How Tandem works
What happens when you launch, where every fee goes, and what nobody can do to your token afterwards.
The idea
On most launchpads your token trades against ETH and that is the end of it. On Tandem it rides with a partner you choose: ETH, USDC, a tokenized stock like Tesla, a meme like PEPE, or any token with a real pool.
The partner is what your token trades against, so every fee is paid in it. When your holders get paid, they get paid in it too. Pick a partner your crowd would be happy to hold.
Launching takes one transaction. It creates the token, opens its Uniswap v4 market against the partner and locks the whole supply as liquidity. If you want, your own first buy happens in that same transaction, before anyone else can buy.
The four rides
The ride decides how the fee behaves and where the 70% goes. It is written into the pool at launch and never changes.
Cruise
Fee fixed at 1%. The whole 70% goes to you. Holders get nothing from the fee.
Split
Fee from 0.01% to 5%, your pick. You choose how the 70% splits between you and your holders.
Burnout
Fee from 0.01% to 5%. You take nothing. The 70% buys your token back and sends it to the burn address.
Uphill
Buys open at a 99% fee that falls one point per second to yours (0.01% to 5%). Sells pay your fee throughout. The 70% goes to you.
On Uphill, the creator's own first buy inside the launch transaction pays the normal fee, not the toll. A buy through any other route pays the toll like everyone else.
Where fees go
Every buy and every sell pays the ride's fee, in the partner. Tandem keeps 30% of it. That number is fixed in the contracts and is the same for every ride.
The other 70% follows the ride. Your part collects on the contract and you claim it from Payouts whenever you want. It never expires. You can split it between up to three wallets when you launch, and each wallet can later hand its own slot to a new address.
The holders' part is sent to them automatically, in proportion to what they hold. Nothing to stake, nothing to claim. A payout waits until it is worth more than the gas it costs to send, so a quiet ride pays less often instead of spending its holders' money on fees.
Your token
Every token is a plain ERC-20. No owner, no mint, no pause, no blacklist, no tax on transfers. The supply at launch is the supply forever. Every Tandem token address ends in 666, so you can tell one apart at a glance.
The whole supply sits in the pool as liquidity held by a locker contract that has no way to give it back. Nobody, us included, can pull it. Only that locker can add liquidity to a Tandem pool.
What we can and cannot do
We want you to know exactly which keys exist and what each one can touch.
- Community takeoverAn admin key can point a ride's future creator fees at a new wallet. It exists for rides whose creator walked away. It only changes fees taken from that moment on. What the old wallets already earned stays theirs, and it can never reach the liquidity, the supply, the holders' share or anyone's balance.
- The burnerOn Burnout rides, only our keeper can trigger a buyback, with a minimum price set against sandwich bots. It cannot send the pot anywhere but into buying the token and burning it.
- The partner list and the pauseA lister key decides which partners are available for new launches, and can pause new launches altogether. Removing a partner can switch off one-click ETH buys on rides that use it, but their pool keeps trading and their fees keep flowing. Pausing never touches a ride that already launched.
- What no key can doChange a ride's fee or its split, touch the locked liquidity, mint tokens, freeze a wallet, or move a fee someone already earned.
Risks, plainly
Tokens here are made by whoever launches them, not by Tandem. Anything can go to zero.
Tokenized stocks are issued by a company that can change the token's code. If the issuer pauses it or freezes wallets, trading a ride paired with it, and its payouts, can stop with it. The app flags these partners wherever they appear.
An Uphill ride charges up to 99% on buys in its first seconds. Token scanners may flag it as a honeypot during that window. That is the point of the ride, and it ends on its own.