Overview
8453.trade is a token launchpad on Base. Anyone can launch a token in one transaction, and it opens straight into its own Uniswap v4 pool, with the whole supply as liquidity that can never be withdrawn. Wallets, trading bots, terminals and aggregators can trade it from the first block. Creators can pair their token with ETH, a stablecoin, a tokenized stock or gold, and give it up to eight rules that are enforced on every swap, wherever it comes from.
- Network
- Base (chain 8453)
- Supply of every token
- 1,000,000,000
- Team allocation
- 0%
- Starting market cap
- $4,500
- Trades on
- Uniswap v4, from the first block
- Liquidity
- Locked forever
A token's life
- 01
Launch
Pick a name, a ticker, an image, a pair and rules. One transaction creates the token and its Uniswap v4 pool. You can buy first in the same transaction, before any bot.
- 02
Trade
It's a normal Uniswap v4 token from that block: it trades through the site, the Uniswap app, any router, bot or aggregator, and moves freely between wallets.
- 03
Rules
The rules run in the pool's hook on every swap, so they apply to every app and bot alike, and nobody can change them.
- 04
Earn
The creator earns a share of every trade and the pool's LP fees, forever. The protocol earns 1% of every trade.
The pool
At launch the whole supply goes into a single-sided position of the token's Uniswap v4 pool, from the starting price ($4,500market cap) upward. The first buy is the first trade: there is no presale and no reserve. As people buy, the paired asset they pay builds up in the same position, so sellers can always sell back into it.
That liquidity belongs to no one: the contract has no function to withdraw it. Its LP fees can be collected by anyone: the paired-asset side goes to the creator, the token side is burned. With the pair wheel, the liquidity moves to the next pair's pool, but it never leaves the protocol.
Trade anywhere
Every 8453.trade pool is a standard Uniswap v4 pool on Base. Uniswap's own router and quoter trade and price it, so trading bots, terminals and aggregators that support Uniswap v4 can trade it as soon as it launches. The rules and fees live in the pool's hook: they apply to every swap, whichever app sent it.
Fees
- Launch fee
- 0.0005 ETH
- Protocol fee
- 1% of every buy and sell, whichever app or bot made it
- Creator fee
- 0% to 10% of every trade, chosen at launch
- Rules
- Some rules take a share too (pots, burns, referrals…)
- Ceiling
- 20% of a buy and 15% of a sell, everything included
- Pool LP fee
- Set at launch (up to 10%), paid to the locked liquidity, so to the creator
Creator earnings collect in the contract and can be claimed at any time from the Rewards page, in each asset they were earned in.
Pairs
The pair is what people buy the token with in its pool. Stocks are tokenized shares on Base, in their wrapped version (the plain version changes balances over time, which AMM pools can't handle). Every pair needs a reliable USD price: from Chainlink when it exists, otherwise from a 30-minute average of its main pool on Base, converted with Chainlink.
| Pair | Kind | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Native | Chainlink | |
| Stablecoin | Chainlink | |
| Stablecoin | Chainlink | |
| Stablecoin | Chainlink | |
| Bitcoin | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink | |
| Stock | Chainlink |
Pair wheel
A wheel token switches pair on a timer. The creator picks 2 to 6 pairs and a rhythm (5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, 4 hours, 1 day). When the timer runs out, anyone can spin the wheel, and our keeper does it every minute.
- At each spin
- The locked liquidity leaves the pool, its paired side is converted, and it goes back in a pool against the next pair with the same value
- Max loss per spin
- 3% against the oracle price, or the spin skips that pair (a protocol setting, capped at 10%)
- Thin pool or no price
- The wheel skips to the next pair; if none works, nothing moves
- Not compatible
- Pots, Auto-LP and Buyback rules (they hold funds in one asset)
Rules
Rules are Uniswap v4 hook modules picked at launch, up to eight per token. They run on every swap in the pool, from any app or bot, and nobody can change them afterwards, us included. The launch page offers ready-made sets (Fair launch, Arena, Deep liquidity, Wall Street).
Protection
Anti-snipe
For a window after launch, buys share a per-block cap in dollars and pay a snipe tax that goes to the Nth-buy pot, else the last-buyer pot, else the protocol. It applies to every router and bot, since it runs in the pool. Nobody else can add liquidity during the window. Sells are never touched.
Breathing cap
The largest buy allowed follows a sine wave from launch: it starts at the average, rises by the swing a quarter cycle later, falls by the swing three quarters in, and never drops below the floor. All buys of one transaction count together. Sells are never capped.
Dump guard
During the window after launch, and again after the pool opens, one transaction can sell at most a share of the 1B supply. Several sells in one transaction count together. Large holders can still exit, in steps.
Hot potato
Whoever made the last qualifying buy can't sell or send a token until a different wallet makes a qualifying buy, or until the cool-off runs out. Receiving is always fine. Nobody is exempt, the creator included.
Max per wallet
From launch until the window after the pool opens ends, no wallet may end up holding more than the cap, by buying or receiving. Selling and sending are never limited. Protocol contracts are exempt.
MEV shield
During the window, any trade whose transaction pays more than the set priority fee above the base fee reverts. The cap is at least 5 gwei so normal transactions pass.
Momentum
The largest buy allowed rides a damped oscillator. Each buy kicks it: the cap swells, peaks a quarter period later, dips below rest half a period later, and the swing fades. Never below the floor, never above 4x the resting cap.
Sell tax decay
Sells pay an extra pool fee that starts at the set rate after launch and falls in a straight line to zero. It is taken in tokens, which are burned when the pool's fees are collected. A fee, never a refusal.
