Launch models, explained plainly

Verdant creates fixed-supply tokens on Uniswap v4. A launch mints the whole supply once, opens a pool for it, puts the supply into that pool as liquidity and hands the resulting position to a contract that will not give it back. The swap fee is written into a hook at the same moment and cannot be edited afterwards by the creator, by Verdant, or by a vote.

What a creator chooses is a launch model: what the token is priced against, and how its fee behaves over time. Everything else about a market is the same in every model, because the guarantees are what the protocol is for.

The three models

What is true of every market

• The supply is final. The token has no mint function, no owner and no upgrade path. The number that exists at launch is the number that will ever exist.
• The fee is final. One fee, or a schedule of up to 8 stages, written into the hook at creation. A schedule advances on the clock and on nothing else — no oracle, no trigger, no discretion.
• The launch position is locked. It goes to a locker with no operator and no early-release path. Fees can be collected out of it; liquidity cannot.
• Fee recipients are final. Where the creator's share is paid is decided at creation and cannot be redirected by anyone afterwards.
• Nobody takes custody. Verdant never holds your funds, and the hook is deployed at an address whose bits make it incapable of taking value out of a swap.