How it works
In trading slang, a coin that moves with a bigger one is its beta. Here it has a friendlier name.
A lil bro is a new coin priced in one that already trades, its big bro. When that coin runs, the new one runs with it.
Three steps
Pick your big bro
Any Solana coin: $CATE, a big meme, or a tokenised stock.
Yours links to it by mint address, never by ticker.
Deploy your lil bro
1B supply, all of it on a bonding curve priced in the big bro or SOL. No team allocation, no presale. If no curve takes the coin, it goes straight into a locked pool (route 3).
An optional first buy rides in the same transaction. You get 0.40% of every trade, in the coin it trades against. At launch you pick what it does: you keep it, it buys back and burns your coin, or it pays your holders.
Lil Bro of the Week
Every trade pays 1.25%. Part of it fills the weekly pot.
At Friday 20:00 UTC, the coin with the most fees that week takes it, paid in SOL.
Three routes
We keep the bonding curve wherever one exists. We try three routes in order and take the first that works.
- Route 1bonding curve
Meteora bonding curve
Takes: Any regular Solana coin, and Token-2022 coins with no transfer fee and nothing beyond metadata.
The lil bro starts on a bonding curve against its big bro, with the launch-fee window. It graduates to a Meteora DAMM v2 pool when the curve fills.
For example$CATE - Route 2bonding curve
Raydium LaunchLab bonding curve
Takes: Coins Meteora's curve refuses, such as ones that charge a transfer fee, when Raydium has set up LaunchLab for that coin; and tokenised stocks.
The same kind of bonding curve, on Raydium, graduating to a Raydium CPMM pool. It has no launch-fee window.
For example$GP+3% fee - Route 3no bonding curve
Meteora DAMM v2, no curve
No bonding curve for this pair: the lil bro launches straight into a locked pool.
Takes: Coins neither curve takes, such as a meme with a transfer fee that Raydium has not set up, when Meteora DAMM v2 takes them without Meteora's approval.
Its whole supply goes into two pool positions at a starting price, the creator's and the platform's (40/60 by liquidity), locked forever. It has the launch-fee window, takes fees in the big bro, and has nothing to graduate to.
For example$VRCAT+3% fee
None takes it? Then the coin can't be paired yet, and the check names what blocks each route: for example an active transfer hook, a permanent delegate or a pause switch, which Meteora DAMM v2 takes only with Meteora's approval.
Why this order
Taxed big bros. Some coins charge their own tax every time they move. A SOL buy of a lil bro paired with one moves it about twice on the way in, and twice again on the way out. Every trade shows it.
Route 3 today: $VRCAT charges 3% and Raydium has not set up LaunchLab for it, so coins deployed on it go straight into a locked Meteora DAMM v2 pool. They pair with $VRCAT only: paired with SOL, they would get a curve.
Where the 1.25% goes
Fees are a proposal and may change before launch.
Weekly pot 0.20% ($0.23) · Swapped to SOL and paid to the Lil Bro of the Week: its holders, its creator, and a buyback and burn of its big bro.
- Never in the coin you deploy
- On a curve paired with $CATE, the fee is $CATE: that is what the curve holds. Paired with SOL, it is SOL.
- After graduation
- When a curve fills, the coin moves to a regular pool (Meteora DAMM v2 or Raydium CPMM). That pool takes its fee on both sides of a trade, so part arrives in the lil bro; the platform burns any it receives. Route 3 has no curve and never graduates: its pool takes the fee in the big bro only.
To confirm: the fee on the graduated pool and how the split carries over.
- Venue
- There are three routes. Meteora runs the curves for regular coins like $CATE. Raydium LaunchLab runs them for tokenised stocks like $NVDAx, and for coins Meteora's curve refuses that Raydium has set up, like $GP. Its mint charges a 3% transfer fee, set by its own team on top of ours and changeable at any time, so lil bros of $GP cost more to trade. Coins neither curve takes, like $VRCAT, go straight into a locked Meteora DAMM v2 pool. There the venue slice is Meteora DAMM v2's own protocol share, and the creator's slice comes out of the locked pool's fees (how is still to confirm).
- Creator
- 0.40%, paid by the venue in the coin it trades against: a creator on $CATE is paid in $CATE. At launch the creator picks what it pays for:
- Keep it (the default). Paid to you in the pair's currency. Claim it any time.
- Buy back and burn my lil bro. Every hour the platform buys your coin with it and burns what it bought.
- Pay my holders. Added to your holders' rewards, credited every hour by time held.
The buyback pays the normal trade fee and does not count toward the weekly race. To confirm: how the creator's share reaches the keeper for a buyback or for holders: both venues pay the creator fee to the pool's creator.
- Holders
- 0.10% goes to holders by time held, paid in the big bro, or SOL on SOL pairs: a $CATE pair pays $CATE. It is never swapped, and it is credited every hour. A creator who picks “Pay my holders” adds their 0.40% on top.
- Burn
- 0.10% burns the big bro: as is when the fee is already in it, or bought with the SOL fee first. So does 20% of each winning pot, bought with SOL at the Friday close (see below). For stocks, whether a holder can burn is still to confirm; if not, this slice goes to the weekly pot.
- Why only the pot is swapped
- One pot is shared by every coin, so it is paid in one currency, SOL. On pairs that trade in $CATE, only the pot's 0.20% is swapped to SOL, in small hourly lots. That is a sale of $CATE worth 0.20% of every trade, about twice the size of the 0.10% burn. Holder rewards stay in $CATE. When one of those pairs wins the week, 20% of its pot buys $CATE back and burns it. Net of the burns, about 0.06% of volume is sold, averaged over every big bro and week. That is before the platform's own slice. The platform's own 0.20% arrives in $CATE too, on pairs that trade in it. Whether the platform holds or sells that slice is not decided yet.