Sliding caps
Separate caps on every buy and every sell, set for launch and for market-cap levels in US dollars. The level in force is the highest one the market cap has reached, so caps slide back if it drops. 0 means no cap on that side.
Whale guard
During the window after launch, and again after the pool opens, one transaction can buy at most the cap. Splitting a buy into several swaps doesn't get around it. Sells are never limited.
Fees & rules
Dynamic fee
The LP fee starts at the pool's base fee and rises toward the ceiling as a swap trades more relative to pool depth. Sensitivity sets how fast it climbs.
Market hours (sells always open)
Buys are accepted only Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 4 pm New York time, with daylight saving, NYSE holidays and 1 pm early closes computed on-chain. Selling is possible at any time.
Market hours
Buys and sells are accepted only Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 4 pm New York time, with daylight saving, NYSE holidays and 1 pm early closes computed on-chain. Holders can't sell outside the session.
Ping pong
After a buy only a sell can trade, after a sell only a buy; the first trade must be a buy. Only trades of at least the minimum size flip the turn. If nobody takes the turn before the timeout, both sides are free until the next counted trade.
Referral
Adds a creator fee on buys and sells (with your core fee at most 10%). On buys from a referred wallet, part of it goes to the referrer, so buyers pay the same with or without a link. A buyer's first referrer is kept for good.
Tithe
A fixed share of every trade goes to a recipient named at launch: a charity, a treasury, a DAO. It builds up as a balance the recipient claims. 0x…dEaD burns it instead. Nobody can change it later.
Volatility fee
The first swap in a block sets a reference price. Every later swap in that block pays an extra LP fee for each tick the price already moved, up to a ceiling. Sandwiches and pile-ons get expensive.
Rewards & burn
Auto burn
On each buy, a share of the tokens bought is burned. Supply only goes down.
Auto-LP
A share of every buy and sell is saved. Anyone can press Compound: half buys the token and both sides become full-range liquidity nobody can remove. Runs only while the price is calm, at most every ~40 seconds.
Beacon
Keeps the token's highest dollar market cap on-chain for Entangled tokens. A new high only counts once it has held for 15 minutes across 5+ blocks. Takes no fees.
Buyback & burn
A share of what every sell pays out is saved, then spent buying the token and burning it, capped per run, with at most 5% price impact against an older price and a cooldown.
Buyer rewards
Stock a vault with any ERC-20. Every qualifying buy earns the buyer a fixed reward, locked for a while: selling or sending during the lock forfeits it back to the vault, so buy-and-dump loops earn nothing.
Entangled
No buys and no sells until the beacon token first reaches the target dollar market cap, then free forever. Unlocks anyway after the maximum lock time so holders are never stuck.
King of the Hill
The largest qualifying buy holds the crown and earns a share of every buy and sell. A challenger must beat it by the margin, and that bar halves every decay period. Selling or sending any token gives the crown up.
Last-buyer pot
A share of each buy fills a pot. Every qualifying buy restarts the clock and takes the lead. When the clock runs out, the leader takes the whole pot and a new round starts.
LP rewards
A share of each pool buy is donated to in-range liquidity. The launch liquidity is locked forever, so this deepens your LP fees and rewards anyone who adds full-range liquidity later.
Nth-buy pot
A share of each buy (and the pool anti-snipe tax) fills a pot. Each qualifying buy moves a public counter by one, at most once per block, and the buy that lands on N wins the pot. Deterministic, no randomness claimed.
Launch protection
The Anti-snipe rule (in the Fair launch and Keep it simple sets) opens a window after launch, 300 blocks or about 5 minutes by default. During it, all buyers share a per-block dollar cap and pay a snipe tax (15% by default, up to 25%), whichever router or bot they use. The creator's first buy happens in the launch transaction itself, before anyone else can trade.
Contracts
Deployed on Base. The admin keys belong to the 8453.trade treasury.
- Launchpad · Creates tokens, opens their pools, holds the locked liquidity, runs the pair wheel0x77f490b0…823cbFA3 ↗
- Hook · Uniswap v4 hook: fees and rules on every pool swap0x3AcB4484…42F528cc ↗
- Router · Buys and sells in 8453.trade pools, used by the site0x56f83318…59fCA761 ↗
- Lens · Read helper for the app0xf292284F…6A82eE9b ↗
- Price oracle · USD prices: Chainlink feeds and pool TWAPs0xd189af98…81197bD7 ↗
- Swapper · Conversions for the pair wheel0xa5951bd1…A009b916 ↗
The admin can list or delist pairs, set the launch fee and the wheel's slippage cap, and switch a rule off everywhere in an emergency (a rule that holds funds then lets them go to each token's creator). It can't touch tokens, pools or locked liquidity, and it can't add or change a rule on a token that already launched.
Risks
- New tokens are highly speculative and most go to zero. Only trade what you can afford to lose.
- The contracts are tested but have not been audited yet.
- Tokenized stocks and gold depend on their issuers, who can pause transfers. Prices from pool TWAPs follow the pool, which can drift from the real market when liquidity is thin.
- A wheel spin can lose up to 3% of the reserve or liquidity in conversion costs.
FAQ
+Can the creator rug the liquidity?
No. The pool liquidity is held by the launchpad, which has no function to withdraw it.
+Can bots and terminals trade 8453.trade tokens?
Yes, from the first block. It's a standard Uniswap v4 pool; the rules and fees apply to them like to everyone.
+Where are my creator earnings?
On the Rewards page, claimable at any time in each asset they were earned in.
+Do I need to approve before selling?
Not on 8453.trade: tokens give the 8453.trade router an allowance from the start. Other apps ask for the usual approval.