every token has a card behind it. its market cap sits next to the card's price, so you always know how much of the card the market has priced in.
the first token to launch takes this spot.
total tax earned across every pairing.
landmark printings, every one referenced above $300. pick one to launch a token paired with it.
| # | card | set | rarity | reference | 7d | tokens |
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one tx. pick a card, name the token, sign. the card is the pairing, not the name: call the token whatever you like and give it its own logo, or launch it as the card itself.
rip a pack, pull a real vaulted card. keep it, or sell it straight back to the standing bid. every prize is backed 1:1 in usdc escrow on arc, every draw is weighted by 1 / backing.
how pairings work, how to launch one, and what happens to the fees.
most new tokens start with nothing to point at: no story, no benchmark, no way to tell whether a price is big or small. collectible cards are the opposite. a rare printing leaves auction records, graded sales and market prices anyone can look up.
relic joins the two. every token launched here is paired with one card printing from the catalogue. the card is the token's face and its benchmark: at a glance you know what the token stands for and how its market cap compares with the card it's named after.
only catalogue cards can be launched. it's a curated list of printings, each referenced above $300, from base set holos to gold star grails. every entry is one exact printing: set, number, rarity and variant. two printings of the same pokemon are two different cards, and two different pairings.
each reference comes from a public source for that exact printing, named on the card and on every token paired with it. the 7d column is how the card's market drifted over the week against its 30-day average. it's noisy on vintage cards that rarely sell.
everywhere on relic a token's market cap sits next to its card's reference. the ratio is the number a pairing is built around. below the card it reads as a percentage, above it as a multiple. the ratio moves from both sides: the token trades around the clock, the card follows auctions. neither price sets the other.
anyone with a wallet can launch, in one tx. the site calls flap's VaultPortal.newTokenV6WithVault with the relic factory as the vault factory. flap creates a tax token v3 (1b supply, bonding curve, migrates to pancakeswap at 80%), and the factory opens the card vault before the token exists so the token's beneficiary is the vault from block one.
RELIC card: <id>, the card's name, set, number and reference on launch day, and a note that it's not redeemable for a physical card.token addresses end in 7777 (flap's tax token suffix). the launch page mines the salt in your browser, a few seconds. name and ticker are public on-chain metadata, check them before signing.
1% on a buy, 1% on a sell, on the curve and on pancakeswap after migration. not a per-launch choice: the factory rejects any other rate, so no pairing can quietly charge more than another. flap keeps its protocol cut and pays a commission to relic. the rest goes to the vault.
a benchmark on its own is not binding. a token can name a $28,400 card forever without a dollar ever moving toward one. the vault is what makes the pairing cost something: the tax is routed to a contract belonging to that token, not to the wallet that launched it. one vault per token, so what each pairing has earned is countable on its own. the beneficiary is written into the token at launch and cannot be changed.
flap's tax processor accumulates the tax and pays out on dispatch. the vault's harvest calls dispatch and recognises what arrived. anyone can call it, it can only move fees toward the vault. flap's keepers dispatch on their own schedule too, so a vault fills even if nobody presses the button.
every vault answers to the same owner, the owner of the relic factory. the owner can withdraw a vault's balance to a wallet of their choosing. that is the only call that can name a destination; a second open call pays a vault out but only ever to the owner. everything a vault collected and everything that left it is public in events. read a vault as a public record of what its pairing earned, not a guarantee about what happens next.