An update on ballast and elysium.
We were granted direct mainnet access yesterday.
Our testnet phase has been completed with a group of early elysium users who have been part of the ecosystem since day one, alongside direct feedback from the elysium team. testing was successful.
We are now running final tests of the mainnet process ahead of the public launch.
We have also reached an agreement that positions ballast to likely become the first launchpad on elysium with treasury and basket support.
More soon.
tomorrow, anyone can launch on ballast.
our public testnet on @Enter_Elysium opens tomorrow. free to try, testnet HYPE only.
what you can do:
β launch a token with up to 2 pairs (HYPE, USDC)
β pick your own swap fee, 1% to 10%, locked at launch
β set your fee split onchain
β trade it and place limit orders inside the hook
how to start:
1. get testnet HYPE from the elysium faucet
2. open ballast on elysium testnet (link drops tomorrow)
3. launch, trade, and try to break it
tell us what breaks. every bug you find now is one that never reaches mainnet on nov 9.
testnet tokens have no value.
building on @Enter_Elysium testnet π οΈ
gen 5 hook, hyperliquid:native pairs, stock pair, and more. creator-picked fees (1β10%, locked forever), limit orders inside the hook.
after mainnet, bridge $BALLAST between robinhood chain and elysium at https://t.co/V86fHQHjJL, both ways.
robinhood pools stay the same: 2 pools, 2 pairs.
nov 9.
The next launchpad is a set of rules, not a platform.
Token launchpads are one of the most active corners of crypto, and one of the most criticized. Thousands of tokens launch every day, most fade within hours, and the platforms hosting them often capture more value than the creators and traders who use them.
The problem is not that launchpads exist. It is how most of them are designed. Platforms keep most of the fees, the rules can change at any time, and nothing anchors a new market beyond attention.
Three shifts are changing that.
Tokenized equities are moving onchain. Stock tokens now live on Robinhood Chain and across the Hyperliquid ecosystem, but almost all of that activity is about trading assets that already exist. Ballast asks a different question: what if new tokens were launched against them? When a launch is paired with a real stock, every swap moves through a real world asset, and the pair itself says something about the project.
Uniswap hooks turn pools into rules. Every Ballast launch runs through our own hook, which enforces the rules inside every swap. The full supply goes into the pool and liquidity is locked forever. There is no presale and no team allocation. Most of every fee goes to the creator and is split onchain however they choose, and the protocol share is used entirely to buy back and burn $BALLAST. Live hooks never change. New features ship as a new generation, and every token keeps the rules it launched with.
Revenue is becoming verifiable. New chains like Elysium are tying their revenue to buybacks, and applications are expected to follow. Ballast has worked this way since day one. The burn has no owner and no keeper, anyone can trigger it, and every step can be checked onchain.
Our next hook generation takes this further. Creators will choose their own swap fee at launch, and once the token is live nobody can change it, not the creator and not us. Limit orders will live inside the hook itself and fill when a swap crosses your price, with no keeper and no offchain service. And launches will pair with assets native to each chain, starting with Elysium, the first layer two of the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
Ballast is also built for agents. Through our SDK and MCP server, any AI agent can launch, quote and trade using the same contracts and the same rules as everyone else, with every transaction still requiring a signature.
Robinhood Chain remains home. Elysium is next, followed by Solana, BNB Chain, Base and Arbitrum. Every chain will have different assets and different infrastructure, but the same guarantees: liquidity locked, no team allocation, fees routed onchain, and the protocol share burning $BALLAST.
The launchpad market does not need more platforms. It needs better rules. Rules that keep liquidity in place, give creators a real share of what they generate, cannot be quietly changed, and can be verified by anyone.
That is what we are building.
BALLAST.
150 buybacks
52,235,544 $ballast in the dead address
5.22% of supply
every one of them bought on the open market and burned
no owner no keeper anyone can trigger it
two more are ready right now
go press the button
https://t.co/a82DRntKiT
@blknoiz06@Enter_Elysium apps doing the same is exactly what we built
on ballast every swap fee sends 20% to buy and burn $BALLAST onchain
no owner no keeper anyone can trigger it
52m burned so far on robinhood chain
bringing the same model to elysium on nov 9
road to november 9:
β recon of elysium testnet
β gen 5 hook + tests (in progress)
β full deploy rehearsal on testnet
β mainnet deploy with the official addresses
β $BALLAST bridge live after mainnet
nothing ships to mainnet until it passes on testnet.
see you on elysium. https://t.co/gsoZ3P3eZj
we're building on @Enter_Elysium testnet.
gen 5 hook, multiple pairs, creator-picked fees, limit orders inside the hook, and a $BALLAST bridge between robinhood chain and elysium.
here's what's happening behind the scenes π§΅
$BALLAST goes cross-chain.
after mainnet, bridge $BALLAST between robinhood chain and elysium, both ways:
https://t.co/GfN0CscGC3
nothing changes on robinhood chain. $BALLAST keeps its 2 pools and 2 pairs (NVDA + WETH), liquidity locked, buyback and burn still running.