Boardwalk
Boardwalk is a permissionless, community-centered fee-protection protocol for launching, discovering, and participating in token economies. Issuers create a launch once, define its rules up front, and auction a new token under publicly visible mechanics. If the auction reaches its graduation threshold, the assets raised are paired with the token supply to seed permanently locked liquidity, after which the token enters the active economy. If the threshold is not reached, participants can claim a full refund. The protocol facilitates launches end to end in one place: auctions, liquidity seeding,LP participation, fee routing, and voting direction. Issuers can choose between two launch paths—the fast path, an auction lasting 24 hours with simplified defaults; and the advanced path, an auction lasting 7 days with configurable vesting, multiple fee recipients, and optional referrers. Through Boardwalk launches, liquidity providers can earn from up to three sources: regular swap fees, a dedicated fee stream from all token swaps and transfers, and, if vesting is configured for the launch, a share of the vesting allocation. Liquidity providers also earn more participation points the longer they stake; these points increase their relative claim on the fee and vesting streams over time. Economies launched through Boardwalk include fee protection at the token level. The fee is built into the token itself, so it applies to on-chain transfers wherever the token is traded, not just within a single application. This makes it difficult for external participants using sophisticated strategies to extract fees from the intended economy. Once a launch goes live, the core fee percentages are fixed by the protocol's design.Boardwalk is also where people who support a launch over the long term gather. Café Boardwalk is the public network forum associated with each launch in the protocol, providing a built-in space for participants, issuers, and third-party supporters—liquidity providers, growth contributors, security reviewers, treasury-management services, and public-good contributors—to ask questions, post updates, and coordinate. Café is a discussion interface, not an on-chain mechanism: participating in it does not change launch rules, fee routing, vesting, or voting weights.BWLK is the Boardwalk deflationary protocol token.BWLK is a consumable token that users burn on-chain to launch token economies and influence project discovery through upvotes and downvotes.BWLK can be staked to vote on the direction of a portion of protocol fees. In each weekly cycle, stakers use their votes to direct the designated fees to one of four outcomes—buy back and burn BWLK, route to the operating reserve, permanently lock BWLK/ETH liquidity, or route to BWLK stakers. Voting is winner-takes-all; votes in one cycle direct the fees collected in the following 1 cycle. On-chain starts here.
Overview
Boardwalk is a permissionless, community-centered fee-protection protocol for launching, discovering, and participating in token economies. Issuers create a launch once, define its rules up front, and auction a new token under publicly visible mechanics. If the auction reaches its graduation threshold, the assets raised are paired with the token supply to seed permanently locked liquidity, after which the token enters the active economy. If the threshold is not reached, participants can claim a full refund. The protocol facilitates launches end to end in one place: auctions, liquidity seeding,LP participation, fee routing, and voting direction. Issuers can choose between two launch paths—the fast path, an auction lasting 24 hours with simplified defaults; and the advanced path, an auction lasting 7 days with configurable vesting, multiple fee recipients, and optional referrers. Through Boardwalk launches, liquidity providers can earn from up to three sources: regular swap fees, a dedicated fee stream from all token swaps and transfers, and, if vesting is configured for the launch, a share of the vesting allocation. Liquidity providers also earn more participation points the longer they stake; these points increase their relative claim on the fee and vesting streams over time. Economies launched through Boardwalk include fee protection at the token level. The fee is built into the token itself, so it applies to on-chain transfers wherever the token is traded, not just within a single application. This makes it difficult for external participants using sophisticated strategies to extract fees from the intended economy. Once a launch goes live, the core fee percentages are fixed by the protocol's design.Boardwalk is also where people who support a launch over the long term gather. Café Boardwalk is the public network forum associated with each launch in the protocol, providing a built-in space for participants, issuers, and third-party supporters—liquidity providers, growth contributors, security reviewers, treasury-management services, and public-good contributors—to ask questions, post updates, and coordinate. Café is a discussion interface, not an on-chain mechanism: participating in it does not change launch rules, fee routing, vesting, or voting weights.BWLK is the Boardwalk deflationary protocol token.BWLK is a consumable token that users burn on-chain to launch token economies and influence project discovery through upvotes and downvotes.BWLK can be staked to vote on the direction of a portion of protocol fees. In each weekly cycle, stakers use their votes to direct the designated fees to one of four outcomes—buy back and burn BWLK, route to the operating reserve, permanently lock BWLK/ETH liquidity, or route to BWLK stakers. Voting is winner-takes-all; votes in one cycle direct the fees collected in the following 1 cycle. On-chain starts here.