How MUTATE works

1. SOLBTCETHTQQQxGOLD
   1

   Pick a root

   Any coin with a price: SOL, BTC, a leveraged or short token, a stock, gold, or a gene someone else launched.

2. ETH×16$A×100$B
   2

   Splice genes

   Name each gene, pick how steep its curve is, and stack as many as the chain holds. Your wallet signs each launch.

3. ETH→$A→$B
   3

   Trade through the chain

   One click buys the deepest coin by swapping down every curve on the way, and a sell swaps back up.

The host can be an existing coin, like SOL, BTC or a 3× Nasdaq token, or another gene. A chain is the line from an existing coin down through every gene under it. One chain holds up to 8 coins: the existing coin and 7 genes.

Market

An existing coin, trading on the open market. Solid, dim.

Curve

A gene launched here, on its curve. Its label shows its mutation and how close it is to graduating.

New

A gene you're planning. It stays dashed until you splice it.

When your first gene sits under an existing coin, you can pick a base to show above that coin, like USDC above ETH. It's saved in your coin's metadata and is only for show: trades start at the existing coin.

Every gene has 1,000,000,000 coins with 6 decimals. Its curve sells a share of them before graduation, and the rest seeds the pool the coin graduates into. The steeper the mutation, the more the curve sells.

It works the other way too: when a coin above yours falls, yours falls with it, by the same multiple.

1. Search coins or paste a mint…

   ETHpicked

   TQQQx

   SOL
   1

   Pick the coin to splice under

   Tap the last coin on the helix and choose another, tap a root in the band under the helix, or hit Chain under on any coin in the feed. The picker searches the listed roots and takes a pasted mint address.

2. ETH$NEW+ Add
   2

   Add a gene

   Give it a ticker: up to 10 capital letters or digits. The name is optional, up to 32 bytes, and defaults to the ticker. Upload an image or keep the tile drawn from the ticker.

3. 4×16×100×1000×

   Initial buy0.5 ETH
   3

   Set its mutation and the first buy

   Pick how steep the curve is. Optionally buy some of the gene in the same transaction that launches it, before anyone else can; it has to be less than the curve raises. Add more genes to stack them, up to the chain's 8 coins. With a stack, the buy runs down through every gene: each one spends everything the one above it bought, so you end up holding the gene at the bottom.

4. $A launched

   $B launched

   $C · sign in wallet
   4

   Splice

   Each gene is its own launch, and your wallet signs them one at a time, starting with the gene nearest the root. If one fails, the genes before it stay launched.

A gene is fixed once it launches: its token has no mint authority and no freeze authority, so no one can make more of it or freeze it, and its name, ticker and metadata can't be changed.

You pay in the chain's first coin; if you don't hold it, the trade panel links to Jupiter to get it. The swaps are packed into as few transactions as fit. Your wallet signs them all at once when it can, and each one is sent after the one before it confirms.

Trading through a graduated coin isn't supported yet. Existing coins trade on Jupiter, not here.

• Under an existing coin: about 85 SOL worth of that coin, but never more than 20% of its supply.
• Under a gene: everything that gene's curve sells. No more of the host exists until it graduates, so no gene can graduate before the one above it.

Meteora's program keeps 20% of that fee. The rest, 0.8% of every trade, belongs to the wallet that launched the gene. It builds up in the gene's pool; claiming it from MUTATE isn't built yet.

MUTATE adds no fee of its own to launches or trades. You pay Solana's network fees and the rent for a launch's new accounts, and on mainnet, launches and trades add a priority fee so they land.

A Token-2022 coin can too if it charges no transfer fee, calls no transfer hook, doesn't start new accounts frozen or have transfers paused, and has a Meteora token badge for any extension beyond on-mint metadata. MUTATE needs a price for it to size the curve.

The picker lists these 130 on mainnet and takes a pasted mint address for any other coin.

• Coins here are experimental.

  They can go to zero, and nothing here is financial advice.

• Your coin moves with every coin above it.

  Its price is its host's price times its own, so when a coin above yours falls, yours falls with it.

• Tracker tokens follow their issuers' rules.

  The leveraged, short, stock, ETF, gold, FX and yield roots are issued by third parties: Hylo, xStocks, Ondo, Shift, Backpack, Tether, Dominion, VNX, Circle, Jupiter, Solstice.

• Some roots let their issuer step in.

  An issuer may be able to freeze accounts, pause transfers, or move or burn anyone's tokens. When the coin you splice onto can, the gene's editor says so before you launch.

• Mainnet is real money.

  Every launch and trade there spends real SOL. Your wallet signs every transaction, and MUTATE never holds your keys.

• localnet

  A local validator with the mainnet roots cloned onto it.

• devnet

  Solana's public test network, with SOL and a devnet USDC as roots.

• mainnethere

  Real coins and real money.

On localnet and devnet, the splice card has a button that airdrops 2 test SOL.