Launch

Launching on Meteora

How a Meteora launch on WeBall works, covering the bonding curve, graduation, locked liquidity, the sniper shield, modes, baskets and hooks.

What you get

A Meteora launch puts your coin on WeBall's own bonding curve on Meteora. Open /launch/meteora. The page has three steps: how it pays, name the coin, then the fee and launch.

The bonding curve

Your coin starts on a bonding curve, paired with SOL or a listed token.
On a SOL pair, it graduates at 60 SOL raised.
A paired coin graduates at a set amount of its pair.

Graduation and locked liquidity

At graduation the curve closes and the coin moves to a Meteora DAMM v2 pool. The pool charges the same fee rate. The pool's liquidity is locked for good.

Meteora usually moves a coin within seconds. If it hasn't moved after 5 minutes, WeBall moves it and pays the network cost.

Fees keep flowing after graduation, now from the locked pool. Nothing else changes.

The sniper shield

Every Meteora coin has it. The trading fee starts at 50% and falls in 60 even steps to the coin's normal rate over its first 10 minutes.

Your own first buy, bundled with the launch, pays the normal rate.
Shield fees are split like any other fee, so on a holder coin most go to holders.
During those 10 minutes the trade box shows the fee right now and a countdown.

Who it pays

You pick at launch. It never changes.

Holder mode. Pick a fee of 1%, 2% or 3%. Most of the fee goes to holders.
Creator mode. The fee is 1%. Half of the claimed fee is sent to you.

See Holder coins and creator coins for the exact split.

Baskets

Holder coins pay in a basket of 1 to 3 tokens from our allowed list.

Whole-number weights, at least 10% each, adding up to exactly 100%.
Defaults: 50/50 for two tokens, 40/30/30 for three.
SOL can be a basket token. Its part is paid as SOL, with no swap.
On a paired coin, the pair is always the first token, fixed at 60%. You pick up to two more for the rest.
As the original creator, you can change the basket later. A change counts for rounds snapshotted 24 hours after you sign it, and you can change at most once every 24 hours.

First buy and lock

You can buy up to 10% of supply in the same transaction as the launch.
You can lock that buy with Jupiter Lock for 7, 30, 90 or 180 days, released all at once or bit by bit.
Locked coins still count for holder rewards.
On a paired coin, the buy is paid in SOL and swapped into the pair first.

Hooks (rules coins)

Hooks are rules built into the coin. A coin with hooks is a Token-2022 token. Every transfer runs through WeBall's hook program, which checks that coin's rules.

Anti-sniper. For the first 10 minutes, no single buy can be more than 1% of supply. A bigger one fails. Your first buy is exempt. It's on by default and ends at graduation.
A coin's hooks are fixed at launch. WeBall can upgrade the hook program itself, and announces every upgrade.
A coin with hooks pairs with SOL only, for now.
With no hook picked, the coin is a standard token.

See the hooks page for the full list.