Factory new

We are building a launchpad paired to the CS2, Dota 2, and Rust skin markets on Robinhood chain.

[Factory new @Factorynewpad]

We’re building Factory New to shake up the CS2 skin market.

A launchpad on Robinhood Chain where tokens will trade against sCS2, sDOTA and sRUST — pool coins designed to track baskets of real items held in public Steam inventories.

@launchonCME and other platforms offer markets paired with a broad range of price-tracking assets, including CS2 skins. Factory New puts gaming inventories at the centre of the model. Unlike CME, which in practice offers trading in instruments without direct backing by the underlying assets, we provide real collateral for our pools in the form of CS2 skins that we have actually purchased.

Our difference is where trading activity goes: a fixed 2.5% fee, with 80% directed to the paired pool’s backing. Trades are designed to fund inventory purchases and strengthen the backing of the pool coin.

Public inventories and on-chain reports will let anyone inspect that backing.

Our ambition is to connect on-chain token launches with the skin economy players have spent years building — and turn trading activity into a new source of demand for real items.

We want to turn the story of skin markets into GME 2.0. Factory New is where we start.

Explore the design:
https://t.co/cn9vjAV8VI

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For everyone who asked for harder proof of the skins we buy: screenshots of our Steam inventory, taken from the owner's side.

Why screenshots and not a link. Steam has Trade Protection: anything you receive by trade goes into a separate protected inventory for 7 days. Only the owner can open it. It doesn't show on the public profile, and it isn't even counted in the public item total. We buy on third-party markets, where skins are cheaper than on Steam, so almost everything arrives by trade and lands there.

Right now that's 194 CS2 items, about $7,600 at Steam prices. Knives, gloves, Printstreams, the cases from the first week.

Screenshots can be faked, so here's the part that can't. Every item is already listed by name on the site, and the purchase log with timestamps is public: https://t.co/G41Xkh0Xkk. We published the list before anyone can check it. Steam lifts the protection on Sept 25, 26 and 27, batch by batch, and the same inventory link will show the same items. If the names don't match, you'll see it.

Dota 2 needs no waiting. Dota has no protected inventory, so the 43 items in the sDOTA reserve, about $1,500, are public right now: https://t.co/tRAZNZ92NY

Full list with prices: https://t.co/MZHaGhmzAX

[Factory new @Factorynewpad]

Can a launchpad move the skin market? We ran the numbers on day one.

The mechanic: 2.5% of every trade buys skins, on $FN and on every token launched on Factory New. The skins go into a public Steam inventory and stay in the reserve. A trader buys and sells. We only buy.

Day one: $FN did $1.2M of volume in its first two hours. The launchpad did another $264K. At 2.5% that's roughly $36,800 for skins.

Now the market side. The 20 skins in the sCS2 index sell for about $78K a day on the Steam Market. That's measured: our oracle pulls the 24h volumes every half hour. $36,800 is 47% of that. Count third-party markets and it's around 16%.

What a steady buyer does to price. The standard rule for large orders: impact ≈ daily volatility × √(share of volume × days). With 2% daily volatility and a 16% share:
• 30 days: about +4%
• 90 days: about +8%
• a year: about +15%
And that's before the part a trader never adds: what we buy leaves the market.
The honest part. Launch-day volume is not a run rate. To stay at 10% of those 20 skins we need about $940K of volume a day, every day. Day one cleared it. Day thirty is the test.
And the whole CS2 market is another scale: roughly $5B in skins, something like $25M changing hands a day (our estimate). $36,800 is 0.15% of that. Being 10% of it takes $100M of daily volume, about 70 times today. We're not there and we won't pretend to be.
Dota 2 is the closest. Items in the sDOTA index sell a few thousand dollars a day each. Today we bought 19 Arms of Desolation while Steam sold 133 of them. One purchase, 14% of a day's sales.

Let's win

https://t.co/Xc87NdpvG8

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What's next for Factory New.

The part that doesn't change: we claim the fees, buy skins and add them to the reserve. Every purchase is listed on the site with its price. Already added 205 items, about $5,300.

Next is Market. A place on the site where you can buy and sell your own skins.

