GALLOWS

What is GALLOWS? A launchpad on Robinhood Chain where every token gets 48 hours: Fill the curve and graduate to permanent locked liquidity or hang, and holders get their ETH refunded. No more abandoned projects. No zombie charts.

1/5 What $GALLOWS buys, and — more importantly — what it will never buy. 2/5 Without a single token you get full platform access. Launch tokens. Buy, sell, redeem freely. Creator fee share at 70%. Public API and bot alerts. The pad is not pay-walled and will not become pay-walled. 3/5 With $GALLOWS staked you get everything above, plus a creator fee boost from 70% to 80% and a "skin in the gallows" badge on your token page. Jury tiers unlock early Death Row signals, weekly settlement from the Executioner's Pot, and board curation votes at Judge level. 4/5 The doctrine, stated plainly: $GALLOWS never buys odds, priority fills, or launch power. It buys access, prestige, and fee alignment. Nothing you stake will ever move a countdown, jump a queue, or change a graduation threshold. The pad stays fair for everyone. That IS the brand — the moment staking buys advantage, the brand is gone and so is the reason anyone launches here. 5/5 Creator stakes unlock in full whether the token graduates or hangs. Hanging is failure, not fraud. The track record is the penalty, never the stake. We're not building a slashing weapon that scares honest creators away. $GALLOWS

1/4 We could have listed $GALLOWS on an existing pad and pointed at our contracts as a demo. Instead the token launches through its own gallows. Same warrant, same deadline, same trapdoor. The launch event and the mechanism demo are the same 48 hours. 2/4 What that means concretely. Venue: GallowsFactory, our own contracts, mainnet. Deadline: 48:00:00, no special treatment. Wallet cap: 2% for the first 60 minutes, team wallets included. Team allocation: 0%. We buy on the curve, publicly, in view of anyone reading the chain. 3/4 And the part most projects would never write down: If $GALLOWS fails to reach 4.0 WETH in 48 hours, our own token hangs. Redemption executes publicly, every holder burns and takes their pro-rata ETH back, and we post the receipts. Then we relaunch the next week. 4/4 There's no version of that outcome where the mechanism looks bad. Graduation proves it works. Hanging proves it works. The only thing we cannot do is quietly leave holders in a dead chart — because we didn't build a contract capable of it. $GALLOWS

$GALLOWS is the first token deployed through its own bonding curve. Not a metaphor — the same factory, the same 48-hour deadline, the same 2% wallet cap that applies to team wallets too. 1,000,000,000 fixed supply, no mint. 80% sold on the curve, 20% to graduation LP locked forever in the Gallows Locker. 0% team allocation. 0% presale. 0% VC. If we want $GALLOWS, we buy on the curve like everyone else, publicly, capped like everyone else. The launch is the proof. If our own token hangs, every holder gets refunded by the same mechanism we're asking you to trust, we post the receipts, and we relaunch the next week. We eat our own rope. $GALLOWS

Five contracts, and it's worth knowing what each one can and cannot do. GallowsFactory deploys the token plus its LaunchCurve, keeps the registry of every launch, and maintains the creator track record. Launch params are immutable per epoch. LaunchCurve is one per token and holds the ETH: buy/sell with virtual-reserve pricing, 1% fee split at trade time, the 2% wallet cap, then graduate() or hang() or redeem() depending on how the 48 hours go. GallowsLocker receives graduation LP and has no withdraw function. Not a timelock. Not a multisig. There is no code path out. JuryStaking handles stake/unstake and the weekly pot settlement. FeeSplitter routes 50/30/20 and is permissioned only on treasury address rotation. Writes happen on-chain only. api.gallows.fun is a read model — nothing user-authoritative lives on our server. $GALLOWS

