Why we built Rooms. everyone
We've been watching Solana for two years now.
The energy, the speed, the absurd creativity, the volume of stuff being shipped — there's nothing like it anywhere else in crypto.
But somewhere in the last cycle, a pattern set in that we couldn't stop noticing.
Launches stopped being for communities. They became races between bots.
The people who actually built the projects — the devs writing the contract, the artists making the visuals, the community leads running the Telegram or Discord, the early supporters who'd been showing up for months — those were the people least likely to get a fair entry.
By the time the chart was visible, the top wallets already held thirty, forty, fifty percent of supply. The people who cared most got the worst price.
We'd watch it happen, then watch the same thing again three days later with a different ticker.
Eventually, we stopped being mad about it and started asking what the actual problem was.
The answer, when we got to it, wasn't "snipers are bad" or "bots are unfair."
Those are symptoms.
The real problem was that launches were designed for strangers.
The entire mechanic — first come, first served, race to the bottom block, winner takes alpha — assumes the people launching the token don't know each other and shouldn't have a way to coordinate.
But that's not how real projects start. Real projects start as a group of people who got obsessed with the same idea at the same time.
They find each other in Telegram, Twitter, or Discord, in DMs, or group chats.
They spend weeks talking before there's a token, sometimes months.
By the time the token launches, there's already a community.
It's just that the launch mechanic punishes that community by letting bots get in front of them.
We kept thinking...
What if the launch was designed for the people who already showed up?
What if the community didn't have to race the bots?
What if they could just say, "We're launching together, we all enter at the same price, and we all share what comes after."
That's Rooms.
We've been watching Solana for two years now.
The energy, the speed, the absurd creativity, the volume of stuff being shipped — there's nothing like it anywhere else in crypto.
But somewhere in the last cycle, a pattern set in that we couldn't stop noticing.
Launches stopped being for communities. They became races between bots.
The people who actually built the projects — the devs writing the contract, the artists making the visuals, the community leads running the Telegram or Discord, the early supporters who'd been showing up for months — those were the people least likely to get a fair entry.
By the time the chart was visible, the top wallets already held thirty, forty, fifty percent of supply. The people who cared most got the worst price.
We'd watch it happen, then watch the same thing again three days later with a different ticker.
Eventually, we stopped being mad about it and started asking what the actual problem was.
The answer, when we got to it, wasn't "snipers are bad" or "bots are unfair."
Those are symptoms.
The real problem was that launches were designed for strangers.
The entire mechanic — first come, first served, race to the bottom block, winner takes alpha — assumes the people launching the token don't know each other and shouldn't have a way to coordinate.
But that's not how real projects start. Real projects start as a group of people who got obsessed with the same idea at the same time.
They find each other in Telegram, Twitter, or Discord, in DMs, or group chats.
They spend weeks talking before there's a token, sometimes months.
By the time the token launches, there's already a community.
It's just that the launch mechanic punishes that community by letting bots get in front of them.
We kept thinking...
What if the launch was designed for the people who already showed up?
What if the community didn't have to race the bots?
What if they could just say, "We're launching together, we all enter at the same price, and we all share what comes after."
That's Rooms.
Hey @everyone so we've seen a lot of questions in https://discord.com/channels/1500227756259152023/1500241720481288393
though we'd love to stop and answer we've been very busy these last couple
of days testing and adding features non stop for rooms launch day.
what rooms actually is.
a room is a shared coordination space on Solana. anyone can open one. anyone can join one,
or only the people with an access code if it's private.
everyone who joins puts in some sol. the room has a chat, so the people who'll own the token
are talking to each other while it fills.
when the room hits its target, the smart contract takes over. the token launches automatically
on pumpfun or meteora. tokens get airdropped to every contributor based on what they put in.
there's no team holding the bag. no manual distribution. no trust required.
and from that point forward, every trade on the token sends a share of fees back to the room,
split between contributors based on how much sol they put in. for as long as the token is
traded. forever.
the part that took the longest to figure out.
we didn't want a system where you could just join a room, hold for a week, dump everything,
and keep collecting fees. that's not aligned. that's parasitic.
so we wrote it into the contract. if you sell more than half your bag, you lose your share.
it gets redistributed to the contributors who are still holding more than fifty percent of
what they were airdropped.
the longer you hold, the bigger your slice gets. as paperhands leave, the diamond hands'
shares grow.
if every contributor sells past the threshold, the entire room's fee share goes to the creator
as long as he's still holding. the rewards never disappear. they just consolidate to the
people who stayed.
what we're actually trying to build.
we're not trying to make a better pumpfun. pumpfun does what pumpfun does. we're trying to
make a different kind of thing entirely. a launchpad designed around the idea that the
community is part of the launch, not an afterthought to it.
we think the next generation of solana tokens won't be launched by anonymous devs racing bots.
