Rules of The Frontier

What is The Frontier?

A map of the 50 United States where meme tokens compete for territory, and the winners share a national treasury.

The Frontier is a game played on a map of America. Every token launched here belongs to one of the 50 states. Inside each state, tokens compete on market cap. The token at the top holds the state, and the wallet that launched it becomes that state’s Governor.

Every token launched on The Frontier sends its creator rewards to one shared fund: the National Treasury. Each day the Treasury pays part of what it earned to the Governors, and a bonus to a President, if one wallet holds a majority of the map.

• Launch a meme in a state.
• Climb that state’s leaderboard.
• Hold #1 to become Governor and earn from the Treasury.
• Hold 26 states to become President.

What is $FRONTIER?

The native token of The Frontier, and the Treasury’s own biggest source of revenue.

$FRONTIER is the platform’s native token. Like every Frontier launch, its creator rewards flow into the National Treasury, so trading in $FRONTIER grows the same fund every Governor is paid from.

Part of every epoch’s revenue (the National Reserve, 40%) stays in the Treasury. It can fund $FRONTIER buybacks, operations and new frontier unlocks.

How token launches work

Launches run on Pump.fun’s bonding curve, paired with SOL, from your own wallet.

The launch terminal creates a real Pump.fun token with the official Pump.fun SDK (the `create_v2` instruction). You sign the transaction with your own wallet. The Frontier never holds your keys or your tokens.

• Identity: name (2–32 characters), ticker (2–8 letters or digits), image (required, under 5 MB), description.
• Links: website, X, Telegram. Discord and a banner image are shown on The Frontier; Pump.fun’s own metadata has no field for them.
• Territory: the state your token belongs to. It cannot be changed later.
• Pair: SOL. Every Frontier token trades against SOL on Pump.fun’s curve.
• Dev buy: optional. Buys your first tokens in the same transaction as the launch, so nobody can buy ahead of you.

Image and metadata are stored on IPFS. Once the transaction confirms, The Frontier checks on-chain that it succeeded, that your wallet paid for it, and that its creator rewards go to the Treasury. Only then does the token appear on the map.

One ticker per state. The same ticker can exist in two different states.

Creator rewards go to the Treasury

Every Frontier token names the National Treasury as its Pump.fun creator.

Pump.fun pays a creator fee on every trade to the token’s creator address. On The Frontier, that address is the National Treasury. It is set in the launch transaction itself, so it is fixed from the first trade.

As the launcher, you do not receive a token’s creator fees directly. You earn through the game instead: hold your state and you are paid as its Governor, from the fees of every state.

Pump.fun can reassign a coin’s creator in a community takeover. If that ever happens to a Frontier token, its fees stop reaching the Treasury, and it loses its eligibility to govern.

States and rankings

Fifty states, one leaderboard each, ranked by market cap.

Each state has its own leaderboard of the tokens launched in it, ranked by market cap. The map shows the leader’s ticker and colours the state in its ink. The stronger its lead, the deeper the colour.

Dominance is the leader’s share of the state’s total market cap. A state where the top two are close shows faint hatching: it is contested.

Tokens that are delisted or whose creator is on the Wanted board stay in the history but never rank.

Governors

The wallet behind a state’s #1 token governs it and earns 1% of each day’s revenue per state.

Every 15 minutes The Frontier takes a snapshot of the map. In each state, the eligible token with the highest market cap leads, and the wallet that launched it is that state’s leader.

• Eligible: market cap of at least $25,000, not delisted, creator not on the Wanted board.
• Sworn in: a leader becomes Governor after leading 2 snapshots in a row (30 minutes). A short pump doesn’t win a state.
• Several tokens from the same wallet in one state still make one Governor.
• One wallet can govern many states, and earns from each one.

Losing #1: payment stops at the next snapshot. The challenger has to be sworn in before they earn. The slices in between go to the state’s bounty. Rewards a Governor already earned stay theirs.

The National Treasury and how it pays

Every day’s creator rewards are split between the states, the President and the reserve.

The Treasury collects the creator rewards of every Frontier token, $FRONTIER included. The game runs in daily epochs that settle at 13:00 UTC. Each epoch pays out what the previous epoch earned, so the Treasury only ever distributes fees it has already received. It never spends its principal.

R = creator rewards received in the previous epoch
State Pool         = 50% × R
Presidential Pool  = 10% × R
National Reserve   = 40% × R  (stays in the Treasury)

Each state         = State Pool ÷ 50   (1% of R)
Per snapshot       = one state’s share ÷ 96

Because pay is per snapshot, ownership changes are exact: whoever governed a state for six hours of an epoch earns six hours of that state’s share.

