Compliance
What Ascend is, what we can reach and what we cannot, and where the audit stands.
What Ascend is
A website in front of smart contracts. Those contracts run without us, and if this site vanished they would keep running.
Ascend never holds anyone's money. No accounts, no deposits, no balances. Every action is a transaction signed in the user's own wallet. We cannot move tokens, trade on anyone's behalf, or reverse anything.
That does not put us outside financial regulation and we do not claim it does. Several regulators treat running a front end as providing a service even where the contracts are open.
Where we operate
Ascend is not restricting any country at launch. If that changes, whether because a sanctions list requires it or a regulator tells us to, this page will say which countries and why before it takes effect.
Two things are true regardless of what we do. Sanctions against named people and entities apply wherever those people are. And in a country whose own law restricts holding or trading cryptoassets, that law applies to its residents whatever this site allows.
Ascend holds no financial services authorisation anywhere. There is no ombudsman and no compensation scheme behind anything that happens here.
What we can reach
Very little, but not nothing. Every limit here is enforced by the contract code rather than by our intentions.
What nobody, including us, can do
- Take someone's tokens. No owner or admin function touches a balance.
- Stop trading. No pause, no freeze, no blacklist in the bonding curve. A launched token trades until it graduates.
- Reverse a transaction. Nothing on a blockchain can be undone.
- Take back liquidity after graduation. It moves into a locked position and there is no key to the lock.
- Change the fee on an existing token. Rates are fixed into each token at launch. Changes affect future launches only.
What the owner key can do
Twenty-eight functions are restricted to the contract owner. Most configure future launches. Four touch money.
| Power | Limit enforced by code |
|---|---|
| Recover a failed graduation | Only after the token stops trading and 7 days pass. Anyone can prevent it permanently by finishing the graduation themselves, which needs no permission. |
| Recover stuck creator fees | Fees the normal claim path cannot pay out, usually because the paired asset broke. Never the trading reserves. |
| Change a creator's fee recipient | Announced on chain with a 3 day delay, and the creator can cancel it. Future fees only. |
| Set fees, presets, allowed pairs | Hard ceilings below, snapshotted into each token at launch. Future launches only. |
Graduation recovery is the one worth understanding: it is the only path by which anyone other than a token's holders can reach pooled funds. Graduations do get stuck, usually when the paired asset breaks underneath them. Finishing a graduation stays open to everybody for the whole seven days and closes the recovery path permanently, so funds are reachable this way only when nobody could rescue them normally.
Ceilings the code enforces
| Limit | Maximum | Planned setting |
|---|---|---|
| Total fee on any trade | 20.00% | 1.00% |
| Protocol share of the curve fee | 10.00% | 0.30% |
| Creator share of the curve fee | 10.00% | 0.70% |
| Extra creator tax on top* | 10.00% | 3.00% |
| Fee on a graduated pool | 10.00% | 1.00% |
| Opening anti-snipe tax | 99.00% | to be set |
| Anti-snipe window | 60 sec | to be set |
*The forked contracts allow a launcher to set an extra tax of their own on every trade, on top of the 1%, up to a ceiling the owner configures. The contract's own default for that ceiling is 10%, and on other launchpads built from the same code it is left there. It is the reason for a play doing the rounds: launch a coin you have no intention of building, set a high tax, let the sniper bots trade into it, collect, walk away.
On our factories that ceiling reads 10% today. Ask either factory, on
Robinhood Chain or on Arc, for maxCreatorTaxBps() and it answers 1000:
ten percent. An earlier version of this page said we had set it to zero at
deployment. That was wrong, and we would rather say so here than correct it
quietly.
We are lowering it to 3%, a decision taken on 29 September 2026. The change is made in the factory itself, not in the interface, which proves nothing: once it is made, a launch that asks for more than 3% is rejected by the contract whether it came from this site or from someone calling it directly. Until then our launch form offers no more than 3%, but the factory would accept up to 10% from anyone it lets launch. Launching is not yet open to the public on either chain, and the 3% ceiling is set in the same step that opens it.
Whatever a coin's tax is, it is fixed into the coin at launch and can never be raised afterwards. The 1% is our trade fee on every coin; a creator's tax, where there is one, comes on top of it and goes to the creator.
The anti-snipe tax is the alarming number there. For a few seconds after a token opens, buys are taxed heavily and the tax decays to nothing, which makes it unprofitable for a bot to take the entire opening supply in the first block. It is capped at one minute, cannot be raised on a token already trading, and the rate a token launches under is fixed for its life. The rate shows on screen before any purchase is confirmed.
Audit status
The contracts have not been audited. One is being arranged, and this section will name the firm and link to the report.
Our contracts began as a fork of Pons V2, deployed on Robinhood Chain. Pons describes its contracts as audited. We looked for a report and found none: no firm named, no document. That is not a claim they were not audited, only that we could not verify it, so we are not borrowing it.
What exists in the meantime, which is worth less than an audit:
- A test suite covering the full life of a launch, with property tests on the pricing maths across a thousand generated cases each.
- Our compiled contracts verified byte for byte against the deployed Pons contracts, before we changed anything.
- Every contract's source published and checkable against what is deployed.
Tokens on Ascend
Anyone can launch a token. We do not review or endorse them. A token appearing here means somebody paid the fee to create it.
We remove tokens from this site when they impersonate a real person or company, infringe a trademark, or exist to deceive buyers. That removes them from our interface only. The token stays on the blockchain and stays tradeable elsewhere.
Most tokens on any launchpad lose most of their value. Nothing here is investment advice, and no tier or ranking on this site is a judgement about whether something is worth buying.
Tokens paired against shares
A token can be paired against a tokenized equity instead of the chain's native asset. Those are issued by a third party whose terms typically allow it to pause transfers or adjust balances. If that happens mid-launch the launch can get stuck, which is what graduation recovery exists for. Tokenized equities also carry the issuer's own restrictions on who may hold them.
Data
No accounts, no email addresses, no passwords, no identity documents. Details in the privacy notice.
We do not screen wallet addresses against sanctions lists. Some services do. If that changes, this page will say so first.
Keeping this current
Rules move, and a compliance page left alone goes stale while still looking like a commitment. The date at the top is when this was last checked.
compliance@ascends.fun for token reports or a regulator who wants a conversation.