List, promote, claim

Who can do what

Paying is not owning. A listing with money in it is still unclaimed until somebody proves they are the project — and the money stays where it is either way.

1 · Listing a project

No account, no approval, no waiting. Open List a project on the board and give it:

1. Ticker and name The ticker is how the listing is addressed — it becomes its page at /p/TICKER. A ticker sitting at zero heat for 30 days is released back.
2. The network and the contract address This is what makes a project that project. One contract is one listing, so a second attempt on the same contract joins the listing that already exists instead of splitting it. A different token with the same name is a different project and is welcome — the name is not what is claimed, the contract is.
3. At least $5 of heat Listing is a payment. Pay in ETH (Ethereum), SOL (Solana), BTC (Bitcoin) and USDC (USDC (ERC20)), the invoice quotes an exact amount, and the listing appears on the board the moment that payment verifies.

Listing a project does not make you that project. No key is issued for creating a listing, and nothing about it is treated as authoritative until the project claims it. That is deliberate: if creating a listing granted control of it, the first person to type a famous ticker would own it.

2 · Buying heat

Paid Heat is the ranking power; earned Embers add a small capped boost on top. $5 paid is $5 of heat, whichever chain it arrives on, and anyone can buy heat for any listing — no key, no permission, no relationship to the project. Backing something you like is the intended use, not a loophole.

• It goes to the listing, not to you. Heat is credited to the project. There is no account holding it and nothing to withdraw.
• Every position has a price to pass. Each row shows what it would cost right now to move ahead of it, recalculated as both listings burn.
• It burns. Half of it every 18 hours, and faster at the top. What you are buying is time in a position, not the position.
• Exact amounts only. The invoice's last two decimals are how your payment is told apart from everyone else's on a shared address. Send the figure as quoted — rounded up or down, it cannot be credited automatically.

All payments are final. There are no refunds, and heat decays whether or not anyone is watching.

3 · Claiming a project you own

If the project is yours, claiming it gets you the verified badge and the project key — the credential for changing what the listing says. Start from Prove ownership on the board. Which route you get is decided by us, not chosen by you, and that is the whole security property:

1. One DNS record Available where Amplitra already holds a canonical domain for the project. Publish _thronetax.<that domain> as a TXT record with the token we give you, press check, and the claim settles itself.
2. Or a person reads it The default, and what happens for any project we hold no domain for. Tell us your official domain, how to reach you and anything that ties you to the contract — the deployer wallet, a post from the project account, the domain in the token metadata. Usually answered within a day, and you get the reason either way.

The domain a proof is checked against comes from us, never from the listing's own link. A listing's URL is whatever the person who typed it in typed, so checking against it would mean proving your own domain proved you owned somebody else's project.

Verification is not for sale and does not touch the ranking. It changes what you may edit, never where you sit — and it does not stop anyone buying heat for your listing, which they may keep doing whether you like it or not. Moving a verified listing to a different domain clears the badge and the key with it: the proof was about the old one.

Common questions

Who can list a project?

Anyone. There is no account and no approval step — you need a ticker, a link, the contract address and at least $5 of heat. Listing a project does not make you that project, and it does not give you control of the listing.

Do I have to own a project to list it?

No. You can list a project you like and buy heat for it. What you cannot do is change what the listing says — that needs a verified claim, which only the project itself can complete.

Can somebody else buy heat for my listing?

Yes, and that is the point. Anyone can pay to push any listing up. Heat is heat whoever sent it, and it is credited to the listing rather than to the payer.

How do I claim a project I own?

Start a claim from "Prove ownership" on the board. Where we already hold a canonical domain for the project, you publish one DNS TXT record on it and the claim settles itself. Otherwise a person reviews it, which is the default.

What does verification actually get me?

A verified badge, and the project key — the credential for changing the listing's name, link, icon, contract or category. It changes nothing about rank: verification is not heat, and it is not for sale.

Can I buy the top spot permanently?

No. Heat decays with a 18-hour half-life and the #1 position burns fastest, so a position is rented rather than owned.

Are payments refundable?

No. All payments are final, and heat decays whether or not the listing is doing anything.