How the tide works

Tidepool is a Solana launchpad on Raydium LaunchLab where every coin pays its holders. Each coin has its own pool. Trading fees fill it through the day, and at high tide, 00:00 UTC, the pool is split between the people holding the coin.

The tide

Every trade on a Tidepool coin pays a 2.6% fee. The platform's cut of that fee is counted per coin, and 50% of it goes into that coin's pool. A tide runs for one UTC day. When it closes, every coin's pool is credited to its holders and a new tide starts filling.

A pool nobody was holding through (a brand-new coin with no readings yet) isn't lost: it rolls over to the next tide.

Your share

Holders are read on-chain every few minutes. Each reading adds points to every wallet:

points += tokens held × hours since the last reading × depth

Only what you held for the whole stretch counts (the smaller of the two readings). At high tide your payout from a coin is its pool × your points ÷ everyone's points. The coin's creator, the bonding curve, pools and the platform wallet never earn points.

Depth

The longer you hold a coin without selling, the deeper you go and the more each token counts.

Selling any of your position (more than 0.5%) sends you back to the Shallows. Buying more doesn't reset you, but the new tokens start shallow, so your depth moves back in proportion to how much you added. Points you already earned this tide stay yours.

Fees

Payouts

After each high tide your earnings are added to your owed balance, shown on your tide page. The Tidepool team sends owed balances straight to holders' wallets from the fee wallet: there's no claim button and nothing to sign. Balances under 0.001 SOL wait until they're worth the network fee, and a wallet with no SOL at all has to hold a little first (Solana needs ~0.00089 SOL in an account before it can receive).

Every payout is a public transaction, listed on the Analytics page.

Launching

Launching is free apart from network fees (~0.03 SOL). Pick a name, ticker and image, optionally make a first buy in the same transaction, and your coin goes live on Raydium LaunchLab. It graduates to a Raydium CPMM pool with locked liquidity when the curve fills. As the creator you don't share in your own coin's pool: it's for your holders, which is what makes them stay.

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