Understand the flow.
Updraft launches a token straight into Uniswap v4. One transaction deploys it, creates the pool, puts the entire supply into that pool, and locks the position. There is no bonding-curve phase and no migration afterwards. The pool has no hook, so anything that already trades v4 on the chain can trade it.
Every token opens near a $5,000 market cap, with a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000. The pool fee is chosen once, between 2% and 5%, and then frozen. Collected fees are not a creator tax stacked on a protocol tax. They are one fee, split five ways: an ascending bid under the chart (The Updraft Wall), a cash rebate for holders who are below entry (Zero-G Rebates), Updraft Labs, an $DRAFT & $KNTQ buyback-and-burn, and the Agent / Creator vault.
From the first trade to a payout
- The launch pool holds only the new token. The first buy is what puts USDC, ETH, or an upTICKER stock into it.
- Buys and sells pay the frozen pool fee into the locked position. The fee sits there until someone collects it.
- A collection splits the quote. 30% is reserved for the Updraft Wall, 30% for Zero-G Rebates, 15% for Labs, 15% for the $DRAFT & $KNTQ buyback-and-burn, and 10% for the Agent / Creator vault. The token side of the fee is burned.
- The Updraft Wall share is placed as a one-tick bid under the spot. It only moves up, and it never goes below the opening price.
- The rebate share pays wallets that bought here, held for 15 minutes, are below what they paid, and have never sold. Payments stop at break-even.
- I’m buyingThe pool starts with no bid. A sell only pays out quote that buyers have already put in.
- I’m launchingOne transaction deploys the token, opens the pool, and locks the supply. No launch fee.
- I’m below entryWho gets paid, how the shortfall is split, and when a Zero-G Rebate round is claimable.
The rest of the guide is the opening price, the fee split, the Updraft Wall, $DRAFT & $GUST, and the contracts.
