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NFTs had a kid with meme coins

Launch NFTs like memes.
Keep them like art.

Drop your art, pick how people get one, and share a link. From a phone, in about ten minutes.

How it works

Folders in. A whole collection out.

One folder per layer, a number in a file name to make something rare. Everything after that happens on one screen, and nothing on it asks you to know what a contract is.

1

Shape it

Slide rarity, write rules like “never a crown on a triangle”, reserve a one of one. A check tells you if it cannot work, and how to fix it, before you generate anything.

2

Build it

Every piece unique, every rule kept, every count exact. Keep the seed and the same set rebuilds forever. Your files go to IPFS so the art outlives us.

3

Launch it

Pick how people get one, sign a handful of times with plain English in front of you, and share a mint page that works on any phone.

The new part

A collection with a vault attached.

Most drops have one price, and the artist keeps the money. We call that an Art Drop and it works fine. A KURV drop does something no launchpad has done: the price climbs as people buy, the money stays in the collection’s vault, and the vault will always buy your piece back. You are never stuck holding something nobody wants.

Maria draws 100 pieces. The first costs$10
Each one after costs 40 cents more, so the last costs$49.60
You buy #10 for $13.60. When 50 are sold you can sell back for$28.27
At sell-out the vault holds$2,906
Maria takes the cut she published before minting opened, here 20%$581
The rest stays, backing the pieces and trading forever$2,324

Selling back walks the price down the same curve it climbed, and the vault always pays out less than it took in, so it cannot run dry. Who holds it? The collection’s own contract. Not us, not the artist. There is no withdraw button for anyone, which is why the Floor is a fact and not a promise. And Maria’s cut lowers the Floor by exactly that percentage — a fifth taken is a fifth off the Floor — which is why the number is on the page before anyone buys, not after.

The docs

Read the whole thing before you decide.

These used to sit inside the app. They are here now, because working out whether this is for you should not require an invite. Every number below is a real one, and the parts that are not built yet say so.

Two lanes, and you pick one

Live today

Art Drop

One price, everyone pays it, you keep the money. This is what every launchpad has done since 2021, and it still works. Fixed price, mystery mint, or an auction.

The curve, with real numbers

Maria draws 100 pieces. The first costs $10 and every piece after costs 40 cents more, so the hundredth costs $49.60. None of that money reaches Maria while people are minting: every dollar goes into the collection’s vault, and from the first mint onwards any holder can sell straight back to it, with no buyer to find and nothing to list.

MomentNext piece costsSell back to the vault forIn the vault
25 sold$20.00$18.72$361
50 sold$30.00$28.27$965
Sold out$47.37$2,906

Say you bought #10 for $13.60. By the time 50 are sold you can leave with $28.27, at any hour, without finding anyone to sell to. That sell-back price is the Floor, and it is printed on the mint page.

Why the vault cannot run dry

This is the part that surprises people, and it is the whole reason the Floor is a fact rather than a promise. Selling back walks the price down the same curve it climbed. The vault does not pay $47.37 to everybody. The first person out is paid against the hundredth price, and that sale drops the collection to 99 in circulation, so the next person out is paid against the 99th, and so on down.

So the arithmetic is settled by construction. Buys climb the curve and the vault keeps 97.5% of each one. Sell-backs descend the same curve and the vault pays 95.5% of each one. Every round trip leaves 2% behind. If every single holder sold on the same day, the vault would pay out $2,846 of the $2,906 it holds, and keep $60. It cannot go short, because at the same point on the curve it always pays out less than it took in.

This is also why the spread has to be wider than our fee. An earlier version of this took 2.5% at the mint and charged only 2% on the way out, and a full unwind would have come up $10 short. Small, and fatal to the only promise that matters.

Where the artist’s money actually comes from

The honest answer, because it is the first question anyone sharp will ask. During the mint, nothing. Maria earns not one dollar while people are buying; every dollar is in the vault backing the Floor. At Graduation — the moment it sells out — she takes the cut she published before minting opened. The art reveals, and what is left becomes a permanent shop that keeps buying and selling the pieces, paying her a slice of every trade for as long as it runs.

