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Glossary

Every term used across the documentation, defined once.

Bonding curve​

The market a coin trades on before it graduates. The price comes from a formula rather than an order book: each buy raises it, each sell lowers it, and a counterparty is always available. See The bonding curve.

Bonding progress​

How full a coin's curve is, from 0% at creation to 100% at graduation, shown as a bar on its page with the ETH still needed.

Community share​

The portion of the creator's own fee income routed to the coin's staking vault, set at creation between 1% and 100%. See Extensions.

Cooldown​

The waiting period between requesting a withdrawal from a staking vault and collecting it. Currently one day, capped at 90 days by the contract.

Dev buy​

A creator buying their own coin inside the launch transaction, before anyone else can reach it. Capped at 15% of supply, with a hard 25% ceiling, and visible on the coin's Holders tab from the first block. See Automations.

Direct seed​

A coin created straight into its Uniswap V4 pool, with the whole supply seeded on one side and no bonding curve. Its market is open in the block that created it. See Instant launch.

Extension​

A contract a creator attaches to their coin's market at creation: a fee calculator, an observer or a fee recipient. Selected from a catalog, configured once, permanent. See Extension system.

Fee calculator​

An extension that decides what a swap costs, consulted before the trade executes. Up to four per coin. See Fee calculators.

Fee recipient​

The single destination for a creator's fee income, set at creation: a wallet, any address, or a contract from the catalog. See Fees & earnings.

Graduation​

The moment a coin's curve fills and its Uniswap V4 market opens, in the same transaction. See Graduation.

Locked liquidity​

The liquidity position created at graduation, held by a contract with no withdrawal function. Not the creator, not the protocol team, nobody can take it out. Only the fees it earns are collected.

LP share​

The portion of a swap fee paid to whoever provides liquidity to the pool. Set by the creator at creation, 70% by default. See Fees & earnings.

Market cap​

A coin's price multiplied by its total supply. A measure of size, not of the money behind it, which is the liquidity.

Module​

The word this documentation uses for a building block bound to a coin's market at creation. The app and the API call each one an extension; they are the same thing. See Extension system.

Observer​

An extension notified after a swap has settled. It can record and act; it cannot alter or block the trade. Up to four per coin. See Observers.

Pool​

The Uniswap V4 market where a coin trades after graduation, paired with ETH.

Protocol floor​

The incompressible cut the protocol keeps on every fee: 0.03%, held back from inside it rather than added on top. No Frontier market can be free to trade.

Referral​

An on-chain link between a trader and whoever brought them in, written once and never overwritten. The referrer earns a share of that trader's fees, on two levels. See Referrals.

Reserve​

The ETH held by a coin's bonding curve. After graduation the same figure is labelled raised: the total collected before the market opened.

Robinhood Chain​

The network Frontier runs on. Chain ID 4663, gas paid in ETH.

Season​

One calendar month, in UTC, of the points program. Boards reset at the end of a season; lifetime totals continue underneath.

Slippage​

How far the price may move between confirming a trade and it landing. Too tight cancels the trade; too loose allows a fill far from the quote.

Sniper tax​

A fee calculator that starts the market with a high fee, up to 50%, decaying to the coin's normal fee over a window of at most an hour. Declared at creation. See Sniper tax.

Staked coin​

The receipt returned for staking. Staking MOON returns stMOON, which grows in value as fees arrive and is handed back on exit.

Staking vault​

An optional vault attached to a coin at creation, where holders stake and receive part of the creator's fee income in ETH and in the coin. See Staking vault.

Supply​

The total number of coins that will ever exist. Set by the protocol and identical for every coin: 1 billion. On the suggested curve, 700 million sell through the curve and 300 million become the coin's liquidity at graduation; a directly seeded coin puts the whole supply in the pool at once.

Vesting​

Locking an allocation on-chain so it releases on a schedule. The one exception to the transfer lock during the curve phase. See Vesting.

Virtual reserve​

Accounting ETH the curve is seeded with so the first buy has a sensible price rather than one near zero. It cannot be withdrawn by anyone and is not part of the raise.

WETH​

Wrapped ETH: ETH in the form of a standard token. Some payouts arrive as WETH because a token transfer cannot fail the way an ETH transfer can. It is worth exactly the same and unwraps one for one.