How Tribe.run works
Tribe.run turns GitHub repos into markets. Launch a token backed by your repo, trade it on a pool that is live from the first second, and rally your holders in a Tribe chat. Every trade pays a fee split between the creator, liquidity providers, and the protocol, which shares its cut with the people growing the network.
Tribe.run is in beta. Everything described here, including fees, thresholds, and mechanics, can change. Tokens are speculative and volatile; only trade what you can afford to lose.
Overview
Every token on Tribe.run is linked to a GitHub repo. You launch a token from one of your own public repos, one repo backs at most one token, and the link never changes. The token is the repo's market: a way to back a project and its creator with real liquidity.
Holding is sponsorship. Anyone with at least 10,000 tokens counts as one of the token's sponsors, and the top sponsors appear on the repo's sponsor badge: a live image of the token's biggest holders, made for the README.
The badge is verified, not self-reported. Tribe.run checks the repo's README on GitHub and marks the token page Badge live only while the badge is actually there; remove it and the status drops.
The rest is the flywheel: Tribe.run is a launchpad and AMM in one, so every token trades natively from launch with no external exchange and no migration. Every trade pays the creator, and holders above the sponsor bar get the Tribe, the token's holders-only chat. The sections below cover each piece in detail.
Launch a token
Connect your GitHub account, pick one of your public repos, and launch. The app prefills the token's name, symbol, and image from the repo; you can edit everything before launch and nothing after. One repo backs at most one token.
- Eligibility
- Any public GitHub repo you have push access to, including repos you collaborate on. Private repos are not eligible.
- Supply
- 1,000,000,000 tokens, fixed. The full supply is minted into the pool at creation and the mint authority is revoked, so no more can ever exist.
- Cost
- No protocol fee. You pay Solana rent of about 0.012 SOL, plus an optional first buy. Buying first protects your launch from snipers.
- What you earn
- The creator share of every trade, starting at 1.00% and settling to 0.20% as the market grows, plus every anti-sniping fee from your token's first 60 seconds. Both land in your wallet at trade time — there is nothing to claim.
- Referrer bonus
- 2,500,000 tokens (0.25% of supply) go to your direct referrer at launch, or to you if nobody referred you.
Trading and the AMM
Every token trades against its own pool inside Tribe.run's Solana program, from the moment it launches. The AMM is native: there is no external exchange, no graduation, and no migration. The pool that opens at launch is the pool forever.
The pool
The pool is a constant-product AMM seeded with 35 SOL of virtual liquidity against nearly the full 1 billion token supply. Virtual liquidity gives the market depth from the first trade and can never be withdrawn.
Side note: the last 2,500,000 tokens of the supply (about 0.08 SOL) can never be sold back to the pool.
Program: B1x53qgNmAdZMfPVZvu89qDmNn3RpdKajRFXqCzE7UPU (Solana mainnet)
Price and market cap
The pool sets the price. A buy pulls tokens out and adds SOL, so the price rises; a sell does the opposite. The bigger the trade relative to the pool's depth, the more the price moves.
A token's market cap is the current price times the 1 billion token supply, quoted in SOL. Market cap drives two things: the fee schedule below, and the point where buying opens up beyond the app.
Launch protection
A fresh launch is the easiest target on a DEX: the first buyer gets the best price the token will ever offer. Tribe.run counters snipers in three ways.
First, the creator's opening buy settles in the same transaction that creates the token, so nothing can trade against the pool before the creator does.
Second, for the first 60 seconds after launch every buy pays a dynamic anti-sniping fee. It starts at 99% of the trade and decays linearly down to the token's normal fee rate as the window closes. The full anti-sniping fee is paid to the token's creator at trade time: sniping a launch funds the person being sniped. Sells never pay it, and the creator's own buys are exempt.
Third, until a token's market cap reaches 420 SOL, buying is only possible through Tribe.run. Above that, buys open up to any Solana wallet directly on the program. Selling is open to everyone from the first second.
Liquidity providers
Anyone can add real liquidity on top as a liquidity provider (LP). LP positions are NFTs, start from 0.01 SOL, and lock for 48 hours after every deposit.
