Launch
Solum does not begin public trading at deployment.
Deployment creates the token and its initial state.
Public trading begins later through an explicit contract action.
From that moment, Solum enters a temporary launch regime designed to constrain the earliest BUY activity.
The sequence is exact:
Deployment
↓
Pre-Trading
↓
Trading Enabled
↓
First 60 Minutes
↓
Minute 60 to Hour 48
↓
Post-Launch Rules
These stages must not be confused.
Deployment is not Launch.
Launch is not one instantaneous event.
The first 48 hours contain their own contract rules.
Canonical Launch Snapshot
| Parameter | Contract rule |
|---|---|
| Trading enabled at deployment | No |
| Trading activation authority | Owner |
| Activation function | enableTrading() |
| Trading activation count | Once |
| Launch timestamp | Set when trading is first enabled |
| Whitelist window | First 60 minutes after launchTime |
| Whitelist applies to | BUY only |
| BUY cooldown | 60 minutes per receiving wallet |
| Cooldown duration | First 48 hours after launchTime |
| Public BUY begins | After first 60 minutes |
| Special BUY rules end | 48 hours after launchTime |
| SELL subject to launch whitelist | No |
| TRANSFER subject to launch whitelist | No |
| SELL subject to launch BUY cooldown | No |
| TRANSFER subject to launch BUY cooldown | No |
| MAX_TX during Launch | Still independently applicable |
| Max Wallet during Launch | Still independently applicable |
| Fees during Launch | Still independently applicable |
This table describes the contract mechanism.
Other launch operations or off-chain procedures should not be inferred unless separately documented.
Deployment comes first
When the contract is deployed:
- Solum exists,
- the initial Supply exists,
- the deployer receives the initial Supply,
- Router, Pair, and Treasury are configured,
- initial exemptions exist,
- Max Wallet’s deployment-based clock begins,
- but public trading is not yet enabled.
The initial state is:
tradingEnabled = false
This matters because deployment and market opening can occur at different times.
Deployment time
The contract records a deployment timestamp.
That timestamp is important for:
Max Wallet growth
The initial 30B SOLUM Max Wallet remains fixed for 180 days from deployment.
This clock starts independently of public trading.
Therefore:
deploymentTime ≠ launchTime
These timestamps have different functions.
Pre-Trading
Before trading is enabled, ordinary token movement is restricted.
The contract requires:
sender is Fee Exempt
or:
receiver is Fee Exempt
for a transfer to proceed while tradingEnabled == false.
Therefore pre-trading is not equivalent to:
all transfers are impossible.
Privileged/exempt operational transfers remain possible.
This distinction should remain explicit.
Pre-Trading rule
The contract effectively applies:
If trading is OFF, at least one side of the transfer must be Fee Exempt.
The initially Fee Exempt addresses are:
- deployer,
- contract itself,
- Treasury.
The owner can modify Fee Exempt state.
Therefore pre-launch movement capability depends partly on current exemption configuration.
Pre-Trading does not create launchTime
Transfers that occur under the pre-trading exemption mechanism do not themselves begin the public launch clock.
launchTime is set by:
enableTrading()
Therefore the launch windows are anchored to explicit trading activation.
Not to:
- deployment,
- first transfer,
- first liquidity action,
- first Holder,
- or first transaction visible on-chain.
The contract gives us a precise launch reference.
enableTrading()
Public trading is activated by the owner through:
enableTrading()
The function requires trading not to have already been enabled.
When executed successfully:
tradingEnabledbecomes true,launchTimeis set if it is still zero,LaunchStartedis emitted,TradingEnabledis emitted.
The function cannot be used repeatedly to restart the launch period.
Launch can only begin once
enableTrading() requires:
tradingEnabled == false
Once enabled, the documented contract contains no mechanism in this function to turn ordinary trading back off and then restart Launch.
Also, launchTime is only set if it is zero.
Therefore:
the launch clock is intended to be established once.
The first-hour whitelist and 48-hour BUY regime cannot simply be reset through repeated calls to enableTrading().
launchTime
At the moment trading is enabled:
launchTime = block.timestamp
This timestamp becomes the reference for both special launch windows.
