Token launch
A fixed-supply token that trades against its chain's settlement asset, and whose liquidity goes live in a pool once it reaches its target.
Opening launches on Ripples
Opening launches on Ripples
Mint the art, fill the pool
Your token trades from its first purchase. No listing to wait for, no liquidity to find: one form creates a fixed-supply token and its market together. Add an NFT collection and its sales fill that market. Whatever terms a launch is created with, it keeps.
The launch
Ripples creates a fixed-supply token with a built-in market. The creator approves the launch in their own wallet. While that market is open, buyers exchange the chain's settlement asset for tokens and sellers exchange tokens back. That asset is SOL on Solana, WETH on Robinhood, and USDC on Arc.
During the first 3 seconds, buyers pay an opening tax that starts at 99% and falls to zero. You receive no tokens for the taxed part of a buy, which is what makes an instant automated buy expensive.
Where the tax goes depends on the chain. On Solana it stays with the market and goes into the pool when liquidity is created. It does not count toward the funding target, so an early buyer cannot tax a launch into taking its liquidity live. On Robinhood the taxed tokens are sent to a burn address, and the WETH you paid stays in the market and counts toward the target, so an early buyer there does move a launch closer to taking its liquidity live.
A creator can name wallets before launch that pay no opening tax, and what the list buys differs by chain. On Solana a named wallet pays no opening tax on any buy it makes inside the window. On Robinhood the list reaches one buy: the tax there is charged on whatever sends the buy to the pool, and an ordinary trade is sent by a router rather than by the wallet behind it, so the only buy that skips the tax is the creator's opening buy inside the launch transaction. Any later buy from the creator pays the tax.
Each market fixes its funding target when it is created. What it holds moves with trading: a buy adds to it and a sell takes from it, so the figure on the market page falls as well as rises. Once it holds the target, anyone can take its liquidity live: in a Raydium pool on Solana, in a Uniswap v4 pool on Robinhood. What that costs and the steps it takes differ by chain. Both are set out below.
Your wallet approves every launch, trade, NFT purchase, and settings change.
Ripples never receives your key. An agent launch is the one project that also acts for itself, inside limits its creator fixed and nobody can raise.
Launch types
Launch a token, an NFT collection, both together, or an agent that works the collection itself. A Crosscurrent gives one coin a market on more than one chain, opened side by side. A bridged token goes further: one supply with an address on all three chains, and a balance holders move between them. Every project launches through the same Ripples system, and you write no contract code of your own.
A fixed-supply token that trades against its chain's settlement asset, and whose liquidity goes live in a pool once it reaches its target.
An NFT collection sold at a fixed price. A purchase creates one at a time on Solana and one or more at a time on Robinhood. Each NFT can arrive with finished artwork or start with the launch image and receive final artwork once later.
A token and an NFT collection that need each other. Every piece minted before the market reaches its target pays 10%, 20% or 40% of its price into that market, and once liquidity is live the people who minted hold 2%, 5% or 10% of the supply between them, released after a cliff. The creator chooses both when the launch is created.
The same combined launch, created by a contract rather than by a wallet, on Robinhood. The creator's share of every trade fee goes into that contract and becomes the agent's working capital. It spends that on its own token and its own collection, and on addresses its creator published, never beyond the limits fixed before the first mint.
One coin with its own market on each chain you pick, opened together with a matched buy on each.
One token with one supply and an address on Solana, Robinhood, and Arc. Each chain gets its own market, and a holder moves their balance between them.
Token and collection
From the first mint to a pool that stays locked, and what a minter holds meanwhile.
In a launch started here, 10%, 20% or 40% of each sale before the market's target buys into that market, in the same transaction that mints the piece. A collection keeps the share it declared for life.
Minting records a claim on 2%, 5% or 10% of the supply, whichever that launch declared, shared between everyone who minted. It releases after a cliff of 7 days to 30 days, over the 90 days to 365 days after that.
Mints and buys add to what the market holds. Sells take from it, and its liquidity goes live when it reaches the target.
