Token Launch Auctions - For Auction Hosts
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Frquently Asked Questions for users of Copper participating in auctions.
Does Copper have a token?
Can I buy and sell into an auction?
Yes you can buy and sell into Copper auctions. We provide an open transparent environment for price discovery to take place, and part of price discovery is both buying and selling.
If a project already has tokens in circulation, they too could be sold into the auction.
Does Copper check launches for quality?
No, we are a decentralised, permissionless platform. Anyone can create an auction for users to participate in. An independent 3rd party known as ‘Balancer Intern’ is a current auction curator. We will add more curators over time.
Can I provide liquidity to earn fees on Copper projects?
No, only auction owners can remove and add liquidity to an auction.
My transaction didn’t go through?
Your transaction could be stuck due to it being queued in your wallet or the gas settings were not high enough for it to be accepted onto the Ethereum network. To fix this use the following instructions provided from Metamask.
I can’t see the tokens in my wallet after purchasing them?
Most of the time this issue occurs, it’s because you haven’t added the token to your chosen wallet. Most tokens that launch on Copper are new, and therefore may not automatically show in your wallet. For a token to show in your wallet, you may need to manually add the contract address.
On other occasions, it's because your transaction may have been to "approve" the token, rather than purchasing the token.
There are a few ways to get your Metamask tokens to show in your wallet. The below example is one way to do this.
Add tokens to your Metamask
To add your tokens to your Metamask wallet, open your wallet, and in the assets tab scroll to the bottom and click ‘Import Token’.
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From here, you can either manually add a token or attempt to automatically find it. To manually add a token, find out the contract address, the ticker and add the token.
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What makes a Copper hosted token launch unique and how does it promote fairness for participants compared to other platforms?
'Short' answer: Copper launches provide an opportunity for projects to fairly distribute tokens and engage in natural price discovery.
In most instances, projects launching on Copper will begin the auction with the project at a high market cap. Pricing the token higher discourages bots and heavy buying activity at the time the auction begins. Over time the price decays/reduces allowing time for potential investors to engage in the auction when the token reaches a price that is more in line with realistic valuations.
In the above example, users who rushed to buy the token at the start paid more than for the token than users who patiently waited for the price decay effect towards the middle and end of the auction, which lasted 2 days in total.
This price discovery method is different to other platforms where the price and fundraising cap is pre-announced, giving time for bots to scoop up all of the supply as soon as the listing drops, leaving limited/no supply for the average investor and in many cases the auction ending in mere seconds.
'Long' answer: A Token Launch Auction on Copper is a unique fundraising method that deters sniper bots and bad actors from scooping up the supply via a high to low capital-efficient price mechanism, while effectively bootstrapping an engaged community of token owners.
It is unique because the mechanics of our platform allows the initial price of the token being auctioned to be magnified by up to 99 times relative to the collateral deposited along with it. Additionally, the collateral can be fully retrieved at the end of the auction unless the auctioned tokens already exist outside of the FLA and someone decides to sell into the auction.
An example of auction weights can be see below.
The price being ‘magnified’ is the mechanism that stops the bots. If 10 bots were to simultaneously try and scoop the supply of a token via a TLA within 10 seconds of a launch on Copper, they may send the market cap of the sale from tens of millions to the hundreds of millions and beyond.
This is fairer for communities because it means that bots and whales are limited in their want and ability to immediately ape into the sale, when compared to batch auctions, where it becomes a race and first in gets the best deal.
When should I buy into a project during an auction?
It’s up to individuals to determine when they believe the price becomes fair and they are ready to purchase. In terms of managing the variation in weights, if a launch has a 98% $TOKEN/2% $USDC start weight and an end weight of 98% $USDC/2% $TOKEN it means that if there are no buyers there will be a large difference between the starting price and end price and the price will drop significantly if there are no buyers.
Conversely, if an auction has a 75% $TOKEN/25% $USDC starting weight and then a 25% $TOKEN/75% $USDC end weight, this means the difference between the starting and end price will be lower when compared to the first example if there are no new buyers.
As soon as enough buyers step in to purchase, the price will naturally increase. This means there it is extremely difficult to find the perfect time to purchase. Therefore, individuals need to balance the pros and cons of the project itself and also time their auction entry as well as possible based on the weights and anticipated demand.
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