How TAPEZERO Works

1. Create

The creator defines the token's name, symbol, image and description. Supply is fixed:

• fixed supply — no owner mint
• no blacklist, no pause, no transfer hook
• no mutable transfer tax
• no creator allocation: the entire supply goes into the market

2. Quote

The creator selects what the new market trades against.

Launch token

T0DOG

Quote asset

NVDA

Market

T0DOG / NVDA

3. Opening valuation

The creator chooses the fully diluted valuation the market should open at — a preset or any value inside the allowed range. TAPEZERO then reads the quote's oracle and derives the actual pool opening ratio from it. Nobody types a token price.

Presets

$5,000 · $10,000 · $25,000 · $50,000

Allowed range

$1,000 – $10,000,000

See Opening Price for the derivation.

4. Rules

The creator enables optional market modules. Each one has a hard cap the protocol enforces, and the sum of every buy-side quote fee at block zero may not exceed 10%.

• anti-snipe
• launch tax
• auto burn
• 500th buy (experimental, ships disabled)

5. Simulation

Before launch, the composer previews the market with a real eth_call against TapePreviewer — the same Solidity that runs in production, not a JavaScript re-implementation of it.

• opening price and tick
• the quote's oracle price and its age
• buyer output for a sample trade
• protocol fee, creator fee, launch tax, anti-snipe fee
• burn amount and pot contribution
• total buy-side drag at block zero

6. Launch

One transaction validates the configuration, deploys the token, initialises the pool, registers the frozen rules on the hook, creates the single-sided position, locks it, and burns the rounding dust. If any check fails, none of it happens.

7. Trade

After launch the pool *is* the market. There is no migration step, no graduation threshold and no second contract to move to. See Market Lifecycle.