we think they'll be launched by rooms. groups of people who showed up early, contributed what
they could, talked while it filled, and ended up owning something together.
we think the chart is what comes after. the room is what comes first.
what we ask of you.
you're in this discord a few days before launch. that means something. there are a few hundred
of you here, and most people building on solana won't hear about rooms until next week or the
week after.
you're early in a way that genuinely matters.
so two asks.
if you think rooms could work for something you care about — a project, a community, a coin
you want to launch with people who actually want to be there — start thinking about what your
room would look like.
open a ticket or drop in #manage. we want to know who's coming with us on day one, and we
have time to help you prepare.
if you have questions, criticisms, or things that don't sit right with you about how rooms
works, we want to hear those too. early members shape what rooms becomes. there's still time
to change things based on what we hear.
we'll keep shipping. we'll keep showing up here. we'll be in the channels, in the dms, on
twitter, building this with the people who showed up early.
a few days.
— the rooms team
though we'd love to stop and answer we've been very busy these last couple
of days testing and adding features non stop for rooms launch day.
what rooms actually is.
a room is a shared coordination space on Solana. anyone can open one. anyone can join one,
or only the people with an access code if it's private.
everyone who joins puts in some sol. the room has a chat, so the people who'll own the token
are talking to each other while it fills.
when the room hits its target, the smart contract takes over. the token launches automatically
on pumpfun or meteora. tokens get airdropped to every contributor based on what they put in.
there's no team holding the bag. no manual distribution. no trust required.
and from that point forward, every trade on the token sends a share of fees back to the room,
split between contributors based on how much sol they put in. for as long as the token is
traded. forever.
the part that took the longest to figure out.
we didn't want a system where you could just join a room, hold for a week, dump everything,
and keep collecting fees. that's not aligned. that's parasitic.
so we wrote it into the contract. if you sell more than half your bag, you lose your share.
it gets redistributed to the contributors who are still holding more than fifty percent of
what they were airdropped.
the longer you hold, the bigger your slice gets. as paperhands leave, the diamond hands'
shares grow.
if every contributor sells past the threshold, the entire room's fee share goes to the creator
as long as he's still holding. the rewards never disappear. they just consolidate to the
people who stayed.
what we're actually trying to build.
we're not trying to make a better pumpfun. pumpfun does what pumpfun does. we're trying to
make a different kind of thing entirely. a launchpad designed around the idea that the
community is part of the launch, not an afterthought to it.
we think the next generation of solana tokens won't be launched by anonymous devs racing bots.
we think they'll be launched by rooms. groups of people who showed up early, contributed what
they could, talked while it filled, and ended up owning something together.
we think the chart is what comes after. the room is what comes first.
what we ask of you.
you're in this discord a few days before launch. that means something. there are a few hundred
of you here, and most people building on solana won't hear about rooms until next week or the
week after.
you're early in a way that genuinely matters.
so two asks.
if you think rooms could work for something you care about — a project, a community, a coin
you want to launch with people who actually want to be there — start thinking about what your
room would look like.
open a ticket or drop in #manage. we want to know who's coming with us on day one, and we
have time to help you prepare.
if you have questions, criticisms, or things that don't sit right with you about how rooms
works, we want to hear those too. early members shape what rooms becomes. there's still time
to change things based on what we hear.
we'll keep shipping. we'll keep showing up here. we'll be in the channels, in the dms, on
twitter, building this with the people who showed up early.
a few days.
— the rooms team
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Quick one from the team everyone
we crossed 400 members in here this week. doesn't sound like a
huge number on the internet, but it's the right kind of number
to us. four hundred people showed up before there was anything
to show up for. before the platform was live. before the
launch was public. before anyone had reason to be here other
than curiosity.
that means something.
a real thank you to everyone who joined early, talked in the
channels, opened tickets, dm'd ideas, asked hard questions,
told a friend, or just lurked patiently. you're early in a way
that genuinely matters.
we launch publicly in a few days. when we open the doors, the
people in this discord right now will be the people the
launch happened with — not the people it happened to. that
distinction is the whole point of rooms.
Make sure to engage with the coming roomsdotrun X posts
and stay active in the discord.
keep cooking. we're almost there.
— the rooms team
we crossed 400 members in here this week. doesn't sound like a
huge number on the internet, but it's the right kind of number
to us. four hundred people showed up before there was anything
to show up for. before the platform was live. before the
launch was public. before anyone had reason to be here other
than curiosity.
that means something.
a real thank you to everyone who joined early, talked in the
channels, opened tickets, dm'd ideas, asked hard questions,
told a friend, or just lurked patiently. you're early in a way
that genuinely matters.
we launch publicly in a few days. when we open the doors, the
people in this discord right now will be the people the
launch happened with — not the people it happened to. that
distinction is the whole point of rooms.
Make sure to engage with the coming roomsdotrun X posts
and stay active in the discord.
keep cooking. we're almost there.
— the rooms team