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.
creator fees waiting to be paid out 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 approval. 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.
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 solana wallet can launch, with one approval. the site builds pump.fun's own create_v2 instruction with the official pump sdk, so what you get is a normal pump.fun token: 1b supply, 6 decimals, pump.fun's bonding curve, graduation to pumpswap. an initial buy, if you add one, lands in the same transaction as the create.
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. this line is the pairing: the site reads it back from the token's pinned metadata.name and ticker are public on-chain metadata, check them before signing. the site never holds your keys.
nothing on top of pump.fun. trades pay pump.fun's standard fee schedule, on the curve and on pumpswap after graduation. part of that schedule is the creator fee. relic does not add a tax and cannot change the rates.
a benchmark on its own is not binding. the launch routes the token's creator fees into a shared vault through pump.fun's creator fee sharing, split 50% to the wallet that launched it and 50% to relic. one vault per token, so what each pairing has pending is countable on its own. the split is written in the launch itself and pump.fun locks it after that: nobody, including relic, can change it.
creator fees accrue in the vault as trades happen. distribute pays the vault out to the two wallets at the locked split. anyone can call it, and it can only ever pay those two wallets. after graduation the same call first sweeps the pumpswap side into the vault.
two things, both on-chain: its locked fee split pays the relic fee wallet, and its pinned description names a catalogue card. the site lists exactly those tokens by reading pump.fun's fee program. there is no relic database and no relic contract. read a pairing as a public label and a benchmark, not a claim on a physical card.