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How ACQUIRE works.

A launchpad where every coin is a holding company. This is the long version: what happens, who controls what, and what can go wrong.

Fee split: 90 / 10, written once
Launch: free, the treasury pays
Votes: 48 h, 2% quorum, majority
Books: every row has its proof

01#lifecycle

A coin that becomes a company.

Every coin launched on ACQUIRE is a holding company. It is born with a wallet for its money, a lock on where its fees go and a ledger. What it does next is decided by the people who hold it.

01LaunchFree. The treasury pays.
02Lock90% chest, 10% ACQUIRE, written once.
03The chest fills90% of every creator fee
04ScoutAI writes a dossier
05Verifyownership and revenue
06Voteholders say yes or no
07Buychest, escrow, handover
08Operaterevenue in, costs out
The net goes back into the chest, and the chest buys the next one.

Launch and lock happen once. Then the ring turns: the chest fills, a business is scouted, verified, voted on and bought, and its income goes back into the chest.

The steps are the same for every coin, and every one of them leaves a record: a transaction on Solana or a receipt on the ledger. The sections below take them in order.

02#fee-lock

The split is written once.

pump.fun charges a creator fee on every trade of every coin. ACQUIRE decides, at the moment a coin is born, who receives it, and then cannot change its mind.

The fee is a slice of each trade: 0.30% of volume today, on the bonding curve and after the coin moves to PumpSwap. That rate is pump.fun’s, not ours, and this site reads the charged rate from the chain instead of assuming one.

On pump.fun the creator fee normally belongs to whoever created the coin. In the same launch that creates a coin, ACQUIRE’s treasury opens the coin’s fee-sharing config in pump.fun’s fee-sharing program and writes the split into it: 90% to the coin’s war chest, 10% to ACQUIRE. The program accepts that write exactly once. A second attempt is refused by the program itself, so after birth nobody can re-point the fees: not the founder, not ACQUIRE.

The lock is welded: there is no valve between the trade and the two wallets.

The founder gets no cut. The wallet that launched a coin is recorded as its founder and is paid nothing by the lock.

Payouts

Fees collect in a pump.fun vault. A pump.fun instruction that needs no signature pays them out to the shareholders, so anyone may trigger it. ACQUIRE does it on a schedule and pays the transaction fee. Each payout is a public transaction and a row on the ledger, marked FEES IN.

What it looks like in numbers

Creator fee0.30% of volume

Into the war chest90% of that

To ACQUIRE10% of that

At $1,200,000 of daily volume$3,600 in fees · $3,240 to the chest

The last row is arithmetic, not a forecast: it shows what the split does to a number, not what any coin will trade.

A launch costs the treasury about 0.013 SOL of rent and fees. That is why launches close when the treasury runs low.

03#chests

A wallet anyone can read.

Each coin has its own war chest: an ordinary Solana wallet with a public address and a public history.

The address is derived from the coin’s mint and a secret seed that ACQUIRE’s servers hold, so a chest can always be recomputed and never has to be stored. It is written into the coin’s fee lock at birth and shown on the coin’s page with a Solscan link. Anyone can read its balance and everything that ever moved through it.

Who controls it

The desk. Because it holds the seed, it can sign for any chest. That is a custody arrangement and a trust assumption, not a technical guarantee: the on-chain lock decides who is paid into a chest, and ACQUIRE’s own rules decide what leaves it.

A chest pays out only for a purchase that holders approved.
The payment may not exceed the approved price.
It goes to an escrow address recorded on the deal first, never straight to the seller, and at most once per deal.
Paying out of chests is switched off until the operator turns it on, and every payout is a public transaction.

ACQUIRE’s 10% goes to the launch treasury, the wallet that pays for every launch.

04#scouting

The scout writes a dossier.

A business reaches the desk in one of two ways. Either way, the scout writes the same thing about it.