State treasuries and bounties

Each state tracks what it earned for the nation, and unclaimed land builds a bounty.

Every state shows its State Treasury Generated: the lifetime creator rewards of every token launched in it. It is the state’s contribution to the national fund.

When a state has no sworn Governor, its share for that snapshot isn’t lost. It builds that state’s bounty.

No Governor:   bounty ← bounty + one snapshot share
Cap:           7 days of the state’s share (overflow → National Reserve)
With Governor: each snapshot also pays out min(bounty, one snapshot share)

Taking an abandoned state pays double until its bounty is drained. Empty land is worth claiming.

The President

Hold 26 of 50 states at once to become President and collect the Presidential Pool and its jackpot.

A wallet that governs 26 or more states in the same snapshot, a majority of the map, is President of The Frontier.

President, per snapshot:  Presidential Pool ÷ 96  +  2% of the Jackpot
No President:             that slice rolls into the Presidential Jackpot
Jackpot cap:              30 days of the Presidential Pool (overflow → National Reserve)

Why this design: the President earns a bonus, not a takeover. It is 10% of revenue instead of half the Treasury, so the rest of the map always stays worth fighting for. The jackpot grows the longer nobody unites the Frontier, and it pays out a little every snapshot, so a President has to hold the majority, not just reach it once. The moment they drop below 26 states, the jackpot starts refilling for the next contender.

Claiming rewards

Rewards pile up per snapshot. To claim them, post about The Frontier on X, then sign with your wallet.

• 1. Open Claim from your wallet menu. You’ll see what you’ve earned, by state and role.
• 2. The Frontier gives you a post to publish on X. It carries a one-time code, like FRONTIER-7K2QXM.
• 3. Publish it from your X account. It must be public.
• 4. Paste the post’s link. The Frontier reads the post and checks the code and $FRONTIER are in it.
• 5. Sign a message with your wallet to prove it’s yours. Your claim is recorded.

Each post can be used for one claim, and each code expires after 24 hours. Claims are paid by the Treasury in SOL. A claim shows as pending until the payout is sent, then as paid, with its transaction.

How post verification works

The Frontier reads your public post from X and checks it carries your claim code.

When you submit a post link, The Frontier fetches the post from X. It checks that the text contains your claim code and mentions $FRONTIER. When X provides a timestamp, it also checks the post was made after the claim started.

Protected accounts can’t be read, so claim posts must be public. Deleting the post afterwards doesn’t undo a claim, but a post can only ever be used once.

The Wanted board

Wallets tied to rug pulls, scams and similar abuse are posted, with the evidence.

The Wanted board lists wallets tied to clear abuse. Each poster states the charge in plain words, lists the wallet’s launches and what happened to them, and links the on-chain evidence.

• Rug pull: liquidity or the dev’s supply dumped soon after launch.
• Scam: a launch built to mislead buyers.
• Abandoned: repeated launch-and-dump across states.
• Impersonation: copying another token’s name, image or links.
• Wash trading: trading between linked wallets to fake volume or rank.

Being Wanted means: the wallet’s tokens stop ranking at the next snapshot, it can’t govern, and its unclaimed rewards are forfeited. They go back to the bounty of the state they were earned in (presidential rewards go back to the Jackpot). Entries are added by The Frontier team with evidence. Appeals go to the team on X; a cleared wallet is marked as cleared, not erased.

Global unlocks

The Frontier grows. A countdown on the map shows when and where it opens next.

The map is a living world. The Next Frontier card on the map counts down to the next expansion and names the place that opens. Unlocks happen at 13:00 UTC, the same moment epochs settle: evening in East Asia, morning in the Americas, afternoon in Europe.

When the countdown reaches zero, the card turns to Open and the new frontier is announced. Its territories are added to the game with their own Governors, paid from the same National Treasury.

Fine print

The edge cases, all in one place.

• Governor overtaken: paid up to the last snapshot they led. The challenger earns after being sworn in.
• Token loses #1: same as above. The next eligible token’s creator becomes leader.
• Several tokens, one wallet, one state: one Governor, one share.
• One wallet, many states: one share per state. A majority makes a President.
• Token delisted or wallet Wanted: out of the rankings at the next snapshot. Unclaimed rewards are forfeited to state bounties.
• Ownership changes mid-epoch: pay is per snapshot, so each Governor is paid for exactly the time they held the state.
• Revenue is measured in USD at the time fees reach the Treasury. Payouts are sent in SOL.

Meme tokens are extremely risky and most go to zero. Nothing on The Frontier is financial advice. Governor and President rewards depend on Treasury revenue, which can fall to nothing.