The mechanics of a snowball

One pulse every minute

The bot compares the current pool price with the previous sample every minute. A decline sizes a buy as a fraction of the minute buy budget. A rise sizes a sell as a fraction of token inventory. The first sample establishes the reference.

Pulse uses the price difference divided by the larger of the two prices. A flat price produces no trade. A stale sample establishes a fresh reference before trading resumes.

Small orders, spaced apart

• Each buy spends at most 100 USDC. Each sell uses tokens worth at most $100 at the observed price. Gas is separate.
• A 2% decline requests 2% of the minute buy budget. Sells use the bounded rise fraction of inventory. Available funds, the $100 cap, and 0.5% of the pool’s active USDC depth constrain each order.
• Orders below $0.01 are skipped. Each minute can create one trade decision. An unresolved transaction blocks new orders.
• The deployer keeps at least $5 in native USDC for gas. The budget is $100 per minute with no daily cap.
• Quotes account for the launch’s buy or sell tax and the pool fee, then allow at most 2% price impact and 1% slippage. A reverted transaction halts execution for operator review.

Fees feed the next buy

The bot checks for claimable Argus creator fees each minute. Claimed USDC goes to the deployer treasury, where it joins sale proceeds and any initial funding available for dip buys. Claims and approvals can happen before that minute’s trade.

Argus processes the launch’s tax allocation before fees become claimable. The creator allocation must pay the same wallet that runs this treasury.

A burn with every buy

Each bot buy sends 30% of its received tokens to the burn address in the same transaction. The remaining 70% stays in the treasury for future sells. These burns remove tokens from circulation without reducing the contract’s reported total supply.

Any additional buyback-and-burn allocation chosen at launch is handled separately by Argus. The treasury ledger reports only the burns made by this bot.

Launched on Argus. Running on Arc.

Unstaball uses a USDC-paired Argus v4 pool on Arc mainnet, chain 5042. Gas is also paid in USDC. The token’s launch settings determine its buy and sell tax.

Pulse reacts to pool prices. It cannot predict the next move or guarantee a price floor.