What is Noise?
What is Noise?
Noise is where you curate culture. Buy the trends, brands, and ideas you believe in. Curators
launch the trends, and every trend has its own tokens. See Introduction.
What am I buying?
What am I buying?
A trend’s tokens. Each trend has 100 million of them on Base, a public blockchain. They are held
in your Noise wallet, and you own them. See How It Works.
Who sets the price?
Who sets the price?
Buyers and sellers. Every buy raises a trend’s price and every sell lowers it. No
social-media score or outside data goes in, and Noise does not set prices. See
Relevance.
What is a trend's valuation?
What is a trend's valuation?
Its token price times its 100 million tokens, in dollars. It is how Noise measures a trend’s
relevance. See Relevance.
What does it cost?
What does it cost?
A 1% fee on every buy and sell, plus a small network fee that pays back the blockchain cost Noise
covers for you. You see both before you confirm. In the first ten seconds after a trend launches,
the fee starts higher and falls to 1%. See What you pay.
What does it cost to launch a trend?
What does it cost to launch a trend?
Your first trend is free. Each one after that costs $3, paid from your Cash when you launch it.
See Curators.
What is the smallest buy?
What is the smallest buy?
$2, fees included.
Can I sell?
Can I sell?
Yes. You can sell some or all of your tokens back to the trend’s pool for USDC. A sale has to be
worth more than its network fee. See Sell.
Can I lose money?
Can I lose money?
Yes. If a trend’s price falls, your tokens are worth less than you paid. You can’t lose more than
you put in: there is no borrowing and no leverage.
Do I need crypto or ETH?
Do I need crypto or ETH?
You need USDC, a digital dollar, to buy. You can send USDC on Base, or another supported asset
that arrives as USDC. You never need ETH: Noise pays the blockchain costs and each buy or sell
pays it back in USDC. See Add funds.
How do I take money out?
How do I take money out?
Withdraw USDC to any address on Base. The smallest withdrawal is $2, and Noise pays the blockchain
cost. See Withdraw.
Who are curators?
Who are curators?
Users who launch trends on Noise. Curating is invite-only for now. See
Curators.
How do curators earn?
How do curators earn?
A trend’s curator gets 30% of every fee on every buy and sell of that trend, paid in USDC
straight to their wallet. There is nothing to claim, and Noise can’t redirect it. See
How curators earn.
What can become a trend?
What can become a trend?
Brands, named works, scenes, aesthetics, teams, and named memes. Not people on their own, politics,
memecoins, or one-off news. See How We Verify Trends.