3/7 Entering a launch
  1. 1How a heat runsHeats, lanes, position, speed and the finish.
  2. 2Buying and sellingPressing a lane, the ticket, fees and signing.
  3. 3Entering a launchCreating a launch and the heat it joins.
  4. 4The finish and the poolGraduation into a locked DAMM v2 pool.
  5. 5Results, replays, recordsPlaces, times, replays and the record book.
  6. 6TermsEvery number a launch runs on.
  7. 7Reading the raceThe public API and the live stream.
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Entering a launch

Enter the next heat creates a launch. It runs in the heat of the hour its create lands in, from the gate to the 85 SOL finish.

What you set

Image
PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP, up to 1 MB
Name
up to 32 characters
Symbol
2 to 10 capital letters or digits
Description
up to 280 characters
Links
website, X and Telegram, each https://
First buy
any amount of SOL, or none

The name, symbol, image and links go into the token's metadata when it is created, and stay fixed.

Which heat it joins

The page shows the heat your launch will join, how many lanes it already has and the time to the next gate. The review before you sign names the heat again. A launch joins the heat of the hour its create lands in, so a create that lands after the top of the hour opens in the next heat.

Paper CraneCRANE
34.85 SOL
Low TideTIDE
15.30 SOL
Your launch—
gate
The gate on the Enter page: this hour's lanes, and yours loaded beside them.

The first buy

Your first buy lands inside the creating transaction, before anyone else can trade, and pays 1.75% rather than the 25% opening fee. It is the first move your runner makes off the gate.

What every launch gets

Supply
1,000,000,000, 6 decimals
On the curve
80% of supply
Into the pool at the finish
20% of supply, with the 85 SOL raised
Finish
85 SOL raised
Pool liquidity
100% locked, permanently

At the gate

Each launch's page shows what its creator holds, whether the creator has sold, and how many other wallets bought in the first 5 seconds while the opening fee was falling, counted from every indexed trade.

Next chapterThe finish and the pool