The coin launch is the raise.

There is no presale and no allocation. ELO launches on a public bonding curve. We get no free supply — the entire amount is minted to the curve, there is no minter in the token and no treasury tranche to unlock later, so every unit we ever spend is one we bought.

We buy at the open, and you should know exactly how. Our opening buy goes in the same transaction as the launch, which makes it the first buy at the lowest price on the curve. It is paid for in ETH at the same curve everyone else trades, and both the amount and our address are visible in the launch transaction — go and read it.

And we are exempt from the opening tax, which others are not. The launchpad taxes buys in the first seconds near 99%, decaying to zero, to stop snipers front-running a launch. The launching wallet is exempt automatically, and any other wallet we name is exempt too — that list is fixed when the launch is created and published in its calldata, so it cannot be added to afterwards and you can check who is on it. The honest summary: we pay no snipe tax and we go first; we get nothing for free and no supply we did not buy. If you want to avoid the tax entirely, wait the few seconds for it to decay.

You can sell from the first trade. The curve takes sell-backs immediately — there is no phase where you have paid and cannot get out. That is not a courtesy, it is the shape of the instrument.

What graduation is. When the curve fills, it closes and its entire reserve becomes a Uniswap pool, with the position locked. Nobody withdraws it — not us. From that moment the pool is the market and the curve is finished.

The copy is for holding through it. Balances are read around graduation, and wallets above a posted amount can claim a copy of Gates — the same ERC-721 ticket a paying buyer gets, yours to keep or resell at zero royalty. It rewards carrying the risk while the curve filled, which is why it is measured at graduation and not later: buying afterwards is not the same act.

Several readings are taken, not one. Graduation is permissionless — anybody can trigger it and nobody controls the minute — so pinning a single block in advance would be guessing. Readings are taken on both sides of the event and the one used is published with the list built from it, so anyone can recompute the same cohort from the same block. Holding across the whole graduation, rather than at one instant, is what reliably qualifies.

One photograph, two things. The same graduation snapshot also builds the mint list for the Elo Pros, the capped run of characters — and it is added to the holder lists taken earlier rather than replacing them. Wallets from both go into one list, deduped, so being in both does not buy two.

The Hive mint is a race, not a guarantee. There are 8,192 characters and the number is welded — it does not grow because the list did. The list was already many times larger than the collection before ELO holders were added to it, and it is first‑come. Being on it means you may mint, not that one is held for you. Nobody should read “you’re on the list” as a reserved character, and this page will not imply it.

The amount is not posted yet, and this page will not guess it. It has to be set against the real distribution once ELO trades, and it will be published with the list it was computed from, before anyone can claim. Until that list is posted on chain the free door is shut — not pending, shut — and nothing here is claimable. When it opens, the rule and the wallets are both public and anybody can recompute them.

One buy, three things. A copy costs what a copy has always cost — ten dollars, paid in ETH. That one payment mints the title’s ticket, a transferable ERC-721 that is the copy and the licence to its official servers; hands the buyer a posted quantity of the game’s coin; and routes the money toward the coin’s ELO pool. One transaction, buyer to sink, and nothing accumulates anywhere with a rule about giving it back.

The exit is the pool. Changed your mind? Sell the coin — you keep the copy either way. Done with the game? Sell the copy too: resale royalty is zero, welded. There is no refund window and no escrow because nothing is ever held — and the worst case of a launch that goes nowhere is that you bought a game you wanted. In a token presale the downside is the money is gone. Here it is bounded by I bought a game, which is a property almost nothing in this market has.

Nobody snipes the window. Every buyer pays the same posted price for the same posted grant — no curve to front-run, no first-block advantage, no allocation game. And the instrument only sells games that run today: funding a promise is what the board is for, not the copy sale.

Every game coin pairs against ELO, and only there. However many coins a title runs, ELO is the road in and the road out of its economy. A single listing demands the reserve four times: the developer acquires ELO to pay for the build, the raise pairs with it, players cross it at every entry and exit, and cosmetics settle in it. Supply is fixed — a fair launch, never minted again, with no mint function in the token’s bytecode for anyone to find.

The house’s income is volume, not price. Pumps pay, dumps pay, silence does not. The reserve pair’s trading fees route to Elo at the launch factory’s own locked split — 90%, read off the locker — and every ELO fee that crosses the fee splitter burns half, banks four tenths for stakers, and leaves one tenth for operations. What that income buys is the loop closing: the board’s bounties that pay agents to build the games, and the official servers the tickets license. Fees in, games out.

What Elo actually sells. The storefront, the curation, and the official servers — the shards whose wins settle into the real coin, paid to your own wallet. We take nothing from developers: no listing fee, no cut of the copy sale, no rake on their pool, no resale royalty. The road is the business. The all-zeros table is on the developer page.

And the games outlive the store

Every listed game is open source before its card goes up, with as many mirrors as it likes — because one host is one takedown. Its economy is on chain. If a studio walks, settlement authority can pass to the game’s community by a posted public act, and anyone may fork a shard at any time. The desktop client is optional, never required, and never a source of truth. If Elo vanished tomorrow the games, the coins and your copies would keep working — what would stop is the storefront and the official servers, which is exactly the part we are paid for.

A pons launch. ELO launches on pons — the chain’s dominant launchpad — trading two-way from the first block of its curve, and graduating into a pool whose position the factory locks permanently: we could not pull it if we wanted to. Elo growing is the pons ecosystem growing, on purpose: every listed coin’s road runs through a pons-launched reserve. It is not live yet — when it is, every figure on this site comes off the chain rather than off this page.

The gacha is FWA’s machine, ported. Forked from Fake World Assets’ deployed contracts — vendored with provenance, every port decision written down — and its first curated collection was StonkBrokers. It is live on chain today.

The character takes StonkBrokers’ trick, for games. Their brokers arrived holding tokenized stock; a Elo Pros character arrives holding a face drawn on chain and a tier its holder unlocks with ELO. The way in is free — one door, gated by a snapshot of holder communities taken at blocks that have already happened, plus ELO’s holders at graduation — and it never closes. Whatever it never hands out can never be minted by anyone: there is no remainder for us to sell later. That is a promise about us and not about your odds — the list is many times the 7,692 the door reserves, and it is first-come. Two of the things a character is for are not standing yet, and we would rather name them than imply them: the fee rebate needs the drop bar, which is written and not deployed, and a free copy of a listed title is the lister’s call per title rather than ours — the contract door for it exists and no listing has opened one. The mint is next.

All of it is inspectable. Every deployed contract is source-verified on the chain’s own explorer, every listed game is open source by rule, and the measurement instrument underneath the platform is public. The contract ledger names every address and every key we still hold.

The gap, plainly. Agent launchpads launch agents, not games. Token launchpads attach coins to nothing. The old game launchpads sold allocations to speculators before a game existed, and the vibe-coding feeds ship free games with no economy at all. Nobody else sells a copy of a game whose purchase delivers the product, hands the buyer the coin, and seeds the coin’s liquidity — that one sentence is the product, and as far as we can find, it is unoccupied.

1. The first ticketed title. Gates — a survival game on a deterministic server, built in public by agents through the board — is listed and building today. Its copy sale arms when its ticket contract deploys.
2. The Elo Pros mint. The character above: 8,192, tiered, free through one snapshot door that never closes.
3. The in-house cascade. An MMO, an FPS, a block-builder and a MOBA, each running the same loop, proving the pattern before the catalog opens to strangers — picked by hand, no queue, no fee to be considered.

We do not publish dates, because a date is a promise made by whoever is least able to keep it.