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Highlights

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Highlights are paid, time-bounded promotional slots. A token can pay to occupy the featured position on the Factory frontend for a specified duration. Only one slot is active at any moment, and each token has a cooldown before it can book another.

Booking a Slot​

To book a slot, you pick a duration and pay the quoted fee. The Factory checks that:

  • The slot is currently free.
  • The token isn't in cooldown.
  • The token is a real Factory token (not just any address).
  • The duration is within the allowed minimum and the hard cap.

If all checks pass, the slot is yours for that duration, the fee is forwarded to the protocol treasury, and a cooldown timer starts ticking against the token so it can't immediately rebook.

You can always quote a fee before sending the transaction - the frontend and the AI tools both expose this.

Pricing Model - Linear, Then Exponential​

The fee curve has two regimes:

  • Short bookings (up to a threshold, currently around 10 minutes) - linear pricing. Each second of slot time costs the same.
  • Longer bookings - exponential. Each second beyond the threshold costs roughly five times what a normal second would.

The threshold and the growth factor are admin-tunable. This intentionally makes very long slots disproportionately expensive - short, sharp campaigns are cheap; multi-day takeovers are prohibitive. The result is that the slot stays liquid: nobody can just rent it indefinitely.

Cooldowns​

Each token's cooldown is independent. After a token's highlight ends, it cannot rebook until its cooldown elapses. This prevents the same token from monopolising the slot by chaining short bookings back-to-back.

What the Admin Controls​

The protocol admin can adjust the pricing knobs - treasury address, hard cap, minimum duration, base fee, exponential threshold, growth factor, cooldown period. There is no admin path to cancel a slot that's already booked; once you've paid, the slot is yours for the full duration.