How Bullarea works

One token per arena cycle. Community names it, community votes, the first buyer opens the market.

Earn with Bullarea

Two ways to make money here, both paid in SOL — refer friends and take a share of every trade they make — paid in SOL, for as long as they trade. The live calculator and your own link are on the Earn page.

The cycle

  1. Submit a name — while the arena clock is running, any wallet can submit one token name, symbol and image. Max 9 user submissions per cycle (plus 1 system pick).
  2. Vote — every wallet gets one vote per cycle. Submissions are frozen in the last 10 seconds.
  3. Winner queued — the highest-voted name becomes a Pending Open token: a Token-2022 mint and a bonding-curve account, both ready but not yet deployed on chain.
  4. First buyer opens the market — the first wallet to click Buy pays the on-chain rent + their opening trade in a single atomic transaction. That transaction creates the mint and seeds the curve. The platform pays zero deployment cost.
  5. Trade on the curve — once live, anyone buys/sells on the bonding curve (price = constant-product x·y=k against virtual reserves) until the migration threshold is hit.
  6. Migrate to Raydium— when the threshold is reached, the curve's real SOL + remaining tokens seed a permissionless Raydium CPMM pool. From there it's a normal AMM.

Pending tokens — what they are

A Pending Open token is one that won its arenabut hasn't been traded yet. The mint address is reserved and visible, but the SPL mint and curve accounts only exist on-chain after the first buyer triggers deployment in their buy transaction.

  • If no one trades within 28 minutesof winning, the token is auto-hidden from listings (the on-chain accounts were never created, so nothing is "wasted").
  • Being the opener is rewarded with the first slot on the curve at the lowest price.
  • Only one wallet can be in the middle of opening a given pending token at a time. A 30-second lock prevents two wallets from both signing an opening tx for the same mint.

Fees & taxes

Bullarea is transparent about every cent that leaves your wallet.

Trade fee

Taken on every buy or sell on the bonding curve. Covers platform operations.

0.8%

Token transfer fee

A Token-2022 fee on direct wallet-to-wallet transfers of the token. It does not apply to buying or selling on the curve — those are mints and burns, not transfers — so normal trading never pays it.

0.8%

Raydium pool fee (post-migration)

After a token graduates to Raydium, swaps go through their CPMM pool which takes the standard 0.25% LP fee.

0.25%

Solana network fee

Standard Solana base transaction fee. Bullarea adds a small priority fee on swap builds to improve landing odds.

~0.000005 SOL

Account rent (opener only)

The very first buyer of a pending token pays one-time rent for the mint + curve + their ATA. Subsequent traders pay nothing extra.

~0.01 SOL

Bullarea does notcharge a creator fee, an "ape tax", a migration fee or any hidden percentage. The 0.8% trade fee and 0.8% transfer fee above are the only protocol-level cuts.

Migration threshold

Each arena has its own graduation target — once the bonding curve's real SOL reserves reach it, the token automatically migrates to Raydium:

  • Stampede (2 min cycles) — 100 SOL
  • Charge (15 min cycles) — 150 SOL
  • Marathon (1 hr cycles) — 300 SOL

A trade that crosses the threshold still executes in full — the curve may briefly hold slightly more than the threshold before the migration tx fires. This is normal and matches standard pump-style curves.

Status badges

  • Pending Open — won the arena, awaiting first buyer.
  • Active — live on the bonding curve.
  • Migrating — threshold hit, Raydium pool being seeded.
  • Migrated — trade on Raydium from here on.

Questions? Join the community via the Telegram / Discord links in the footer.