One ticker forever
Each ticker, name and image launches once. The first coin keeps them for good.
On Mooner a ticker belongs to one coin, forever. So do its name and its image. There is never a second $PEPE to confuse buyers or split a coin's liquidity, not while the coin trades, not after it graduates, not after it dies.
How it works
- At launch, Mooner's contracts register the ticker and the name. They write two on-chain records, each keyed by a folded form of the text (below): the contracts fold the ticker themselves; the name is folded by the launch service, which signs the result. Creating a record that already exists fails, so a second launch of the same ticker or name fails on-chain, in the same transaction, whatever app sends it.
- Records are never deleted. Nothing can remove a launched coin's ticker or name. The first coin keeps them for good.
- Images are checked before launch. Mooner's launch service compares the image with every coin ever launched, by a perceptual fingerprint that survives re-encoding, resizing, light recoloring and small watermarks. The contracts only accept launches co-signed by that service, so an image copy can't launch through another app either.
What counts as the same
| Kind | Rule | Same as |
|---|---|---|
| Ticker | 1 to 10 characters, A-Z and 0-9. Digits used as letters fold into them: 0→O, 1→I, 2→Z, 3→E, 4→A, 5→S, 6→G, 7→T, 8→B, 9→G. | $P3PE, $PEP3 and $PEPE |
| Name | Case, spacing, punctuation, accents, leetspeak and Cyrillic or Greek look-alike letters are ignored. | "Moon Pepe", "moonpepe", "M00N PEPE" |
| Image | The same picture, even resized, re-encoded or lightly edited. | A screenshot of another coin's logo |
Reserved tickers
A short list of tickers that belong to existing assets, such as HYPE and USDC, is reserved so nobody can launch a fake of them.
Why it matters
When a name can launch only once, everything a coin earns stays with it: its holders, its liquidity, its community, its search results. Buyers never have to guess which one is the original, and creators never watch a copy siphon off what they built.