FAQ

Why Halo uses SOL only, has no ticker rules, charges 1.56% and avoids size-based fees.

Why SOL only?

Splitting a launchpad across several quote assets splits its liquidity, its charts and its attention. A coin paired with one asset is compared directly with every other coin on the pad, and all volume flows through one place. One pairing also keeps the curve maths simple enough to read in one page. See Trading and the curve.

Why is there no ticker or duplicate restriction?

A ticker rule is avoided by choosing another ticker, and a copy that people want does exactly that. A strict rule also blocks legitimate projects: a team launching a real tech project can find its ticker already taken by someone who deployed it first for no other reason.

Vamps that hurt traders depend on cheap manipulation, such as hoarding early supply and pushing the chart with small amounts of capital. Halo's curve makes that costlier, so there are fewer reasons to vamp a coin only because it is on the wrong pair or got a head start. The mint address identifies a coin.

Why one pair, one fee and no modes?

Every coin trades against SOL on one curve with one fee schedule. A copy of a coin can only pull buyers away through a different pair, different fees or a different mode, so Halo offers none of those. The reasoning and documented cases are in Why Halo has one market.

Why is the fee 1.56%?

Meteora's protocol takes 20% of every trading fee before it is split. To leave creators with 0.5%, each coin's burn share with 0.5% and Halo's treasury with 0.25%, the total has to be 1.25% divided by 0.8, which is 1.5625%, set as 156 basis points. The difference from 1.25% is Meteora's cut.

Why is the fee the same for large and small swaps?

A fee that rises with swap size hits the honest buyer who wants a larger position early, and a large purchase can be split across wallets to avoid it. Meteora has also deprecated that fee mode for new configurations. Halo's fee depends on time since launch and ignores swap size, and the curve's starting price makes large early buys expensive.

Yes. Anyone can still buy a big share in the first block. It costs a lot more than on Pump's published curve: 3.65 SOL for 5% of supply against 1.47, and 27.92 SOL for 30% against 11.64. The first moments also carry a launch tax that makes it about double that in the first block. Every buy is visible on chain. See First-block pricing.

Why a launch tax?

Block 0 needed a cost for rushing it. A coin's fee starts at 50% in its first block and falls to the normal 1.56% in under a second, so a first-block buy costs about double. About 32% of the tax goes to the creator and about 32% buys that coin back and burns it. Buyers who happen to buy in that moment pay it too, whatever their size.

Is there a Halo token?

The main coin will be launched on Halo itself and its address published at launch. Until Halo publishes an address, any other token that claims to be it is fake.

Can I launch for free?

Halo charges no launch fee. You pay Solana's network fee and the rent for the accounts the launch creates.

Who owns the creator fees?

The wallet that launched the coin. It claims them with its own signature from the Rewards page. See Creator fees.

How do holders benefit?

DBC has no way to pay a coin's holders. A holder payout would need a separate on-chain program or a payout run by Halo, with every holder's balance tracked and a claim or transfer for each one. Halo uses automatic burns. They need no claiming, work the same after graduation, and every holder benefits in proportion to what they hold, because the supply is smaller. See Buyback and burn.

About 0.5% of each coin's volume buys that coin back and burns it, once a coin's reserve reaches 0.01 SOL. A buyback is an ordinary trade that pays the same fee and moves the price like any buy, and it does not promise a price. Halo's job runs it, and the on-chain swap and burn transactions are the evidence.

What happens if Halo's website is down?

Your tokens are in your wallet and the pools are on chain, so you can still trade through any interface that supports Meteora's DBC and DAMM v2 programs. Buybacks and burns wait until Halo's services are back, and the fees keep accumulating in the pools meanwhile.