LPs earn up to 0.20% of every trade. The LP rate scales with the share of pool liquidity that real LPs provide, and fees accrue to your position until you claim them.
Fees
Every trade pays a fee on its SOL side: taken from the SOL you spend on a buy, and from the SOL you receive on a sell. The fee splits two ways: a creator share, and a protocol share that funds referral rewards and LP payouts. Rates fall as the token's market cap grows: young tokens pay more, established ones pay less.
| Market cap | Creator | Protocol, LP & incentives* |
|---|---|---|
| Under 10k SOL | 1.00% | 2.00% |
| 10k SOL and up | 0.80% | 1.70% |
| 20k SOL and up | 0.60% | 1.40% |
| 40k SOL and up | 0.40% | 1.10% |
| 60k SOL and up | 0.30% | 0.70% |
| 80k SOL and up | 0.25% | 0.50% |
| 100k SOL and up | 0.20% | 0.30% |
* Up to 0.20% of each trade pays LPs. The LP rate scales with the share of pool liquidity that real LPs provide, so with no LPs it is zero.
- The creator share lands in the creator's wallet at trade time. There is nothing to claim.
- Referral rewards and the referred-trader discount are paid from the protocol share (see Referrals).
- Launching itself carries no protocol fee.
- During the anti-sniping window, early buys pay the decaying fee described under Launch protection on top of these rates. All of it goes to the creator.
The GitHub sponsor badge
Holders of at least 10,000 tokens are a token's sponsors. The sponsor badge is a live image for your repo's README that shows them off.
Setup is one tap. The app opens a pull request against your repo and merges it for you; once the badge is on your README, your token page shows Badge live. Prefer to do it by hand? The Markdown one-liner is in the app too.
The image is rendered fresh from live holder data on every view and links back to your token page on tribe.run.
Tribes: token chat
Every token comes with a Tribe: a chat for its holders. Hold at least 10,000 tokens (0.001% of supply) and you are in. Membership is automatic: no invites, no caps. The creator is always a member. Sending messages requires a connected GitHub or X account, and the creator can ban members.
The same 10,000-token bar drives chat membership and sponsor status on the badge. Chat lives in the mobile app.
Referrals and invites
Tribe 2.0 is invite-only. Invite codes are single-use, and you earn more by trading and launching tokens:
- Trade 1 SOL
- 1 invite (lifetime trading volume)
- Trade 10 SOL
- 2 more invites
- Launch a token
- 2 more invites
Earned invites currently unlock 72 hours after you sign up; milestones you hit before then are delivered automatically when the cooldown ends.
Used invites come back. At the start of each week (Monday 00:00 UTC), if you traded at least 0.5 SOL during the previous week, your invites are topped back up to everything your milestones have earned. Accounts still in the 72-hour cooldown are not refilled; their invites arrive when the cooldown ends.
The invite system is new, and the milestones, amounts, and refill rules will likely change as we tune it.
When someone signs up with your code they become one of your direct referrals. The people they invite are your 2nd referrals, and theirs are your 3rd.
Referred traders get a discount on every trade. You earn a share of the fees from everyone in your referral tree; your cut comes out of the protocol share of their trades, after the discount:
- Direct referrals
- 30% on every trade they make
- 2nd referrals
- 3% on their trades
- 3rd referrals
- 2% on their trades
- Launch bonus
- 2,500,000 tokens of every token a direct referral launches
Everything pays out automatically, in SOL or tokens, straight to your wallet. There is nothing to claim. For each person you refer, your rewards and their discount run for 180 days from the day they sign up.
Wallets and accounts
Sign in with email, Google, or Apple. Privy creates an embedded Solana wallet for your account, and the same wallet signs on mobile and web.
Deposit SOL to your address, withdraw SOL or tokens to any Solana address, and export your Solana private key at any time through Privy's secure export flow. The key is never visible to the app.
New accounts are created in the iOS and Android app with an invite code. The web app is for existing accounts: trade, manage your portfolio, launch tokens, and track your rewards.