From launchTime:
0–60 minutes
Whitelist BUY phase.
0–48 hours
BUY cooldown phase.
After 48 hours:
special Launch BUY rules expire.
Phase A — First 60 Minutes
For the first:
60 minutes after launchTime
BUY transactions face two special conditions.
Whitelist
The receiving wallet must be:
isWhitelist[to] == true
BUY cooldown
The receiving wallet can complete at most one BUY per:
60 minutes
subject to the exact lastBuyTime logic.
Therefore Phase A is:
Whitelist-only BUY access + per-wallet BUY cooldown
The whitelist applies only to BUY
This is critical.
The whitelist gate is evaluated only when:
from == Pair
That is the contract definition of BUY.
The whitelist does not create a universal restriction on:
- SELL,
- ordinary wallet-to-wallet TRANSFER.
Therefore it would be incorrect to describe the first hour as:
Only whitelisted wallets can transact.
The accurate statement is:
Only whitelisted receiving wallets can BUY during the first 60 minutes.
The whitelist recipient
For a BUY:
fromis the Pair,tois the buying wallet.
The whitelist check evaluates:
isWhitelist[to]
Therefore whitelist eligibility belongs to the receiving BUY address.
It is not a whitelist of sellers.
It is not a whitelist of transactions generally.
It is a BUY-access list for the first hour.
Whitelist administration
The owner can manage whitelist state through functions for:
- one address,
- batches of addresses.
An address can be marked:
allowed
or:
not allowed
The contract emits a whitelist event when this state changes.
Therefore the whitelist is not hard-coded permanently into the contract at deployment.
It is owner-administered state.
Whitelist and Founding Colonists
This technical mechanism gives Zipvilization a natural place to implement preferential founding access.
At blockchain level:
Whitelist
At Zipvilization level, where canonically established:
Founding Colonist launch access
But the distinction must remain explicit.
The Solidity contract does not contain the term:
Founding Colonist
It contains whitelist state.
The Atlas provides the world interpretation.
Therefore:
Whitelist is the mechanism.
Founding Colonist is the canonical human meaning we assign to eligible early support where explicitly defined.
Whitelist does not grant Solum
Being whitelisted does not:
- transfer SOLUM,
- reserve a guaranteed balance,
- create Territory,
- bypass all transaction limits,
- bypass all fees,
- create Zips,
- or create maturity.
It grants the technical ability to satisfy the first-hour whitelist condition for a BUY.
Every other applicable contract rule remains separate.
Eligibility is access.
Eligibility is not ownership.
Whitelist is not Fee Exempt
This distinction is essential.
isWhitelist
and:
isFeeExempt
are different mappings.
A whitelisted address is not automatically Fee Exempt.
Therefore an eligible first-hour buyer can still pay the ordinary BUY fee unless another independent exemption applies.
Under the initial BUY fee:
1%
is allocated between:
- Liquidity,
- Treasury.
Whitelist is not Limit Exempt
Likewise:
isWhitelist
and:
isLimitExempt
are separate.
A whitelisted wallet does not automatically bypass:
- MAX_TX,
- Max Wallet.
Therefore a first-hour BUY may satisfy the whitelist condition and still fail a limit check.
Founding access does not mean unlimited access.
This is one of the strongest contract-level protections around preferential launch participation.
BUY cooldown
Throughout the first:
48 hours after launchTime
BUY transactions are subject to a per-receiving-wallet cooldown.
The cooldown is:
60 minutes
The relevant state is:
lastBuyTime[to]
For a BUY, the contract checks the receiving wallet’s previous recorded BUY time.
First BUY
If:
lastBuyTime[to] == 0
the wallet has no previously recorded launch-period BUY time.
The cooldown comparison is not required against an earlier purchase.
After the BUY passes the launch checks:
lastBuyTime[to] = block.timestamp
That timestamp becomes the reference for the next BUY during the active launch period.
Subsequent BUY
If the receiving wallet has already completed a BUY during the launch-rule period, the next BUY requires:
current block timestamp ≥ lastBuyTime + 60 minutes
If less than 60 minutes have elapsed:
the BUY reverts with the cooldown condition.
