Glossary
Fresh wallet
A fresh wallet is a new wallet with no history, made for one purpose such as a single token launch. Launch tools use fresh wallets for the creator’s buys so each launch starts clean, and so the creator’s and team’s positions are not tied to their older wallets on chain.
On Ballistic, launch wallets are generated by Ballistic and kept separate from your primary wallet. A launch draws them from your pool of launch wallets, which can be used again for later launches, and they are funded at the funding stage before the launch.
On Solana and BNB Chain, a Block-0 launch can be funded through the CEX route, where each launch wallet’s first deposit comes from an exchange rather than your own funding wallet, or spread over a funding window. Funded that way, your and your team’s positions are not one obvious cluster on holder-map tools such as Bubblemaps. Instant direct funding and Reserve launches fund from your own funding wallet.
Ballistic stores their keys encrypted and lets you export any of them. How keys are handled.
Reuse. Launch wallets are drawn from a pool and can be used again, so a launch wallet may still hold proceeds from an earlier launch. Ballistic charges the platform fee on proceeds that a new launch spends again, at the funding stage.
A new wallet has no history, but it is not anonymous: its funding source is on chain, and a holder-map tool such as Bubblemaps shows that link.
Questions
Does every Ballistic launch use new wallets?
Not necessarily. Launch wallets come from your pool of launch wallets, which can be reused, and are generated by Ballistic, apart from your primary wallet.
Who holds the keys of a launch wallet?
Ballistic stores them encrypted so it can sign launches and sells. You can export any wallet’s key; every export is ownership-checked and audit-logged.
Why use a separate wallet for a launch?
So the launch’s buys and sells are not mixed with your main balances, and one funding figure can cover the whole run.