Boardwalk

>Everybody wants in. >No one understands it. 🙋‍♂️How can I enter and not get rugged? The Boardwalk Standard gets adopted as cleaner market structure for mass participation. Immutable, transparent protections win long term. 🎯

Put the fee in the pool, it stays where the pool is. Put it in the token, it goes where the token goes. That's fee protection, standard on every launch through Boardwalk. Trading can move elsewhere, and the fee still routes the way it was defined. Onchain starts here. 🐳

🎟️ ticker → a symbol 🪙 token → a ticker + supply 🐳 economy → a token + visible rules + locked liquidity + fee protection + vesting + coordination Don't just launch a token. Launch a token economy.

We compared fee mechanics, vesting, immutability, and other considerations across seven major launch platforms. Just two use auction-based price discovery. And only one has protected fee routing, onchain fee direction, and a native coordination layer built in. @useboardwalk

ICYMI: DeFi Llama Research published a deep dive on Boardwalk, and they opened on the idea we keep coming back to: 👉 Creating a market is only the beginning. 👉 The launch is day one. What follows decides whether it becomes more than a tradable asset.

Most launch platforms put the fee in the pool. Boardwalk puts it in the token. That sounds like a small design choice. It isn't. Here's the problem it solves. ▓▓░░ 👇 a detailed post 👇░░▓▓ On most venues, the trading fee lives at the pool or venue level. That means the fee only exists where that venue controls it. Move trading activity somewhere else, and the fee meant for the economy simply doesn't happen. Anyone can spin up a competing pool somewhere else, and the fees from trading there are gone from the people the economy was built to sustain. Worse, sophisticated actors can quietly capture the fees inside the main pool itself. The most documented version of this is just-in-time (JIT) liquidity. Here's how JIT liquidity works: 🤖 A bot watches for a large pending trade, drops a tightly targeted liquidity position into the pool a moment before the trade lands, collects most of the fee from that single trade, and pulls the position right back out. The regular liquidity providers in that pool earn close to nothing on it. This isn't a rare edge case. Researchers studying Uniswap v3 catalogued tens of thousands of these events, with a single bot capturing the large majority of the profit and ordinary providers seeing their fees on those trades diluted by most of their value. So when a builder says "fees support the economy," the honest follow-up is: which fees, in which pool, and who can route around them? 🐳 Boardwalk's answer is to move the fee into the token itself. For non-exempt transfers, the fee travels with the token wherever it goes. Standard liquidity actions through Boardwalk are exempt, so providing liquidity the normal way doesn't get taxed. But the strategies that try to capture trading fees outside the standard pools have to pay the built-in fee to do it, which removes the cost advantage that made them profitable in the first place. In practice, liquidity settles in the standard pools because fighting the design costs more than it returns. The result is not a promise about price or volume, but about structure. The fee flow the launch was designed around stays attached to the economy instead of leaking to whoever sets up the cleverest outside pool. That's the difference between routing fees and protecting them. Routing decides where a fee goes once you've collected it. Protecting decides whether you get to keep collecting it at all. ✅ Boardwalk accomplished both. Most platforms help you launch a token. The harder problem is keeping the economics you specified intact after the launch gets interesting. That's the problem Boardwalk was built around. Onchain starts here. 🐳

The chaos era of token launches built an empire on enormous volume and fees. It cost a legion of traders. @useboardwalk is built to launch token economies using token-level fees routed to infra partners, auction models, immutable vesting, and more: defillama.com/research/repor…