How STACK works

What STACK is

STACK is a launchpad on Raydium LaunchLab. Most launchpads pair every coin against SOL. On STACK you pick what your coin stands on: SOL, any other token, or a coin that is already part of a tower.

Floors and towers

Your coin is paired against its foundation. On LaunchLab the foundation is the quote token, so your coin's curve is priced in it and every buy pays in it.

That makes your coin the floor above the foundation. Floor number = the foundation's floor + 1. SOL is the ground, L0. A coin on SOL is L1, a coin on that coin is L2, and so on.

Buying the top

To buy the top floor you need the floor below it, which needs the floor below that. STACK routes the whole way in one transaction: SOL → L1 → L2 → … → the top.

So one buy of the top coin is also a buy of every coin under it. Each hop locks tokens of the floor below into the floor above. That is the cascade you see run down the drawing.

Holders earn the floor below

Holding a floor pays you in the floor under it. Hold $STINK, earn $STANK. Hold $STANK, earn $STONK. Payouts are sent manually for now.

Fees

Trading fees on a floor are paid in that floor's foundation token. They are split:

40%

to holders of the floor, paid in the floor below

30%

buys back $STACK

30%

treasury

$STACK is the default foundation for new towers. Build on it and every buy in your tower also runs through $STACK.

Graduation

When a floor's curve fills, it moves to a Raydium CPMM pool against its foundation. The LP is burned, so the foundation tokens in that pool stay locked for good. The graduation target is set in the foundation token and sized to a fixed SOL value at launch.

How high a tower goes

A buy through the whole tower has to fit in one Solana transaction. Towers are capped at a height where that still works.

Where the numbers come from

Towers are traced on-chain: a coin, then its quote token, then that token's quote, down to SOL. The quote comes from Raydium LaunchLab's mintB field, or from a coin's Raydium pool on DexScreener. Value locked in a floor is the value of the floor-below tokens sitting in that floor's pools. Prices and volume come from DexScreener.

Risk

Memecoins are volatile and can go to zero. A tower works both ways: selling the top back to SOL sells every floor on the way down, and a floor that falls drags on everything built on it. Only use what you can afford to lose. Nothing here is financial advice.