Why does a launchpad ask for a deposit before launching your token?
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Every launchpad has a moment where it asks for money before doing anything, and it reads as a toll booth. Sometimes it is one. But there is a version of that deposit which is not a fee at all, and the difference is worth understanding before you pay either kind.
On BT365's HyperEVM launchpad the deposit is a gas escrow: 0.1 HYPE, sent by the creator to the launch wallet before the launch may start, measured against actual spend afterward, remainder returned. This article is the reasoning behind each of those clauses — which is really a tour of the ways prepaid gas can go wrong.