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Risks

The platform does not vet coins​

Anyone can create anything. Names, symbols, images and descriptions are chosen by whoever creates the coin, including names copied from well-known projects. Being listed on Frontier means a transaction succeeded, nothing else.

Price​

Coins launched on a curve are volatile by construction: on the suggested curve the last stretch moves the price more than the whole first half, and a creator can shape a curve that climbs harder still. A coin can equally spend its life going the other way. Most coins on any platform end up worth very little.

A coin whose pool was seeded directly opens with no ETH in it at all: early trades move its price more than they would on a coin that graduated with a full raise behind it, and depth builds as volume arrives.

Creator behaviour​

A creator can hold a large position from their dev buy, capped at 15% of supply, and sell it later. The position is public from the first block, and so is every sale.

A creator here earns from fees without selling anything, which makes heavy creator selling a signal a reader can check rather than guess at.

Coin configuration​

A creator sets the fee, the split and the modules. A market can legitimately be expensive to trade, or route most of its income to the creator. All of it is published before anyone can buy, and none of it can change afterwards. Reading it is the trader's job: Pre-trade checks.

A sniper tax can make the opening of a market far more expensive than the rest of its life — up to 50%, for a window of up to an hour. On a coin launched with a curve, that window opens at graduation, so the expensive minutes are the ones right after a coin bonds rather than the ones on the curve. The coin's page shows the window and its rate before anyone trades into it.

Modules that were not reviewed​

The chain accepts any module that stays inside the safety limits, reviewed or not. The Frontier interface lists coins whose modules have been reviewed and marks the others. A coin running unreviewed code is not necessarily malicious, and it has not been checked.

What no module can do is documented and enforced by the pool contract: Safety constraints.

Liquidity depth​

Locked liquidity means the pool cannot be drained. It does not mean the price cannot fall: holders, including the creator, can sell at any time after graduation.

Depth is also a creator setting. The share of each fee paid to liquidity providers is chosen at creation, and a coin that pays them almost nothing gives outside capital little reason to sit in its pool.

For creators: everything is permanent​

The risk on the other side of the form is the same fact read from the creator's seat. Curve, fee model, split, modules and vault share are written once. There is no edit, no migration, and no support path — including for the choices made by basic mode on a creator who never opened the advanced steps. The defaults are sound, and they are still permanent.

Operational​

  • Transactions are final. A wrong address or a wrong coin cannot be reversed.
  • Self-custody has no recovery: whoever holds the recovery phrase holds the funds.
  • A trade whose price moves past the slippage tolerance cancels and costs gas.
  • Frontier is at frontier.fun and nowhere else. Sites that copy the interface exist for every platform of this kind.