Pre-launch on Solana · Own protocol · Milestone-locked devs
On Lockstep, a dev can't cash out until they deliver. Their coins and their fees stay locked until the project hits its goals. If they vanish, their coins are burned.
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How it works
01
Create a coin in a few clicks. It trades right here, on Lockstep.
02
The coins the dev buys at launch, and the dev's cut of every trade, go into a vault the dev can't open.
03
The vault opens bit by bit as the project hits its goals. If the dev disappears, what's still locked is burned.
Simulator
Play with a pretend coin. Press the buttons and watch what the dev can and can't take.
Your controls
NextStart here: press Buy 0.5 and watch a fee land in the vault.
What happened · day 0
The coin
SOL price unavailable
Price
32.01 n◎
Market cap
32 SOL
The dev's vault
0% unlockedCoins locked
31.95M
dev can't touch
Dev can claim
0
claimed 0
Fees in vault
0.005
SOL, dev's share
Dev can claim
0
claimed 0
2 program upgrades → 20%
0 / 2
500 unique users → 40%
0 / 500
$5,000 on-chain revenue → 40%
0 / 5,000
Inactivity timer · 14 days
14 days left
Goals
The dev picks the goals at launch. They are checked from public blockchain data, not from promises.
01
The dev publishes updates to their app.
Deploys and upgrades of the declared program. Each upgrade is one ship event. The program's upgrade authority must be the creator's wallet at launch.
PROGRAM_SHIPPED · upgrades · needs a program
02
Real people use the app.
Unique wallets that signed a successful transaction on the declared program. The creator, and wallets funded by the creator or linked wallets in the previous 7 days, are excluded.
PROGRAM_USERS · wallets · needs a program
03
The app gets used a lot.
Successful transactions sent to the declared program, with the same creator and linked-wallet exclusions as program users.
PROGRAM_TXS · txs · needs a program
04
The project earns money.
SOL and USDC received by the declared revenue wallet, converted to USD at the Pyth price when received. Transfers from the creator or linked wallets do not count.
ONCHAIN_REVENUE · USD · needs a revenue wallet
05
Many people hold the coin.
Wallets holding more than the minimum balance. Lockstep pool and vault reserves are not counted.
HOLDERS · holders
06
The coin gets traded.
Cumulative buy and sell volume of the pool, in SOL. Read straight from the pool account.
VOLUME · SOL
07
The coin keeps its value over time.
Market cap stays at or above the target for N consecutive days. Pool price times Pyth SOL/USD, sampled every hour. One sample below the target restarts the count.
MCAP_HELD · USD
Composer
Write your goals in plain English and we turn them into a ready-to-launch setup.
Examples
Click a coin to see what its page looks like. These are examples with simulated data, not real coins.
$ORBIT
A swap app. The dev earns the bag by shipping, getting real users and real fees.
Dev buy 2 SOL · burns after 30 days of silence
$TINY
An on-chain game. Unlocks follow players and moves, not promises.
Dev buy 1 SOL · burns after 14 days of silence
$PAYWL
No vanity metrics. The vault opens only as the product gets paid.
Dev buy 3 SOL · burns after 45 days of silence
$WEEK
Seven-day dormancy. Miss a week of shipping and the bag burns.
Dev buy 0.5 SOL · burns after 7 days of silence
$SLOW
No program to link. The dev unlocks only if the market holds, not if it spikes.
Dev buy 1 SOL · burns after 21 days of silence
$STACK
Five gates across product, money and market. Small unlocks, long road.
Dev buy 5 SOL · burns after 30 days of silence
Safety
01
Nothing can stop you from selling. Not the dev, not Lockstep.
02
The service that reports progress can only raise a progress number. It can never move coins or SOL.
03
If the dev stops delivering, anyone can burn their locked coins.
04
The trade fee can never go above 2%. That limit is written into the program.
Fees
Each trade pays a 1% fee. Half goes to Lockstep. Half goes to the dev, locked until they deliver.
50% — Creator vault
Locked with the dev buy. Released as milestones are reached. Forfeited to the treasury if the dev goes quiet.
50% — Protocol treasury
Sent straight to the treasury on every trade. No intermediate pot to withdraw from.
Protocol defaults · trade fee hard-capped at 2% in the program