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ballast is coming to @Enter_Elysium.
stock-paired launches, locked liquidity, and a burn that never sleeps.
november 9th.
stock-paired launches, locked liquidity, and a burn that never sleeps.
november 9th.
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The best feature on ballast is what's missing.
No presale.
No team allocation.
No unlock schedule.
No LP that can be pulled.
No admin key to raise fees.
Every launch on @RobinhoodCrypto and @Enter_Elysium starts without the things that usually go wrong.
What's left is simple: locked forever, and a fee split onchain on every swap.
BALLAST
No presale.
No team allocation.
No unlock schedule.
No LP that can be pulled.
No admin key to raise fees.
Every launch on @RobinhoodCrypto and @Enter_Elysium starts without the things that usually go wrong.
What's left is simple: locked forever, and a fee split onchain on every swap.
BALLAST
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Ballast: One Engine, Two Chains
Ballast now runs on two networks: @RobinhoodCrypto and @Enter_Elysium. Different chains, different crowds, same rules underneath. Here's everything Ballast does on each, and why it works the way it does.
The rules every launch gets
On both h is not a bonding curve and not a promise. It's a real Uniswap v4 pool from block one, running through the Ballast hook.
100% of supply goes into the pool. No presale, no team allocation, no hidden wallets.
Liquidity is locked forever. Nobody can pull it, including us.
Every swap pays a fee inside the pool, and that fee is split onchain: 80% to the creator side, 20% to $BALLAST.
Those three things don't change, whichever chain you pick.
Chapter 1: @RobinhoodCrypto
Pair with real assets
On Robinhood Chain your token can trade against WETH or a tokenized stock: NVDA, SPY, SGOV, TSLA and more. The pair becomes part of the story. An AI meme paired with NVDA. A macro play paired with SPY. A safe-haven joke paired with SGOV.
A fixed 3% fee, split and burned
Every swap pays 3%. 80% goes to the creator side through the creator's own fee router, where creators can split it with their team. The other 20% buys $BALLAST on the open market and sends it to the dead address.
There's no owner and no keeper. Fees accrue to the buyback contract automatically and anyone can trigger a buyback once it's ready.
So far: 63.4M $BALLAST burned, 6.34% of supply, across 178 buybacks.
The Creator Fund
$10K for 10 launches. Launch with an NVDA, SPY or SGOV pool, reach $50K in volume and 100 holders within 14 days, and your token qualifies for $1,000. The payout goes into the token's own treasury, not a personal wallet, and you accept it within 7 days.
Chapter 2: @Enter_Elysium
Elysium is Hyperliquid's L2, built by Kinetiq. Ballast Gen 5 went live there on day one of mainnet.
Pick your fee, then it's locked
On Elysium the creator chooses the swap fee, anywhere from 1% to 10%, and pairs with HYPE. The moment the token launches, that fee is fixed forever. Not even the creator can change it. Holders always know exactly what they're trading into.
Limit orders inside the pool
Gen 5 builds limit orders into the hook.
Place: pick a price, and your tokens wait in the pool as a range order.
Fill: when a swap crosses your price, the hook fills your order inside that same swap.
Withdraw: take your filled tokens anytime, or cancel if it hasn't filled.
No keeper, no bot, no off-chain matching, and no slippage window for anyone to squeeze.
Bots pay too
Every swap pays the fee, bots included. A sandwich is two trades, so it pays the fee twice. On higher-fee pools most small sandwiches simply stop being profitable.
Where the fees go
Same 80/20 split. 80% goes to the creator side. On Elysium, the protocol share accrues to the Ballast Safe (2-of-3) and is used for $BALLAST buyback & burn once the bridge is live.
Boring where it matters
The Gen 5 contracts have no proxy, no upgrade switch, no pause button and no rescue function. The factory is owned by the Ballast Safe, a 2-of-3 multisig, and the only thing it can do is add new pair assets. The deployer wallet has no power left. Every setter was one-time and has been used.
Contracts on Elysium
Factory 0x24c9582C31a7B890dC51D51e99E1283880Bc4bEE
Hook 0x3F5b07E06A16E0A1da416D29B64C1f9DC48A12Cc
Gen 5 is beta. Read the contracts, start small, and judge it by what's onchain.
Four ways in
Web app: launch and trade at ballasted.fun.
Telegram: the mini app, plus @BallasteredBot posting every launch, buy and burn.
SDK: ballast-sdk, to build launches and trades into your own app.
MCP: let an AI agent read pools and launch for you.
