How to use Noctis

A Cardano wallet is required for every action on Noctis — it's your identity, pays fees, and receives your tokens.

1. Install a CIP-30 wallet such as Eternl or Lace and set it to the correct network (Preprod for testing, Mainnet for live launches).
2. Fund it with a little ADA for transaction fees.
3. Click Connect Wallet in the top navigation and approve the connection request in your wallet.
4. Your address and balance appear once connected. You can disconnect any time from the same menu.

Noctis never asks for your seed phrase. You approve and sign every transaction yourself, in your own wallet.

A Midnight wallet is only needed for the private DarkVeil phase (Tier B) or for a fully Midnight-native launch (Tier C). Tier A never needs one.

1. Install a Midnight-compatible wallet extension and set it to the same network as your Cardano wallet.
2. On a DarkVeil or Tier C page, choose Connect Midnight wallet and approve the request.
3. You don't need to hold DUST — Noctis covers all Midnight transaction gas for DarkVeil registration and buying.

Your Cardano wallet is still used for DarkVeil eligibility checks (wallet age, NIGHT balance) even on Tier C.

Every launch is one of three permanent tiers. Pick based on how much privacy you want — the choice can't be changed after launch.

• Tier A — Public ($10): a standard public bonding curve on Cardano. Fastest to launch, no Midnight needed. 5% per-address cap.
• Tier B — DarkVeil ($30): adds a private 24-hour buying phase on Midnight before the public curve opens. Front-run protection and a ZK Fair Launch Certificate. 5% cap per cryptographic identity.
• Tier C — Midnight-native ($50): everything runs privately on Midnight, priced in NIGHT. Maximum privacy from creation to LP.

Fees are in USD, payable in ADA or NIGHT at the market rate. Every tier includes vesting, a 1-year LP lock, CTO governance protection, and an optional staking pool.

The Create wizard walks you through six steps. Have your token name, ticker, logo, and social links ready.

1. Token basics — name, ticker, logo, and description.
2. Tier — pick A, B, or C (see the guide above). This is permanent.
3. Curve & price — set the starting and graduation price for the bonding curve.
4. Allocation & vesting — your creator allocation (up to 10%) and a vesting period you must actively choose (90–365 days).
5. Extras — optionally enable the staking rewards pool, choose the graduation DEX, and add verified social channels.
6. Review & pay — confirm everything, pay the launch fee, and sign the mint. Your token goes live.

Total supply is fixed at 1,000,000,000 tokens. 15% is always reserved for the LP at graduation.

Your own tokens are held back and released gradually, so buyers can trust you can't dump on them.

1. Choose a creator allocation up to 10% of supply (5–8% is recommended).
2. Choose a vesting period between 90 and 365 days. There is no default — you must pick one.
3. Nothing releases before graduation, no matter how much time passes. After graduation, tokens release linearly every day.

A ZK proof published at DarkVeil open confirms you held 0 tokens at the start — proof you didn't buy your own launch.

An optional pool that rewards holders who stake your token. Turn it on during launch creation.

1. Toggle the staking pool on and allocate a fixed 25% of supply to it.
2. Choose a pool runway between 3 and 5 years — rewards emit linearly each day over that period.
3. The pool is funded automatically at graduation, in the same transaction that seeds the LP.
4. You can top the pool up at any time later; a top-up extends the runway rather than speeding up payouts.

If you don't enable staking, that 25% simply stays in the public bonding curve instead.

You earn 1.0% of every trade — the highest creator share on any Cardano launchpad. There are two separate income streams; don't confuse them:

• Bonding Curve Escrow — 1.0% of bonding-curve trades, accumulated until the curve graduates. Claim it monthly from your creator dashboard. A small gas amount (~0.17 ADA) is deducted from the balance per claim.
• LP Trading Fees — after graduation, the DEX pool's trading fees flow to you on an ongoing basis, for as long as the pool has volume.

If a community takeover (CTO) vote passes, both streams redirect to the community wallet. See the CTO guide below.

Once your launch has graduated, your allocation unlocks a little each day.

1. Open your creator dashboard for the launch.
2. The claimable amount updates daily (total allocation ÷ vesting days per day).
3. Click Claim vested and sign — the unlocked tokens are sent to your wallet.

Already-claimed tokens are yours to keep. Unvested tokens can be frozen and redirected to the community if a CTO vote passes.

Buying pushes the price up along the curve — the earlier you buy, the lower your price.

