Buy the token before it exists
Everyone buys on the same bonding curve, held in escrow under the offering's own id, and the token is only deployed once the curve is fully paid for — at which point deploying it and opening the pool happen in one step, so no bot can get in ahead of you. If the curve never fills, nothing is deployed and everyone is paid back in full.
Filling now
Offerings still taking money. Earlier is cheaper on every one of them, and you can take yours back at any point before the curve fills.
Just graduated
Curves that filled. The token is live, the pool opened at the price the curve closed at, and the position is locked for good.
How an offering launches
Four steps, and only one of them costs anything. The long version, with the numbers, is on the how-it-works page.
Try the curve
Three knobs: the raise, how full the curve is when you arrive, and what you put in. The picture and the figures follow the knobs. This is the arithmetic every offering runs on, and there is nothing else hidden in it.
Why there is no open to snipe
A normal bonding-curve launch is a race. The token goes live, the curve opens, and whoever lands a transaction first buys the cheapest tokens. In practice that is a bot, or the deployer's own wallets bundled into the same block as the launch.
curvepad takes the race away by taking the open away. Buyers pay into the curve before the token exists, and the token is only deployed once the curve is fully paid for — at which point deploying it and opening the pool happen in one step. For the seconds a sniper would normally use, there is no curve left to buy.
Two ceilings stop one wallet owning the launch anyway: no buyer may end up holding more than 2% of the curve, and the creator no more than 10%. Because tokens are cheapest at the bottom, 2% costs very little early on, so filling a curve takes around fifty different wallets. That spread is the product.
How you get allocatedTop: the pool opens at block 0 and the bots are already there; a person's transaction lands a few blocks later, after the cheap tokens are gone. Bottom: the same buyers on curvepad, arriving over days on a curve that exists before the token does, each capped at 2% — and the pool only opens once the last of them is in.
Where your money sits
Buying in moves your money into the offering's escrow, and it is the same for SOL and for SOL. It stays there, under that offering's id, until one of exactly three things happens.
You withdraw
Any time while the curve is still filling — in full, with no fee and no waiting period. Your share of the curve is released for whoever fills it next, and nobody else's allocation moves.
The curve fills and launches
The token deploys, the raise less the pad's 1% opens a constant-product pool at the price the curve closed at, and the position is locked. Your tokens are yours to claim, one signature, whenever you like.
The deadline passes
Nothing happens, which is the right outcome. The token is never deployed, nothing is spent, and everyone takes back exactly what they paid. A creator who cannot find fifty wallets finds that out before spending anything.
There is no function that moves escrow anywhere except back to you or into the launch, and none of the three exits has an admin gate. The operator can pause new filings, and nothing else.
The numbers
Every figure the pad runs on. The ones the program fixes at deployment cannot be changed by anyone afterwards, the owner included.
What to check before you buy
All of this is on every offering page, and it is there so you can look before you buy rather than after. An offering is a set of published terms and a list of who is in; both are worth reading.
This is not a savings product. If a curve fills, it buys a volatile asset on your behalf at a price you agreed to, and that asset can go to zero. The caps spread a launch across a lot of wallets. They do not make a bad token good.
The state of it
Anyone can claim to be live. This panel checks: it reads the chain, the prices and the book as the page loads.
Questions
Ready to buy into one?
Browse what is filling and read its terms, or file your own and let fifty wallets decide whether it launches. Filing costs a few thousand lamports of fees and nothing else, and nothing is deployed until the curve is paid for.