A seller can nominate their own business: a URL, what it is, an asking price, claimed revenue and profit. Or someone can point the scout at any public listing. The scout then reads what a visitor could see without logging in:

Browser extensions: the store page (users, rating, last update, developer) or Firefox’s add-on API.
Telegram tools: the public page (subscribers or monthly users).
Digital stores: a Shopify store’s public product list (catalog size, prices).
Websites: the domain’s age and the page’s own title, text, technology and links.

A language model reads those signals and writes the dossier. Anything it cannot find is shown as not public; it does not fill gaps.

Dossier

Tab Tamer

Browser extension · asking 38 SOL

87/ 100

Fair price: 30–40 SOL · 2.1× annual profit
Users: 41,200 · store listing
Revenue: $2,160 / mo · payment processor
Risks: single developer · Chrome only

Example Not a real business.

The price

Small online businesses tend to sell for a few years of profit. Published marketplace data puts typical content sites and software near two to two-and-a-half times annual profit, and the best quartile near four to five times. The dossier names the multiple it used and says whether the profit figure was claimed by the seller or observed.

Scans are cached for a day, rate limited and capped by a daily budget. When the budget is spent, a scan says so instead of guessing.

05#verification

Prove it’s yours.

Before a deal can go to a vote, the seller has to show they own what they are selling, and the desk has to see the money.

Ownership checks run on their own and use only public signals. The seller places a one-time token, acquire-verify=<code>, somewhere only the owner can edit, and the desk looks for it. Which methods apply depends on the business: a website can use DNS, a file on the site, a meta tag or a file in a GitHub repository; an extension or a store, its listing (or a GitHub file); a Telegram tool, the bot’s description. One passing method is enough. Each check reports what it actually saw, and each proves something narrow:

MethodWhere the proof goesWhat it provesWhat it does not

DNS TXT recordA TXT record on the domain: acquire-verify=<code>The seller controls the domain’s DNS today. That is the real lever over a website: whoever holds it can point it anywhere.That the code, the customers or the revenue are theirs, or that nobody else holds a copy.

A file on the site/.well-known/acquire-verify.txt on the domainThe seller controls what the web server shows for that domain.That they own the domain registration itself.

A meta tagA <meta> tag in the home page’s HTMLThe seller can edit the site’s markup.That they can move the domain or the hosting.

Store listingThe description of the listing in the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-onsThe seller holds the developer account that owns the listing.That the revenue behind the extension is theirs.

Bot descriptionThe Telegram bot’s description, set through BotFatherThe seller controls the bot.That its users or its income are real.

A repository fileA file in the project’s GitHub repositoryThe seller can commit to the repository.That it is the only copy, or that it is what is deployed.

RevenueStatements or exports from the payment processor, read by the deskThat money came in over the period and matches the claim. The desk records what it saw as evidence on the deal.That it will continue. This is an attestation by the desk, only as good as its diligence.

TrafficAnalytics exports, read by the deskThat visits were real over the period, as far as the analytics are.That they will stay, or that the analytics were not gamed.

HandoverThe deal’s own record of what is being transferred (domain, accounts, bot, code)That the desk has written down what handed over means. It stays pending until the purchase is booked, then the desk records the handover with it.That the transfer itself went well.

Revenue and traffic cannot be read from a public page, so the desk checks statements and exports against the seller’s claims and records what it saw as evidence on the deal. Those two are attestations by the desk. Each links to its evidence note.

A deal moves from scouted to verifying to verified when ownership, revenue and traffic all pass. Only a verified deal can be opened for a vote.

06#votes

Holders decide.

A purchase needs a yes from the coin’s own holders. Nobody else votes on it, ACQUIRE included.

A vote on a coin’s purchase is open to that coin’s holders only. You vote by signing a short message in your wallet that names the deal and your choice, yes or no. It is a signature, not a transaction: no gas, and nothing moves.

Your weight is your balance of that coin when you cast the vote, read from the chain. You get one live vote per wallet: vote again and the last one counts until the vote closes. When it closes, every vote is weighed again against the chain: your weight becomes the smaller of what you held when you voted and what you hold at the close. Tokens that leave your wallet stop counting; tokens that arrive after you voted do not add.

