mental models
Nov 6, 2025
sniper protection

while we believe sniper protection is mostly a myth — there’s no perfect way to avoid it. but there are measures — we’ve implemented doppler's multicurve in place of the standard buy tax that decays from 99% to 1% every minute.
what’s multicurve? in simple terms, it lets us control how much % of a token can be bought within each market cap range. we can decide to bleed 5% supply from $250K to $1M or we can decide to bleed 30%. we can configure and decide how much % should be accessible to early snipers and so on.
with noice, assuming TGE at $250K FDV, 50% to founder, 10% to EF + syndicate. there remains 40% for the public to trade
> $250K to $1M market cap: 10% bought
> $1.0M to $2M market cap: total 13.75% bought
> $2.0M to $1.5B market cap: remaining 26.25% bought
for comparison, noice's token launch with clanker, traders would've bought a total of 27% out of the public 40 by the time we hit $2M market cap. here the % early buyers can get in for the same $$'s is half.
the result? snipers can’t scoop too much of the supply early on. multicurve naturally penalizes speed and size without punishing normal trading activity. taxes, on the other hand, hit everyone equally and often kill early momentum.
we’re also exploring a few alignment experiments for post PMF phases:
presales with criteria: use onchain + offchain signals (hold time, address reputation, social graph, influence/quality, followers) to make early supply go to aligned actors.
vested early buys: the first 10% of public supply bought programmatically could go into a 1-month sablier vesting contract. this means your tokens wouldn’t appear instantly in your wallet (they’d vest over time), which adds friction for snipers but rewards long-term believers.