Launchpad · UP / DOWN markets

Every token launched also becomes a market.

quill.fun is a launchpad where every token minted carries, as soon as it has enough liquidity, an UP / DOWN parimutuel market on its own price. One quote pair only: USDG.

QuoteUSDG only — never USDC or ETH pairs
Target chainRobinhood Chain
Protocol token$QUILL — buyback-and-burn on fees
The mechanism

From curve to settlement, one execution path.

Five steps, one flow: the launch feeds the spot market, the spot market feeds the options market. Scroll.

01 — Launch

Permissionless factory, single pair.

Anyone can deploy a token. Every token trades exclusively against USDG — no native pair, no ETH pair.

  • Full supply pre-minted to the market: no infinite mint after launch
  • No special mint rights for the creator
  • Deploys straight onto a bonding curve
Factorypermissionless
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Token deployedFixed supply, pre-minted to the market
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Pair: USDGThe only accepted quote currency
Curve initializedPrice set by the reserve, not by a team
02 — Spot phase I

Bonding curve against USDG.

Price follows a deterministic curve up to the graduation threshold. Every trade pays a single spot fee.

  • Spot fee fs = 1% on every trade
  • USDG reserve grows toward the threshold
  • No discretionary intervention on price
Bonding curvef_s = 1%
USDG reserve →Graduation threshold
03 — Graduation

The curve seeds the AMM. The TWAP never stops.

At the threshold, the curve’s terminal reserves capitalize a constant-product AMM (v2-style). Same fee, same accumulator.

  • Constant-product AMM x·y=k, spot fee fs = 1% unchanged
  • TWAP accumulator continuous across graduation — no gap
  • Initial liquidity = curve reserves, not an external injection
AMM v2-stylex·y = k
TOKENx
×
USDGy
TWAP inherited from the curve phase — options settlement sees no discontinuity at graduation.
04 — Options layer

UP / DOWN parimutuel market on the token.

As soon as a token has enough liquidity, a binary market opens on it. Losers pay winners — the protocol is never the counterparty.

UP
U
DOWN
D
Payout per $1 staked on UP(1 − f_o) × (U + D) / U
  • Rake fo = 4%, taken at settlement only
  • Settled on the internal TWAP — no external oracle
Windowsparimutuel

Multiple windows, desynchronized across tokens:

15 min1 h4 h24 h7 d
The protocol takes no directional risk on options: the rake is taken out of the pool at settlement and never flows back into the pool that generated it.
05 — Distribution

USDG fees do three things.

All collected fees (spot + options rake) are denominated in USDG and split by a fixed key.

  • Active rebate computed outside the stake pools — never re-injected into U or D
  • Rebate score indexed on fees actually paid, not on notional
USDG fee splitper trade
50%
30%
20%
Buyback & burn $QUILL Treasury Active rebate
The active rebate lives outside the U/D stake pools: it never moves the implied odds of a running market.
Differentiation

What breaks legacy launchpads, fixed by construction.

Against pump.fun-style pads and their farm-and-dump cycle, every point below is a protocol invariant — not a parameter tuned after the fact.

Farming
Legacy launchpads

Rewards score notional volume — wash trading is enough to farm.

quill.fun

The rebate score is indexed on fees actually paid. Washing costs the fee on every round trip.

Rake
Legacy launchpads

The rake can flow back into the pool that generated it, making staking structurally +EV.

quill.fun

The rake never returns to the same pool. A contract invariant, not a setting.

Creator
Legacy launchpads

The creator can bet on their own token from launch and exit first.

quill.fun

14-day ban on creator bets on their own token + on-chain vesting. No special mint rights.

Risk
Legacy launchpads

The platform is often the implicit counterparty to positions, or holds a share of them.

quill.fun

The protocol takes no directional risk on options. Losers pay winners, never the protocol.

Oracle
Legacy launchpads

Depends on an external oracle (Chainlink, Pyth) or a CEX price, each with its own attack surface.

quill.fun

Settled on an internal TWAP (10–30 min). No Chainlink, Pyth or CEX oracle.

Caps
Legacy launchpads

A betting pool can exceed the token’s real spot liquidity, making settlement manipulable.

quill.fun

U+D pool cap ≤ 20% of spot liquidity. Per-wallet cap: 15% of a pool.

Window close
Legacy launchpads

Static spot fees: nothing deters price manipulation right before expiry.

quill.fun

Spot fee ramps up as expiry approaches — an anti “candle war” tax.

Sync
Legacy launchpads

Identical windows across all markets concentrate manipulation on a single moment.

quill.fun

Windows are desynchronized across tokens — no shared settlement to target.

$QUILL

A token that captures fees, not attention.

All protocol fees — spot and options rake — are collected in USDG and split by the same key, described in step 05.

Buyback & burn
50 %

USDG fees buy back and burn $QUILL. The burn is indexed on real fees, never on self-reported volume.

Treasury
30 %

Protocol reserve in USDG for development and system resilience.

Active rebate
20 %

Redistributed to active participants, outside the U/D stake pools — no effect on the odds.

Protocol status

Not deployed. This is a design document.

Binary markets on digital assets fall under strict regulatory frameworks — MiCA at the EU level, ESMA and AMF positions on binary options. Any production release requires prior legal review before deploying any contract or making it available to the public.

No contract deployed · no fundraising in progress
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