How Launch works

Release boundary

This release does not create tokens, submit transactions or charge fees. The final LAUNCH action is disabled for every pair until a verified upstream transaction specification, destination program and fee terms exist. A saved draft is never a launch.

Discovery data

• Token and pair data come from the StonkFun public discovery API through the DarkSwap server, with caching and freshness labels.
• Search is provider-wide on name, ticker and mint. You can filter by an exact pair (quote) mint. Creator lookup is unavailable because no verified attribution source exists.
• Holders, transactions, unique buyers and holder growth are not provided by the source and are shown as unavailable, never zero.
• Graduating and Graduated views use the provider's own status categories. Progress values are raw provider numbers.
• A mint that is not in the catalog is "not indexed", which is different from "does not exist".

Wallet verification

Connecting Phantom or Solflare only shares your public address. To open private drafts you sign a plain-text challenge that is single-use, expires quickly and is bound to Solana mainnet-beta and this domain. No transaction, approval or fee is involved. Switching accounts or disconnecting immediately clears the previous wallet's private view and revokes the session.

Pairs

• $DARK is the recommended DarkSwap Ecosystem Pair, but only once a configured, verified $DARK mint is live upstream. Until then: "$DARK pairing is being activated for the DarkSwap ecosystem."
• Pairs are identified by network and mint, never ticker. Shared tickers show full addresses.
• NEAR-group pairs are Solana mints with evidence of NEAR ecosystem association. No native NEAR-chain execution or bridging is offered.
• Only pairs that are launchable and launch-lab-ready upstream can be chosen for preparation.

Drafts and logos

Drafts are stored privately against your verified wallet and can be resumed from the creator dashboard. Logos (PNG or JPEG, 1 MB max) upload directly to private storage and are validated by the server before use.

Wallet network

Message signing does not depend on a network, so most wallets cannot report which cluster they are on. You confirm mainnet-beta before signing; if a wallet does report a different network we reject it. We do not claim universal network detection.

Development vs production

In development the app is served under a path prefix, so its robots.txt is advisory only; crawlers read the root robots file. Private API responses also send an X-Robots-Tag noindex header and private pages set a noindex meta tag in every environment.

Incentives

Fields such as dark_pair, dark_points, referral_volume, creator_score, campaign_eligible and builder_eligible exist as planned, unverified states only. No points are earned or claimable, and nothing here relates to DarkSwap swap rewards.