Most token launches ask one question: up or down? Duel asks a better one: which side are you on?

Duel is a launchpad on Robinhood Chain where every launch is a perpetual duel. One transaction launches two opposing tokens, side A and side B: Cats and Dogs, Bulls and Bears, Yes and No. Traders pick a side by buying it, and every four hours a round tells which side led. Duel opens on Monday, October 5.

Why two sides

Markets are already full of rivalries. Every cycle has its camps, every chart its bulls and its bears, and nothing gets people talking like picking a team. A single token turns that energy into one crowded trade. Two tokens turn it into a contest you can follow.

DIVINE has worked this way from the start. Our Screener has sent free signals since 2024 and has always run two strategies side by side: Jesus, which spots tokens coming back to life, and Lucifer, which spots deep dips. Duel takes that face-off on-chain, for everyone.

How a duel works

Here is one playing out, from its launch to the burn of its winner. Pick a step to play it again.

Round 1closes at 4:00 PM UTC
Three pools: ETH and side A, ETH and side B, side A and side B, with the round pot in the middle.ETHABETH / AETH / BA / B
Pot0.000 ETH
50.0%
50.0%

Both sides start at the same price: a 50/50 split

  1. Launch two sides. One transaction deploys two tokens of one billion units each, opens three Uniswap V4 pools, one for each side against ETH and one between the two sides, and locks their liquidity. Both sides start at the same price.
  2. Pick a side. Buy, sell or switch sides in one transaction.
  3. Watch the split. The split compares the two sides' prices in ETH: it is the gauge you see on every duel.
  4. Win the round. Rounds close every four hours, at midnight, 4 AM, 8 AM, noon, 4 PM and 8 PM UTC. A round is decided by the time-weighted price lead over the round. A late move counts only for the time remaining, but can still change a close result. Quiet rounds and near ties have no winner.
  5. Burn the winner. Every round has a pot. When a side wins, the pot can buy its tokens back from its ETH pool and burn them. The purchase is capped at about 10% above its reference price — a 30-minute exponential average, or the price itself when that is lower — and may be skipped. What the pot does not spend carries over to the next round.

Move the split yourself

The split only reads the two prices in ETH. Put ETH into either side and see where the gauge lands:

Try it: ETH spent buying each side

Market cap of A13.2 ETH
Market cap of B4.31 ETH
75.3% AB 24.7%

Each side alone, with the default 1.2% fee: price grows with the square of the sum of virtual ETH and deposited ETH, so doubling a deposit does not generally quadruple market cap. Realignment can also move the other side (see Realignment).

Win a round from behind

A side that takes the lead late counts only for the time it holds it. Try a comeback:

Try it: a comeback during the round

Average share of A over the round61.8%
WinnerA

Both the size of the ETH price lead and its duration matter. A late lead counts only for the remaining time; it can still change a close result. The average uses the price ratio’s logarithm, not the arithmetic mean of the displayed percentages.

Watch the pot buy the winner back

The pot spends until it is gone, or until the winner's price reaches 10% above its reference. Change the pot, and where the price stands when the round closes:

Try it: the buyback at settlement

ETH spent buying tokens to burn0.05 ETH
Left in the pot for the next round0 ETH
The winner after, against its reference+6.1%

The whole pot buys tokens that are burned: the winner’s price rises +6.1%.

Simplified example with a fixed reference and each side valued 1.69 ETH at launch. The real ceiling is 10% above the winner’s reference: a 30-minute exponential average of its ETH-pool ticks, or its price when that is lower. A buyback never moves the price up by more than 10% from where it finds it, and by less when the price already rose above its average.

Built to be fair

  • No owner, no mint. The tokens have no owner and no mint function, and the pools' liquidity can never be withdrawn.
  • No free snipes. For the first ten seconds of a duel, buys pay a tax that starts at 98% and fades to nothing. It goes to the pot: snipers fund the first buyback.
  • Clear fees. With the default terms, every trade against ETH pays 1.2%: a third each to the duel's creator, the round's pot and the protocol. Launching a duel costs 0.01 ETH.
  • Rules in contracts. Rounds, fees and buybacks run on-chain, the same for every duel. Smart contracts and markets still carry risks.

Snipers fund the pot

The tax on the first buys fades second by second, and all of it goes to the round's pot:

The default anti-snipe tax after launch

  1. 98.0%0 s
  2. 49.0%1 s
  3. 24.5%2 s
  4. 6.1%3 s
  5. 3.1%4 s
  6. 0.76%5 s
  7. 0.38%6 s
  8. 0.19%7 s
  9. 0.04%8 s
  10. 0.02%9 s
  11. 0.00%10 s

Of a buy one second after launch, 49.8% reaches the pool; after ten seconds, 98.8% (the 1.2% fee). The tax goes to the round pot. The creator’s launch buys, made in the launch transaction, pay no tax.

Where a fee goes

Slide the size of a trade to see who gets its 1.2% fee, and what changes when a creator gives its share to the pot:

Try it: the default fee of a trade

The creator gives its share to the pot
Protocol0.00396 ETH33%
Creator0.00396 ETH33%
Pot0.00408 ETH34%

The fee is 0.012 ETH, 1.2% of the ETH traded, paid in ETH.

What will you duel about?

Anything with two sides: a rivalry (Cats vs Dogs), a name and its critics (Pro Elon vs Anti Elon), a market call (Bull ETH vs Bear ETH), a question (Is the bottom in? Yes vs No). Launch the duel you believe in, collect creator fees on every trade against ETH, and let the rounds decide.

By default, a third of the fee of every trade against ETH goes to the duel's creator. See what a day of trading earns:

10 ETH

You 33%Pot 34%Protocol 33%

Of the 1.2% fee on every swap against ETH. Launch a supporter duel to send your share to the pot instead.

You earn

0.04 ETH a day

1.19 ETH every 30 days

The pot collects 0.041 ETH a day for the winner’s buybacks.

Launch your duel

Some matchups will have an official duel, launched by DIVINE and tagged Official across the site, so that everyone knows which one to follow.

See you on October 5

Duel opens on Robinhood Chain on Monday, October 5. Until then, join DIVINE on Telegram, where Duel's alerts will live too, and think about the rivalry you want to launch.