# How it works

## Every token gets an anti-token

*Figure: On any launchpad a token is one token. On R8 the same token is born as two, COOL and SUCKS, in one pool: fans buy COOL, critics buy SUCKS.*

On R8 every asset is born with its opposite — COOL and SUCKS, two tokens in one pool.

## Two sides, one pool

*Figure: COOL and SUCKS as two glasses joined by one pool. Buying one side raises its level and pushes the other down, and the levels stay where the trade left them.*

Buying one side lifts it and pushes the other down — the same at $50K or $50M. The pool always pays every holder.

*Figure: COOL token and SUCKS token both trade against one shared pool. Buy: pay into the pool, get side tokens. Sell: hand the tokens back, get paid from the pool.*

Buy a side: you pay into the pool and get its tokens. Sell: hand them back, and the pool pays you.

## Go against any token from minute one

*Figure: For, don’t know, against. Today a critic sits in the middle with the strangers; on R8 critics buy SUCKS and become a signal.*

A new token has no perp, so critics can only stay out. On R8 it launches with its SUCKS — buy it, and your AGAINST counts.

## Launch an asset with its opposite

*Figure: A name is typed and launched with its opposite: $KIMCHI, @elonmusk and $AI each become a market with a COOL and a SUCKS side, paired with any asset.*

Memes, people, projects. List one in a minute and earn fees from every trade — including trades against it. Pair with any asset — Stocks, SOL, USDC, Coins.