Which chain is for you?
If you want your token tied to real-world assets and a burn that already runs on every swap, launch on Robinhood Chain.
If you want speed, the Hyperliquid crowd, your own fee and built-in limit orders, launch on Elysium.
Ballast now runs on two networks: @RobinhoodCrypto and @Enter_Elysium. Different chains, different crowds, same rules underneath. Here's everything Ballast does on each, and why it works the way it does.
The rules every launch gets
On both h is not a bonding curve and not a promise. It's a real Uniswap v4 pool from block one, running through the Ballast hook.
100% of supply goes into the pool. No presale, no team allocation, no hidden wallets.
Liquidity is locked forever. Nobody can pull it, including us.
Every swap pays a fee inside the pool, and that fee is split onchain: 80% to the creator side, 20% to $BALLAST.
Those three things don't change, whichever chain you pick.
Chapter 1: @RobinhoodCrypto
Pair with real assets
On Robinhood Chain your token can trade against WETH or a tokenized stock: NVDA, SPY, SGOV, TSLA and more. The pair becomes part of the story. An AI meme paired with NVDA. A macro play paired with SPY. A safe-haven joke paired with SGOV.
A fixed 3% fee, split and burned
Every swap pays 3%. 80% goes to the creator side through the creator's own fee router, where creators can split it with their team. The other 20% buys $BALLAST on the open market and sends it to the dead address.
There's no owner and no keeper. Fees accrue to the buyback contract automatically and anyone can trigger a buyback once it's ready.
So far: 63.4M $BALLAST burned, 6.34% of supply, across 178 buybacks.
The Creator Fund
$10K for 10 launches. Launch with an NVDA, SPY or SGOV pool, reach $50K in volume and 100 holders within 14 days, and your token qualifies for $1,000. The payout goes into the token's own treasury, not a personal wallet, and you accept it within 7 days.
Chapter 2: @Enter_Elysium
Elysium is Hyperliquid's L2, built by Kinetiq. Ballast Gen 5 went live there on day one of mainnet.
Pick your fee, then it's locked
On Elysium the creator chooses the swap fee, anywhere from 1% to 10%, and pairs with HYPE. The moment the token launches, that fee is fixed forever. Not even the creator can change it. Holders always know exactly what they're trading into.
Limit orders inside the pool
Gen 5 builds limit orders into the hook.
Place: pick a price, and your tokens wait in the pool as a range order.
Fill: when a swap crosses your price, the hook fills your order inside that same swap.
Withdraw: take your filled tokens anytime, or cancel if it hasn't filled.
No keeper, no bot, no off-chain matching, and no slippage window for anyone to squeeze.
Bots pay too
Every swap pays the fee, bots included. A sandwich is two trades, so it pays the fee twice. On higher-fee pools most small sandwiches simply stop being profitable.
Where the fees go
Same 80/20 split. 80% goes to the creator side. On Elysium, the protocol share accrues to the Ballast Safe (2-of-3) and is used for $BALLAST buyback & burn once the bridge is live.
Boring where it matters
The Gen 5 contracts have no proxy, no upgrade switch, no pause button and no rescue function. The factory is owned by the Ballast Safe, a 2-of-3 multisig, and the only thing it can do is add new pair assets. The deployer wallet has no power left. Every setter was one-time and has been used.
Contracts on Elysium
Factory 0x24c9582C31a7B890dC51D51e99E1283880Bc4bEE
Hook 0x3F5b07E06A16E0A1da416D29B64C1f9DC48A12Cc
Gen 5 is beta. Read the contracts, start small, and judge it by what's onchain.
Four ways in
Web app: launch and trade at ballasted.fun.
Telegram: the mini app, plus @BallasteredBot posting every launch, buy and burn.
SDK: ballast-sdk, to build launches and trades into your own app.
MCP: let an AI agent read pools and launch for you.
Which chain is for you?
If you want your token tied to real-world assets and a burn that already runs on every swap, launch on Robinhood Chain.
If you want speed, the Hyperliquid crowd, your own fee and built-in limit orders, launch on Elysium.
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Either way it's the same engine. Real pools, locked liquidity, and fees that go back to the people who make the token work.
ballasted.fun
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Ballast now runs on two chains. Same rules on both.
On @RobinhoodCrypto you can pair your token with WETH or tokenized stocks like $NVDA, $SPY, $SGOV and $TSLA. Every swap pays a fixed 3% fee inside the pool.
