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A stealth launch is a token launch with no prior announcement: no presale, no marketing runway, no teaser account, just a contract that appears and begins trading. The contract address is shared only after deployment, which prevents [[sniper]] bots and insiders from configuring themselves in advance, at least in theory. The approach trades reach for fairness: nobody is positioned early because nobody knew, but equally nobody is waiting to buy.

## Rationale

Launch guides from Team Finance and other launchpad documentation describe the stealth launch as a response to the pathologies of announced launches, where published contract addresses and countdown timers hand the first blocks to bots and [[presale]] structures hand the supply to insiders. By launching silently and revealing the address afterward, a [[dev]] compresses the information advantage window. The method also lets small teams test a concept before spending on promotion, building a community only if the token survives its first hours. Critics note the obvious tradeoff: with no audience prepared, most stealth launches die unseen, and the format is equally convenient for serial launchers spamming lottery tickets.

## In the trenches

On [[pump fun]] the stealth launch became the default rather than the exception: the platform's model is thousands of unannounced tokens per day, each beginning life on a [[bonding curve]] with no history. Trench culture therefore distinguishes degrees of stealth. A "true stealth" has no social presence at launch, while a soft stealth is announced to a small group first, which shades into [[cabal]] territory when that group is the launch team's own [[alpha group]]. Ironically, the format designed to defeat snipers created its own metagame: bots monitor deployments and buy promising stealth launches within the same block, so speed replaced foreknowledge as the edge. The stealth launch sits opposite the [[fair launch]] marketing label and the [[presale]] model in the taxonomy of launches, though a stealth launch is often also described as fair since nobody received preferential allocation.

## References

- https://blog.team.finance/guide-to-stealth-launchpad-use/
- https://academy.tokonomo.com/defi/what-is-a-stealth-launch-in-crypto-unveiling-the-secrets-of-stealth-launches/
- https://www.coingecko.com/learn/what-is-a-fair-launch-in-crypto

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