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Chapter 10

Running a model token

Launching is easy and undoable-never. This chapter is mostly a list of things to get right the first time, because there is no second one.

Before you launch

  • Copy the model id from the provider's catalogue. Verbatim, including the vendor prefix. Nothing on-chain validates it, and a wrong id is a token that can never earn.
  • Pick a model people actually call. The vault fills from usage, so a model with no demand produces a token with an empty vault forever.
  • Decide what you will do with the supply. All one billion units land in your wallet. How much you put into the pair, and what you do with the rest, is the only thing prospective holders can judge you on.
  • Have the ETH for the pair. The factory does not seed liquidity. A token with no pair is untradeable and its vault has nowhere to spend.

Doing it

  1. Call launch(name, symbol, modelId) with the factory fee attached. One transaction; it returns the token and vault addresses.
  2. Create the Uniswap V2 pair against WETH and add liquidity. This is a normal Uniswap action, done wherever you like — nothing about it is specific to INFERNO.
  3. Buy a little of your own token through the interface and check the vault balance moved by 1% of what you sent. That is the loop working end to end, and it takes one transaction to confirm.
  4. Add the metadata — image, description, links — through the interface. It is off-chain and can be corrected later, unlike everything above it.

After

You have no ongoing role. The vault does not answer to you, the buyback is permissionless, and there are no creator fees to claim — there is no mechanism that pays a creator anything after the launch transaction. What you retain is whatever supply you kept, on the same terms as anyone else who buys some.

What you cannot change

  • The supply, and the fact that it was all minted to you.
  • The model id on the token.
  • The vault attached to the token, and its burn-only exit.
  • The name and ticker.

If any of those is wrong, the only remedy is launching again and telling people why — which is worth a great deal less than reading the id twice before you sign.