Therefore:
one BUY per wallet per 60-minute interval
is the useful human description during the active launch regime.
Cooldown is per receiving wallet
The cooldown is recorded against:
to
the BUY recipient.
It is not:
- global,
- Pair-wide,
- per transaction sender,
- or per Human identity.
Therefore different receiving wallets maintain independent cooldown state.
This is an address-level protection.
It does not prove one Human per wallet.
Cooldown does not prevent multiple wallets
A person may potentially control multiple addresses.
The contract does not provide a unique-human identity layer.
Therefore the launch cooldown constrains:
wallet-level BUY frequency
not:
person-level BUY frequency.
This is an important limitation of the mechanism.
We should document it rather than overstate its effect.
Phase B — Minute 60 to Hour 48
Once the first 60 minutes have elapsed:
the whitelist requirement ends.
Public BUY access becomes possible.
But the 60-minute per-wallet BUY cooldown remains active until the complete 48-hour launch period ends.
Therefore Phase B is:
Public BUY access + per-wallet 60-minute BUY cooldown
This phase lasts from the end of the whitelist window until the end of the 48-hour BUY-rules window.
Exact boundary of the whitelist window
The whitelist helper returns active while:
block.timestamp < launchTime + 60 minutes
Therefore at or after the exact 60-minute boundary:
the whitelist gate is no longer active.
This is a strict timestamp condition.
An exact technical implementation should use contract time rather than rounded wall-clock descriptions.
Exact boundary of the 48-hour period
The launch BUY rules remain active while:
block.timestamp < launchTime + 48 hours
At or after the exact 48-hour boundary:
the special BUY launch logic is no longer active.
That means:
- no launch whitelist check,
- no launch BUY cooldown check,
- no new
lastBuyTimeupdate through that launch block.
Other contract rules continue independently.
Phase C — After 48 Hours
After the 48-hour launch period ends, ordinary BUY activity no longer uses the special launch whitelist/cooldown logic.
But this does not mean:
all restrictions disappear.
The following can still matter:
- current BUY fee,
- MAX_TX,
- current Max Wallet,
- Fee Exempt state,
- Limit Exempt state,
- balance,
- allowance where applicable,
- Pair configuration,
- SwapBack behavior,
- and ordinary ERC-20 requirements.
Launch protections expire.
The contract does not become ruleless.
SELL during the first 48 hours
SELL is defined as:
to == Pair
The special launch block is conditional on:
isBuy
Therefore SELL is not subject to:
- first-hour whitelist,
- launch BUY cooldown.
It remains subject to other applicable contract mechanics.
Under the initial non-exempt configuration, that includes the SELL fee:
10%
with its corresponding Burn, Reflection, Liquidity, and Treasury allocations.
TRANSFER during the first 48 hours
Ordinary wallet-to-wallet TRANSFER is also outside the special BUY launch logic.
Therefore TRANSFER is not subject to:
- first-hour whitelist,
- launch BUY cooldown.
It remains subject to other applicable mechanics such as:
- MAX_TX,
- Max Wallet on the receiving side,
- fees,
- exemptions.
Under the initial non-exempt configuration, the TRANSFER fee is:
5%
Launch protections are BUY-specific by design
This distinction should appear everywhere we describe Launch.
Incorrect:
There is a 48-hour transaction cooldown.
Correct:
There is a 60-minute per-wallet BUY cooldown during the first 48 hours after trading is enabled.
Incorrect:
Only whitelisted wallets can use Solum for the first hour.
Correct:
Only whitelisted receiving wallets can BUY from the Pair during the first 60 minutes.
Precision matters.
Launch and MAX_TX
The launch whitelist does not override MAX_TX.
For ordinary non-exempt limit paths:
MAX_TX = 10,000,000,000 SOLUM
A whitelisted BUY above the applicable MAX_TX condition can still fail.
Therefore first-hour preferential access remains bounded by transaction-size rules unless exemption state changes that result.
Launch and Max Wallet
Likewise, whitelist eligibility does not override Max Wallet.