After that, deposits. You'll be able to add your skins to a pool's reserve and earn APR on them. The yield is paid from the launchpad's trading fees, so it moves with volume. We're not going to promise a fixed number.

Before deposits open we'll publish the rules: which items are accepted, how they're valued and how you take them back.

https://t.co/Xc87NdoXQA

[Factory new @Factorynewpad]

More skins in the sCS2 reserve: 172 items now, about $4,600 at Steam prices. Today's additions include a StatTrak Survival Knife Marble Fade, Classic and Nomad Crimson Webs, three pairs of gloves and an M4A4 Hellfire.

Why we keep buying. 2.5% of every trade on the launchpad turns into skins, and the skins sit in a Steam inventory anyone can open. More trading means more skins behind sCS2. And every skin that lands in the reserve is one less for sale on the CS2 market.

So volume here is good for the coin and good for skin prices. That's the whole idea.

Every item with its price: https://t.co/DY7sdKG9T9

[Factory new @Factorynewpad]

Sorry for the delay — our Steam price oracle is taking longer than expected to update.

Around $1.5K worth of skins should appear in the treasury overview within the next 10–15 minutes.

Thanks for your patience.

Check out reserve updates here:
https://t.co/JM8e1gxuWD

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Claimed around 2 eth of fees, buying skins and adding to the pool

[Factory new @Factorynewpad]

We're live.

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Factory New is a launchpad on Robinhood Chain where memecoins trade against CS2 and Dota 2 skin coins instead of ETH.

184 items, about $1,870 in the reserve on day one. Every item is listed on the site and the inventory is public.

https://t.co/Xc87NdoXQA

[Factory new @Factorynewpad]

Reserve update: we bought skins for both pools.

sDOTA: 33 items, about $677. 19 Arms of Desolation, 4 Resurrection of Shen Wings, 3 Fractal Horns of Inner Abysm, 3 Inscribed Arms of Desolation, a Fluttering Breeze and an Inscribed Demon Eater.

sCS2: 151 items, about $1,176 at Steam prices. 111 cases, 37 skins (AK Inheritance, Printstream Deagle and USP, AK Asiimov, MP9 Starlight Protector, AWP Chromatic Aberration and more), two knives and a pair of gloves.

Proof. Dota first, because it's the easy one: Dota items are public the moment they arrive.
• inventory: https://t.co/tRAZNZ92NY
• the keeper already wrote it on-chain: sDOTA vault 0x4fdb8c165f9a885dee06a1c217308db96a00af6c, reserves() = $677.41, 33 items
• the snapshot behind that number: https://t.co/LHlWUpcTUn. Hash the file with keccak256 and you get the hash stored in the vault.

CS2 is harder. Steam keeps items received by trade in a protected inventory for 7 days, and nobody but the owner can open it. So for now it's the full list with values on the pool page. The same inventory link will show the first cases on Sept 25 and the rest on Sept 26–27. Until then the on-chain report for sCS2 says $0, because the keeper only counts what anyone can see.

All of this is our own money so far. After launch, only token fees buy skins.

https://t.co/MZHaGhmzAX

[Factory new @Factorynewpad]

First skins are in the sCS2 reserve.

138 items, worth about $675 at Steam prices. Most of it is cases: 36 Revolution, 31 Dead Hand Terminals, 24 Fever and 20 Dreams & Nightmares. Then 24 skins: an MP9 Starlight Protector, a Deagle Printstream, an AK Inheritance, an M4A4 Temukau, two AK Crane Flights and a pile of cheap AKs and M4s like Ice Coaled, Slate and Black Lotus. Plus two knives and a pair of Hydra Gloves, because a CS2 inventory without a knife felt wrong.

You can see all of it on the site: Pools → sCS2 → "Steam inventory". One list, every item with its count and value, and the total on top. Steam hides fresh purchases from other viewers for up to 10 days, so for now the page shows what we recorded, and the "not public yet" counter goes down as Steam reveals them. We'll post screenshots and blockchain traces in the meantime.

Why these items: sCS2 tracks the 20 most traded CS2 skins over $3 and the 5 busiest cases, roughly 70/30, and the reserve follows the same list. They sell hundreds or thousands of times a day, so the price is hard to fake and we can sell fast if the pool ever needs dollars.

https://t.co/DY7sdKG9T9

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