Born whole, in the pool

An Elys token does not trickle into existence. One transaction mints exactly 1,000,000,000 tokens and places the entire supply into the pool against the quote you choose — native HYPE, WHYPE or any ERC-20 — priced from a virtual reserve, so a market exists from the very first block without anyone seeding a unit of real capital. There is no mint function to abuse later, no presale, no team allocation. If you set a first buy, it fills inside the launch transaction itself, in the founder's lane, before any outside wallet can trade.

Liquidity that cannot leave

Most launchpads promise locked liquidity; Elys removes the alternative. The pool is an internal market sealed inside the contract, and the contract simply has no function that withdraws it — not for the creator, not for the platform, not for anyone. A rug needs a door. We never built one.

One fee, four destinations

Every trade pays 1% in the quote asset. The platform keeps 30% of that fee; the remaining 70% runs through QuadSplit, the fee-routing design at the heart of Elys. At launch the creator composes the split across four streams: Creator (claimable in Profile), Holders (paid out as dividends), Buyback & burn (the pool buys its own token and sends it to the dead address) and Liquidity (added straight back into the pool, lifting the floor under every holder). The balanced default is 25% each; a creator chasing pure community alignment can route it all to holders. On the sell side, payouts are capped by the pool's real reserve, so the market can never promise money it does not hold.

Holding is the strategy

Elys tokens carry their dividend logic in the token itself — no staking contracts, no farming detours, no snapshots to game. Hold the token and the holders' stream of every trade accrues to you in the quote asset, weighted by your balance, ready to claim from Profile whenever you like. Yield here is not an emissions schedule; it is a share of real trading, paid by the market itself.

Three seconds of armor

The first moments of a launch are where snipers feed. The Aegis window answers with a decaying shield: buys in the launch second pay a 99% tax, then 24.81%, then 5.19% — and from the third second on, only the standard 1% fee remains. Bots can still buy; they just pay the community for the privilege. The founder's own first buy, sealed inside the launch transaction, is exempt by design.

The 73.86% mark

When 73.86% of a token's supply has been bought out of its pool, net of sells, the token Ascends. Ascension changes nothing about how trading works — it is a mark of proof, not a migration: this market was earned in the open, on the same sealed pool it was born in. No graduation cliff, no liquidity teleporting elsewhere, no rules rewritten mid-game.

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