The initial Max Wallet is:
30,000,000,000 SOLUM
subject to the deployment-time progression described in Limits.
The receiving BUY wallet can still fail Max Wallet if:
current balance + gross incoming amount
exceeds the current limit under applicable conditions.
Launch and deployment timing
Because Max Wallet’s 180-day period starts at deployment rather than launchTime, the Max Wallet that exists at Launch depends on how much time passed between:
deployment
and:
enableTrading().
If Launch occurs shortly after deployment:
Max Wallet will still be 30B.
If Launch were delayed beyond the initial growth period:
the time-derived Max Wallet could already be higher.
The contract does not reset Max Wallet progression when trading begins.
This is important for exact launch preparation.
Launch and fees
The launch mechanism does not define special BUY fee percentages.
BUY fees follow the ordinary current BUY-fee state.
Initially:
BUY fee = 1%
with:
- 0.5% Liquidity,
- 0.5% Treasury.
Therefore first-hour whitelisted access does not imply:
fee-free buying.
Fee exemption is a separate contract state.
Launch and Burn
The initial BUY fee contains:
0% Burn
Therefore first-hour and first-48-hour BUY activity does not directly produce Burn through the BUY fee.
SELL and TRANSFER remain different.
A participant buying during Launch and later selling or transferring may interact with Burn according to the current applicable fees.
Launch and Reflection
Initial BUY also contains:
0% Reflection
Therefore BUY cooldown is not a Reflection-distribution mechanism.
The cooldown constrains frequency.
The fee architecture determines economic allocation.
Again, separate mechanisms.
Launch and SwapBack
SwapBack requires:
tradingEnabled == true
among its conditions.
Therefore SwapBack cannot execute through its normal trigger path before trading is enabled.
Once trading is active, qualifying SELL activity can potentially trigger SwapBack when all other SwapBack conditions are satisfied.
Launch BUY rules do not disable SwapBack globally.
Trading activation is owner-controlled
The owner decides when to execute:
enableTrading()
This is a real administrative authority.
The contract does not automatically begin public trading at a predetermined timestamp.
Therefore before Launch, the owner controls the activation moment.
Once activated, however, the launch timing rules derive deterministically from launchTime.
Human authority selects the start.
Contract logic governs the timed launch phases afterward.
The owner cannot call enableTrading twice
Once trading is enabled:
the function’s guard prevents another successful activation.
This limits one important administrative power.
The owner selects the launch moment once.
The owner does not have an ordinary mechanism in this function to repeatedly restart the whitelist phase.
That distinction strengthens predictability after activation.
The whitelist remains stored after its window
The mapping:
isWhitelist
does not need to be automatically erased when the first 60 minutes end.
The important point is that the whitelist gate stops being consulted after the whitelist window expires.
Therefore an address may remain marked true in the mapping while no longer receiving any launch whitelist advantage.
Stored eligibility state and active whitelist effect are different concepts.
lastBuyTime can remain stored after 48 hours
Likewise, historical lastBuyTime values can remain in contract storage.
After the 48-hour launch period:
the special launch logic stops consulting them for BUY cooldown enforcement.
Therefore a stored timestamp does not imply that the cooldown remains active forever.
State must be interpreted together with the rule that uses it.
Launch and Fair Access
Launch is one component of Fair Access.
The contract combines several independent protections:
First 60 minutes
preferential whitelist access.
First 48 hours
per-wallet BUY frequency limitation.
MAX_TX
transaction-size constraint.
Max Wallet
concentration constraint.
Together they create resistance to immediate capture.
But they do not guarantee equal distribution.
Launch does not solve Sybil behavior
Whitelist and cooldown operate on addresses.
MAX_TX and Max Wallet also operate primarily through addresses and exemption state.
The contract does not prove that:
one address = one person
Therefore launch protections should be described as:
address-level constraints
not:
guaranteed unique-human allocation.
This limitation should remain visible.
Founding Colonists
The first-hour whitelist is especially important to the Founding Colonist architecture.
Before Launch, people may support Zipvilization while public colonization is not technically available.
