Create & manage a pool

Choose the wallet that will own your pool carefully. Ownership cannot be transferred or renounced, and the pool type is fixed when created. Only that wallet can supply inventory, change local settings, withdraw owner proceeds, or retire the pool.

Creation eligibility

The public-launch policy allows one pool per wallet across standard and buyback pools combined, without a FWAIR PFP beta activation. Existing and retired pools count toward this lifetime allowance. Retiring a pool does not restore it, and the transition does not remove existing pools.

The public allowance and creation fee below take effect when activated on chain. Until beta access is disabled, creation still uses the wallet's historical activations in FWAIR PFP beta one. The creation screen checks the active allowance, fee, and platform creation switch before asking you to sign.

Creation fee

The public-launch fee is 50,000 FWA per new pool, the same for standard and buyback pools. This is a one-time creation fee, separate from transaction gas, NFT inventory, buyback ETH backing, and draw fees. Existing pools are not charged retroactively.

Approve the quoted FWA amount for the factory before creating the pool. The fee is sent directly to the dead address only when creation succeeds; failed creation reverts the fee transfer. This removes the tokens from practical circulation without reducing the token's total supply. If the configured fee changes before creation, a stale fee quote causes the transaction to revert.

Leaving the FWAIR PFP beta

Ending the PFP beta and opening public pool creation are separate changes. When the PFP beta ends, its escrowed NFTs become withdrawable; they are not returned automatically. The recorded holders can withdraw them from the beta page. PFP withdrawal does not reset a wallet's pool count. Ending the beta alone does not replace the factory's beta creation allowance with the public one-pool allowance.

Load and open your pool

• Select standard or buyback. Standard pools need NFTs and assigned prices. Buyback pools need NFTs plus the full ETH backing for every listing. Both accept ERC721s without a collection whitelist.
• Approve and list your NFTs. Inventory belongs to your pool only after a listing transaction succeeds. Use the listing flow; sending an NFT directly does not create a tracked listing.
• Review values and odds. Cheaper listings are more likely to be drawn. Your values determine the entire pool's purchase price as well as each NFT's probability.
• Configure purchase access. An optional purchase policy can restrict eligible purchasers, including when someone else pays for them. Leaving it unset adds no wallet-specific restriction. New pools start with local purchases disabled. See gated purchases for the policy interface and an NFT ownership example.
• Enable purchases. The inventory cooldown must have elapsed and platform purchase and randomness gates must also be open. Locally enabling a pool cannot override a platform pause.

Change inventory and collect proceeds

You can reprice or withdraw an active listing when the pool has no unresolved draws. Buyback backing increases require the extra ETH; reductions return the difference. Withdrawing an available buyback listing returns its NFT and backing. New listings added during outstanding draws wait for their ordinary activation order.

Withdraw earned owner proceeds separately. In a buyback pool, acquisition proceeds can optionally fund the reload reserve instead. Reserve ETH can be withdrawn while automatic reload is disabled. The buyback guide explains both reserve options and settlement income.

A purchase policy checks the named purchaser when a request is opened. An eligible payer cannot buy for an ineligible purchaser. Changing or clearing the policy affects future purchases; it cannot stop an existing draw, settlement, or claim. The policy is a boolean eligibility check, so a successful batch check does not itself consume a per-wallet purchase allowance.

Pause or retire

Disable local purchases to pause and reopen later. Retire the pool when you want to close it permanently. Retirement blocks new purchases and listings, repricing, backing changes, and new owner configuration. It also disables automatic reload and acquisition-proceeds routing.

Existing draws, allocations, delivery recovery, refunds, and proceeds withdrawals remain available. Retirement does not let you withdraw an NFT reserved for a buyer or bypass the pending-draw lock. Staged listings must first become active through their ordinary queue, and allocated buyback NFTs must settle. A retired pool remains part of your lifetime creation count.