Example A vote in progress

72% yes28% no

The three numbers

Windowhow long it stays open · 48 hours by default

Quorumthe least weight that makes it count · 2% of circulating supply by default

Thresholdthe yes share of votes cast needed to pass · a simple majority, 50.01%, by default

Each vote prints its own window, quorum and threshold on the deal page. The quorum is a share of the circulating supply, fixed when the vote opens. When the window ends the vote closes with a result. It passes if quorum was reached and yes cleared the threshold. If not, the deal is rejected, nothing is bought, the chest keeps its money and the result stays on the record. If the chain cannot be read at the close, the vote stays open and is tried again: a result never comes from a guess.

07#purchases

Escrow, then handover.

When a vote passes, the money does not go to the seller. It goes to an escrow address the desk records first.

01Vote passes

Quorum reached, yes above the threshold. The deal is approved.

02Escrow recorded

The desk records an escrow address on the deal, in its own step, so a typo shows before any money moves.

03The chest pays

The approved price, or less, from the coin’s own chest to the escrow. One public transaction, once per deal.

04Handover

The seller hands over the domain, accounts, bot or code.

05Acquired

The desk books the purchase with its transaction. The business becomes a floor of the coin’s tower.

The payment can never exceed the price holders approved, comes only from the coin’s own chest, and happens at most once per deal. Paying out of chests is switched off until the operator turns it on. Once the payment has landed, the desk books the purchase: the deal becomes acquired, the business joins the coin’s portfolio, and the ledger shows the transaction that proves it.

08#ledger

The books are public.

A business keeps running after the purchase. Its revenue comes in, its costs go out, and what is left goes back into the chest. The chest buys the next one.

Every one of those steps is a row on the public ledger:

KindWhat it saysProof

FEES INCreator fees paid into a chesta Solana transaction

PURCHASEA chest paying escrow for a businessthe escrow transaction

REVENUEA business’s month, in dollarsthe desk’s receipt

EXPENSEHosting, support, toolsthe desk’s receipt

PAYOUTAnything else leaving a chesta Solana transaction

Rows are written before they are counted and each one has a fixed id, so a retried step cannot count twice. The ledger page lists them all and filters them by kind and coin.

Who runs the businesses

The desk operates them or hires operators. Their costs are expenses on the ledger, and the net goes back into the chest.

Do holders get paid

Not directly. Income returns to the war chest to buy more businesses. Holding a coin is not a claim on a business’s income, and nothing on this site promises a return.

09#risks

What can go wrong.

A short, honest list. Read it before you buy a coin.

01
A business can lose money.
Customers leave, a platform changes its rules, a developer burns out. A loss shows on the ledger like any other row.
02
The numbers can be wrong.
A dossier is a model’s reading of public data and verification is evidence, not proof of the future. A seller can still mislead: one big customer, bought traffic, a spike before the sale.
03
The desk holds the keys.
A war chest is a wallet derived from a secret that ACQUIRE’s servers hold. If that secret leaks, or the operators stop operating, the money in the chests is at risk. The rules below say what a chest may pay for; they are enforced by ACQUIRE’s code, not by an on-chain program.
04
The escrow is outside the site.
The chest’s payment to the escrow is on chain and on the ledger. What happens inside the escrow, and when the seller is paid out of it, is arranged by the desk outside this site. Check who the escrow is before you vote.
05
pump.fun sets the fee.
The creator fee, 0.30% today, is pump.fun’s rate and can change. So can its programs. The lock fixes who is paid, not how much.
06
Big holders carry the vote.
Weight follows balance, and balances are public. That is how token votes work, and it is the main limit of this one.
07
A coin can go to zero.
A coin is a memecoin first. Owning one is not owning a share of a business, and income goes into the chest, not to holders.
08
A handover can fail.
Moving a domain, a developer account or a bot takes the seller’s cooperation. Disputes happen.
09
Programs have bugs.
pump.fun’s programs, Solana and this site are software. Assume that some of it is wrong.
10
Rules differ by country.
What a coin is, and what owning a business through one means, depends on where you live. Check yours.

