A note from the dev: Hey! I’m the solo dev behind BASKET, a new Solana launchpad where a token launches paired against a basket of existing coins instead of just SOL. BASKET is not built on Pump or LaunchLab. I had to build a completely separate custom protocol because they only support a single quote mint, and the whole point of BASKET needed more than that. That decision made the product possible. It also made everything harder. Because BASKET is its own protocol, the big trading terminals don’t display it right now. I’ve spent a stupid amount of nights trying to fix that. Messaging people. Chasing introductions. Explaining the protocol over and over. Getting into private groups with senior devs, even a CEO. I pushed it as far as I possibly could. In the end I was told integration requires a fairly large upfront fee upwards of six figures. I don’t blame them for that. Engineering takes time and integrations cost money. But the reality is simple: I’m one guy. I built this myself. I funded it myself. And right now I just can’t afford that fee. For a while I kept thinking I had to solve every last problem before releasing anything. Perfect terminal support. Perfect wallet support. Perfect launch. But at some point you have to stop hiding the thing you spent so long building just because the circumstances aren’t perfect. So I’m releasing BASKET anyway. None of this is how I imagined launching. But BASKET works. The protocol is real. And after all the late nights, failed attempts, debugging, rewrites and moments where I genuinely wondered whether I was wasting my time, I don’t want it sitting on my computer waiting for permission to exist. I built something I believe should exist. So I’m putting it out there. Maybe it goes nowhere. Maybe a few people use it. Maybe somehow it finds its own path. Either way, I’m not done building it and will continue to work on it! 🧺 Thanks for reading! - The Dev