Glossary

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A

Address. A unique identifier for wallets and smart contracts on the blockchain. Looks like 0x1234...abcd. Anti-snipe. A captcha gate on V2 launches that runs for 0 to 60 seconds after launch. Buys and sells during the window require a captcha signature. Not a fee penalty. See Anti-Snipe. AMM (Automated Market Maker). A protocol that prices assets through a formula instead of an order book. V2 tokens trade on a Uniswap V4 pool after bonding.

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B

Bonding curve. The mathematical curve that prices a token while it raises ETH. V2 uses a linear curve with a configurable gain multiplier (1x to 21x). The curve runs until the target raise is met, then the token bonds to a Uniswap V4 pool. See Bonding Curve. Bond event. The moment a token’s bonding curve fills and the contract migrates liquidity to a Uniswap V4 pool. Happens automatically in one transaction. Buyback. The older Ink deployment’s use of the non-creator part of the variable fee to buy and burn tokens. Current Ink sends that part to holder fee sharing instead.

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C

Captcha auth. The signed token required by the V2 hook during the anti-snipe window. The InkyPump UI fetches it automatically. Cloudflare Turnstile. The captcha system used for the launch creation form to prevent automated launches. Creator fee split (creatorFeeSplitBps). A number from 0 to 10000 set by the creator. It controls how much of the 1 percent variable fee goes to the creator. The remainder path depends on the deployment.

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D

DEX (Decentralized Exchange). A peer to peer marketplace where transactions happen directly between traders. InkySwap is a DEX. V2 tokens trade on a Uniswap V4 pool after bonding. Dutch auction. An auction where the price starts high and decreases over time. Used for Emperor of the INK selection.

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E

Emperor of the INK (EOTI). The daily featured token on InkyPump’s homepage, selected through a Dutch auction. Works for both V1 and V2 tokens. See Emperor of the INK. Event (on chain). A log emitted by a contract. V2 emits LaunchCreated, Trade, Referral, LaunchFinalized, and others. Used by indexers to track activity.

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F

Finalization (or bonding). The transaction in which a token’s curve closes and a Uniswap V4 pool is created and seeded. Funding progress. The percentage of the target raise that has been raised so far. Shown on the trade page.

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G

Gain multiplier (gainBps). Controls how steep the V2 bonding curve is. 1x is flat. 21x is the maximum. The contract field is in bps so 200,000 corresponds to 21x. Gas fees. Transaction costs paid in ETH. Required for every on chain operation.

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H

Hook. A smart contract that owns launch state and can run logic on a Uniswap V4 pool. Each token remains tied to the hook that created it.

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I

Ink mainnet. The Layer 2 blockchain where InkyPump runs. Chain ID 57073. InkyPump. The token launch platform at inkypump.com. InkyPump V2 hook. A launch deployment in the V2 architecture. More than one hook exists. Discover the active creation hook through GET /api/capabilities, and use an existing token’s stored hook_address for later reads and writes. InkySwap. The wider DEX on Ink, separate from InkyPump.

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L

Launch ID. A unique uint256 identifier for each V2 launch. Returned by createLaunch. Launch timestamp. Unix time at which a V2 launch opens for trading. Set to 0 for immediate launch. Liquidity supply. The portion of the total supply paired with ETH in the V4 pool at bonding. Computed by SaleSplitCalculator based on the target raise and gain multiplier.

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M

Market cap. Token price multiplied by total supply. Min buy / min sell. The smallest allowed trade. MIN_BUY_ETH = 0.00001 ether. MIN_SELL_TOKENS = 1 ether (1 token).

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P

PoolKey. The Uniswap V4 struct that identifies a pool: token pair, LP fee tier, tick spacing, and hook. Current checked post-bond pools use fee 1000 (0.1 percent) and tick spacing 60. Hook fees are separate. Points. Reward units earned through trading, launching, and referring. Aggregated on the leaderboard. See Leaderboard. Post-bond. The phase after a token bonds. Trading happens on the Uniswap V4 pool. Curve calls revert. Prebuy. Optional creator buy at launch. Send the prebuy ETH amount as msg.value on the createLaunch call. There is no separate prebuyEth parameter on the struct. Prebuys bypass the anti-snipe captcha gate because they execute in the same transaction as the launch. Pre-bond. The phase before a token bonds. Trading happens on the bonding curve. Price impact. How much a trade moves the price. Larger trades relative to remaining curve supply cause higher impact. Protocol fee. The 1 percent fixed fee on every V2 curve trade. Goes to the InkyPump treasury. Proxy. A contract that delegates execution to an implementation contract. The InkyPump V2 hook is a UUPS proxy.

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R

Referral. An on chain attribution mechanism on V2. When a trader passes a referral code, the contract emits a Referral(launchId, trader, referralCode) event. No fee impact. Used for off chain point attribution. See Referrals. Referral code. Any string. The contract does not validate it. Off chain systems decide what counts.

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S

Sale supply. The portion of total supply sold through the curve. The rest is paired in the V4 pool at bonding. Slippage. The buffer between the previewed output and the minimum acceptable output. If the chain state changes between preview and execution, slippage protects you from a worse fill. See Slippage. Smart contract. Self executing code on the blockchain.

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T

Target raise. The ETH amount the curve needs to raise before the token bonds. V2 supports 1 to 5 ETH per launch. Tick spacing. A Uniswap V4 parameter that controls the granularity of pool prices. V2 pools use 60. Token. An ERC20 contract launched through InkyPump. TokenFactory. The V1 launch contract, deprecated. See Legacy Contracts. Total supply. 1,000,000,000 tokens per V2 launch. Transaction hash (tx hash). Unique identifier for a blockchain transaction. Search on explorer.inkonchain.com.

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U

Uniswap V4. The AMM protocol V2 tokens bond to. Pools support hooks that run custom logic on swaps. Universal Router. The router used to swap against bonded V4 pools. Read the address from the matching deployment’s canonicalV4 record in GET /api/capabilities. UUPS proxy. A proxy pattern where the upgrade logic lives in the implementation, not the proxy itself. Used by the V2 hook.

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V

Variable fee. The 1 percent on current V2 curve trades that is split by creatorFeeSplitBps. The creator receives one part; the deployment controls the remainder. V1. The legacy launch system using the TokenFactory contract and Uniswap V2 bonding. Deprecated. V2. The current launch system using the InkyPump V2 hook and Uniswap V4 bonding.

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W

Wallet. Software or hardware that stores private keys and signs transactions. WalletConnect. Protocol that lets mobile wallets connect to web apps through QR codes. WETH. Wrapped ETH. On Ink mainnet it is 0x4200000000000000000000000000000000000006. Current native InkyPump pools use native ETH as the zero-address currency, not WETH. Other routes can still use WETH. withdrawFees. The creator withdrawal function on a hook. Current Ink and Robinhood use withdrawFees(uint256); deprecated Ink V2 uses withdrawFees().

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Symbols

0x. Prefix for Ethereum addresses and hex values. Bps (basis points). 1 bps equals 0.01 percent. 10000 bps equals 100 percent. BPS_DENOMINATOR = 10_000 in the contracts.