Worked example: a 1 SOL buy of a $CATE lil bro
| Slice | Share | In $CATE | = SOL | USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue· The DEX that runs the pool | 0.25% | 3.15 | 0.00250 | $0.28 |
| Creator· Whoever deployed the coin | 0.40% | 5.03 | 0.00400 | $0.45 |
| Weekly pot· The week's winner | 0.20% | 2.52 | 0.00200 | $0.23 |
| Holders· Everyone holding the coin | 0.10% | 1.26 | 0.00100 | $0.11 |
| Burns $CATE· Removed from supply | 0.10% | 1.26 | 0.00100 | $0.11 |
| Platform· The platform | 0.20% | 2.52 | 0.00200 | $0.23 |
| Total fee | 1.25% | 15.73 | 0.0125 | $1.42 |
Proposed1 SOL = 1,258 CATE at the snapshot prices (SOL $113, CATE $0.0901, DexScreener, Thu 24 Sept, 12:05 UTC). Not live. Only the pot slice is then swapped to SOL. The holder slice is paid in CATE, and the creator's slice goes where the creator chose at launch.
Your SOL buys $CATE in its own pool first, then that $CATE buys the coin. It trades through its big bro: every SOL buy is a $CATE buy on the way in, and every SOL sell a $CATE sell on the way out.
The example treats 1 SOL as exactly its value in $CATE. A real buy also pays the $CATE pool's own swap fee and price impact on that hop (not ours).
Snipers fund the pot
Routes 1 and 3 (Meteora, Meteora DAMM v2).
The first seconds of a launch belong to bots. So the fee starts at 50% and falls to the normal 1.25% over 20 seconds. Of what a sniper pays above 1.25%, 48% goes to the pot, 32% to the creator and 20% to Meteora.
The creator's first buy rides in the launch transaction and skips the launch fee. Route 3 has no first buy.
| A 1 SOL buy at | Fee | Above 1.25% | To the pot (48%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0s | 50.00% | 0.487 SOL | 0.234 SOL |
| 2s | 45.13% | 0.439 SOL | 0.211 SOL |
| 5s | 37.81% | 0.366 SOL | 0.175 SOL |
| 10s | 25.63% | 0.244 SOL | 0.117 SOL |
| 15s | 13.44% | 0.122 SOL | 0.058 SOL |
| 20s | 1.25% | — | — |
Proposed schedule. To confirm: Meteora's fee-schedule limits, how it splits the launch fee between itself, the creator and us, and whether the creator's first buy can skip it. Route 3 uses Meteora DAMM v2's own fee scheduler, which allows a starting fee of up to 99%. Raydium LaunchLab has no launch-fee window: its launches (tokenised stocks and $GP) pay the normal fee from the first second, so no sniper fees.
We never sell your lil bro
On the curve and in a route-3 pool, every fee is taken in SOL or the big bro. Paying rewards never means selling yours.
Only the pot slice moves to SOL, in small hourly swaps. Holder rewards stay in the coin they arrive in and are credited every hour, not in one lump.
Any of your coin the platform receives or buys back, for example after graduation or for a creator's buyback, is burned, never sold.
Lil Bro of the Week
The weekly race.
- 1The week closes Friday 20:00 UTC. A new race starts the same second.
- 2Ranked by fees generated in USD that week. Never market cap: a thin pool can be marked up for cents.
- 3At least 50 unique trader wallets that week to be eligible.
- 4Paid in SOL, in the payout run after the close: 60% to the winner's holders by time held, 20% to its creator, and 20% buys back its big bro and burns it. Proposed
- 5Paired with SOL? If it wins, 80% goes to its holders and 20% to its creator. Its fees never sold its big bro, so none of the pot buys it back.
- 6Nobody eligible? The whole pot rolls into next week.
What fills the pot
- Every trade
- 0.20%
- Launch fees above 1.25%
- 48% of it
- A week with no eligible winner
- rolls over
The pot arrives in the coin each pair trades against and moves to SOL in small hourly swaps, the only slice that is swapped. On a 1 SOL trade the pot slice is $0.23.
Tied to the real big bro
By mint, never by ticker.
- 1Linked by mint address. The chip on every lil bro opens the page of the exact coin it is paired with.
- 2Its own ticker. A coin called $CATE can't be deployed on $CATE.
- 3Listed by the mint we checked. Other tokens with the same ticker are left out, and each page says how its mint was checked.
- 4A listing says nothing about the team. No project has endorsed or partnered with this site. Claim your page: coming soon
When the CATE mint was checked, 4 other tokens were using the same ticker. None of them is listed.
What runs it
Plainly.
The platform runs an hourly keeper. It claims the platform's fee share and does the burns, the buybacks creators pick, the pot's swaps to SOL, the reward credits and the pot moves. Each will be an on-chain transaction listed on the site.
Soft launch, manual payouts. At launch the platform runs the weekly payout itself, with a script after the Friday close, and publishes every transaction. Holder rewards are credited every hour and paid out in that Friday run. Automation comes later.
The pools run on third-party programs: Meteora's bonding curve, Meteora DAMM v2 and Raydium LaunchLab. Nothing is audited. Meteora's operator key can disable any Meteora DAMM v2 pool: a route-3 coin from its first trade, a coin on Meteora's curve once it graduates.
Demo: sample data, no real trading. In this demo the hourly swaps, burns and reward credits run every minute, so you can watch them.