Reading the chain

every coin starts on high ground.

A Solana launchpad. Every coin opens at 250 SOL of market cap with its whole supply in one Meteora DAMM v2 pool that is locked forever. Nobody holds a token at launch and there is no cheap first block. Holders who lock get a share of the coin's trading fees in SOL, paid by an on-chain program.

Launch a coinHow it works
Opens at
250 SOL
about $25.5K at SOL $102 (2026-10-28)
Supply
1B
all of it in the pool
Trading fee
1.25% → 0.40%
falls as the market cap rises
Liquidity
locked forever
in the launch transaction

Spec defaults. They become final when the program is initialized on mainnet.

Fee meter · live from chain

reading

Coins open

0

Fees paid by traders

0.0000 SOL

Harvested by the program

0.0000 SOL

Sent to lockers

0.0000 SOL

Waiting to harvest

0.0000 SOL

The board

coins on high ground

Every coin, read from chain. Altitude is the market cap over the opening 250 SOL.
Launch a coin

The route

how a coin opens high

One transaction makes the coin, opens its pool, locks the liquidity forever and writes the fee split. After that, the program does the rest.
  1. 01trailhead

    launch in one transaction

    Name, ticker, image, optional partners and an optional first buy. The program creates the mint (1,000,000,000 at 6 decimals, no freeze authority), writes metadata nobody can change, revokes the mint authority and puts the whole supply into a new Meteora DAMM v2 pool. Cost: about 0.035 SOL of rent plus a 0.02 SOL launch fee.

  2. 02the open

    opens at 250 SOL, locked forever

    The pool starts at the bottom of its range and holds only coins. In the same transaction its position is permanently locked: nobody can withdraw the liquidity, not the creator and not the platform. A first buy pays the opening price like anyone else, in public.

  3. 03the climb

    every trade pays a fee in SOL

    1.25% at the open, falling step by step to 0.40% from about 40x the opening market cap. Every fee is taken in SOL. Meteora keeps 20% of each fee.

  4. 04harvest

    anyone can harvest

    Harvest is permissionless: it claims the locked position's fees and splits them by the shares written into the launch. 40% to lockers, 40% to the creator side, 20% to the platform.

  5. 05summit

    lock to share the fees

    Lock any amount for 10, 20, 30 days at 1x, 1.5x, 2x weight. Each harvest's lockers' part is shared by weight; claim it in SOL any time, no minimum. The coins come back when the lock ends.

Conditions

The pool never sells below the opening price, but at that price it holds no SOL to buy tokens back. A coin nobody buys still shows 250 SOL of market cap with nothing to sell into. Locked coins cannot be sold until their lock ends. No volume means no fees, for lockers and creators alike.

Depth

the curve is the pool's own depth

The whole supply sits in one pool from the opening price up, so the first SOL in moves the price far less than on a thin curve. There is no cheap zone to buy and dump.

Elevation table · pool math, not a prediction

Net SOL boughtMarket capFrom the open
0 SOL250 SOLthe open
about 104 SOL500 SOL2x
about 541 SOL2,500 SOL10x
about 1,331 SOL10,000 SOL40x

104 SOL

market cap 500 SOL · 2.00x

A single-sided position from the opening price up behaves like constant product with a virtual SOL reserve equal to the opening market cap. Fees are left out. Real prices depend on buying and selling, not on this table.

Altitude

OPEN250 SOL
2x500 SOL
10x2.5K SOL
40x10K SOL
2.00x

First-block impact

HIGH GROUND (250 SOL open) pump.fun-style curve (30 virtual SOL)
1x5x10x15x20x0255075100SOL bought in the first blockpump-styleHIGH GROUND

Pool math before fees, not a prediction. Price multiple after the buy, against the opening price.

Fees

the fee comes down as the coin climbs

DAMM v2's market-cap fee scheduler sets the rate: 1.25% at the open, a little lower every step of the way up, 0.40% from about 40x the opening market cap. Every fee is taken in SOL.
0%0.25%0.5%0.75%1%1.25%1x2x5x10x20x40xmarket cap, times the open (log)1.25% at the open0.40% from about 40x

The split

where the fees go

After Meteora keeps its 20%, every harvest splits 40% to lockers, 40% to the creator side and 20% to the platform, half of which goes to $HIGH lockers.

100 SOL a day

At the opening fee of 1.25%. The fee falls as the market cap rises. No volume, no fees.

Traders pay

1.25 SOL

1.25% of 100 SOL

Meteora keeps

0.25 SOL

20% protocol share

Harvest splits

1.00 SOL

by shares fixed at launch

Daily split of the harvested fees
Lockers (by lock weight)40%0.40 SOL
Creator (and up to 2 partners)40%0.40 SOL
Treasury (platform)10%0.10 SOL
$HIGH lockers (treasury until $HIGH is set)10%0.10 SOL

Lockers get at least 40%; a creator can give them more from the creator side. Shares are written into each launch when it is created and no admin instruction can change them afterwards. Paid in wSOL, which the site unwraps to SOL.