On @Enter_Elysium you pair with $HYPE and pick your own fee, from 1% , that fee is locked forever. Gen 5 also puts limit orders inside the hook.
What doesn't change.
100% of supply goes into the pool
Liquidity locked forever
No presale, no team allocation
80% of every fee goes to the creator side, 20% goes to $BALLAST
Pick the chain that fits your token.
ballasted.fun
On @RobinhoodCrypto you can pair your token with WETH or tokenized stocks like $NVDA, $SPY, $SGOV and $TSLA. Every swap pays a fixed 3% fee inside the pool.
On @Enter_Elysium you pair with $HYPE and pick your own fee, from 1% , that fee is locked forever. Gen 5 also puts limit orders inside the hook.
What doesn't change.
100% of supply goes into the pool
Liquidity locked forever
No presale, no team allocation
80% of every fee goes to the creator side, 20% goes to $BALLAST
Pick the chain that fits your token.
ballasted.fun
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$BALLAST buyback & burn · Nov 9
63,467,645 $BALLAST in the dead address
6.34% of supply
+6,232,102 burned by buybacks since Nov 7
178 buybacks run
0.5996 WETH and 6.8497 NVDA spent
Plus 5,000,000 $BALLAST we burned by hand from the supply we held.
tx 0x868b9a4934bba783878e53c55f8013976dc4399ab
No owner. No keeper. Anyone can trigger it.
ballasted.fun/app/buyback
63,467,645 $BALLAST in the dead address
6.34% of supply
+6,232,102 burned by buybacks since Nov 7
178 buybacks run
0.5996 WETH and 6.8497 NVDA spent
Plus 5,000,000 $BALLAST we burned by hand from the supply we held.
tx 0x868b9a4934bba783878e53c55f8013976dc4399ab
No owner. No keeper. Anyone can trigger it.
ballasted.fun/app/buyback
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ballast is live on @Enter_Elysium.
launch with real liquidity, locked forever. your fee, your rules. limit orders built in.
BALLAST
launch with real liquidity, locked forever. your fee, your rules. limit orders built in.
BALLAST
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ballast gen 5 is deployed on elysium mainnet.
what's onchain now
creator picks the swap fee, 1 to 10%, fixed forever at launch
limit orders built into the hook
100% of supply in the pool, liquidity locked forever
pairs against HYPE
on Elysium, the protocol share accrues to the Ballast Safe (2-of-3) and is used for $BALLAST buyback & burn once the bridge is live.
Factory 0x24c9582C31a7B890dC51D51e99E1283880Bc4bEE
Hook 0x3F5b07E06A16E0A1da416D29B64C1f9DC48A12Cc
app coming next. gen 5 is beta.
what's onchain now
creator picks the swap fee, 1 to 10%, fixed forever at launch
limit orders built into the hook
100% of supply in the pool, liquidity locked forever
pairs against HYPE
on Elysium, the protocol share accrues to the Ballast Safe (2-of-3) and is used for $BALLAST buyback & burn once the bridge is live.
Factory 0x24c9582C31a7B890dC51D51e99E1283880Bc4bEE
Hook 0x3F5b07E06A16E0A1da416D29B64C1f9DC48A12Cc
app coming next. gen 5 is beta.
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An update on ballast and elysium.
We were granted direct mainnet access yesterday.
Our testnet phase has been completed with a group of early elysium users who have been part of the ecosystem since day one, alongside direct feedback from the elysium team. testing was successful.
We are now running final tests of the mainnet process ahead of the public launch.
We have also reached an agreement that positions ballast to likely become the first launchpad on elysium with treasury and basket support.
More soon.
We were granted direct mainnet access yesterday.
Our testnet phase has been completed with a group of early elysium users who have been part of the ecosystem since day one, alongside direct feedback from the elysium team. testing was successful.
We are now running final tests of the mainnet process ahead of the public launch.
We have also reached an agreement that positions ballast to likely become the first launchpad on elysium with treasury and basket support.
More soon.
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ballast retweeted
The next launchpad is a set of rules, not a platform.
Token launchpads are one of the most active corners of crypto, and one of the most criticized. Thousands of tokens launch every day, most fade within hours, and the platforms hosting them often capture more value than the creators and traders who use them.
The problem is not that launchpads exist. It is how most of them are designed. Platforms keep most of the fees, the rules can change at any time, and nothing anchors a new market beyond attention.
Three shifts are changing that.
