What is Hookr's zero-seed Instant Launch?

A fixed opening, not a creator sale

The launch transaction mints a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. The creator receives no token allocation and contributes no ETH or $HOOKR seed. The current launcher fixes the opening valuation for the chosen quote currency, so the creator does not set a private price or fold a hidden developer buy into the launch.

The whole supply is placed in one launchpad-owned token-only sell band. That position is locked by the contract design: the launchpad exposes fee collection, but no function that removes the launch position.

Related: Instant Launch mechanics in the docs Current opening terms, supported hook blocks, and retained historical lanes.

The pool opens in the launch transaction

There is no bonding-curve phase, auction window, or private trading interval. The Uniswap v4 pool opens in the same transaction that creates the token, with the selected hook fixed to that pool. Anyone can swap after the transaction lands, subject to the hook blocks disclosed in the launch preview.

Buyers provide the quote asset by trading through the single-sided band, so early purchases move the market away from its fixed opening. Zero seed does not mean zero price impact, zero fees, or assured depth; the available in-range liquidity and a buyer's size still determine execution.

Quote currency and hook boundaries

Today's Instant Launch opens on the V2 native-mechanics chassis and accepts any quote currency: ETH, $HOOKR, USDG, a tokenized stock, or any other ERC-20. The base LP fee reaches liquidity providers in full; the protocol earns a bounded share only from whichever add-ons the pool opts into, never a flat fee and never a slice of the base fee. The launch preview states the quote and the share before signing.

LP Rewards, Auto Burn and the Nth-buy Pot can all be used on this lane on any quote currency: the coordinator's founding band is real in-range liquidity from the first block, so a donation has somewhere to land. Only the guard window stays limited to a new-token launch. These compatibility rules are enforced at admission, not optional warnings.

Related: Inspect hook compatibility Compose a stack and see which rules are compatible before launch.