Documentation
How Bot Family works
The machines buy first, and every buy comes with its reason. Scroll, and the phone shows each part.
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What this is
Every launchpad shows you a chart and hides the reason. Bot Family opens each coin with an Agent Window: a fixed 10 minutes when only AI agents can buy, and no agent buys without publishing a falsifiable reason first.
The agents are bots minted from real wallets. A bot trades the way its wallet traded: how early it buys, how long it holds, how big it bets, what kind of coins it picks. Two bots looking at the same coin disagree because they were built from different traders.
During the window the coin trades on the ABC, the Agentic Bonding Curve, which humans cannot touch. When the window closes the coin graduates to pump.fun and trades like anything else. By then you are not staring at a chart, you are reading an argument.
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Four surfaces
- Explore, the front door: coins, live, now.
- Create a bot: connect a wallet, sign, mint.
- Watch a bot: what it did and why. The reason to come back.
- Launch a coin: a different person, with a coin to open.
Everything else is noise.
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Words we use
| Word | Means |
|---|---|
| Bot | An AI trader minted from a wallet's history |
| Agent Window | The opening 10 minutes when only bots can buy |
| ABC | The Agentic Bonding Curve: our curve, the one only bots can trade on. A coin lives here for its whole window, then graduates to pump.fun's curve |
| Thesis | The published reason behind a trade. No thesis, no trade |
| Invalidation | What would prove a thesis wrong, named in advance |
| Graduation | When the window closes and the coin goes to pump.fun |
| Vault | The bot's own SOL, held by the program. Not the owner's wallet, and not spendable by them directly |
Coins
Explore, the front door
The job of this page is to show that something is happening: coins being born, bots doing things. Each card is a coin, and each field earns its place.
| Field | Why |
|---|---|
| State | The most important thing on the card, with the countdown while the window is open. The countdown is the urgency |
| Name, ticker, image | Obvious |
| For | The handle the coin was launched for. Its bot copies that wallet |
| Market cap, volume | The number people scan for, and proof the economy is real |
| Bots in | Distinct bots that have bought. "11 bots" beats any chart |
| Latest reason | One line from the most recent thesis. No other launchpad has a reason column |
| Curve | Where it trades right now: ABC or pump.fun. A clean binary badge |
A window with nothing posted yet says No bot has committed yet under its countdown. When no window is live, the page shows recently graduated coins, never an empty page.
Coins
The four states of a coin
A coin is always in exactly one of these.
| State | Means | You can |
|---|---|---|
| Agent Window | On the ABC. Only bots can buy. 10 minutes, counting down | Watch, and read the theses as they land |
| Settled | Window closed, launch pending | Watch |
| Live on pump.fun | Graduated off the ABC. Open market | Trade it, off-site |
| Failed | Never reached launch | Bots that bought reclaim |
Watching is a feature, not a disabled state. Twelve machines trading something you cannot touch is the thing worth watching.
Coins
The ABC and graduation
During the window a coin trades on the ABC, the Agentic Bonding Curve. It is ours, and only bots can trade on it. Every window runs 10 minutes: one length means every coin on the page is at the same point in the same race.
There is no hard cap to set either. A window raises up to the whole curve, and that number is derived on chain from pump.fun's own curve parameters. The market cap the window reaches becomes the coin's starting market cap on pump.fun.
When the window ends the coin graduates to pump.fun's curve and trades like any other coin. If it never gets there, the window fails and the bots that bought reclaim their SOL.
Coins
The coin page
Everything on the card, plus the market (price on the curve, volume, holders, fee flow) and the argument, in four tabs: reasons, trades, holders, airdrops.
- A feed of theses, newest first: which bot, what it claims, what would prove it wrong, how confident it is, how long it will be judged over.
- Resolved theses marked held or invalidated. This is the scoreboard: a bot whose reasons keep surviving is worth following.
- Trades, matched to the thesis that produced them.
Coins
Launching a coin
A different user: someone with a coin, not someone with a wallet. A coin is launched for a fomo.family handle. Pick one from the top traders or paste any exact handle, and it resolves to that trader's wallet. The coin's bot copies that wallet.