Tokenized equities are moving onchain. Stock tokens now live on Robinhood Chain and across the Hyperliquid ecosystem, but almost all of that activity is about trading assets that already exist. Ballast asks a different question: what if new tokens were launched against them? When a launch is paired with a real stock, every swap moves through a real world asset, and the pair itself says something about the project.
Uniswap hooks turn pools into rules. Every Ballast launch runs through our own hook, which enforces the rules inside every swap. The full supply goes into the pool and liquidity is locked forever. There is no presale and no team allocation. Most of every fee goes to the creator and is split onchain however they choose, and the protocol share is used entirely to buy back and burn $BALLAST. Live hooks never change. New features ship as a new generation, and every token keeps the rules it launched with.
Revenue is becoming verifiable. New chains like Elysium are tying their revenue to buybacks, and applications are expected to follow. Ballast has worked this way since day one. The burn has no owner and no keeper, anyone can trigger it, and every step can be checked onchain.
Our next hook generation takes this further. Creators will choose their own swap fee at launch, and once the token is live nobody can change it, not the creator and not us. Limit orders will live inside the hook itself and fill when a swap crosses your price, with no keeper and no offchain service. And launches will pair with assets native to each chain, starting with Elysium, the first layer two of the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
Ballast is also built for agents. Through our SDK and MCP server, any AI agent can launch, quote and trade using the same contracts and the same rules as everyone else, with every transaction still requiring a signature.
Robinhood Chain remains home. Elysium is next, followed by Solana, BNB Chain, Base and Arbitrum. Every chain will have different assets and different infrastructure, but the same guarantees: liquidity locked, no team allocation, fees routed onchain, and the protocol share burning $BALLAST.
The launchpad market does not need more platforms. It needs better rules. Rules that keep liquidity in place, give creators a real share of what they generate, cannot be quietly changed, and can be verified by anyone.
That is what we are building.
BALLAST.
Token launchpads are one of the most active corners of crypto, and one of the most criticized. Thousands of tokens launch every day, most fade within hours, and the platforms hosting them often capture more value than the creators and traders who use them.
The problem is not that launchpads exist. It is how most of them are designed. Platforms keep most of the fees, the rules can change at any time, and nothing anchors a new market beyond attention.
Three shifts are changing that.
Tokenized equities are moving onchain. Stock tokens now live on Robinhood Chain and across the Hyperliquid ecosystem, but almost all of that activity is about trading assets that already exist. Ballast asks a different question: what if new tokens were launched against them? When a launch is paired with a real stock, every swap moves through a real world asset, and the pair itself says something about the project.
Uniswap hooks turn pools into rules. Every Ballast launch runs through our own hook, which enforces the rules inside every swap. The full supply goes into the pool and liquidity is locked forever. There is no presale and no team allocation. Most of every fee goes to the creator and is split onchain however they choose, and the protocol share is used entirely to buy back and burn $BALLAST. Live hooks never change. New features ship as a new generation, and every token keeps the rules it launched with.
Revenue is becoming verifiable. New chains like Elysium are tying their revenue to buybacks, and applications are expected to follow. Ballast has worked this way since day one. The burn has no owner and no keeper, anyone can trigger it, and every step can be checked onchain.
Our next hook generation takes this further. Creators will choose their own swap fee at launch, and once the token is live nobody can change it, not the creator and not us. Limit orders will live inside the hook itself and fill when a swap crosses your price, with no keeper and no offchain service. And launches will pair with assets native to each chain, starting with Elysium, the first layer two of the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
Ballast is also built for agents. Through our SDK and MCP server, any AI agent can launch, quote and trade using the same contracts and the same rules as everyone else, with every transaction still requiring a signature.
Robinhood Chain remains home. Elysium is next, followed by Solana, BNB Chain, Base and Arbitrum. Every chain will have different assets and different infrastructure, but the same guarantees: liquidity locked, no team allocation, fees routed onchain, and the protocol share burning $BALLAST.
The launchpad market does not need more platforms. It needs better rules. Rules that keep liquidity in place, give creators a real share of what they generate, cannot be quietly changed, and can be verified by anyone.
That is what we are building.
BALLAST.
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150 buybacks
52,235,544 $ballast in the dead address
5.22% of supply
every one of them bought on the open market and burned
no owner no keeper anyone can trigger it
two more are ready right now
go press the button
ballasted.fun/app/buyback
52,235,544 $ballast in the dead address
5.22% of supply
every one of them bought on the open market and burned
no owner no keeper anyone can trigger it
two more are ready right now
go press the button
ballasted.fun/app/buyback
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