1/5 Every mechanism that returns money attracts people trying to game the return. Here's what we expect, and what's in the contract for it. 2/5 Sniping at deploy. Robinhood Chain runs an FCFS sequencer with no priority fees, so sniping is a latency race rather than a fee auction. A fee-market defense would do nothing here. Instead: 2% max wallet for the first 60 minutes, overfill reverts. Team wallets included, no exceptions at genesis. 3/5 Free-option farming — buy big near the deadline, redeem if it hangs. The 5% executioner fee plus pro-rata (not entry-price) redemption makes this negative EV. You can run the trade. It just doesn't pay. 4/5 Self-graduation wash — creator fills their own curve. This one we don't block, because it isn't really an attack. Graduating your own token costs real ETH that ends up as locked LP, plus 1% trade fees plus the 0.05 ETH grad fee. Wash-grads pay the protocol either way and produce a token with genuinely locked liquidity. Fine by us. 5/5 Deadline griefing — nobody calls hang(). hang() is permissionless with a caller bounty. Someone always pulls the lever. Curve reentrancy: checks-effects-interactions, reentrancy guards, no external calls in pricing. Don't trust the thread — read it: github.com/gallowsfun $GALLOWS

The obvious refund design is "give everyone their entry price back." We didn't build that, and the reason is worth explaining. Entry-price refunds need per-buyer accounting — a ledger of who paid what, when. That's expensive, it's a surface for bugs, and worse, it hands every trader a free option: buy at any price, and if the token hangs you're made whole regardless. The rational move becomes farming failures. Pro-rata is one storage slot. Total ETH divided by total tokens, frozen at hang. Someone who bought high and watched others sell before the trapdoor opened still walks out with a floor exit rather than nothing. It isn't perfect and we don't pretend otherwise. It's infinitely better than every other pad's number, which is zero. $GALLOWS

Graduation is one transaction: curve closes, grad fee splits, remaining ETH plus the 200M reserve seeds a full-range V3 position, the LP NFT lands in a locker with no withdraw function, and the curve renounces its own authority. No admin step, no migration window, no rug surface. $GALLOWS

The hanging, mechanically. At the deadline with the curve unfilled, anyone can call hang(). The executioner role is permissionless and the caller collects a small bounty, which is why nobody ever has to wonder whether someone will pull the lever. hang() flips the curve into REDEMPTION and freezes one number: rate = curveETH × 0.95 / circulatingTokens. From there each holder calls redeem() themselves — burn tokens, receive ETH at the frozen rate. Pull-based, so there's no loop over holders and no gas bomb waiting at the 400th wallet. The 5% executioner fee is the only thing standing between the mechanism and free-option farming. It's high enough to make "buy big near the deadline and redeem if it hangs" negative EV, low enough that a refund still feels like a refund. $GALLOWS

1/4 Why we built a custom bonding curve instead of listing straight to Uniswap V3 like everyone else. The honest answer: we had no choice. A deadline is not a feature you can bolt onto a pool. 2/4 Instant-V3 pads put the token on a real pool from second one. That pool exists independently of any countdown you draw on top of it. There is no state to flip, no ETH to return, no verdict to enforce. The best you can do is display a timer that means nothing. 3/4 The GALLOWS curve is protocol-owned and holds ALL raised ETH until resolution. Deterministic pricing via constant-product virtual reserves, k = vETH × vTOKEN. That custody window is the entire mechanism. At graduation, the curve pays out into a V3 pool and burns its own authority — an irreversible handoff, single transaction, no admin step. At hanging, the same curve becomes a one-way redemption vault. Pull-based. No admin key can reach holder ETH. 4/4 One contract, two exits, both terminal. Incumbents who want to copy the deadline have to break their own "instant listing" promise and rebuild on a curve. That's an architecture migration, not a feature flag. Code is public: github.com/gallowsfun $GALLOWS

Fixed, api.gallows.fun is live. Read-only, no key required: /tokens · /tokens/:id · /stats Heads up so nobody builds on the wrong assumption: we're pre-mainnet, so it's serving demo data until the contracts ship. Every response is flagged "mode": "demo". Thanks for the nudge 🪢

Fixed, api.gallows.fun is live. Read-only, no key required: /tokens · /tokens/:id · /stats Heads up so nobody builds on the wrong assumption: we're pre-mainnet, so it's serving demo data until the contracts ship. Every response is flagged "mode": "demo". Thanks for the nudge 🪢

