Highlights
Highlights aren't live yet. The mechanics below are how they will work; the app will tell you when booking opens.
Highlights are paid, time-bounded promotional slots. A token can pay to occupy the featured position on the Frontier front page for a set duration. Only one slot is active at any moment, and each token has a cooldown before it can book another.
Booking a slot
Pick a duration, check the price, pay. The slot is yours for that whole duration - provided that:
- The slot is free. Only one token is highlighted at a time; if it's taken, you wait for it to expire.
- The token isn't in cooldown from a previous highlight - see below.
- The duration is between 1 hour and 24 hours.
The app always shows you the exact price before you commit, read live from the contract.
Pricing - linear, then stepped
The fee curve has two regimes:
- Up to 4 hours - linear pricing at the base rate, currently 0.01 ETH per hour.
- Beyond 4 hours - every additional second costs a flat 1.8× the base rate.
With the current parameters:
| Duration | Fee |
|---|---|
| 1 hour (minimum) | 0.01 ETH |
| 2 hours | 0.02 ETH |
| 4 hours | 0.04 ETH |
| 6 hours | 0.076 ETH |
| 12 hours | 0.184 ETH |
| 24 hours (cap) | 0.4 ETH |
The pricing is designed to make long takeovers disproportionately expensive - short, sharp campaigns are cheap, while renting the slot all day costs 10× what the hourly rate would suggest. The result is that the slot stays liquid: nobody can park on the front page.
Cooldowns
Each token's cooldown is independent - currently 1 hour after a highlight ends. This prevents the same token from monopolising the slot by chaining bookings back-to-back.
What the protocol can and can't do
The protocol team can adjust the pricing and the durations for future bookings. What nobody can do is cancel a slot that's already booked: once you've paid, the position is yours for the full duration, whatever happens afterwards.
The other promotion tool in the works is the Bumping Bot.