How BattleMeme works
The full lifecycle of a token from launch to graduation, in five stages.
1. Create — Launch a token
The creator pays 0.01 ETH. The factory mints 1,600,000,000 tokens and deposits all of them into 5 chained single-sided LP positions on Uniswap V4 covering a 100× price range.
The 0.01 ETH isn’t taken by the platform — it’s forwarded to the hook and used as an atomic pre-buy: an ETH→TOKEN swap at the pool’s freshly initialised price, output sent to the creator. So the creator walks away holding the tokens 0.01 ETH bought at price 1× — same price any walk-up first buyer would pay.
Nothing else held for the team. Nothing held for the contract. Every other token in existence is liquidity, earned by the market.
2. Trade — Buy and sell anywhere
Trading happens entirely through Uniswap V4 — the native AMM, any router, any aggregator. Open the pool on OKX Web3, GeckoTerminal, or whatever DEX frontend you prefer. As ETH flows in, the price climbs one ladder rung at a time (rung 1 → 2.51× → rung 2 → 6.31× → … → rung 5 → 100×). When the pool crosses 5 ETH raised, the hook auto-routes the token into the battle queue.
3. Queue + Warmup — Lock the bracket
The token freezes in the queue. When the queue hits 10 fighters or the 24-hour timeout fires with at least 2 ready, the battle is scheduled. A warmup window (10 min on mainnet) gives creators time to rally before trading reopens.
4. Four rounds — Deterministic cadence
| Round | Cut rule |
|---|---|
| R1 | First cutoff. Cut size depends on bracket size. |
| R2 | Cut grows. |
| R3 | Intense — deep cut. |
| R4 | Grand Final — always cuts to top 1, battle resolves. |
The score is simple: live ETH currently in the LP. Sells reduce it, buys add it. No composite formula, no hidden weights.
5. Graduation — The losers’ gift
The survivor graduates with two locked LP positions:
- Wide LP funded by the winner’s own ETH — price discovery, 5× downside to 1000× upside
- Wall LP funded by every loser’s escrowed ETH — a single-sided buy wall that absorbs sells first
Both positions are locked in-protocol. Mint disabled forever on the winner. Original ladder rungs fully unwound.
Leftover tokens are burned. After building the wide LP and pre-funding the ClaimManager with enough winner tokens to cover every loser’s claim ratio, any unsold tokens still on the hook are burned (hook.burnLeftoverTokens(winner)). So the final winner supply is ≤ 1.6B — usually less, never inflated beyond what holders actually need.
Loser holders burn their tokens for winner tokens at the rate locked in at the moment they were eliminated. Claim forever — no deadline.
TL;DR
Anyone launches. Anyone trades. The token survives or dies on the order book. The winner keeps liquidity locked. The losers don’t disappear — they fund the wall.