Nothing on this site is financial advice. Do not put in money you cannot afford to lose.

10#faq

Fair questions.

Do I need a wallet to look around?

No. Every page is public. A wallet is for launching, voting and nominating, and signing in is free: it signs a short message and sends no transaction.

What does a launch cost me?

Nothing. The treasury pays the rent and fees of the launch, about 0.013 SOL. You are recorded as the coin’s founder, and the lock pays you nothing. Launches close while the treasury is low or the site is in preview.

Who holds the war chest keys?

ACQUIRE’s servers do. Each chest is derived from a secret seed and the coin’s mint, and it pays out only for a purchase that holders approved, for no more than the approved price, to an escrow address recorded first. See war chests and risks for what that does and does not guarantee.

What happens if holders vote no?

Nothing is bought. The chest keeps its SOL, and the deal is closed with the result on the record.

What does ACQUIRE take?

10% of creator fees, locked at launch. Nothing from purchases, revenue or the chest.

Can the split change later?

No. pump.fun’s fee-sharing program accepts the split once, at birth, and refuses a second write. That holds for ACQUIRE too.

What if a business loses money?

It shows on the ledger as a loss. The desk can pause or sell a business. No returns are promised.

Do holders get paid?

Not directly. A business’s income goes back into the war chest, which buys more businesses. Holding a coin is not a claim on any business’s income.

Who runs the businesses?

The desk operates them or hires operators. Their costs are expenses on the ledger.

Which wallets work?

Any wallet that speaks the Solana Wallet Standard: Phantom, Backpack, Solflare and others. On Android, Solana Mobile wallets connect through Mobile Wallet Adapter. On an iPhone, open this site inside your wallet app’s browser.

I own a small business. Can I sell it to a coin?

Yes. Nominate it on the sell page, prove you own it with a token only you can place, and the coin’s holders vote on the deal.

Why is so much labelled Example?

Until the treasury is funded and a first real acquisition exists, the businesses, deals, votes and ledger rows shown here are examples built to show how it works. They wear a dashed Example chip and are never counted in a real total.

Is this Acquire.com?

No. Acquire.com is a separate marketplace for startups. ACQUIRE has no connection to it.

11#glossary

Words we use.

Basis point (bps): One hundredth of a percent. 100 bps is 1%. The creator fee is 30 bps, which is 0.30%.
Chest, war chest: A coin’s own Solana wallet. The 90% share of creator fees lands in it and it pays for purchases.
Creator fee: A slice pump.fun takes from every trade of a coin and pays to the coin’s creator, here to the fee-sharing config.
Desk: ACQUIRE’s operators and servers: they run the scout, record verification and the ledger, and sign for the chests.
Dossier: The scout’s written evaluation of a business: a score, a fair price range, signals, strengths and risks.
Escrow: The address, recorded on a deal, that the chest pays. What happens inside it is arranged outside this site.
Example: Made-up data that shows how a page looks when it is full. Always wears a dashed chip.
Fee-sharing config: pump.fun’s per-coin record of who receives its creator fees. Written once.
Floor: One business a holding company owns. The tower has one floor per business.
Founder: The wallet that launched a coin. Recorded, not paid.
Handover: The transfer of a business to the desk: domain, accounts, bot, code, credentials.
Holding company: A coin launched here: it owns businesses through its war chest.
Ledger: The public list of every fee in, purchase, revenue, expense and payout, each with its proof.
Lamport: The smallest unit of SOL. 1 SOL is 1,000,000,000 lamports.
Mint: A coin’s address on Solana.
Preview mode: Launches are closed until the treasury is funded. Pages show real, empty data.
Quorum: The least voting weight a vote needs before its result counts: a share of the circulating supply, fixed when the vote opens.
Scout: The AI that reads a business’s public signals and writes its dossier.
Sign in with Solana: Proving you hold a wallet by signing a short message. Free; no transaction.
Threshold: The share of votes cast that must be yes for a vote to pass.
Window: How long a vote stays open.

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