Instant launch
An instant launch skips the bonding curve. The coin is created directly in its Uniswap V4 market, tradable in the block that created it.
What happens
The whole supply is placed in the market as one-sided liquidity: coins only, no ETH. Nobody funds the pool for it to exist, and the ETH side fills as people buy. The position is locked on the same protocol contract that holds a graduated coin's liquidity, with the same absence of a withdrawal function.
What the creator sets
| Setting | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Starting valuation | the valuation the market opens at; the price per coin follows from it, aligned to the pool's price grid |
The protocol enforces a window on that valuation, shown on the form. Every other decision - fee model, LP share, extensions, vault, recipient - is the same as any launch.
Consequences
- No curve fees and no graduation fee. Those two streams do not exist for an instant coin. Its income is pool fees, from the first swap.
- No transfer lock. The coin behaves like a graduated one from birth.
- It never graduates. Graduated keeps meaning "completed a curve", so instant coins are counted separately and filtered separately on Discover.
- A dev buy is still possible, executed as a real swap through the market and capped by the same 15% rule.
Depth at the start
An instant market opens with no ETH in it. Early trades move the price more than they would on a coin that graduated with a full raise behind it, and depth builds as volume arrives. This is visible on the coin's page and is the main thing to check before trading one in its first minutes.
Pairing with a sniper tax
The market is open at the exact moment bots are watching, with no curve phase in between. A sniper tax window starts when the market opens, which for an instant launch is the first block.