Unicorn Launch Mechanics

How It Works

1. Creation Phase

Founders pay a one-time creation fee of 100 $VIRTUAL to initiate the launch process.

Once created, an Agent Launch Page is published instantly on the Virtuals Protocol platform, displaying:

• Token supply and distribution parameters

• Founding team details

• Product details and agent information

There is a minimum 24-hour evaluation period between page creation and trading activation.

This ensures the community has time to review, verify, and discuss each project before liquidity opens.

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2. Launch and Early Trading

Once the minimum 24-hour evaluation period ends, trading opens automatically.

Anyone can trade directly through the Virtuals Protocol Platform. There is no presale, whitelist, or gated access.

Sniper Tax Mechanism

To ensure fair distribution and prevent early manipulation, Unicorn introduces a dynamic anti-sniper system at TGE.

• Starts at 99% and reduces by 1% per minute for a total of 98 minutes, until reaching the 1% baseline trading tax.

• All sniper taxes collected during this 98-minute window are automatically used to buy back agent tokens onchain.

• The repurchased tokens are distributed to the team wallet, following a 3-month cliff and 9-month linear vesting schedule.

This structure protects early liquidity from bots and opportunistic snipers while converting initial volatility into long-term alignment for project founders.

When a new agent is created on the Virtuals Platform, it begins trading immediately under the Unicorn Launch Model. Every agent begins as a live, tradable asset backed by an active bonding curve paired with $VIRTUAL liquidity.

3. Launch Life Cycle

• The creator pays the 100 $VIRTUAL creation fee to deploy the agent and initialize its bonding curve.

• After the minimum 24-hour evaluation period, the token becomes instantly tradable on the Virtuals platform

• A 1% trading fee applies from day one:

  • 70% distributed to the agent creator

  • 30% to ACP incentives for network growth and agent-to-agent payments

4. Liquidity Model

As trading continues, the bonding curve automatically accumulates $VIRTUAL liquidity.

Once total liquidity reaches 200,000 $VIRTUAL, a liquidity pool is automatically created and paired with the agent token, for example, on Uniswap for Base tokens.

After the pool is established, users can trade the token directly on the Virtuals platform, or through any supported DEX, aggregator, or trading bot integrated with the protocol.

This ensures:

• Continuous, verifiable onchain liquidity growth

• Seamless transition from bonding curve to open market

• Full compatibility across all supported trading environments

From the first trade to open market trading, every Unicorn launch operates transparently and autonomously, with no manual steps or intervention.