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Latest news and updates from Plaza.fun

The plaza.fun Press Kit Is Live
The official plaza.fun press kit is now available: logo files, colors, typography, copy guidance, motion references, and social templates for media, partners, curators, and community builders.

Week 1 Report — plaza.fun on Polkadot Hub Mainnet
plaza.fun has been live on Polkadot Hub mainnet for one week. 7 tokens created, ~100 trades, organic community activity with zero marketing. Here's what happened and what we learned.

Lessons & What's Next
Part 6: Five lessons from building DeFi infrastructure on Polkadot Hub — what worked, what didn't, PlazaSwap as general-purpose DEX, and where we go from here.

Security & Governance
Part 5: The attack surface map for a cross-layer dApp, real bugs we found, and the governance architecture — TimelockController, Guardian, and immutable components.

The Token Lifecycle: From Graduation to DEX
Part 4: The full journey — bonding curve fills, automatic graduation, 90% LP burn, PlazaSwap listing, and permanent creator earnings via FeeKeyNFT.

The Fee Engine: Where the Money Flows
Part 3: How 1% of every trade gets split, why creator earnings work across two lifecycle stages, and the defensive patterns that keep fee distribution from breaking trades.

The Bonding Curve: How Tokens Launch
Part 2: How token creation works — a two-phase process bridging EVM and Substrate, the constant product curve, and the safety mechanisms protecting every trade.

Why We Built on Polkadot Hub — and What We're Activating
Part 1: The architecture behind plaza.fun — EVM contracts operating on native assets, and why that changes everything.

The Plaza Brief
Part 0: A 5-minute overview of plaza.fun — what we built, why Polkadot Hub, how it's secured, and what the rest of this series covers.

Welcome to Plaza
A token launchpad on Polkadot Hub where creators earn forever and rug pulls are structurally impossible.