How Tine works
Tine is a token launchpad that uses ECX, the eCash asset, as its base currency. This first version runs on Solana with wrapped ECX (wECX), so every launch is priced, traded and paid out in wECX. Bringing the launchpad to native eCash is the longer-term plan.
Launch
Pick a name, ticker, image, supply (21M unless you change it) and who earns fees. One transaction mints the whole supply straight into a Meteora Dynamic Bonding Curve. There's no mint authority left afterwards, the metadata can't be edited, and no wallet gets an allocation.
Curve
Buyers pay wECX into the curve and get tokens out; sellers do the reverse against the same reserve. The more net buying, the higher the price. 80% of supply is sold this way. Because the curve is a standard Meteora pool, terminals and aggregators that index Meteora pick it up on their own.
Graduation
When 400 wECX has gone in, the curve stops trading. The raised wECX and the 20% of supply held back are moved into a Meteora DAMM v2 TOKEN/wECX pool at the curve's last price. This is permissionless and normally happens within minutes.
Pool
All of the pool's liquidity is locked forever in two positions: 85% owned by the creator (or the rewards wallet, in holders mode) and 15% by the Tine fund. Nobody can withdraw liquidity, including us. The positions only ever release the fees they earn.
Paying with SOL or USDC
The curve only takes wECX, but you don't need to hold any. Pick SOL or USDC and the app builds a single transaction: Jupiter swaps your SOL or USDC into wECX (through the wECX/USDC pool on Orca), and the curve buy spends exactly the swap's guaranteed minimum. If the swap does better than that minimum, the difference lands in your wallet as wECX, usually a fraction of a percent.
Selling works the other way around: the curve pays out wECX, and only its guaranteed minimum is swapped to SOL or USDC. If any step would break your slippage limit, the whole transaction fails and you keep what you started with, less the network fee. After graduation, trades route through Jupiter into the locked pool.
Where every fee goes
Fees are charged by Meteora's programs, not by this website, so they apply to every trade, wherever it's made. Of each curve fee, Meteora keeps 20%; the other 80% is split 85/15.
| Curve fee | 1% of every buy and sell, taken in wECX |
|---|---|
| Meteora | 20% of each curve fee, as the protocol share |
| Creator mode | 85% of the remainder, claimable by the payout wallet |
| Holders mode | 85% of the remainder, paid out to holders by balance × time |
| Tine fund | 15% of the remainder, for $TINE buybacks and burns |
| After graduation | 1% DAMM v2 pool fee, earned by the two locked positions (85 / 15) after Meteora's share |
| Not ours | Solana network fees, and DEX fees on the SOL/USDC leg of a route. Your wallet shows them before you sign. |
How holder rewards are paid
In holders mode the 85% share is owned by a Tine rewards wallet. Once a day the keeper reads each wallet's balance from public chain data. For the stretch between two readings, a wallet earns only on the smaller of its two balances, so buying right before a payout earns next to nothing. Curve and pool vaults and Tine's own wallets don't earn.
In the same daily run the keeper collects the fees and sends wECX directly to each holder. There's nothing to claim. Amounts too small to be worth a transaction roll over to the next payout. Each token page shows the full payout history with transactions.
The fund and $TINE
$TINE is Tine's own token. The fund's 15% share is earmarked for buying it back and burning it, and the burns are listed on the Fund page. The fund is paid from fees on launched tokens, never from their supply. Trading fees on $TINE itself go toward building the native eCash version.
Snapshots, airdrops and any migration steps will only ever be announced on Tine's official channels. Solana tokens won't turn into native eCash tokens on their own, and using the site today doesn't guarantee any allocation.
Questions
Can the fee mode or payout wallet change later?+
No. Fee mode, payout wallet, supply and curve parameters are set in the launch transaction and can't be edited.
Can more tokens be minted?+
No. Meteora creates the mint without a mint authority, so the supply is final.
Who can take the pool liquidity?+
No one. Both positions are permanently locked inside DAMM v2; only their fees can be claimed.
What if the keeper goes down?+
Trading and graduation don't depend on it. Graduation is permissionless on Meteora, and the token page has a button for it. The keeper only matters for holders-mode payouts.
Is $TINE live?+
Not yet. Until it is, the fund's share sits in the fund wallet unspent. You can watch it on the Fund page.
Do trades on other apps count?+
Yes. The fees are enforced by the curve and pool programs, so trades through any terminal or aggregator pay them too.
Risks
- wECX is a wrapped asset run by a third party.
The bridge operator controls its mint. Tine can't guarantee that wECX redeems for native ECX, or at what rate. The mint is 6ombVv3YMs9qpx1QkycD9XW8HKSfv7vGrCFX3cxCYMVY.
- Everything is priced in wECX.
A token's dollar value moves with wECX even if no one trades the token.
- Anyone can launch anything.
Names and images aren't checked or unique. Verify the mint address before you buy.
- Software has bugs.
Curves and pools run on Meteora's audited programs. The keeper and the rewards wallet are run by Tine.