And the Floor steps down by exactly that cut. This is the trade, stated plainly: the vault backs the Floor, so taking a fifth of the vault lowers the Floor by a fifth.

Maria’s cutShe receivesLeft backing the piecesThe Floor
15%$436$2,470drops 15%
20%$581$2,324drops 20%
50%$1,453$1,453halves

That is why the number is on the mint page before anyone buys, not revealed afterwards. Somebody buying piece 90 is paying a high price and is entitled to know exactly how far the Floor falls the moment the collection sells out. A greedy cut is not forbidden. It is simply visible, and it will cost the artist buyers.

The catch, said out loud

What everyone is charged

KURV, on each mint of a KURV drop2.5%
KURV, on each sell-back and each trade after Graduation1%
The artist, at Graduation — a cut of the vault, set and published before the first minttheir number
The artist, on every trade afterwards, forever0.5–2%
An Art Drop, on the mint — and 0% during the beta and for the first fifty collections5%
Keeping your files online, paid once at publish, minimum $1$0.005 a piece
Generating, previewing, revealing, pausing, freezing, withdrawing your own moneyfree

Separate from us, every action written on a chain costs a small network fee paid to the chain itself — usually a few cents on Base. We never take a cut of that.

What launching one is like

One folder per layer, transparent PNGs inside, and a number in a file name if you want something to be rare. The app orders the layers, applies rules like “never a crown on a triangle”, reserves your one-of-ones, tells you in plain words if what you asked for cannot exist, then builds every piece and publishes the files. You sign four to six times, each with plain English in front of you, and you get a mint page that works on any phone. There is nothing to install and no code to write.

Can change later

  • Prices, dates, limits and allowlists
  • Paused or open
  • Mystery box or revealed
  • Where the art points, until you freeze

Permanent

  • The contract and its address
  • The collection size
  • The platform fee written into it
  • Freeze. After it, the art can never change

Base, and only Base

Every collection launches on Base. That is the whole list, and it is a choice rather than a limit: one network we know well beats five we half-support. It means the mint pages behave the same way every time, the fees are the ones we quote, and there is no step in the wizard where you have to know what a network is.

Base Sepolia is a copy of Base that runs on play money, so you can rehearse a whole launch before you spend anything. Only Base itself holds anything real.

Questions people actually ask

Do I need to know how to code?
No. Folders in, collection out. Every screen is built for a phone first, and none of them asks you what a contract is.
Does it cost anything to try?
No. Generating and previewing are free, and a rehearsal launch on a testnet uses play money. You pay when you publish files and when you launch for real.
So the artist earns less?
Less on the day, yes. In exchange their collectors can always leave, which is the thing that keeps a collection alive, and they earn on every trade for as long as the collection trades. A fixed-price drop is one cheque and then silence. This is a smaller cheque and then a stream.
How do I know this is not a rug?
The vault belongs to the collection’s own contract. There is no withdraw button for the artist, none for us, and no way to upgrade one in later. That is the entire answer. It is also why the vault will always buy your piece back is a fact about a contract rather than a promise about a price — and why the Floor is quoted in the coin the vault holds, never in dollars.
What happens if it does not sell out?
The unminted pieces stay unminted, and nothing about the minted ones changes. On a KURV drop the vault is still there and still buying, so everyone can get their money back out of it.
Where does my art live?
On IPFS, a public file network, pinned and paid for. The contract points at it, and Freeze makes that pointer permanent. Keep the ZIP the app gives you — it holds every image and the seed that rebuilds the exact same collection.
When is any of this open?
Art Drops work today. The KURV drop arrives in October, after an audit of its own. The list below is how you hear first.
The list

Show up early.

One email when it opens, and nothing else. The first 100 on this list get in early, and their first mint is on us. Everyone gets a link when they join, and every person who joins through yours moves you up the queue.

Which side

We keep your address and the side you picked. Nothing else, and it is never sold.