Locking

pick your camp

Lock a coin to share its fees. Longer locks weigh more. Rewards are worked out on chain from your weight and every harvest, and paid in SOL whenever you claim.

Ends 00:00 UTC on Nov 29, 2026, so it lasts 29 to 30 days depending on the time you lock. Rewards stop at the end even if you have not unlocked.

Locked coins cannot be sold or moved until the lock ends. To keep earning a share after that, unlock and lock again. There is no early exit.

Weight calculator

Your weight

2M

Your share of each harvest's lockers' part

9.09%

Example numbers. Your share changes as others lock and unlock, and the SOL behind it depends entirely on trading volume, which can be zero.

Coin #1

$HIGH

The platform coin, launched through the same transaction as every other coin. Nobody gets tokens; if the team buys, it buys in public. Half of the platform's share of every coin, 10% of each harvest, goes to $HIGH lockers, paid by the same on-chain accrual.

Not launched yetUntil it is set on chain, that half goes to the treasury.

Side by side

what changes, and what doesn't

The fair start is the same idea as other high-open launchpads. The difference is that the rewards are worked out and paid by a program, not a list.
pump.fun50KHIGH GROUND
Opening market capabout $4k$50kabout $25k (250 SOL)
Cheap first blockyesnono
Liquiditymigrates at graduationlocked forever from second onelocked forever from second one
Holder rewardsnoneoff-chain list, platform pays, 0.5 SOL minimumon-chain, claim any time, no minimum
Who decides who is paidn/athe platform's daily listthe program: lock weight times fees harvested
Platform coinnone$50K: bought and burned off-chain$HIGH: its lockers get a share of every coin's fees, on-chain
Creator payoutfeesfees, plus a platform top-upfees, split with up to 2 partners, on-chain

As each platform described itself on 2026-10-28. Dollar figures at SOL about $102 that day. HIGH GROUND figures are its launch defaults.

Limits

what nobody can do

The admin can

  • Pause new launches
  • Set the parameters for future launches: opening market cap, fee schedule, default split, launch fee, treasury
  • Set $HIGH, once
  • Hand over the admin role

No instruction lets anyone

  • Move a launch's fees, locks or rewards
  • Change a launch's split after it is created
  • Unlock or withdraw a pool's liquidity
  • Stop a harvest, a claim or an unlock

The program is not audited. It stays upgradeable by the dev wallet until it is, which means its code can still change.

FAQ

questions from the trail

Is this an investment?+

No. HIGH GROUND is a launchpad. If you lock a coin, you get a share of that coin's trading fees while the lock runs. That depends on volume, and with no volume it is zero. Coins can lose all their value.

Can the liquidity be pulled?+

No. The program creates the pool and permanently locks its position in the launch transaction. Not the creator, not the platform. Only the fees can be claimed, and the program splits those.

What happens if nobody buys a coin?+

It still shows 250 SOL of market cap, but the pool holds no SOL at the open, so there is nothing to sell into. The pool never sells below the opening price.

What do lockers get?+

At least 40% of every harvest of that coin's fees (after Meteora's 20%), shared by lock weight: 10 days 1x, 20 days 1.5x, 30 days 2x. Paid in SOL, claim any time, no minimum. If nobody is locked at a harvest, the lockers' part waits for the next harvest that has lockers.

When can I unlock?+

When the lock ends: 00:00 UTC on the 10th, 20th or 30th day after the day you locked, so a lock lasts 9 to 10, 19 to 20 or 29 to 30 days. There is no early exit. Rewards stop when the lock ends, so unlock and lock again to keep a share.

What is "settle days"?+

The program's rollover step. When a day with expiring locks has passed, someone has to record it before the next lock, harvest or unlock on that coin. It moves no coins and anyone can send it; the site adds it to your transaction when it is needed.

Who harvests?+

Anyone. Each coin page has a harvest button that claims the locked position's fees and splits them. Whoever sends it pays only the transaction fee.

What does launching cost?+

About 0.035 SOL of rent for the mint, metadata, pool, vaults, position and launch record, plus a 0.02 SOL launch fee to the treasury, plus any first buy you choose.

Who sets the creator split?+

The creator, at launch: the creator side can be shared with up to 2 partner wallets. It is written into the launch and nobody can change it afterwards.

What is $HIGH?+

The platform coin and coin #1, launched under exactly the same rules. Half of the platform's share of every coin goes to $HIGH lockers, paid by the same program. Until $HIGH is set on chain, that half goes to the treasury.

Is the program audited?+

No. It is upgradeable by the dev wallet until it is.

start on high ground.

One transaction. Whole supply in the pool. Liquidity locked forever.

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