FAQ
Who is Spawn for?
Anyone who wants to participate in token markets without the structural disadvantages of most launchpads. Spawners building communities, traders avoiding bot front-running, and communities forming around shared conviction rather than shared extraction.
You don't need to be technically sophisticated. The gasless, approval-free experience is designed to be as accessible as a centralised exchange while keeping crypto's non-custodial properties.
Can I participate from any chain?
Yes. Spawn supports non-custodial deposits from 15+ chains including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Smart Chain, Solana, and major L2s. The cross-chain transfer happens automatically. Once your deposit lands on Base, your balance is available to trade immediately.
Do I need to make the first buy when I spawn a token?
No - the first buy is optional. If you do make it, it's capped at 3% of supply and happens at the same price as everyone else. Skipping it is equally valid; the market forms either way.
Are there any fees on Spawn?
Yes. There's a 1% fee on bonding curve trades and a 1% fee on post-graduation trades. Both are deducted automatically; trading is gasless throughout (no network gas, no approvals). Post-graduation fees are paid back to holders as USDC dividends.
Can I withdraw my USDC at any time?
Yes. Spawn is non-custodial - you can withdraw directly through the vault contract on Base at any time. There's no lock-up, no approval required, no platform discretion over when funds can move.
See Deposits and Withdrawals →
What is The Spawn Engine?
The Spawn Engine is Spawn's off-chain bonding curve execution layer. It handles trade execution, price discovery, and settlement during the bonding curve phase. Because it runs off-chain with no public mempool, MEV, bundling, and queue-jumping are architecturally absent.
See Fairness as Architecture →
How does Spawn prevent bundling and MEV?
The Spawn Engine has no public mempool. The conditions these attacks depend on - visible pending transactions, manipulable block ordering, gas auctions - don't exist in Spawn's execution environment.
See Fairness as Architecture →
What does "on-chain by merit" mean?
Tokens deploy on-chain only after demonstrating market demand. During the bonding curve phase any token is tradeable, but on-chain deployment doesn't happen until the token reaches the $100,000 FDV graduation threshold. Tokens that don't attract sustained demand don't graduate.
What happens if a token doesn't graduate?
Tokens that don't reach the $100,000 FDV graduation threshold remain in the bonding curve phase or are abandoned. They never deploy on-chain. Holders can sell back into the curve at any time during the bonding curve phase and reclaim their USDC.
Where does a token deploy when it graduates?
In Spawn v1, all tokens graduate to Base.
Solana, BNB Chain, and Ethereum are planned as additional destination chains. Spawners will be able to set the destination or open it to a community vote.
What happens to post-graduation trading fees?
A 1% fee applies to trades on the on-chain market after graduation. Fees accrue in USDC and are paid out to token holders as dividends in proportion to their holdings. Holders can claim at any time.
Is my money safe on Spawn?
Spawn is non-custodial - funds are held in an on-chain USDC vault on Base, not by Spawn. You can withdraw at any time by calling the vault contract directly. Spawn's operational status doesn't determine whether you can access your funds.
That said, all smart contract systems carry risk. The vault is designed and audited with security as a core requirement, but no on-chain system is risk-free.
Why does Spawn emphasise chainless discovery?
Because the best token markets surface the best projects - which only happens when discovery isn't constrained by which chain a project happened to launch on.
What is $SPAWN?
$SPAWN is the native token of the Spawn ecosystem. More information will be shared closer to launch.