Virtuals Launch Mechanics
The Virtuals Launch System supports three launch mechanisms: Pegasus, Unicorn, and Titan. Each mechanism follows a defined lifecycle while sharing common infrastructure and liquidity primitives.
How It Works
1. Creation Phase
Founders initiate a launch by paying a 1,000 $VIRTUAL non-refundable creation fee.
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
For Pegasus and Unicorn, a minimum 24-hour community review period applies between page creation and trading activation. This window allows the community to review, verify, and discuss the project before liquidity opens.
For Titan, launch parameters are finalized prior to TGE. There is no community review period.
2. Launch and Early Trading
Once the review period concludes (or immediately for Titan), trading opens automatically.
Anyone can trade directly through the Virtuals Protocol platform. There are no presales, whitelists, or gated allocations.
Sniper Tax Mechanism
ONLY FOR PEGASUS AND UNICORN LAUNCH
Titan launches do not apply sniper protection. Trading tax is fixed at 1% from launch.
To ensure fair distribution and prevent early manipulation, Pegasus and Unicorn launches apply a dynamic sniper protection tax at TGE:
The buy-side tax starts at 99% and decreases by 1% per minute for a total of 98 minutes, until reaching the 1% baseline trading tax. The sell-side tax remains fixed at 1% throughout.
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.
Sniper Tax Mechanism General FAQ
3. Launch Life Cycle
The creator pays the 1000 $VIRTUAL creation fee to deploy the agent and initialize its bonding curve.
Pegasus and Unicorn
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
Titan
Titan launches do not use bonding curves.
Agents launch directly into a public liquidity pool with trading tax fixed at 1%. Fee distribution and token economics are defined by the founding team, subject to protocol constraints.
4. Liquidity Model
ONLY FOR PEGASUS AND UNICORN LAUNCH
As trading continues, the bonding curve automatically accumulates $VIRTUAL liquidity.
Once total liquidity reaches 42,000 $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
All liquidity pool (LP) tokens generated during agent graduation are automatically staked under a long-term lock of ten (10) years. The purpose of this mechanism is to guarantee liquidity permanence, remove ambiguity around post-launch liquidity control, and ensure that all agents launched through Virtuals operate with long-term, non-extractable liquidity guarantees.
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