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How it works

The Presale is the same contract whether you launch an auction or a curve. Each position is a transferable Ponzu Bottle NFT minted by the Presale itself. 690,000 tokens available. 90% ETH refund before launch.
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Presale

The founder picks a pricing strategy at deploy: a Ponzu Auction or a Ponzu Curve. Buyers pay ETH. Each position is a bottle NFT. 90% ETH refund before launch.
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Launch

The strategy reports ready and the net raise meets the floor. 310,000 tokens plus all held ETH become locked liquidity. Tokens become tradeable. Diamond-hand vesting begins.
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Diamond-Hand Vesting

You can only claim once. Claim early, forfeit the rest. Wait the full vest, get your allocation plus a pro-rata bonus from everyone who left early. Patience is tested.
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Farming

If the founder enabled the farm, stake LP and earn trading fees and redistributed tokens. Non-inflationary farming. Every reward came from economic activity. Claim rewards only once.

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Pricing strategies

Auctions and curves are two ways to price the same presale. Bottles, refunds, vesting, and launch are shared. The founder chooses at craft. The factory offers three cards: Curve (no clock), Auction (1–10 Hours), and Auction (1–10 Days). The last two are the same auction with a different duration band.
Factory default. You watch a clock, not a progress bar.The founder picks a duration band: 1–10 hours or 1–10 days. The auction discovers a clearing price. Early conviction earns a bonus. Size does not walk you up a curve. There is no sniper tax.If the clock runs out first, the target rests at the floor and the auction stays open until someone meets it. No expiry, only a price.The 690,000 tokens settle pro-rata at claim on weight. Same ETH earlier claims more than the same ETH later.Launch when demand catches the target and the Presale holds at least the net floor. Anyone can call triggerLaunch once those hold.

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Presale Incentives

Every presale purchase has 5% for incentives paid in ETH: Users can share a referral link to presales to earn referral rewards. The integrator fee goes to whoever built the surface the buy came through: a custom frontend, a bot, an MCP server. Ship the interface, earn on every purchase routed through it. Projects can earn both, their own 1% plus the integrator share if they build their own frontend. Unset referrer slots fold into the protocol. This fee comes out of the raise, not the buyer. Allocation and the 90% refund are both calculated on the full amount paid.

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Refunds

Before launch, any buyer can get a refund. You get 90% of your ETH back, no questions. The remaining 10% stays in the Presale. Tokens get redistributed to remaining holders, and the withheld ETH goes to launch liquidity with the rest of the raise. If an auction clock runs out without launching, the refund penalty drops to 5% (95% back). Curves never expire, so that lower penalty does not apply. Refunds revert after launch.

What happens at launch

Once the pricing strategy reports ready, the Launcher deploys liquidity and vesting begins.