What is Lunch Break
A launchpad on Solana where every coin trades on the hours of a real stock exchange.
Lunch Break is a token launchpad with one rule no other launchpad has: a coin can only trade while the stock exchange it was born on is open.
A coin is priced in a tokenized stock, and it inherits that stock's exchange. New York, London, Hong Kong or Tokyo. A coin priced in SOL, USDC or a bundle has no exchange handed to it, so its creator picks one. From then on it keeps that calendar forever. Weekends, holidays, the lunch break in Hong Kong and Tokyo, the opening bell, the closing bell. All of it is enforced by the program, on chain, with no off switch.
Exchange hours
Which hours, which calendar, and what a closed market means for you.
The opening tax
A 98% tax at the first instant of every session, gone thirty seconds later.
The bonding curve
How price is set before graduation, and what the raise is denominated in.
Graduation
What happens when the curve sells out and the liquidity locks.
Why exchange hours
Tokenized equities trade around the clock. The shares behind them do not. Between the closing bell and the opening bell there is no last sale, no creation or redemption, and no net asset value to arbitrage against. The token keeps trading anyway, on nothing. Whoever is quoting at three in the morning is quoting a number that no market produced.
Lunch Break takes the other side of that argument. A market with hours is not a worse market. It is the market the underlying asset actually has. Giving a coin the calendar of the exchange it is priced against means every print happens while a real price exists.
It also makes a better venue. Most launchpads run non-stop, so the fastest bot in the fastest data centre wins every launch. Hours replace speed with a schedule. Everyone waits for the same bell, and the first thirty seconds after it are taxed hard enough that sniping is pointless. After that the market is just a market, with a close every day, a gap overnight, and an open where price discovery happens again.
What nobody can do
No pause, no edits, no withdrawals
Nobody can halt a market, not the creator, not the people who run the site. A coin's exchange cannot be changed after launch. Holidays can only be added at least thirty days ahead, and only so many days a year may be closed at all. After graduation the liquidity sits in a pool with no withdrawal path. These are not policies. The instructions do not exist in the program.
The short version
Create
Name, symbol, image, and the stock to price it in, which fixes the exchange. The launch fee is 0.01 SOL. The whole supply is minted to a vault and the mint authority is destroyed in the same transaction; you hold nothing until you buy.
Trade on the curve
While the exchange is open, anyone buys and sells against the curve, paying and being paid in the stock the coin is priced in. One percent of each trade is a fee, and seventy percent of that goes to the creator.
Graduate
When 800 million of the billion coins are sold, the raise and the 200 million held back become a pool the program runs itself. Same hours, same opening tax, locked permanently.
Read next
If you are here to trade, read Risks first. If you are launching, start with Launch a coin.