Documentation · 3 Nov 2026

How Moneto works.

Moneto is a token launchpad on Solana where every coin is priced in Litecoin. It runs ahead of the Litecoin EVM, with a freeze and snapshot built to carry coins to LitVM. This page is the plain description of the mechanics, the numbers and what is and is not built.

Overview

Every coin on Moneto is created, bought, sold and pooled in LTC. The LTC is cbLTC, Litecoin wrapped by Coinbase and issued on Solana. Coins are sold on a bonding curve until 800M of their 1B supply is sold; at that point the coin is minted and its liquidity moves into a pool built into the Moneto program, locked forever.

Supply per coin, fixed

800M

Sold on the curve

47.6 LTC

Market cap at open

160 LTC

Raised at the mint

840 LTC

Market cap at the mint

0.5%

Mint fee, every buy and sell

The economics follow Notus, the open-source launchpad on Base, rebuilt for Solana. Three things differ because of Solana, and they are called out below.

How a coin works

Strike. One transaction creates the coin, its curve and its metadata: name, ticker, image, description, links. 1B supply, fixed. There is no mint authority and no freeze authority, so nobody can mint more or freeze it. An optional first strike makes the striker the first holder, disclosed on the coin page.
The curve. 800M coins are sold on a bonding curve. The price rises with every buy and falls with every sell. Coins can be transferred before they are minted.
Minted. At 800M sold, about 160 LTC has been raised. The coin is minted: its liquidity moves into a pool in the Moneto program, locked forever, at exactly the curve's closing price, about 840 LTC of market cap. The coin trades on without a ceiling and without a key.

Difference from Notus. Notus locks transfers until graduation. On Solana that needs a freeze authority, which traders' scanners flag as a red flag, so Moneto coins can be transferred before they are minted.

The curve

A constant-product curve with virtual reserves. The program holds a virtual LTC reserve and a virtual coin reserve whose product is constant; each buy adds LTC and removes coins, so the price rises; each sell does the reverse. The same formula for every coin, checkable on-chain.

Point	Sold	Price	Market cap
Open	0	0.0476 LTC per 1M	≈ 47.6 LTC
Halfway	400M	0.1243 LTC per 1M	≈ 124 LTC
The mint	800M	0.8400 LTC per 1M	≈ 840 LTC

Market cap here is the price times the full 1B supply, stated in LTC. In the app, values show in dollars first with the LTC figure beneath.

Minting and the pool

When the 800M on the curve are sold, curve trading closes and the coin is minted in the same transaction. The LTC raised and the reserved coins seed a pool at the curve's closing price. The pool is part of the Moneto program and its liquidity is locked by design; there is no key that can withdraw it.

Difference from Notus. Minted coins trade in a pool built into the Moneto program, not on an external DEX. Jupiter does not route to these pools until Moneto applies after launch, so until then minted coins trade on the Moneto site.

Fees and the split

The Mint takes 0.5% of every buy and every sell, on the curve and in the pool. There is no creation fee; striking a coin costs the network fee and, if chosen, the first strike.

At the strike, the striker may add a tax of up to 10% on buys and up to 10% on sells. It is fixed forever at the strike and shown on the coin page. The striker chooses how it is split between four shares:

Share	Goes to
Creator	The striker.
Cashback	Holders, in proportion to what they hold. See holder cashback.
Buyback	Automatic buybacks of the coin, which are burned.
Liquidity	Added to the coin's pool.

Nobody, including the Mint, can change a live coin's fees, curve, supply or pool.

Holder cashback

If a coin's split includes cashback, each holder's share is worked out by the Moneto indexer from trades and balances, and published on-chain every 10 minutes. Holders then claim it. The program caps claims at what the coin actually set aside, so a claim can never exceed the coin's cashback balance.

Difference from Notus. Cashback is computed off-chain by the indexer and published on-chain on a schedule, rather than accrued inside the token contract on every transfer.

Paying in SOL or LTC

Buys can be paid in LTC directly or in SOL. When paying in SOL, it is swapped to LTC in the same transaction; the coin only ever sees LTC. The Reserve page is where LTC comes in.

cbLTC

The LTC on Moneto is cbLTC: Litecoin held by Coinbase, one-for-one, issued as a token on Solana. It is called "LTC" throughout the product. The mint address:

cbLTC4T5NpzSUtQ7ekgEMZGaUPVJY1ko6BUikqa4gGf

Moneto does not issue or custody LTC. The reserve behind cbLTC is Coinbase's.

Keys and the timelock

Admin key: The only admin key sits behind a 24-hour timelock. Every change is visible on-chain at least a day before it can run.
Live coins: Fees, curve, supply and pool of a live coin cannot be changed by anyone.
Mint authority: None. Supply is fixed at 1B.
Freeze authority: None. Coins cannot be frozen.
Pool liquidity: Locked by the program, permanently.
Your wallet: Never held. Moneto never asks for a seed phrase.

The road to LitVM

LitVM is Litecoin's EVM layer. Moneto runs on Solana ahead of it. What is built for the move:

The freeze. If LitVM mainnet launches, a freeze can be announced through the timelock at least a day ahead. From the announcement, no new coins are struck. At the freeze time, trading stops so a final snapshot can be taken.
The address link. Solana wallets have no LitVM address, so holders link one by signing a free message on the LitVM page.
The snapshot. A tool reads every balance at the freeze and matches each to its linked address.

Not built yet: the move itself. It is built only if the decision to move is taken. The freeze cycle above is tested end to end on a local chain.

The Ledger

The Ledger is a season-based record of what each wallet did on the pad, computed from the chain: strikes, buys, holds of minted coins, referrals. Season 1 opens with mainnet. Points are not a token.

Status and testing

Built

On-chain program: striking, trading, minting into the locked pool, buybacks, claims, the timelock, the freeze.
Indexer: tracks trades and holder cashback, runs the automatic buybacks, feeds the site.
Website: Explore, Strike, token pages, Ledger, Reserve, Profile, About, LitVM.

Tested

All program tests pass on a local chain, including the full freeze cycle. After every step, each coin's vault holds exactly what it owes.
Cashback calculations are checked against what is published on-chain.
Every page of the site checked on desktop and phone.

Not yet

Trading with a real wallet in the browser, paying with SOL (mainnet only), and the server setup.
No outside audit. Nothing is deployed.

Questions

What does it cost to strike a coin?

The network fee and, if you choose one, your first strike. There is no creation fee. The Mint takes 0.5% of every buy and sell.

Can the team pause, edit or drain a coin?

No. Nobody can change a live coin's fees, curve, supply or pool, and there is no mint or freeze authority. Changes to the Mint itself go through a 24-hour timelock.

Where do minted coins trade?

In the coin's own pool inside the Moneto program, on the Moneto site. Jupiter routing is applied for after launch.

Is Moneto affiliated with Litecoin, LitVM, Solana or Coinbase?

No. Moneto is an independent, open launchpad. It names them only as facts of the product.

Glossary

Strike: Create a coin. One transaction.
First strike: The striker's optional first buy, sent with the strike.
The curve: The bonding curve on which the first 800M are sold.
Minted: A coin that has sold 800M and whose liquidity is locked in its pool.
The split: How a coin's optional tax is divided: creator, cashback, buyback, liquidity.
The Mint: Moneto's treasury; receives the 0.5% fee.
The Ledger: The season-based activity record. Not a token.
Reserve: The page where LTC comes in and the cbLTC mint is published.