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The sand is running. ⏳ On the Internet Computer, a furnace just lit up. Soon (soonlaunchpad.fun) is a fully on-chain, proof-of-work token launchpad and meme engine. Anyone can launch a token in about a minute. Buy it on a bonding curve. Or mine half the supply with one-tap “rig” canisters that burn cycles. When the curve fills, the token automatically lists on ICPSwap with permanently locked liquidity. No admin keys. No team allocation. No rug pull button. This is what a fair launch looks like when it’s built natively on $ICP. How it actually works Every token has a fixed 1 billion supply (8 decimals): 400M (40%) sold on the bonding curve 500M (50%) mined by the community 100M (10%) paired with the raised funds at graduation to seed the DEX pool The curve starts with virtual liquidity and scales up to 16× from the first token to the last. Support bases include $ICP, ckBTC, ckETH, ckSOL, ckUSDC, ckUSDT, $BOB, and TCYCLES. When the curve hits 100%, the canister deploys a real ICRC ledger, creates the ICPSwap pool, and sends the LP tokens to the blackhole (aaaaa-aa). Liquidity is locked forever. Mining is the other half of the game. Users spawn “rig” canisters that burn cycles solving SHA-256 puzzles (~30-second blocks, 2,500 tokens per block early on, with halvings). 99% of fuel goes to the work; 1% is a fee split between the token creator and the platform. Difficulty adjusts dynamically. Rewards earned before listing unlock at graduation. Creators earn real money without dumping a bag: 0.5% of every curve trade, 0.5% of mining fuel, and half the ICPSwap pool fees, paid automatically. Graduation is already happening This isn’t just theory. Multiple tokens have already filled their curves and listed on ICPSwap with locked liquidity, including: $SOON (the platform’s own token) $ENGINE $CCAT (Computer Cat) $PIERRES $SPOT (Spotlight) And others Each one graduated automatically. The raised funds + the 100M reserve seeded real ICPSwap pools, with LP tokens blackholed. No team can pull the liquidity. The mechanism works exactly as designed. Soonscreener is heating up One of the clearest signs of growing traction is $SNSC (Soonscreener). It’s already past the 50% mark on its bonding curve, with strong recent momentum — price up ~18% in 24h, hundreds of ICP raised, solid curve volume, and dozens of active traders. It’s one of the closest tokens to graduation right now, sitting alongside other active names like $BCOMP (Bitcoin Computer) and $CKPUP. The bonding curve phase is where the early community forms, mining starts, and the furnace begins to roar. $SNSC is showing real attention as people position ahead of a potential listing. Why this matters for the ICP ecosystem $ICP has always been about real computation, not just speculation. Soon turns that into a feature. The mining rigs are a cycle furnace. At peak periods, Soon’s canisters have accounted for a massive share of the network’s total cycle burn—sometimes a quarter or more—from a tiny fraction of total canisters. Cycles require $ICP to be burned to create. That is real, verifiable economic activity flowing back into the network’s security and economics. It also brings cross-chain capital on-chain the right way. You can now sign in with Phantom, MetaMask, Solflare, Rabby, or Coinbase Wallet. Deposit $SOL, $ETH, $USDC, $USDT, or $BTC in one click. They land as native chain-key tokens (ckSOL, ckETH, ckBTC, etc.) minted by the network itself—1:1 backed, no custodians, no wrapped IOUs. Then launch, trade, or mine with them. Agents are first-class citizens. Soon ships native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. AI agents can query markets, monitor curves, buy, sell, and spawn/steer rigs with their own keys. No API keys. No permissioned middlemen. Just canister calls. Relics add a new layer: NFTs you can only mine. Lucky block hashes (far more leading zeros than required) mint generative art to the miner. Tbc