Pollens

Rules

All the rules.Everything that decides where pollen lands, in plain English.

How this Solana memecoin launchpad on Stonks works. Read this before you plant a flower. Every number is a percentage; the only amount anywhere is the 0.01 SOL floor of a buy.

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statusLaunches are open. The meadow shows demo flowers until two real ones are verified; thresholds are still being calibrated on real trades.

launch in one minute
  1. Name your flower.A ticker, a name, a picture: the form on /launch.
  2. It launches on Stonks.One transaction, signed in your wallet, in the pair you choose among 23. You are the creator.
  3. No fee to us.Pollens takes nothing, at launch or after. On Stonks the creator gets 0 % of fees too.
  4. The bees do the rest.When holders of other flowers buy yours, pollen lands on it and it turns red. Ten pollinators in a day bear a fruit.
Fig. 1 — from a name to a flower in the meadow, in four steps.

The detailed rules

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A bee is a wallet. When a bee that holds coin A buys coin B, it carries a grain of pollen A → B. The grain counts only when all four are true:

  1. The wallet buys B for at least 0.01 SOL. Dust buys carry nothing.
  2. At that moment it still holds A: at least 0.05 % of A's supply, held for at least 1 hour. We use its lowest holding of that hour.
  3. It is the first time this hour for this bee and this pair (A, B). Buying B ten times is still one visit.
  4. The wallet is not part of a bundle and did not buy in blocks 0–2 of a launch.

On top of that, the bee must not be B's creator, nor funded by the same source as B's creator. The four conditions are played out step by step on /pollen.

Grains are not all equal. A grain weighs the share of A the bee holds, capped at 1 %. Summed over the hour, that gives the pollen A sends to B:

pAB = Σgrains A→B min( shareA(bee), 1 % )
shareA(bee)
the bee's lowest holding of A during the hour before the buy, as a share of A's supply
1 %
the cap per grain: a whale counts more than dust, not a hundred times more

Example: three bees hold 0.4 %, 2 % and 0.05 % of A and each buy B this hour. pAB = 0.4 + 1 + 0.05 = 1.45 %.

Every epoch (one hour), the meadow is redrawn from that hour's grains:

  • a flower's red is the pollen it received, Σ pAB over every flower A, shown against the best-pollinated flower of the hour;
  • each red dot is a bee flying from the flower it holds to the flower it buys;
  • the pollen a flower sends is shown too: it tells you where its holders go.

Nothing is paid, bought back or burned: the meadow only shows what bees do. The flows of the current demo hour are on /flow.

A flower that receives pollen from 10 different flowers in the same day (UTC) bears a fruit, drawn on it in the meadow until the day ends.

  • a flower bears fruit at most once a day;
  • only grains between verified flowers count.

A fruit moves no money.

ForagerBloom of the day
  • Forager: a wallet that carried pollen to 5 different flowers. It shows on the wallet's page, with the map of its flights.
  • Bloom of the day: the flower that received the most pollen in the day, with a picture ready to post.

Badges move no money. They are there to be seen and shared.

The obvious attack: a creator makes their own wallets hold A and buy B, to paint B red with fake pollen. Each rule below makes that cost more than it brings.

1 h hold
A bee must have held A for at least an hour before it buys B.
Lowest holding
We count the lowest amount of A it held during that hour, so a quick top-up does nothing.
1 % per grain
No single bee weighs more than 1 % of A's supply.
50 % per flow
One flow A → B never takes more than half of A's 40 %.
Same funding
Wallets funded by the same source as B's creator are excluded, and so is B's creator.
Bundles, blocks 0–2
Wallets in a launch bundle or that bought in blocks 0–2 are not bees.
Once per hour
A pair (A, B) counts once per bee per hour, however many buys.

When in doubt, the grain is refused: a missing holder snapshot, snapshots that disagree with the trades, an unknown order inside a block, an unknown funding source. A missed grain costs a little colour; a fake one would lie about the meadow.

Only flowers planted here are in the meadow. A flower enters it once its launch is read back on-chain:

  1. the coin was created on Stonks (Raydium LaunchLab, StonkFun platform) by the launch transaction Pollens built;
  2. the creator is the wallet that signed it.

Until then it is not verified yet: drawn dashed in the meadow, and no grain counts to it or from it. A coin launched elsewhere cannot join.

StonkFun1 %of every trade, the Stonks platform
Raydium0.25 %of every trade, the LaunchLab protocol
Creator0 %Stonks pays nothing to the creator
Pollens0 %nothing at launch, nothing after

There is no pot and no buyback. What you pay at launch is the network cost and your first buy, if any; your wallet shows it before you sign.

Each epoch is recomputed by an independent witness from public data only: the trades and the hourly holder snapshots. It runs the same rules and publishes its own result, so anyone can check that both agree.

The engine that counts the grains is the one your browser runs on /pollen.

Trading stays free on Stonks. Anyone can buy or sell any flower there, at any time. Pollens does not hold, block or route a single trade.

The site reacts to what bees do; it does not control it. Pollen is a picture of where holders go, nothing more. No rule here promises that a flower will grow.

  • The meadow is a demo. Every flower in it is tagged demo; its flows come from the real engine run on demonstration data, until two real flowers are verified.
  • Launches are open on Stonks, from your own wallet.
  • The floor, the hold time and the cap are being calibrated on real trades replayed through the engine, and may change before launch.
Cut I · The numbersFig. 3

The rules, in numbers

Epoch1 hthe meadow is redrawn
Buy floor0.01 SOLbelow it, a buy carries no pollen
Hold of A0.05 % · 1 hlowest holding of the hour
Grain cap1 %per bee, per grain
Fruit10different flowers in a day
Forager5flowers reached by one wallet
LaunchpadStonks23 pairs
Fees to us0 %at launch or after
status

Launches are open. The meadow is still a demo.

Everything on this sheet is how the site runs. Until two flowers planted here are verified, the meadow shows demonstrations.

See a grain counted step by step on /pollen, this hour's flows on /flow, and the launch form on /launch.