as the token trades.

One supply, no allocations

Every token launched on Lancio is minted with 1,000,000,000 units. 800,000,000 are sold on the bonding curve. 200,000,000 are held by the contract for the pool at graduation. Nothing else: no presale, no team share, no allocation to anyone.

A creator who wants to hold their own token buys it from the curve, at the curve's price, like everyone else.

The rules at a glance

Supply per token
1,000,000,000, minted once
Sold on the curve
800,000,000
Held for the pool
200,000,000
Presale, team share, allocations
None
Curve
x · y = k from virtual 2.73 ETH / 1,073,000,000 tokens
Launch window
Max 1% of supply per wallet, first 2 blocks
Graduation
At 8 ETH raised
Pool opens at
0.00000004 ETH
Pool liquidity
Locked forever
Fee on the curve
1% per trade: 0.6% creator, 0.4% Lancio
Pool fees after graduation
Split 50/50 creator / Lancio
Launch fee
0 ETH, gas only

What Lancio does and does not do

You sign every transaction from your own wallet, and Lancio never holds your keys. The ETH on a curve and any unclaimed fees sit in the contracts, under the rules on these pages, not in an account anyone at Lancio can move.