🧵 Popsicle Guide: How to Launch Your Token
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What is Popsicle?
Popsicle is a competitive token launch arena. Every 48H, new tokens battle for market dominance.
- Winner graduates to a DEX
- Losers merge into the winner
No VC, no presale, just pure survival. 🫡
Following @ZohranKMamdani 's victory as NYC Mayor 40+ tokens were created in @solana in a matter of minutes
• Thin liquidity
• Communities divided
• Users guessing which one will rug
Our solution: Tokenise the news, 1 token at a time.
One official race
One unified community
One pool of thick, powerful liquidity
We are excited to introduce Bella as our head of marketing and chief of staff
Bella has just arrived to our city and her credentials really stood out
Bella has been an onchain user since 2014 and a BTC og since 1987. Previously Alameda, Ethereum, Solana, Atari, Paradigm, Palantir and Del Monte Bananas
The launchpad world is broken
- 99% of tokens go to zero
- Liquidity gets spread
- Communities get abandoned
https://t.co/tAlR99zadP fixes this with one simple idea: consolidation
One daily winner absorbs ALL liquidity from losing tokens.
If your token wins → you win
If your token loses → you STILL win (you get the winner token)
We've turned launchpads from a casino into a pve environment where everyone wins
https://t.co/zYwCu3h9pO
Ever wondered how Popsicle's daily races work? Let's break it down:
CREATE
Users launch tokens. The 24h race begins
BATTLE
Communities trade and increase their MCAP. A 4% sell tax funds the loyal
GRADUATE
The highest MCAP token wins and lists on a DEX
MERGE
Losing tokens are sold and converted into the winner.
Their holders get a proportional share of the winner token
The pooled sell tax is redistributed to every holder of any token in the race
One champion. Everyone profits
Most launchpads have one goal: create a new token
This fragments communities and liquidity, leaving most holders with worthless coins
Our goal is to find the best token
Here’s how it works:
- The Race: Multiple tokens are created and race for 48 hours.
- The Winner: The token with the highest market cap graduates to a DEX.
- The Magic: All losing tokens are sold, and that liquidity is used to buy the winner, pumping its price.
- The Fairness: Holders of losing tokens automatically receive their share of the winning token.
Result? One strong community, concentrated liquidity, and no one is left holding a dead bag
When you sell during the race, 4% of your sale goes into a pool. At the end of the race, that entire pool is used to buy the winning token from the market
Who gets those tokens?
Every single person who held until the end
So, if you sell, you're directly funding the rewards for the diamond hands who stayed in the fight
It’s a loyalty reward system, funded by the impatient
Let's be real, most launchpads are designed for you to lose
You're just the exit liquidity to insiders and cabals
We are different. We are the first launchpad designed for YOU to win
How? Simple, you pick a side in the daily race
If your token wins, you win
If your token loses, it gets absorbed into the winner and you still win
Simple
The biggest flaw in current launchpads is the tragedy of the commons: infinite token issuance with zero sum liquidity
Every new token dilutes the total buy side pressure
Popsicle's mechanism enforces liquidity consolidation:
> Liquidity Merge: All losing tokens are sold; the USDC is routed to a single market buy order for the winner = buy pressure
> Disincentive Selling: A 4% sell tax during the race creates a negative sum game for sellers while funding holders
We've replaced a system that incentivizes rug pulls with one that rewards diamond hands and community cohesion. We are changing the trenches from a pvp environment to pve
Two fatal problems plaguing the trenches right now:
1- Liquidity is spread way too thin across way too many low quality tokens
2- Broken Incentives: Platforms reward creators for quantity, making problem #1 worse every day
How to solve them:
Consolidate communities, consolidate liquidity, consolidate incentives
➤ One Token. One Winner. Per day. It engulfs all liquidity from the less loved communities
➤ Incentivize the User, Not Just the Creator. Our mechanics (redistribution, sell tax rewards) give traders a real chance to win
If you're aligned with solving these issues:
https://t.co/zYwCu3gBAg
Tired of missing the one token that pumps 1000x?
On https://t.co/0S8I7FvLBu , you can't miss
Buy any token in the daily race. If it loses, it automatically converts into the winner
You always end up holding the most loved token
Stop chasing and start winning now!