@gallowsfun fix ur endpoint api.gallows.fun

0x841039bbb07ea983d24c73e47bf0a585f71157cf 2% WALLET CAP AND MORE TEK FINALLY

Best launchpad on @RobinhoodApp? Wrong question. The right one: which launchpad refunds your ETH when a launch dies? Only one answer, and it's not on this poll. Every launch gets 48h, graduate, or hang and holders redeem their ETH back. 🪢 gallows.fun · $GALLOWS

1/4 The strangest thing about launchpads is that failure is invisible. A token dies and nothing happens. No moment, no closure, no artifact. Just a chart that stops updating and a Telegram that goes quiet. The most common outcome in the entire category produces zero content. 2/4 We think that's a waste of the most interesting thing on the platform. On GALLOWS, hangs resolve on the hour. That gives you showtimes. Predictable ceremonies you can put in a calendar, gather in a channel for, and watch resolve in real time on 100ms blocks. 3/4 Two rituals, both worth watching. Graduation: the curve fills, liquidity locks forever, survivors mint an "I SURVIVED THE GALLOWS" card. The hanging: the countdown hits zero, the trapdoor opens, an execution certificate gets minted, and holders redeem. Losing produces a collectible instead of a rage-quit. 4/4 Failure becomes content. Content becomes distribution. Distribution becomes the moat. Every competitor's failures are silence. Ours are a numbered series. $GALLOWS

Them: 98% of launches become zombie charts that trap holders forever, and the platform keeps its fee either way. Us: every launch graduates or refunds inside 48 hours. Them: a failed launch means you hold a worthless bag with no exit event. Us: a failed launch means you burn and redeem your pro-rata ETH back, minus 5%. Them: creator reputation is opaque, so serial launchers just spin up a fresh wallet. Us: launches, graduations, and hangs are an on-chain record that follows the creator forever. The difference isn't tone. It's what the contract can be made to do. $GALLOWS

We're live on Robinhood. $GALLOWS is the official token of the first launchpad with a death penalty. 48 hours to graduate or hang. No zombie tokens. Holders get refunded if it fails. Built on Robinhood Chain. CA: 0x841039bBb07Ea983D24C73e47BF0a585f71157cF gallows.fun

We don't ask you to trust the launchpad. We hand you the code and let you check. The @gallowsfun/sdk is live on npm: curve state, creator track records, live ceremony streams, all typed, all read-only by design. One install, zero API keys. Don't trust, verify. Everything is open on GitHub. npm install @gallowsfun/sdk GitHub: github.com/gallowsfun $GALLOWS

1. The zombie token problem nobody on a launchpad wants to name. You buy at 40% fill. The curve stops. It never reaches graduation. It also never resolves. Six months later that chart is still sitting at 41%, and your ETH is still sitting inside a contract with no function that gives it back. 2. Here's what actually happened in that six months. The creator walked away with zero consequence and zero public record. Nothing follows them to their next launch. The platform kept its fee on the way in and lost nothing on the way out. You are the only party in that transaction with an unresolved position. 3. The reason this happens is architectural, not moral. Instant-V3 pads list the token on a real pool from second one. Once that pool exists, no deadline is enforceable — the pool doesn't care about your countdown, it just exists. Failed tokens become illiquid dust because there is no mechanism that could make them anything else. 4. GALLOWS holds the raised ETH in a protocol-owned curve contract until graduation. That custody window is not a compromise. It is precisely what makes a deadline and a refund mechanically possible. You can only enforce a verdict if you're still holding the evidence. 5. So every launch gets 48 hours and two possible endings. 4.0 WETH before the countdown: graduate, LP locks forever, curve renounces itself. Countdown hits zero unfilled: the curve becomes a redemption vault, holders burn and take 95% of the ETH back. The deadline IS the product. $GALLOWS

On every other pad, buying early carries the most risk. On GALLOWS it's the safest seat on the board — the downside is capped by the curve itself, not by hope. $GALLOWS

Every other launchpad lets a token die quietly. We put it on a schedule. $GALLOWS