The whitelist provides a contract mechanism through which selected addresses can receive first-hour BUY access.
The conceptual sequence is:
Early support
↓
Founding Colonist recognition
↓
address included in launch whitelist under the canonical process
↓
Trading begins
↓
first-hour preferential BUY opportunity
↓
actual blockchain acquisition if a valid BUY succeeds
↓
Holder
↓
Colonist interpretation
Recognition does not create the final blockchain state.
The successful transaction does.
Preferential opportunity has a hard temporal boundary
The first-hour whitelist advantage ends after:
60 minutes
from launchTime.
The contract does not give whitelisted wallets preferential BUY access forever.
After the whitelist window:
public BUY access is permitted under the remaining applicable rules.
This gives Founding access an objectively bounded on-chain window.
Preference has a beginning.
Preference has an end.
The contract does not limit whitelist size
An important transparency point:
the Solidity mechanism allows the owner to add individual addresses or batches to the whitelist.
The contract itself does not, from this mechanism alone, impose a fixed numerical maximum number of whitelisted addresses.
Therefore if Zipvilization defines:
a limited number of Founding Colonist places
that numerical limit must come from another explicit canonical or operational rule unless separately enforced elsewhere.
We should not claim that Solidity itself enforces a founding-seat maximum if it does not.
This distinction is crucial.
The contract does enforce the time limit
Unlike the number of whitelist entries, the preferential time window is directly enforced by contract logic:
60 minutes after launchTime
for whitelist-only BUY access.
Therefore we can say precisely:
The first-hour preference is on-chain time-bounded.
Any participant-count limitation needs its own source of authority.
Launch preparation and transparency
Before enabling trading, a transparent launch process should allow participants to verify relevant initial state such as:
- contract address,
- network,
- Pair,
- Router,
- Treasury,
- current fees,
- MAX_TX,
- current Max Wallet,
- whitelist status where appropriate,
- Fee Exempt addresses,
- Limit Exempt addresses,
- SwapBack configuration,
- and current owner.
The contract provides many of these states publicly.
Publication and tooling can make them easier to inspect.
Launch cannot be understood from price alone
Token Launch is not simply:
the moment SOLUM gets a market price.
Contractually, Launch is the activation of trading and the beginning of a defined timed rule set.
Price discovery may occur around that event.
But price is a market outcome.
The launch mechanism is defined by:
enableTrading(),launchTime,- whitelist window,
- cooldown,
- fees,
- limits,
- exemptions.
This documentation concerns the mechanism.
Launch and the World
Inside Zipvilization, Launch marks something larger.
Before Launch:
the finite substrate exists technically.
But ordinary public colonization has not begun.
At Launch:
participants can begin acquiring SOLUM through public market interaction under the contract rules.
That creates the conditions for:
- Holders,
- Colonist interpretation,
- controlled territorial substrate,
- Territory,
- future biological development.
The Smart Contract does not itself create civilization at launchTime.
It opens the technical door.
Genesis and Launch are related but not identical concepts
Zipvilization may use:
Genesis
as a broader conceptual description of the world’s beginning.
The contract uses:
launchTime
for a precise timestamp established when trading is enabled.
An AI should not automatically assume every conceptual Genesis milestone occurs in the exact same block as launchTime unless the canonical architecture explicitly says so.
Technical and world chronology should be connected deliberately.
Launch state should be observable
SolumTools can eventually expose:
- trading enabled status,
- launch timestamp,
- current launch phase,
- whether whitelist gate remains active,
- whether BUY cooldown remains active,
- an address’s whitelist status,
- last BUY timestamp,
- next eligible BUY time during the active period,
- current MAX_TX,
- current Max Wallet.
This can turn a relatively complex launch rule set into a simple user experience.
A Human should see a simple answer
During Launch, a user should eventually be able to ask:
Can I BUY now?
A good interface can answer using contract state.
For example:
First hour
- Whitelisted: Yes / No
- Cooldown ready: Yes / No
- Maximum transaction: current applicable value
- Wallet capacity: current applicable value
- Current BUY fee: current value
After the first hour:
- Whitelist no longer required
- Cooldown status remains relevant until hour 48
After hour 48:
- Launch BUY restrictions ended
The underlying mechanics can be complex.
