Zold
Coins backedby metal.
Curves priced in gold andsilver. Launch with ZEC.
Pick GLD, SLV, or a fixed mix of both. The curve holds the metal; the coin is the claim on it. Pay in Zcash. No wallet to connect.
A short note on what a metal-backed coin is, what it is not, and the two things a founder decides. First, the metals:
Gold
Tokenized gold as the pair token. Every buy puts GLD into the curve; every sell pulls GLD out.
Silver
Tokenized silver as the pair token. Same mechanic, cheaper units, the same one-to-one accounting.
Bimetal
A basket unit: 70% GLD, 30% SLV by value at creation. Minted 1:1 against both, redeemable back into both.
Silver heavy
30% GLD, 70% SLV. The other preset. Same basket contract, weights flipped.
Your mix
Any GLD/SLV split, two components at most. One basket unit is about one dollar of metal on the day you create it.
One rule. The curve holds the metal.
What backs it
Every coin launched here runs on a bonding curve, and every curve has a quote asset. On most launchpads that is the chain’s gas token. Here it is tokenized gold (GLD), tokenized silver (SLV), or a basket unit minted against a fixed mix of both.
The accounting is plain. A buy sends metal into the curve and mints coin out of it. A sell burns coin and sends metal back. The coin is a claim on what the curve holds, priced by the curve, nothing else.
Founders pay for the launch in ZEC and never connect a wallet. Buyers sign their trades with their own. The metal sits in the curve contract, not with us.
Most coins are priced in air. These are priced in metal.
What changed
A launchpad coin is only ever worth what you can sell it back into. When the quote asset is itself a memecoin, that is a promise stacked on a promise.
Denominating the curve in GLD or SLV changes what sits at the bottom. The coin can still trade to nothing against the metal; the metal in the curve is still metal. Sellers get it out at whatever the curve says, and basket holders can always unwind a unit into its components.
A coin whose curve holds tokenized gold. Sell, and gold comes out at the curve’s price, no permission asked.
A coin quoted in a token that is itself a launch. Two curves deep, and nothing at the bottom.
That is the whole change. Same curve maths as any launchpad; a different thing in the tank.
Pick. Launch.
Trade. Redeem.
Four steps. One ZEC payment from the founder, one signature from each buyer. Send ZEC, get a live coin, usually within about 15 minutes of the payment confirming.
GLD, SLV, or a basket: Bimetal (70/30), Silver heavy (30/70), or your own two-component mix.
Name the coin, choose the metal, send ZEC to the address shown. It launches by itself. If the payment is short or never arrives, the ZEC goes back to the refund address you gave.
Buys put metal into the curve, sells take it out. The founder keeps a 2% creator fee on every trade.
A single-metal coin that hits its threshold graduates to a Uniswap pool. A basket coin stays on its curve for good. Basket units unwind 1:1 into GLD and SLV at any time.
The spec sheet.
How it is written down
Everything on this page, as numbers. Pair token, launch fee, creator fee, graduation, redemption, and what is not guaranteed. Written flat so it can be checked against the contracts rather than believed. The four parts below are the whole mechanic.
Read the specGLD, SLV, or a basket unit minted 1:1 against a fixed GLD/SLV mix. The curve is priced in it.
Buys deposit the pair token and mint coin; sells burn coin and withdraw it. 2% of each trade to the creator.
Single metal: at the threshold, liquidity moves to a Uniswap pool. Basket: the coin stays on its curve; hitting the raise target unlocks the creator fee.
Any basket unit burns back into its GLD and SLV components, in the proportion it was minted, at any time.
Questions, answered flat.
FAQ
Short answers. The long ones, with the numbers, are on the spec page.
- Q1What is the pair token? The asset the curve is priced in. Here: tokenized GLD, tokenized SLV, or a basket unit made of both. Every buy pays in it; every sell pays out in it.
- Q2What is a basket unit? An ERC-20 minted 1:1 against a fixed proportion of GLD and SLV. One unit is defined as about one dollar of metal at creation. Burn a unit and the components come back to you.
- Q3What does a launch cost? One payment in ZEC. The launch page shows a Zcash address and the exact amount before you send anything; there is no wallet to connect. If the payment is short or never arrives, the ZEC goes back to the refund address you gave.
- Q4What does the founder earn? A 2% creator fee on every buy and sell on the curve, paid in the pair token. On a basket coin it accrues and becomes claimable once the raise target is hit.
- Q5What is graduation? The curve reaching its raise target. A GLD or SLV coin then moves its liquidity to a Uniswap pool and trades there. A basket coin keeps trading on its curve for good; for it, graduation only means the target was hit and the founder’s accrued 2% becomes claimable.
- Q6Is anything guaranteed? No. The coin can trade to nothing. Tokenized gold and silver move with their own markets. Nothing is insured, and a raise is not a promise of anything.
- Q7Who holds the metal? The curve contract. Buyers and sellers sign every trade with their own wallets, and the metal moves between them and the curve, never through us.
If a question is not here, it belongs on the spec page. If it is not there either, it is not something we can promise.
The numbers.
Five figures that decide everything else. Apart from the launch payment, which the launch page quotes in ZEC, they are fixed by the contracts and none of them is adjustable per launch. Read them once, then hold us to them.
Launch
Paid once, in ZEC, by the founder. One address, one amount, shown before you send. No wallet to connect.
Creator fee
On every buy and sell on the curve, to the founder, paid in the pair token.
Graduation
The raise target. Single-metal coins move to a Uniswap pool when they hit it. Basket coins stay on their curve; the target unlocks the creator fee.
Redemption
A basket unit unwinds into its GLD and SLV in the proportion it was minted. Any holder, any time.
Components
A basket here has at most two: GLD and SLV, in any split. No third asset, ever.