Staircase

Price holds flat on a tier, then jumps to the next one.1% fee5× · 40 → 200 SOL mcap

Try a buy

Already raised Your buyLeft is the first trade. Right is graduation.

Raise already filled35%Your buy, as a share of the whole raise10%

Price before you: 2.62×
You pay, on average: 2.74×
Price after you: 2.87×
Left to graduation: 55%

The raise is 35% full. You take the next 10%, leaving it 45% of the way to graduation. The price before you is 2.62× the first trade, and 2.87× after you. Across that slice you pay about 2.74× on average. If the whole supply were priced along this curve, market cap moves from about 105 SOL to 115 SOL. A flat 1% trading fee sits on the swap and does not change the shape.

Brief

Price climbs in jumps, not a ramp. Three flat tiers, two steps between them.

Some products are sold in tiers, not along a ramp: edition one at one price, edition two at the next. This curve holds a flat price while a chunk of supply sells, jumps, holds again, jumps, and finishes on a third shelf. It suits a season pass, a ticket wave, or any drop where the team wants to say “this tier costs this much” and mean it.

Pick this if

You sell in discrete tiers — editions, seasons, waves — and each tier should have its own price.
You want most buyers inside a tier to pay the same price as the rest of that tier.

Leave it if

You want every buyer to pay a little more than the last. Use a steady climb.
A visible jump between tiers would read as unfair to your buyers.

How the money moves

If the whole supply were priced at the first trade, the market cap would be about 40 SOL.
At graduation it is about 200 SOL, which is 5× the starting price. The trading fee stays at 1% for the whole curve. The fee does not add a volatility bump.
Trading fees this config assigns go to the launchpad fee-claimer, not the coin creator.
After graduation, 100% of the LP is permanently locked to the launchpad fee-claimer. It cannot be pulled. The token name and image cannot be changed after launch.
Graduation uses Meteora's 1% migration-fee preset.
That slice comes out of the quote before it is paired into DAMM v2.
Launching a pool on this config does not charge an extra creation fee.

Numbers

Quote: SOL
Token: SPL · 1,000,000,000 supply · 6 decimals
Starting market cap: 40 SOL
Graduation market cap: 200 SOL
Price by graduation: 5× the first trade
Trading fee: 1% fee
Volatility fee: Off
Creator trading fee: None
LP after graduation: 100% locked · 0% withdrawable
Team vest: None
Migration fee preset: 1%
Metadata: Frozen

A recipe is numbers you deploy as your own PoolConfig. It is not another pad's address.

Deploy this recipe

create-config.ts· Staircase

import { NATIVE_MINT } from "@solana/spl-token";
import { Keypair, PublicKey } from "@solana/web3.js";
import {
  ActivationType,
  BaseFeeMode,
  buildCurveWithLiquidityWeights,
  CollectFeeMode,
  DynamicBondingCurveClient,
  MigrationFeeOption,
  MigrationOption,
  TokenDecimal,
  TokenType,
  TokenAuthorityOption,
} from "@meteora-ag/dynamic-bonding-curve-sdk";

// Staircase — deploy a new PoolConfig. Fee claimer is your wallet.
// This does not point launches at another pad's config address.
const curveConfig = buildCurveWithLiquidityWeights({
  token: {
    tokenType: TokenType.SPLToken,
    tokenBaseDecimal: TokenDecimal.SIX,
    tokenQuoteDecimal: TokenDecimal.NINE,
    tokenAuthorityOption: TokenAuthorityOption.Immutable,
    totalTokenSupply: 1_000_000_000,
    leftover: 0,
  },
  fee: {
    baseFeeParams: {
      baseFeeMode: BaseFeeMode.FeeSchedulerLinear,
      feeSchedulerParam: {
        startingFeeBps: 100,
        endingFeeBps: 100,
        numberOfPeriod: 0,
        totalDuration: 0,
      },
    },
    dynamicFeeEnabled: false,
    collectFeeMode: CollectFeeMode.QuoteToken,
    creatorTradingFeePercentage: 0,
    poolCreationFee: 0,
    enableFirstSwapWithMinFee: false,
  },
  migration: {
    migrationOption: MigrationOption.MET_DAMM_V2,
    migrationFeeOption: MigrationFeeOption.FixedBps100,
    migrationFee: { feePercentage: 0, creatorFeePercentage: 0 },
  },
  liquidityDistribution: {
    partnerLiquidityPercentage: 0,
    partnerPermanentLockedLiquidityPercentage: 100,
    creatorLiquidityPercentage: 0,
    creatorPermanentLockedLiquidityPercentage: 0,
  },
  lockedVesting: {
    totalLockedVestingAmount: 0,
    numberOfVestingPeriod: 0,
    cliffUnlockAmount: 0,
    totalVestingDuration: 0,
    cliffDurationFromMigrationTime: 0,
  },
  activationType: ActivationType.Timestamp,
  initialMarketCap: 40,
  migrationMarketCap: 200,
  liquidityWeights: [10, 1, 10, 1, 10],
});

const config = Keypair.generate();
const partner = /* your launchpad wallet */ new PublicKey("YOUR_FEE_CLAIMER");

const createConfigTx = await client.partner.createConfig({
  config: config.publicKey,
  feeClaimer: partner,
  leftoverReceiver: partner,
  payer: partner,
  quoteMint: NATIVE_MINT,
  ...curveConfig,
});