The UX does not need to be.
Artificial Intelligence rules for Launch
When answering a Launch question, AI should determine:
1. Was trading enabled?
If not, public Launch has not started.
2. What is launchTime?
Do not substitute deployment time.
3. How much time has elapsed since launchTime?
This determines Launch phase.
4. Is the transaction actually a BUY?
Whitelist and launch cooldown are BUY-only.
5. During the first hour, is the receiver whitelisted?
Use current contract state.
6. During the first 48 hours, when was the receiver’s last BUY?
Use lastBuyTime.
7. Do MAX_TX and Max Wallet permit the gross amount?
Launch eligibility does not override Limits.
8. Does Fee Exempt or Limit Exempt state alter ordinary processing?
Permissions are separate.
9. What is the current BUY fee?
Initial 1% may have been reduced later.
This sequence produces a contract-grounded answer.
What AI must not say
AI should not say:
Launch begins at deployment.
Incorrect.
It begins when trading is enabled.
It should not say:
The whitelist lasts 48 hours.
Incorrect.
Whitelist-only BUY access lasts 60 minutes.
It should not say:
Only whitelisted wallets can transact during the first hour.
Incorrect.
The whitelist rule applies to BUY recipients.
It should not say:
There is one transaction per hour for 48 hours.
Incorrect.
The cooldown applies to BUY per receiving wallet.
It should not say:
Founding Colonists are automatically Fee Exempt or Limit Exempt.
Not established by whitelist membership.
It should not say:
The contract itself limits the number of Founding Colonists.
Not through the whitelist mechanism shown here.
It should not say:
After 48 hours all limits disappear.
Incorrect.
Only the special Launch BUY rules expire.
Launch phases in one view
Phase 0 — Deployment / Pre-Trading
Trading: OFF
Ordinary movement requires:
sender or receiver Fee Exempt.
launchTime has not yet begun.
Max Wallet’s deployment-based clock is already running.
Phase 1 — First 60 Minutes
Begins when:
enableTrading() succeeds
Conditions for BUY include:
- recipient must be whitelisted,
- 60-minute per-wallet BUY cooldown,
- MAX_TX where applicable,
- Max Wallet where applicable,
- current fee behavior,
- ordinary contract requirements.
SELL and TRANSFER are not subject to the whitelist/cooldown block.
Phase 2 — Minute 60 to Hour 48
BUY becomes public.
Whitelist no longer required.
BUY still has:
60-minute per-wallet cooldown
plus ordinary applicable rules.
Phase 3 — After 48 Hours
Special Launch BUY rules expire.
No launch whitelist gate.
No launch BUY cooldown.
Ordinary contract architecture remains:
- fees,
- MAX_TX,
- Max Wallet,
- exemptions,
- SwapBack,
- and other active rules.
Follow Launch
Return to Tokenomics
Understand the Supply that exists before Launch
Understand BUY economics
→ Fees
Understand transaction and wallet limits
→ Limits
Understand fee and limit exemptions
Understand automated fee processing after trading begins
→ SwapBack
Understand Fair Access
Understand Founding access
Inspect implementation
The first hour
Before Launch, Solum exists.
The finite world exists.
But ordinary public participation has not started.
Then one transaction changes the state:
enableTrading()
A timestamp is written.
The clock begins.
For 60 minutes, BUY access belongs only to whitelisted wallets.
Even they cannot BUY continuously.
The same receiving wallet must wait an hour before another BUY.
After 60 minutes, the gate opens.
Everyone can BUY under the ordinary applicable conditions.
But the cooldown remains.
For another 47 hours, the contract continues slowing repeated BUY accumulation wallet by wallet.
Then, at 48 hours, the special launch machinery steps away.
No reset.
No second Genesis.
No permanent whitelist privilege.
The world keeps the distribution produced during those first hours and moves forward from there.
That is the launch architecture.
The owner chooses when the door opens.
The contract controls the first 48 hours after it does.
Then history takes over.
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→ Return to Limits
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