User Journey
Below is a typical user journey with Pond, for both builders and Pond community in general:

Hackathon
First, builders participate in our weekly hackathon to showcase their skills and project proposals. They can also find and team up with other builders. Hackathon winners can launch their projects to Markets with one click.

Markets
Once a project is created on the Markets, it goes through 3 phases: Proposed, Seeding, and Active.
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In the Proposed phase, project creators are required to set their seeding target, improve their project information, and actively respond to community questions in the Discussion Area over a 3-day period. After that, the project moves into the Seeding phase.
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In the Seeding phase, a project token (i.e., cryptocurrency) will be launched for the project, and 37.5% of the token supply will be offered for the project seeding and for the liquidity pool. For instance, if you set a $30,000 target, the system automatically calculates the required liquidity pool amount and sets the token price based on the total amount. The community contributes stablecoins in exchange for the project token. This phase lasts for 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Pond users can participate by pledging stablecoins for the project token at a fixed price. Each user can exchange for no more than 5% of the offered tokens (i.e., 5% × 37.5%) on a first-come, first-served basis.
At the end of the seeding phase:
- If the phase reaches its goal, the project team receives their target amount in stablecoins, while the remainder goes to a liquidity pool on a DEX. Users will be able to claim the tokens they have exchanged for on Pond website.
- If the phase doesn't meet the goal, the community contributors will be refunded.
Rest assured, This token neither represents equity nor confers rights over the project, which allows the project team to freely pursue VC funding or launch new tokens in the future [Disclaimer].
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After reaching the target and the liquidity pool requirements, the project enters the Active phase, and starts working to reach milestones. Meanwhile, 12.5% of the token supply will be transferred to a Uniswap liquidity pool. 25% of the token supply is reserved and will be unlocked to the team after the project MVP is delivered.
AI Studio
Pond offers a suite of AI infrastructure and services to facilitate the development process.
- Various data sources including both on-chain and off-chain data
- Scalable data pipeline for large-data processing
- The most popular data science environment, Jupyter notebook, for analytics and machine learning
- Affordable GPU resources integrated with the notebook
- Agent tooling for no-code creation of AI agents
- Builder copilot, an AI assistant to help you build with models, agents, and applications on Pond
Accelerator, App Store & Integration Hub
After delivering the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) defined in the project proposal, Pond will help you publish your product into App Store, Integration Hub, or both, depending on the nature of your product. More importantly, Pond Accelerator will help with the distribution, marketing, and operations of your project, giving you full support for your to iterate on your product and bring it to the next unicorn.
Project Team Token Unlock
Once the project team delivers their first Minimum Viable Product (MVP) defined in their proposal, 25% of the token supply will gradually unlock based on time and price milestones, following a principle similar to what CZ proposed: https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1895837657613078574?s=46. Each unlock requires two conditions:
- At least 2 months since the last unlock event
- At certain time point after the last unlock, the daily average price has to reach a certain level compared to the initial price.
Both conditions must be met to trigger an unlock event. For example, the first unlock requires more than 2 months after delivery and the daily average price must increase by at least 5 times compared to the initial price on a certain day during that period.
Unlock Event | Time Since Last Unlock | Daily Price / Initial Price | Unlock Amount |
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1 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 5x | 2.5% |
2 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 15x | 2.5% |
3 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 25x | 2.5% |
4 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 35x | 2.5% |
5 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 45x | 2.5% |
6 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 55x | 2.5% |
7 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 65x | 2.5% |
8 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 75x | 2.5% |
9 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 85x | 2.5% |
10 | ≥ 2 months | ≥ 100x | 2.5% |
This approach ensures sustainable growth and long-term alignment with the community as project continues building. The system and unlock mechanism are designed so that all project tokens can be fully unlocked within two years—provided the token price reaches 100x the initial launch price.
Updated about 2 months ago