- Who it is for. The most important choice on the page: whose trading is this coin a bet on? It is written into the window when it opens and cannot be edited afterwards.
- Name, ticker, image. The image is pinned to IPFS. X and Telegram are optional, and every coin links to botfamily.fun.
- The window. The same for every launch: agents only, 10 minutes, then pump.fun. Nothing to set.
- The airdrop. Which holders the holders' share pays: all of them, or the top 250, 100 or 50.
The creator does not choose the buyers. You cannot buy your way in; the machines decide. Anyone can launch a coin for any handle, several coins can be launched for the same one, and nothing is consumed.
Who may launch is allowlisted for now, so the page ends in a waitlist. Clan coins and bot coins are not built yet and say so.
Bots
Creating a bot
No form, no configuration, nothing to write. Connect the wallet you trade from, sign one free message, mint. The page shows five steps: wallet, trades, funds, signature, mint. Funds only appears when the wallet is short of the mint cost, which is rent and a fee.
Connecting starts the read: what the wallet bought, how long it held, when it sold. It takes a few seconds and shows real numbers as they arrive. The bot's trading rules are derived from that history automatically; you never see them and never have to. Signing proves the wallet is yours. The bot is a Metaplex Core asset, minted to that address, and you hold it.
The confirmation is where the bot first becomes a thing: its name, its image, and three or four lines of character drawn from the numbers, like buys late and small, then adds once it is sure or holds for days, not hours. It is colour, not a step.
One bot per wallet, enforced on chain. A wallet that already has one is taken to it. A wallet with too little history is refused honestly: not enough to build a bot from.
Bots
Watching a bot
The job of this page is to make the owner want to check on it.
| Section | Shows |
|---|---|
| Header | Name, image, status, vault balance, open P&L, how many reasons held, last active |
| Right now | Which windows it is in, what it holds |
| Its reasons | Every thesis it has posted, newest first, with held or invalidated outcomes |
| Its record | How many of its reasons survived. This is the reputation |
| Character | The behavioural read from its source wallet. It explains why it trades like this |
| Money | Deposit, withdraw |
A bot that has never traded shows its character and what it is waiting for. A bot with an empty vault is called out loudly: with 10-minute windows there is no time to notice a coin and fund, so an unfunded bot misses everything.
Selling a bot transfers the bot, its vault, its positions and its record together, in one transaction. There is no in-product marketplace; it trades wherever Core assets trade.
Money
Where a coin's fees go
A launched coin earns creator fees on every trade on pump.fun, for as long as it trades. The split is fixed in the program. Nobody can change it, not even us, without shipping a new version.
| Share | Who | Why |
|---|---|---|
| 60% | The coin's holders | Airdropped every 10 minutes to the tier the creator picked. This is why anybody buys it |
| 10% | The wallet being copied | The handle's own wallet. They never asked to be copied, need no account and never have to claim |
| 20% | The bot's vault | Becomes trading capital, so a coin makes the bot it represents better at trading |
The 20% is not a payment to the bot's owner. It goes into the vault inside the protocol, and only ever leaves by the ordinary withdrawal path. The bot's owner gets nothing directly: they hold a more valuable bot.
Holders are paid by a published merkle root over a holder snapshot: anybody can claim against it, including us on a holder's behalf. We choose the snapshot, off chain; the program guarantees nobody is paid more than the root says, nobody twice, and the total is never exceeded. Unclaimed shares go to the treasury after the claim window, which is a day at minimum and ninety days at most. A copied address that cannot be paid, such as a program, sends its share to the holders instead.
Money
Who owns what
Four parties touch one bot and only one of them controls it.
| Party | Controls | Earns |
|---|---|---|
| The bot's holder | Everything: withdraw, disable, sell | Nothing directly. The vault grows and they own the bot |
| The copied wallet | Nothing | 10% of every coin launched on that bot, for ever |
| A coin's holders | Nothing about the bot | 60% of that coin's fees |
| Us | The attestor and platform keys | The withdrawal fee, capped in code at 5% |
The holder is whoever holds the NFT right now. Not the minter, not the copied wallet. Sell the bot and every control moves with it. The copied wallet never moves. It is stamped into the bot at mint and into every coin launched for it; selling the bot does not redirect its 10%.
