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Pair anything. Choose up to five Solana assets and how much of each. The result is one token, worth what those assets are worth.

It is made of assets you can already price. And the liquidity underneath it can never be withdrawn — not by the creator, not by us.

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You already know how to price it

A pair is one token made of others. If it holds, say, JitoSOL and JUP, then having an opinion about JitoSOL and JUP is having an opinion about the pair. Your existing reading transfers. There is no new story to take on faith.

That is the difference worth caring about. Most new tokens ask you to judge a team, a narrative and a promise. A pair asks you to judge assets you can already look up.

Five assets, one token. The shares are the creator’s choice — these are 35, 25, 20, 12 and 8 percent.

How one gets made

  1. 01RecipePick up to five Solana assets and the share each one carries. No asset can be under 10% of the basket, so nothing is in there for decoration.
  2. 02CurveThe token opens on a bonding curve. Whoever funds the curve is funding the liquidity the token will go on to trade against.
  3. 03PoolWhen the curve fills, a pool opens and its liquidity is locked for good. Fees keep accruing to it. The principal never comes back out.

It drifts, and that is deliberate

The amounts behind each share are fixed the moment a pair is made. They never change, and nothing rebalances them.

So the shares move. Five assets at 20% each are not 20% each a month later — if one of them triples, it becomes the largest part of the pair and the rest are diluted. Nothing corrects that. Nobody is watching it on your behalf.

One asset runs. Its share grows, the others are diluted, and nothing snaps back. The marks underneath are where the five shares started.

A fund would call that a defect, and about the mechanism they would be right: the balance you chose is not the balance you keep. What you get in exchange is that there is no manager, no discretion and nothing to trust. You can work out exactly what a pair holds, at any moment, from public data.

And there is a harder reason. Fixed amounts are what make the next part work at all. A basket whose weights move has a fair value that moves with them, and a moving target is a far harder thing to arbitrage — fewer people bother, and the token tracks its assets worse. The two properties are one decision seen twice.

When it drifts from its parts, closing the gap pays

A pair’s fair value is arithmetic: the assets inside it, at their current prices, in the amounts fixed at creation. Anyone can compute it.

pair its assets gap
When the two separate, there is money in closing the distance — and closing it is what brings them back together.

This is an incentive, not a promise. It needs liquidity in the components and somebody paying attention. A thin pair on a quiet day can sit away from its assets for a while. What it does not have is a price that is only ever whatever the last buyer felt.

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