Abstract
Builders.to is a building-in-public community where founders share their journey — the wins, the losses, the blockers, and the milestones — and where early supporters can find, follow, and back them. This paper describes the platform, the flywheel that makes public building compound, and the role of the $Builders token: an optional, on-chain layer that lets the community pay for platform utility, sponsor builders, and share in the momentum of what gets shipped. Nothing here is financial, legal, or tax advice.
1. The Problem
Most builders ship in isolation. Progress is invisible until a launch, feedback arrives too late to matter, and the people who would happily support a project early have no clean way to find it. Meanwhile, the audiences that do exist on generic social platforms reward virality over consistency, and there is no durable, public record of who actually ships.
- Builders lack a focused home for honest, ongoing progress updates.
- Early supporters lack a way to discover and back momentum before a project is "obvious."
- There is no transparent, public signal for shipping cadence and traction.
2. The Platform
Builders.to gives every founder a public profile, project pages, and a feed for daily updates. Around that core, the platform adds the tools a building community actually uses: peer reviews, bounties, a services marketplace, events, real-time chat, a global builder map, and a karma-driven leaderboard. The goal is simple — make consistent public building rewarding, social, and visible.
Ship in public
Projects, milestones, and daily updates create a living record of progress that compounds over time.
Find your people
Feedback, collaborators, first users, and backers — all in one community built around making things.
3. The Build-in-Public Flywheel
Public building creates a flywheel. Shipping in public earns attention; attention brings feedback and first users; traction attracts backers; backing funds more shipping. Builders.to is designed so each turn of that wheel is visible and rewarded.
- 1Builders post progress and hit milestones in public.
- 2The community responds with feedback, reviews, and early users.
- 3Momentum becomes a visible, trackable signal on the platform.
- 4Backers discover and support builders with sponsorships and tips.
- 5That support fuels more shipping — and the wheel turns again.
4. The $Builders Token
$Builders is a Solana SPL token publicly listed on Pump.fun. It is not equity, a registered security, or any guaranteed financial product, and Builders.to makes no representation as to its future value. Using $Builders and any Solana wallet feature on the platform is entirely optional — everything on Builders.to works without ever touching crypto.
Name
Builders.to
Ticker
$Builders
Network
Solana (SPL)
Mint
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5. Token Utility
The token earns its place through utility on the platform, not speculation. Every flow is optional and verified on chain — we never custody your assets or hold your keys.
Burn for in-app tokens
Builders can burn $BUILDERS from a connected Solana wallet to top up in-app tokens at a discounted USD-equivalent rate, verified on chain before crediting.
Burn-paid membership
Pay for Founder's Circle by burning $BUILDERS. Burn-paid subscriptions cover a fixed period and never auto-renew.
Sponsorships & tips
Back builders with recurring x402 sponsorships or one-off tips in SOL, USDC, or $BUILDERS — settled directly on chain, never custodied by us.
Rewards & airdrops
Receive $BUILDERS-denominated rewards for shipping and contributing. Any airdrops to early members are discretionary, never promised.
6. Supply & Transparency
9% of supply is locked until Jan 1st 2050
The locked allocation is time-based and publicly verifiable on Solscan. Transparency is a core principle: the listing, mint address, bonding-curve details, and lock transaction are all public so the community can verify them directly.
7. Investable Momentum
Builders.to surfaces projects with visible momentum so backers can support builders early. Momentum is derived from real activity — shipping cadence, recent milestones, views, clicks, and active backers — rather than hype. Sponsorship is non-equity support: a way to fund builders you believe in and appear publicly as a backer, with a flat platform fee and on-chain or card-based rails.
The investors page is the live hub for the listing, official links, the token lock, and a feed of investable projects with momentum.
8. Roadmap
Phase 1 — Live
Build in public, on chain optional
- Public profiles, projects, daily updates, and the builder feed
- Official $BUILDERS listing on Pump.fun with a publicly verifiable token lock
- Wallet linking, SOL top-ups, and $BUILDERS burn-to-credit flows
- Sponsorships, crypto tips, and the backer leaderboard
Phase 2 — In progress
Momentum as a first-class signal
- Investable-project surfacing based on shipping cadence and milestones
- Deeper momentum analytics for backers
- Expanded community programming: AMAs, demo days, and weekly updates
Phase 3 — Planned
Aligning builders and backers
- Richer $BUILDERS utility tied to platform participation
- More transparent on-chain reporting for the community
- Programs that reward consistent, public building over time
9. Risk Factors
Crypto assets and bonding-curve markets can move quickly and can lose value. Builders.to shares public listing details for transparency only. Nothing in this white paper is financial, legal, investment, or tax advice.
$Builders is not equity, a registered security, or a guaranteed product, and we make no representation as to its future value or liquidity. Any future airdrops or rewards are discretionary and never promised.
On-chain quotes are estimates derived from third-party feeds. Network congestion, signature expiry, and price movement can cause transactions to fail; failed transactions and any network fees are your responsibility. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction, including tax reporting.