u/youwishjelliefish

I’ve spent the last several months building something in the Solana space, a real working product, not an idea on a whiteboard. I can’t get into specifics here, but I’ve been posting about it on Reddit if you’re curious enough to look.

I’m a builder. That part I know how to do. I can sit with a problem until it’s actually solved, think through edge cases most people wouldn’t bother with, ship something that works the way it’s supposed to.

Getting people to know it exists is where I fall apart. I don’t have a marketing budget. I don’t have the network. I’m not someone who’s naturally good at being loud about what I’ve made, and I’ve watched that gap sit there the whole time I’ve been building, knowing the work itself was never going to be the reason it succeeds or fails.

The goal behind what I built was making this space a little less zero-sum, more people walking away better off than they went in. That only means anything if people actually see it.

So this is me just being honest about where I’m stuck. If you’ve ever built something you believed in and had no idea how to get it in front of anyone, you know exactly what this feels like. So I’m asking what it would take for to connect with someone like me and collaborate if you have the network skillset or anything of the sort?

Building Erys. Here’s where it’s at, price included.

I’ve spent the last few months building Erys, a coordination platform for token launches. The core idea: contributors pool SOL before a launch so everyone gets in at the same price, and early backers (co-devs) earn a permanent, on-chain cut of that token’s ongoing creator fees, sized by what they put in.

Let’s talk price first, since that’s what most of you actually care about. It’s been flat. I’m working on that, and I’d rather tell you exactly what I think moves it than pretend it’s already moving.

What’s shipped so far:

**•**	Co-dev fee sharing, live and working  
**•**	Lock-to-boost: lock your tokens and earn a multiplier on your fee-share weight, up to 10x  
**•**	KOL mode: creators can allocate tokens and fees directly to up to 5 KOLs  
**•**	Vault mode: route a token’s fees into real-world assets (gold, S&P 500, treasuries) alongside SOL/token upside  
**•**	Amplify: content rewards for people making noise about a launch  
**•**	A public API so other apps can build on top of Erys directly  
**•**	An affiliate program: bring a dev to Erys and earn a permanent cut of that launch’s creator fees, for as long as the token trades

Here’s the actual plan for the token:

**1.	The affiliate program is the growth engine.** Every dev someone refers is a new launch, new volume, new users touching Erys, and a standing incentive that scales with however many people push it.  
**2.	Amplify and the API expand Erys beyond our own launches.** More surface area, more places Erys shows up, more paths for volume to actually flow.  
**3.	I’m currently in a hackathon with this project.** A real distribution opportunity if it goes well, and one milestone in a longer build.

Curious how many people would actually want ongoing fee income over a one-time payout, especially if they got in on the first candle. Does that change how long someone sticks with a coin versus just flipping it early?

Im hoping to find a few runners

Spent some time with the actual bonding curve formula again because the usual “$69k mcap equals graduation” stat never sat right with me. That number is tied to SOL trading around $168. The real trigger for graduation is a fixed amount of real SOL raised into the curve, somewhere around 85 SOL, and whatever that’s worth in dollars just depends on where SOL happens to be sitting that day.

Here’s the part that’s actually useful though. Every token starts from the same place, 30 virtual SOL and 1.073 billion virtual tokens, same constant product curve as every other launch. Because your entry point and the graduation point both move together with SOL price, the ratio between them never changes. It only depends on how much SOL went into the curve before you bought.

Worked out the numbers and the early window is steeper than most people probably realize. Get in within the first half SOL of a launch and you’re sitting on roughly 14x to graduation. Five SOL in and it’s still around 10 to 11x. By the time 10 SOL has gone in you’re at roughly 8x. Once 20 SOL is in that drops to around 5x, and by 30 SOL it’s under 4x. After that it keeps compressing the rest of the way to graduation.

At today’s SOL price that 10 SOL mark works out to around a $3,300 mcap, with graduation sitting around $27k. Same ratio either way, the dollar numbers just move with SOL.

What bugs me is that almost nobody actually gets in during that first 10 SOL window unless they’re the dev or already watching the wallet. By the time a launch is visible enough for someone to see the tweet and ape in, 20, 30, sometimes 50 SOL has already gone through the curve, and that 8 to 14x window is already gone to whoever was early.

This is the actual problem Erys is built around. Contributors pool SOL before the token goes live so the whole group buys in that same early window together, same price as the dev, same multiple to graduation as the dev. Nobody’s behind anybody, because nobody bought before the group did.

If you follow a dev whose calls you actually trust, this is worth sending them. Tell them to launch through Erys instead of going it alone. Their early supporters end up sitting in that 8x plus window right alongside them instead of showing up after the curve’s already moved, and a launch where everyone’s incentives line up from the first buy tends to have a lot more legs than one where the dev’s by themselves for the first ten minutes. erys.live if you want to take a look.

What are we holding ?

I see a lot of discussion here about SOL price action, ecosystem development, DeFi, validators, the usual. But very rarely do I see people talking about memecoin launches.

Is it the volatility? The reputation? Have you just been burnt too many times?

Or is there something new happening in the Solana ecosystem right now that you think deserves more attention than memecoins are getting?

Genuinely curious how this community interacts with the memecoin side of Solana because from the outside it looks like two completely separate worlds that rarely talk to each other.

What am I missing?

I know memecoins aren’t everyone’s thing here, so bear with me. I’m not here to shill anything. I genuinely want the perspective of people who think clearly about these problems.

I identified what I think is a real problem with memecoin launches. By the time most people see a token on pump or bags, the early buyers are already up and retail is essentially providing exit liquidity. The information and timing advantage is completely one-sided.

So I built a coordination layer that pools SOL from a group before the token is ever deployed. Everyone gets in at the same price, from block one, before it ever touches the launchpads. All activity is verifiable on chain.

I’ve built it, tested it, and it works. My problem is distribution.

I know I need communities to run launches through it, not just me launching things alone. But getting those first communities to trust a new platform before it has a track record is the classic cold start problem.

How would you approach this? Has anyone here solved a similar bootstrapping problem in crypto or outside of it? What would actually move the needle for you if you came across something like this?

Not looking for hype. Looking for honest takes.

we want the dev to be out..

but we want him to push while we do nothing..

oh and we don’t want him to earn fees..

but we want him to have supply control..

but not in a way that people can tell..

and we want him to work on it, hard, for a long time..

but we don’t want him to make money..

Does that sound about right?

Did i miss anything?