The mechanism

Four contracts and nothing behind them: no owner, no pause, no upgrade path and no admin key anywhere.

A click is one transaction

It deploys the token, whose constructor mints the entire fixed supply and splits it there and then between the ratchet and a wallet the launcher names. Neither share ever passes through the launchpad, and both mints appear in the receipt.

Then it opens a Uniswap v4 pool of native ETH against the token, LP fee zero and the pawl in the key, priced at the top of the range, and turns the ratchet's share in as one position.

What the ratchet cannot do

Liquidity leaves a v4 pool through exactly one door, a modifyLiquidity call with a negative delta. The only such call in that contract passes a positive one. There is no withdraw, no owner, no pause, no rescue and no upgrade, and the position is a row in the pool manager rather than an NFT, so there is nothing to transfer, sell or lend against.

The pawl takes one fee, to one address

A fee is taken on everything paid into a pool, in either direction, and all of it goes to the payee written into the pawl at deployment. No creator cut, no treasury cut, no setter. The rate is a constant; read it off the contract rather than from this page.

A pool's hook is part of its key, so the rate is decided when the pool opens and cannot be raised or switched off afterwards. Because the pool's own LP fee is zero, the pawl's rate is the entire fee schedule. And there is no fee for clicking: the door is free.

What this does not restrain

The share minted to the supply wallet is liquid from the first block. Not vested, not cliffed, not locked; the token has no machinery for any of those and nothing here pretends otherwise. Whoever holds that wallet can sell into any bid that appears.

It is a constant rather than a per-launch setting, so there is one number to check rather than one per token. What that wallet cannot do on day one is sell into a pool holding no ETH: the whole position is token until somebody buys.

Read them yourself

Verified, with the source published under MIT. Every figure this page describes in words is a named constant in there.