Token Creator Terms
Last Updated: August 4, 2026
These terms apply when you launch a token on Candle. They form part of the Terms of Service.
Launching a token puts other people’s money at risk. Read this before you deploy.
1. You are the issuer
Section titled “1. You are the issuer”The token is yours, not Candle’s.
Candle provides software that helps you deploy a token and a bonding curve. Candle does not issue, sponsor, endorse, underwrite, vet, or take responsibility for your token.
You are solely responsible for the token, for everything you say about it, and for the consequences to everyone who buys it.
You must be 18 or over and not located in a Prohibited Jurisdiction.
2. What you warrant
Section titled “2. What you warrant”By launching, you represent and warrant that:
Rights. You own or have all necessary rights and permissions for the token’s name, symbol, image, banner, description, and every other asset you supply — including any trademark, artwork, photograph, character, brand, or footage. You are not using anyone’s name, image, likeness, voice, or persona without their permission.
Honesty. Everything you state or imply about the token is true and not misleading. You have not fabricated a partnership, endorsement, listing, audit, team member, backer, or use case.
Intent. You are not launching to defraud. You do not intend to abandon the token after extracting value, and you have not engineered it to prevent buyers selling.
Legality. The token, and its offer and distribution, comply with every law applicable to you and to the people you offer it to — including securities, commodities, consumer protection, advertising, gambling, and sanctions laws. You have obtained any licence or registration your activity requires.
Not a security. You have satisfied yourself that offering the token does not constitute an unregistered offering of securities in any jurisdiction where you offer it. If it does, that is your liability, not Candle’s.
3. What you must not launch
Section titled “3. What you must not launch”- A token designed to defraud — rug pulls, honeypots, or tokens with hidden mechanisms preventing sale
- A token impersonating a person, project, company, or brand
- A token using intellectual property you do not have the right to use
- A token whose name, symbol, or image breaches the Community Guidelines — including hateful, violent, sexual, or child-endangering content
- A token promoting a designated terrorist organisation, or facilitating sanctions evasion
- A token marketed with guaranteed returns, or as an investment contract, where you are not licensed to do so
- A token you are launching on behalf of a Sanctioned Person
4. Marketing your token
Section titled “4. Marketing your token”You are responsible for how the token is promoted, including by people you pay or instruct.
- Disclose material connections. If you give an influencer, streamer, group, employee, affiliate, or other promoter money, tokens, fee rights, free access, or anything else of value, require a clear and conspicuous disclosure of the specific relationship in the promotion’s language and medium. Both the promoter and the party directing or benefiting from the promotion may have legal responsibility.
- Do not promise returns, or state or imply that a price will rise.
- Do not manipulate. Pump-and-dump coordination, wash trading, ramping, and spoofing are prohibited by the Terms of Service and may be criminal.
- Do not use bots to fake volume, holders, or engagement.
5. Curve terms and staker allocation
Section titled “5. Curve terms and staker allocation”When you launch you choose a configuration, including the mode (exclusive or open), the chain, and the quote asset. The curve’s parameters — raise threshold, price curve, supply sold — are set by the configuration you pick, and are described at Bonding Curve.
You allocate 0.5% to 10% of total supply to $CNDL stakers, distributed on graduation. This allocation is a condition of launching on Candle and is enforced by the contracts.
Curve mechanics are implemented in smart contracts and cannot be changed after deployment. Check your configuration before you deploy. Candle cannot modify, pause, or reverse a deployed curve.
6. Graduation and liquidity
Section titled “6. Graduation and liquidity”If your curve reaches its raise target, the contracts initiate migration — to Meteora DAMM v2 on Solana, or to the Uniswap v3 or v4 path selected for the Hood launch.
You do not receive control of the migration liquidity. The migrator and pool contracts control the resulting position or liquidity according to the selected launch path. Accrued pool fees and any recovery mechanism are handled as those contracts implement.
Candle does not guarantee that any curve will graduate, that migration will succeed, or that a market will exist afterwards.
7. Fees
Section titled “7. Fees”Launching is free. The curve charges a 1% transaction fee, and there is no migration fee. See Fees.
You are responsible for the network fees of deployment.
8. Candle’s rights
Section titled “8. Candle’s rights”Candle may, at its sole discretion and without notice:
- remove your token from Candle’s interface, feeds, search, and featured listings;
- refuse to launch, or refuse to display, any token;
- remove or replace metadata that breaches these terms;
- terminate your account and bar you from launching again;
- report you to law enforcement or a regulator.
9. Indemnity
Section titled “9. Indemnity”10. No advice, no vetting
Section titled “10. No advice, no vetting”Candle does not review your token for legality, safety, or suitability, and does not advise you on whether launching it is lawful where you are.
Get your own legal advice before launching a token, particularly if you intend to promote it, offer it to the public, or attribute any utility to it.
11. Risk
Section titled “11. Risk”You accept the smart contract, blockchain, and market risks in the Risk Disclosure Statement. Candle is not liable for losses arising from your launch, including contract failure, failure to graduate, migration failure, or the token’s lack of value.
Questions: legal@candle.tv