VOLUME PAYS. NO ONE DUMPS.
Suede is the launchpad where artists keep 100% of their supply forever and earn USDC from every trade of their token. Supporters trade, stake, collect, and attend. $SUEDE stakers earn real-yield USDC from a 1% platform tax across every launch. Here’s the full mechanic.
ARTIST TOKENS DUMP BECAUSE THE ARTIST SELLS.
The standard launchpad mints a token where the artist holds the supply. To fund the work, the artist sells. The chart spikes, then crashes. Supporters who bought above the curve get burned. The cycle repeats with the next launch.
- Artist needs cash → liquidates supply
- Open market gets supply shock
- Price discovery breaks
- Supporters take the loss
- Trust evaporates for the next launch
THE ARTIST NEVER SELLS.
VOLUME PAYS INSTEAD.
On Suede, the artist locks 100% of their supply for the life of the vault. They never sell. Instead, every trade of their token pays them in USDC. Buy or sell, the artist earns.
- Artist supply locked → no liquidation pressure
- Each trade pays the artist's tax in USDC
- Sustained volume = sustained revenue
- Supporters and artist aligned on long-term interest
- Real-yield economics, no inflation
FIVE LAYERS. TWENTY-FIVE DIALS.
Every launch on Suede is a Vault — the artist’s full creative container packaged into one configurable container. Holding the token unlocks everything inside.
- TAX RATE
- BONDING CURVE
- SUPPLY
- LIQUIDITY
- BUY/SELL FEES
Set a 4% artist tax. Pick a sigmoid curve so early supporters get steeper price discovery. Lock supply at 1B. Liquidity bootstraps from the first ten trades.
- EDITION SIZE
- DROP MECHANICS
- GATING
- METADATA
- ROYALTIES
Mint a 250-edition NFT for the album release. Drop is gated to top 100 holders. Metadata signs to your IP layer. Secondary royalties split to you and three collaborators.
- MASTERS
- STEMS
- WEIGHTS
- SEEDS
- VERSIONS
Upload 12 audio masters + 48 stems. Pin a 7B LoRA fine-tune. Drop the training seeds for verified provenance. Holders unlock version-controlled access.
- EVENT TYPE
- CAPACITY
- ELIGIBILITY
- RITUAL
- REDEMPTION
Open a private listening party for the top 50 NFT holders. Capacity 80. Eligibility: 1+ NFT + 1000 token. Redemption signs at the door.
- ROYALTY SPLITS
- LICENSING
- PROOF
- RIGHTS
- COLLAB SPLITS
Split royalties 70/20/10 between you, your producer, and a sample owner. License under a custom commercial-use clause. Sign with SU-87. Splits settle on every trade.
ONE PERCENT OF EVERY TRADE.
REAL YIELD ACROSS THE PLATFORM.
Stakers don’t pick a single artist. They earn from all of them. Here’s the math, walked out — these numbers ladder up to the 11.4% APR shown on the homepage dashboard.
- ARTIST~4%of every trade → artist USDC
- $SUEDE STAKERS0.6%of every trade → staker USDC pool
- TREASURY0.4%of every trade → protocol treasury
The remainder of each trade returns to the bonding curve and to the counterparty. No emissions. No inflation. No new tokens minted to pay yields.
WHAT EVERY OPERATOR ASKS.
Every trade of an artist's token pays a tax. The default split is roughly 4% to the artist (configurable per launch, up to ~6%) plus 1% to the protocol. Trades convert through Solana's USDC liquidity automatically, so the artist receives USDC on every buy and sell. Their compensation tracks sustained trading volume rather than a one-time liquidation of supply.
The 1% platform tax collected on every trade across every Suede launch is split 60/40: 60% flows to $SUEDE stakers, proportional to their stake, settled in USDC; 40% goes to the protocol treasury. No new tokens are minted. Staker rewards come entirely from platform revenue — the bigger the launchpad gets, the more stakers earn.
TOKEN (tax, bonding curve, supply, liquidity, buy/sell fees). NFTs (edition size, drop mechanics, gating, metadata, royalties). RELEASES (masters, stems, weights, seeds, versions). TICKETS (event type, capacity, eligibility, ritual, redemption). IP (royalty splits, licensing, proof, rights, collaborator splits). 5 layers × 5 dials = 25 parameters every artist configures before deploy.
They don't need to. Their compensation comes from trading volume, paid in USDC on every trade. There's no need to liquidate the supply to fund the work because the trading flow IS the revenue. This aligns the artist's incentive with long-term volume — sustained interest in their work, not a single sell-off.
Solana today. Base is the next chain — same Vault architecture, same primitives, additional volume. Other chains follow. The Base launch surface already shows SOON in the chain switcher.
The launchpad UI is live at launch.suedeai.ai. The Vault on-chain primitive is being deployed. Mock data fills the discovery surfaces during the staged rollout; real on-chain reads are wired in as each vault ships.
Open the Connect modal from the header CONNECT button or the hero LAUNCH YOUR OWN CTA. Select 'I'M AN ARTIST'. Wallet connect is in private beta — submit your email and you'll be onboarded as keys open up. Once you have access, the /create flow walks you through all 25 dials with a live preview.
Open the Connect modal, select 'I'M A FAN', and submit your email. You'll be notified when public trading opens. In the meantime, /explore shows every active vault with its real-time USDC earned and active layer mix.