Liquidity locks in a pool on its own chain and the claim's clock starts. Nothing about the split can change afterwards.
Robinhood works the same way: the routed share arrives as WETH, and the liquidity locks in the Uniswap v4 pool the market has traded in since its first purchase.
Costs
What a transaction costs beyond the launch fee depends on the chain.
The launch fee is read from the chain and shown in the form, and your wallet previews the whole transaction before you sign.
Each market fixes its trade fee and its funding target at creation, and the token page reads both from the chain the market launched on. Markets created here open at 1% with a 24 SOL target on Solana, plus the displayed cost of creating the pool, and at 1% with a 0.64 WETH target on Robinhood. On Solana the launch form and the token page show the target and that setup cost added together, and the sum is what the market has to reach. A market keeps the schedule it launched under, so an older market can carry a different fee or a different target.
A market can also carry a creator fee on top of the trade fee, fixed at creation and capped by the program on Solana and by the factory on Robinhood. Launches started here set none, and every market page shows its own.
The app reads the current fees and the minimum SOL needed to create new Solana accounts before it asks your wallet to approve anything.
The app reads the current fees and what the transaction will cost in ETH before it asks your wallet to approve anything.
Market stages
A market opens with the launch, trades while it fills, and its liquidity goes live in a pool once it reaches its target. Any wallet can start that.
The curve shows how far a market travels before its liquidity goes live. A launch on Solana sets aside 24 SOL for liquidity, plus the displayed cost of creating the pool and reaches that target at 3.24× the opening price with a collection funding it, 12.25× when the token launches alone against a smaller reserve. On Robinhood the target is 0.64 WETH, reached at 3.32× combined and 12.43× token-only. A multiple here measures the distance to the target. It is not what a buyer earns. The model works off the target before pool setup costs, fees and slippage, and mints move the path again. Each token page reads the target and the shape its own market carries.
The move to Raydium runs in steps. If it stops partway through, another wallet can continue it, and the launch page shows where it stopped.
Your wallet asks once to create the launch; a combined launch adds a second transaction for the collection, and trading opens when both are confirmed. An optional first purchase rides the transaction that creates the launch. Only transactions cost SOL. Where Ripples publishes the launch image and details, your wallet signs in first, once per session.
The price moves with what the market holds, so a trade fixes two numbers: what you put in, and the least you will accept back. Move past the floor you set and the market refuses the trade rather than filling it at a worse price.
After the target is met, any wallet can begin the move to the Raydium pool. It runs in steps, and if it stops before the pool is created, the creator or Ripples can reopen trading where it left off.
The liquidity position is placed under the launch's published lock, and the market continues in the Raydium pool.
Taking the liquidity live is open to any wallet once the market reaches its target. One transaction closes the launch position and opens the permanent locked one in the same pool.
Your wallet asks once to let the factory spend the WETH launch fee, then once to create the launch. A combined launch is one transaction, and an optional first purchase happens in it. Where Ripples publishes the launch image and details, your wallet signs in first, once per session.
The price moves with what the market holds, so a trade fixes two numbers: what you put in, and the least you will accept back. Move past the floor you set and the market refuses the trade rather than filling it at a worse price.
Once the target is met, any wallet can close the launch position and seed the Uniswap v4 pool's permanent one. Leftover tokens are retired.
The liquidity position is held by the launch's own locker under the lock the creator published. Trading continues in the pool.
Questions
How transactions move
The app reads the current state of the chain you are launching on and prepares a transaction. Your wallet shows it to you, asks for approval, and sends it.
The public API helps the site find Solana launches and NFT collections. It cannot spend from your wallet. The separate Virtuals agent integration reads Ripples data and cannot sign or send anything.
The site reads launches and NFT collections straight from the Ripples factories on Robinhood. Nothing it reads can spend from your wallet.
Developers can find the exact addresses and calls for every chain in the developer docs.
A sent transaction cannot be undone on any chain. Nothing on this page is financial advice.