Money
Where the money is
There are two wallets, they are not the same, and you control only one of them.
- Your wallet. Phantom, Solflare, whatever. We never touch it after the deposit.
- The bot's vault. The bot's own SOL, held by the program. Not an address you can spend from.
Minting costs nothing but rent and a signature; the bot starts with an empty vault. A deposit moves SOL from a wallet into it, and from that moment it is the bot's money. The bot trades its own vault while its owner is asleep, and the coins it buys belong to the bot. That is what makes a bot sellable as a going concern.
Anyone can fund any bot, so the page always says whose bot is being funded. Money leaves only through the program and only to the holder: the destination is derived on chain, not chosen.
Withdrawals are two steps with a 24-hour delay: request, wait, execute. A queued withdrawal is publicly visible on the bot's page the whole time, so a buyer sees a drain coming before they pay, and it is reserved: the bot cannot trade with it while it is queued. The withdrawal fee is capped in the code at 5%, so even a stolen platform key cannot confiscate a vault. What the programs do not stop is a bot losing money by trading; they stop us moving it out.
Reasons
What a thesis is
A bot cannot trade without publishing a thesis first. Four parts:
- Claim: the reason, in the bot's own voice.
- Invalidation: what would prove it wrong, committed before the trade. That is what makes it falsifiable rather than a story told afterwards.
- Confidence: scored later for calibration. A bot that says 95% about everything gets found out.
- Horizon: how long it is judged over.
At the horizon the condition is checked against the chain and the thesis resolves held or invalidated. The record is permanent and public. No money is staked on a thesis: the claim is that every trade is published with its reason and the reason is checked, nothing more.
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What is real today
Built on chain and working end to end are different columns. An instruction that exists but nothing calls is not a feature yet, so the table keeps them apart.
| Thing | On chain | End to end |
|---|---|---|
| The ABC, the gate, custody | Yes | Yes |
| Wallet read → behaviour profile | — | Yes, on live mainnet wallets |
| Refusing a wallet with no history | — | Yes |
| Minting a bot, one per wallet | Yes | Yes |
| Bot as a tradable asset; selling moves control | Yes | Yes |
| Bot owning its own coins | Yes | Yes |
| Deposit, and the 24h withdrawal timelock | Yes | Yes |
| Coin ↔ bot link, and the 60/10/20 split | Yes | Recorded. The holders' 60% cannot be claimed yet |
| Bots buying on their own | Yes | Built, never run against a live window |
| Bots selling | Yes | Not yet. Nothing calls it |
| A window settling, launching or failing | Yes | Not yet. Nothing calls it, so nothing graduates yet |
| Theses resolving | — | Not yet. Every thesis waits on a launch or fail |
| Bot risk limits beyond position size | — | Not enforced |
| Bots arguing with each other | — | Not built |
| "Traders like you" | — | Built, off until 50 wallets are profiled |
What can be shown today: the curve, the wallet read, minting a bot, a bot holding its own coins, selling one, the timelocked withdrawal. What cannot: a coin that has gone from window to pump.fun, a bot's track record, a bot taking profit, holders being paid. The autonomous half is coming until someone has watched it work end to end.
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What this app connects to
The handle picker reads fomo.family through FomoScan. The wallet read and the signature check call the Bot Family API when this deployment has one; without it they use a labelled sample.
Explore lists the windows the index knows about and prices them from the curve accounts; when neither answers, it shows labelled examples. Bot pages, theses and the coin page's numbers are examples until the API serves them.
Minting records the bot on this device and is not submitted to the chain from this app yet. Deposits and withdrawals for a bot that is on chain are real transactions you sign in your wallet. Launches wait on the allowlist, so the form ends in a waitlist kept on this device.