● How it works
Security and trust
What we control, what we do not, and what that means for your money.
We do not own a contract
Whetstone deployed and operates Doppler, the protocol every coin here trades on. We built the application layer — pages, wizard, indexing, claims — and nothing else.
That is the deliberate trade. There is no contract of ours to audit, and none for us to rug you with; equally, we have no ability to reverse a transaction, freeze a pool, or recover funds. Your wallet signs directly to programs we do not control.
What holds your money
| Thing | Held by | Can we touch it? |
|---|---|---|
| A coin’s liquidity | The bonding curve, then a locked pool | No |
| Your unclaimed fees | The pool itself, under your address | No |
| Your launchpad’s settings | Written into each coin’s pool at launch | No — nor can you, after creation |
| Branding, copy, socials | Our database | Yes — and so can you, with a signature |
How writes are authorised
There are no accounts and no passwords anywhere in this product. Every write that matters is a message signed by the wallet that owns the thing, and the signature binds what is being changed, by whom, and when — so a captured signature cannot be replayed against another launchpad, from another wallet, later than a few minutes, or with edited values.
Proving who launched a coin
The protocol records the launching wallet nowhere, so a bot watching for new pools could otherwise claim someone else's launch as its own. Registration here requires a secret committed to before the pool existed, written into the launch transaction itself. Producing it is proof of having launched — no extra signature is asked for, because none is needed.
Things worth knowing
- Mainnet history is short. Launches, buys, sells and fee claims have run on Robinhood Chain mainnet, and extensively on testnets — but the platform is young. Size your risk accordingly.
- Launchpad creation is free but keyed to a Candles NFT: the wallet creating a launchpad has to hold one of the collection's NFTs on Robinhood Chain, and there is no other way in. Handles are first-come.
- Coin art and metadata are hosted permanently on Arweave, paid once. That is a one-way door too: it cannot be edited or deleted afterwards.