Launch types

Primitives

Three launch shapes. Discovery and LIVO open with a liquidity bootstrap — a capped, equal-access first market that discovers price and funds permanent Uniswap liquidity. Fuse skips straight to Uni.

Liquidity bootstrap

Instead of a generic bonding curve, STARC uses a liquidity bootstrap: genesis, then climb, under per-wallet caps. Quote raised becomes the seed for locked Uniswap V3 LP. Buyers can sell back into the bootstrap before the pool opens. Trade fees sit in a separate vault — never in the LP reserve.

Discovery

Best for a fair launch: genesis + climb in the bootstrap market, then migrate. Everyone faces the same rules — no instant Uni sniping.

Lifecycle

Create with metadata (name, symbol, logo, socials).
Trade in the liquidity bootstrap (genesis, then climb) — wallet caps apply.
At the hard raise, migrate to a locked Uniswap V3 pool. Raise stops.

Param	Value
Hard raise	4,000 USDC
Genesis total / wallet	800 / 100 USDC
Per-wallet cap	300 USDC
Max duration	60 minutes
Creation fee	1 USDC

Fuse

Instant Uniswap listing with launch protection: random 10–48 block window, 2% buy/hold cap per wallet, locked LP. Everyone trades under the same rules.

Lifecycle

Token lists on Uniswap in the create transaction.
Random launch window (roughly 10–48 blocks) with a 2% buy/hold cap per wallet so early access is shared.
LP is locked. No liquidity-bootstrap phase.

Best for

Instant listing with launch protection — memes and fast markets where you still want equal rules at open.

Creation fee: 1 USDC.

LIVO

New primitive

Live Issuance Offering — raise capital while the token is already trading. No TGE cliff. No finalize vote. Listing is not the end of the raise.

Classic launches either finish fundraising before Uni, or list and stop issuing. LIVO is different: a liquidity bootstrap opens permanent Uniswap depth at the soft threshold, then primary issuance keeps going toward a much larger hard raise — with the pool live the whole time. Arb between primary and the pool is expected; activity is a feature.

Lifecycle

Bootstrap

Same fair-access bootstrap as Discovery (genesis + climb, wallet caps, sell-back allowed). Balances stay in the launch until the pool opens — no transferable ERC-20 yet.

Pool opens at soft cap

At 8,000 USDC, the protocol freezes the bootstrap, seeds locked Uniswap V3, mints ERC-20, and unlocks trading. The sale does not end.

Live primary

Primary continues on a raise-indexed schedule toward hard raise (default 200,000 USDC) or max supply. Every USDC raised sinks to LP, creator, defense vault, and platform.

Param	Value
Soft (pool opens)	8,000 USDC
Hard raise (default max)	200,000 USDC
Genesis total / wallet	1,600 / 200 USDC
Per-wallet cap (bootstrap)	600 USDC
Creator vest	5% of max supply (vested)
Phase-1 max duration	60 minutes
Creation fee	10 USDC

Raise proceeds (every USDC)

60% Uniswap LP · 30% creator · 8% defense vault · 2% platform. Defense is USDC-only; auto-deploys 500 USDC chunks via buyback → locked LP when Uni spot < 85% of issuance.

Full fee and LP-claim splits: Fees.

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