1. Open a live launch from the Launches page.
2. Enter how much you want to spend (ADA on Tier A/B, NIGHT on Tier C). The widget shows the tokens you'll receive and your resulting price.
3. Click Buy and sign. A 2.0% trade fee applies (1.0% creator, 0.6% treasury, 0.4% ops).

No wallet can exceed 5% of supply across a whole launch. The graph reaches graduation only at 100% sell-through — there's no early graduation.

DarkVeil is a private 24-hour buying window before the public curve opens. Registration is open for 48 hours and freezes 2 hours before buying starts.

To be eligible, all of the following must be true:

• Your Cardano wallet is at least 90 days old.
• You hold at least $50 worth of NIGHT as a refundable bond.
• You are not the creator, and share no wallet link with them.

1. Open the launch's DarkVeil page during the registration window and connect both wallets.
2. Approve the eligibility checks and lock your NIGHT bond.
3. You're registered. Your per-wallet allocation is set when registration freezes, split evenly across all registrants.

A launch needs a minimum number of registrants or DarkVeil is cancelled and every bond is fully refunded.

During the 24-hour window you buy at a single flat price, completely hidden from other users and bots.

1. Open the DarkVeil page once buying is live and connect your Midnight wallet.
2. Choose how much of your allocation to buy, up to your per-wallet limit, at the flat DarkVeil price.
3. Confirm — your purchase is committed privately on Midnight. Nobody can see your amount or identity.

Your NIGHT bond is returned in proportion to how much you buy — buy your full allocation, get 100% back. A forfeited portion goes to the treasury and ops.

On Tier B the tokens you bought privately are delivered on Cardano after DarkVeil closes — you claim them yourself, revealing only your own amount.

1. After DarkVeil closes and the allocation is anchored on Cardano, open the launch and choose Claim DarkVeil tokens.
2. Pay the flat DarkVeil price in ADA and sign.
3. Your tokens arrive in your Cardano wallet. No other participant's allocation is ever revealed.

Your DarkVeil holding counts toward the same 5% cap as any public buying you do.

If a launch has a staking pool, you can stake your tokens to earn a daily share of rewards.

1. On the launch page, open the staking panel and enter an amount to stake, then sign.
2. A new position earns nothing for the first 7 days (an anti-gaming seasoning period), then starts accruing.
3. Each day's rewards are split among all stakers in proportion to their staked balance.
4. Claim accrued rewards from your token profile any time. A flat $1 claim fee applies (in ADA, or NIGHT on Tier C).
5. Unstake whenever you like — your staked tokens are yours and are never locked away from you.

No single participant can hold more than 5% of the total supply from a launch. This keeps launches fair and limits whales.

• The cap is cumulative — your DarkVeil buying and your public buying count together toward the same 5%.
• On Tier A it's enforced per address. On Tier B and C it's enforced per cryptographic identity, which is much harder to split across wallets.
• The buy widget shows how much of your 5% you've used across the whole launch.

A launch graduates when its bonding curve is 100% sold through — there is no partial or early graduation.

1. At graduation, 15% of supply plus the ADA raised are paired into a liquidity pool on the chosen DEX (CSwap by default).
2. That LP is locked in escrow for 1 year. There is no withdraw function — the liquidity cannot be pulled.
3. After the lock expires, liquidity can only be migrated to another whitelisted DEX, never removed to a wallet.

Watch the difference between Graduation FDV (fixed at the graduation price) and Current FDV (live DEX price, which can be much higher).

If a creator goes silent, holders can vote to take over the project's fee streams and unvested tokens — a Community TakeOver.

1. A proposal can be raised at least 30 days after graduation.
2. Voting runs for 72 hours as a private ballot on Midnight. At least 5% of supply must participate for the vote to count.
3. If yes votes win, future creator fees and LP fees redirect to the community wallet, and unvested creator tokens are frozen and sent to the community treasury.

Already-claimed fees and already-vested tokens are never affected. The creator's own vote is allowed but capped and tracked separately for transparency.

After every DarkVeil phase, a certificate is anchored on Cardano proving the launch was fair — without revealing anyone's identity or amounts.

The certificate publicly confirms:

• The creator bought 0 tokens during DarkVeil.
• No wallet exceeded the 5% cap.
• The total raised, tokens distributed, and NIGHT returned or forfeited.
• The correct open and close timestamps.

Individual wallet addresses and buy amounts stay private forever. Browse live certificates and locked LP positions on the Transparency page.