Bootstrapping Aliencoin Fair Launch
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making investment decisions.
Human uniqueness defines the Alien Network's architecture. Each user's contributions give the network life and represent its fundamental value. This underlies Aliencoin (ALIEN), the network's currency. In an era where AI can mimic human behavior online, Aliencoin serves a critical purpose: a currency that proves its holders are real people.
ALIEN is a fair launch: no pre-allocated coins for founders or investors, and no opportunities to pre-mine or purchase coins before mainnet launch. Every ALIEN is issued only to unique verified humans through the Alien ID system. It functions as compensation for verification and participation, rather than as a speculative instrument.
Aliencoin Economics
Aliencoin's supply is tied directly to the number of verified users in the network, creating calculable inflation and cash-like properties. When we designed Alien's economics, the goal was to make sure it's fair so that all humans in the world can claim their portion, and future generations can too.
In Phase 0, each user receives 20,000 ALIEN for verifying their Alien ID, with more available through invitations and grants. As the network expands through subsequent phases, allocations for new users will gradually decline, ensuring early participants benefit from their contributions to network growth while preserving value for future generations. This fair structure means that unlike Bitcoin — where early miners captured disproportionate value — Aliencoin maintains fairness across entry points.
*We will release a detailed article on Aliencoin economics soon.
The Bootstrap Challenge
Every new cryptocurrency faces the same paradox: how do you establish a market price when there's no market? This is often solved through presales to venture capitalists and insiders, creating instant speculation and unfair distribution. Aliencoin takes a different path, one that lets the community discover value organically, without insider advantages. Due to the fair launch model, ALIEN's price will be determined entirely by supply and demand. The launch unfolds in three carefully designed phases to bootstrap genuine price discovery while maintaining absolute fairness.
Phase 1: Price Discovery
Sellers join a waitlist. The more friends you invite to verify their Alien ID, the faster you will move up the waitlist. The top users by invitation count will gain initial selling rights, rewarding those who actively grow the network.
Phase 2: ALIEN Buyback
After around the first 30 days of the Alien Network launch, anyone can place buy orders by locking USDC to purchase wrapped ALIEN (wALIEN) on Solana. USDC is held in a smart contract and buy orders execute when the market launches. The total allocation of $50,000 reserved for community purchases for this period.
At the same time, the Alien team will begin purchasing ALIEN directly from users on the bonding curve, starting with those who invited the most friends and moving them off from the waitlist.
The buyback will proceed until the team acquires 75,000,000 ALIEN. The progress toward the 75,000,000 ALIEN buyback goal will be displayed live inside the Alien App, creating transparency and anticipation as the community watches the market approach viability.
Phase 3: Market Launch
Once the team completes its buyback, Aliencoin launches instantly on Meteora, Solana's decentralized exchange. The Alien team will contribute the acquired 75,000,000 ALIEN (wALIEN) alongside USDC to establish the first liquidity pool.
Locked buy orders will then begin executing, one by one, with those who locked USDC earlier getting priority at lower prices. This creates genuine price discovery: the market finds its natural level based on community demand, not manipulation or speculation.
The key requirement of this process is that to trade on Meteora, you must bridge your Alien ID to your Solana address within the Alien App (only verified Solana addresses can trade, preventing sniping bots). This ensures that only verified humans participate in the marketplace, maintaining Aliencoin's core principle even as it joins the broader DeFi ecosystem.
Why This Approach
This three-phase bootstrap solves several critical problems:
Prevents bot manipulation: only verified Alien ID holders can participate, eliminating the bot armies that plague typical token launches.
Enables true price discovery: without presale prices or insider allocations, the community collectively determines fair value.
Rewards network participation: those who contributed most gain first access to selling.
Creates sustainable liquidity: the team's contribution and early orders establish a functional marketplace that grows organically.
Maintains fairness: everyone sees the same information at the same time, and early positioning comes from participation, not insider knowledge.
Become an Alien
Every verified Alien ID holder can participate, whether by placing early buy orders, joining the sell waitlist, or simply earning Aliencoin through network participation. You can track the progress inside the Alien App and secure your position in the fair launch of a human (or alien) currency in the age of AI.
You can download the Alien App now to become one of the first members of the Alien Network. You can also visit Alien on X for updates and Discord to join the community.
If building trust in the age of AI feels urgent and important to you, consider joining us.