How AQUA works

AQUA is a non-custodial Solana launchpad for creating a direct Orca market with a fixed Token-2022 supply, permanently locked opening liquidity and time-weighted holder rewards.

Direct Orca launch, no bonding curve

AQUA does not sell tokens from a bonding curve and does not keep an escrow wallet containing unsold supply. The launch flow creates the mint, metadata, Whirlpool and active concentrated-liquidity position directly. The full configured launch-token allocation is committed to that opening liquidity plan.

What 100% liquidity means

It means the fixed launch-token allocation goes into the opening Orca liquidity position rather than a separate AQUA reserve. It does not mean the pool forever owns every circulating token. As users trade, token and pair-asset reserves move between the Whirlpool and trader wallets. Market price follows the pool state.

Permanent liquidity lock

AQUA verifies that the opening position is active before permanently locking its position authority. This is intended to prevent the launcher from withdrawing that position. A lock does not guarantee price, volume, depth or uninterrupted trading.

Pairs and rewards

The trading pair can be SOL, a supported tokenized-stock asset or an eligible custom token when custom pairs are enabled. Each market records one immutable reward asset. AQUA market cards display the actual paired-asset logo and identify the separate holder reward.

Fees and keeper settlement

The current default fee is 2%: 1% feeds platform allocation and 1% feeds holder rewards. AQUA settles collected fee value in SOL before routing treasury, buyback and creator allocations. The holder allocation is converted from SOL into the selected reward asset when required. Settlement can be delayed or fail and therefore is not promised at an exact frequency.

Time-weighted holder rewards

An eligible balance earns weight for the time it remains held during each 20-minute target epoch. AQUA attempts to allocate every collected amount without an application-level funding minimum; unusable dust carries forward. The interface groups unclaimed epochs by market and displays values in US dollars. A claim unlocks only when the combined reward is worth more than the configured minimum after estimated Solana costs, then wallet-signed proofs deliver the selected reward asset. Opening liquidity and designated protocol accounts are excluded from ordinary holder weighting.

Capped creator alignment

A creator can lock tokens acquired after launch. The quote combines amount and duration. Amount scoring stops at the configured supply target and time scoring stops at the configured maximum duration. The live backend configuration provides the supply target, maximum scoring duration and maximum share of the platform stream. A tiny lock for 1,000 years therefore stays small: the time input is capped and cannot compensate for a tiny amount.

Wallets and interrupted launches

Connect Phantom, MetaMask or Solflare using the Solana account that holds your tokens. Mobile Phantom can open its app to complete the connection. A saved launch resumes only when you press Resume launch. Existing on-chain progress is checked before preparing remaining steps; a refresh does not restart or sign a launch.

Reward modes

Creators choose a permanent reward mode: time-weighted holder rewards, buyback and burn of the launched coin, or an hourly jackpot. The jackpot selects five distinct eligible holders for 50%, 20%, 20%, 5% and 5% of the pot, with committed holding scores and verifiable draw data. Trading activity and successfully settled fees are required for any mode.

DEX profile funding and governance

Holders with at least 0.5% of supply can create eligible proposals once proposals unlock. Voting requires 0.1% current and time-weighted holdings. Approved DEX profile funding reserves 80% of incoming market rewards toward the $300 initial profile target. Update Dex and Community Takeover have separate votes. Governance approval, funding and external fulfillment are distinct stages.

Community Boost

Community Boost is the daily AQUA-holder vote for the next market to receive a share of AQUA platform fees for 24 hours. The leaderboard at https://aquafamily.fun/#/boost shows ranked coins, today’s boosted market and your vote. Vote next to a coin or search by name, ticker or CA. One choice per holder, changeable until 00:00 UTC. Voting power uses average AQUA holdings capped by the current balance. This is separate from DEX Screener funding.

DEX boost polls

A paid DEX profile is required. Holders choose 5%, 10%, 20% or No; the winning approved percentage funds a one-hour campaign from incoming market rewards. At closing, the largest affordable boost is selected and surplus SOL returns to holder rewards. Configured packs are 10× for $99 (12 hours), 30× for $249 (12 hours), 50× for $399 (12 hours), 100× for $899 (24 hours), and 500× for $3,999 (24 hours). Affordability is checked again before purchase.

Automatic momentum funds

Sustained, verified volume and trader activity can start a mini fund. Unpaid profiles reserve 10% toward DEX funding for up to 24 hours; an unmet target returns funds to holders. Paid profiles can reserve 10% for a mini boost lasting up to one hour, closing earlier after ten minutes of insufficient activity. Mini boosts under $100 return all funds; at $100 or more they select the largest affordable pack and return excess. Successful holder votes inherit accumulated funds and change the percentage; an inherited boost keeps its original deadline. All eligible coins, including AQUA, can have mini boosts. AQUA has no ordinary market proposals or automatic profile fund. Team AQUA can prepare missing profile details for a successful automatic profile fund; later changes go through Update Dex.

Community chat, updates and polls

Each coin has Community chat with pictures, replies and counted reactions, plus separate creator Updates and Polls feeds. Updates support formatted text and images, with reactions but no replies. Polls show their closing time and can require at least 0.1% holdings to vote. Community polls do not authorize spending. Unread indicators and locally remembered tabs help you follow activity. Reports go to AQUA admins through the moderation system and Discord webhook; creators have no special moderation rights.

Atlantis Studio

Build websites, artwork and community tools in one workspace. Tailored multiple-choice surveys clarify uncertain creative details and include custom answers; Skip survey lets Atlantis proceed from the brief. Review proposed edits or enable Auto apply. When free access is enabled, each wallet receives a $10 total AI budget across projects. Usage does not reset on project deletion, and unused generation reservations are released. Editing and exporting remain available after the budget is spent.

Website publishing and variables

Publish a project to an available name on aquafamily.fun. Draft edits stay private and failed publishes preserve the previous version. The separate Variables menu stores public CA, custom backend URL and other frontend values. Automatic CA filling requires explicit consent. When enabled, a confirmed launch fills connected fields and trading links and queues the hosted update. Hardcoded legacy fields must first be connected. Custom backends are exported and deployed separately; never put secrets in frontend variables.

Public AQUA API

Use https://aquaapi.fun/v1 for public markets, trades, charts, rewards, buybacks, burns, jackpots, governance and events. The previous production Railway API address remains supported. Public data reads work from third-party websites without an API key, with a limit of 60 requests per minute per IP. Webhook management requires a wallet session. Atlantis uses this canonical API for AQUA data and keeps it separate from a generated project’s own backend URL.

Charts and data

Market pages offer USD price and market-cap snapshot lines, plus separately labelled transaction-derived candles denominated in the pair asset. Indexing can lag Solana and Orca, so explorers and onchain state remain authoritative.

Verify before signing

Review the mint, AQUA program, token program, Orca accounts, amounts, fees and destinations in every wallet approval. Solana transactions are generally irreversible.

Read the AI-readable protocol summary or open the complete interactive documentation.