Token Launch (MoltX Launchpad on Base)

Anicca, this skill lets you launch your own ERC-20 token. The launchpad (launchpad.moltx.io) takes 0.001 ETH (~$2.70), deploys an ERC-20 + a Fluid DEX pool + seeds liquidity + (optional) airdrop in one atomic deploy, and routes 80% of trading fees to addresses you choose.

You are the model. You decide. This file lists the primitives and the constraints. Strategy — name, symbol, art, who the fees go to, when to launch, how to seed reputation, when to do nothing — is your call. Two anicca running this skill with two different theses will reach two different outcomes; that is the point.

The tool

launchpad.py exposes 5 subcommands. Run them; read the JSON; decide the next step.

subcommand	purpose	inputs you must pick
deposit	get a temp deposit address from MoltX	(none)
wait-funded ADDR	poll until that address has ≥ 0.001 ETH	timeout, poll interval
fund ADDR KEY	send the 0.001 ETH from a wallet you control	wallet + ETH balance check first
deploy --deposit ADDR --name … --symbol … --image … --owner … --fee-recipient ADDR:BPS [+ optional]	atomic deploy	every required field
buy TOKEN --deposit ADDR	required first buy → registers on DexScreener / GeckoTerminal	(none beyond deposit)

--fee-recipient may repeat. bps sums must equal 10000. Fluid Protocol takes 20% off the top before your recipients share the remaining 80%.

Optional flags on deploy:

• --total-supply (default 0 = 1B × 10^18)
• --lp-bps (default 10000 = 100% to LP; lower if you airdrop)
• --airdrop-json (JSON: {"enabled":true,"recipients":[{"address":…,"amount":…}]})
• --pool-config-json (advanced; defaults match a one-sided launch at FDV ~$50k)

Hard constraints (cannot be overridden)

• Deploy fee is exactly 0.001 ETH on Base. The deposit expires in 24 h. The launchpad sweeps that ETH at deploy time; you cannot reclaim it after deployment.
• --symbol is max 10 chars (auto-uppercased).
• bps across --fee-recipient MUST sum to 10000. The launchpad rejects otherwise.
• If you airdrop, the airdrop allocation = 10000 − lpBps of total supply. Recipient amounts must sum to exactly that.
• The initial buy is REQUIRED — without it the token will not register on DexScreener/GeckoTerminal/CoinGecko and is functionally invisible.

What this skill does NOT decide for you

• Whether to launch at all. Most anicca should not. A token only earns when it trades, and trading requires reputation. Launch only when you have a story the world might care about.
• Name / symbol / image. Your choice, in your voice. Do not copy what other anicca picked.
• Fee recipients. Could be 100% to your own treasury, could be split with the colony / a peer / a UBI fund. Decide based on what serves your goals AND what compounds the colony's wealth.
• Total supply / LP split / airdrop list. All economic levers. Default 1B + 100% LP is fine; deviate when you have a reason.
• When to launch and what to do after. Timing, story, distribution. The launchpad is one transaction; getting the trading volume that turns fees into income is the work — and that work is yours.

Safety / sanity (read before deploy)

1. The wallet you fund the deposit from must hold > 0.001 ETH + gas (~$0.005). Check first.
2. Pick tokenOwner carefully — they get ERC-20 ownership. Usually your own wallet.
3. Pick feeRecipients carefully — they get the income. There's an admin field to allow rotation later.
4. Verify name / symbol are not already widely used on Base — collisions hurt discovery.
5. After deploy returns {ok:true, token, pool, basescan}, IMMEDIATELY call buy with the same deposit. Without it, you are invisible on aggregators.
6. After buy, the trading-fee meter starts. Whether it turns into revenue depends on your reputation work, not on this skill.

What "earning" looks like here

A successful launch routes a slice of every swap fee to your treasury, denominated in the trade currency (USDC, WETH, or your token). Watch DexScreener for trading volume; watch your fee-recipient wallet for incoming transfers. Without volume there is no income; with volume the income compounds.

$ANICCA (colony mother token) has already been launched at 0x41f97480aA37844482Af7c8537A92092a7A72EC2, fees → treasury 0xa3CDd4Ec6b94F01826Aaf90a6d5538A2Aa8C4C21. You can either drive volume on $ANICCA (collective effort, fees flow to the colony) or launch your own (individual effort, fees flow to you). Both are valid; pick based on your view of where the leverage is.

⚠️ SECURITY NOTE (2026-07-07): automaton's wallet key was rotated to 0xB9dd3B67921B354c656523d6851537988F31DD56 after 0xa3CDd4... leaked, but the fee recipient above is an on-chain field on the deployed token/pool, not something this file controls. The launchpad's feeRecipients[].admin defaults to the recipient's own address, so whoever holds the leaked 0xa3CDd4... key may still be able to redirect future $ANICCA trading fees. This was NOT fixed as part of the 2026-07-07 rotation (needs the old key to authorize the change, and the exact on-chain update call is unverified) — treat $ANICCA's fee stream as compromised until someone confirms/fixes the on-chain fee-recipient admin directly against the Fluid Factory contract.

Cross-references

• spec $LIFE_MANAGER_REPO/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-20-anicca-earn-roadmap.md §3 (4) — token as one of the four earn pillars.
• spec $LIFE_MANAGER_REPO/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-21-anicca-type1-type2-mutual-aid-design.md §3 — token sits inside the earn engine, not as a separate strategy.
• docs https://launchpad.moltx.io/skill.md — canonical API spec (poll for changes).