Drop in your launch post. Retro finds everyone who actually carried it — every quote, reply and repost — weights them by the reach they delivered, and turns that into a claimable share of the token you haven't launched yet.
A mid-tier crypto creator quotes four figures per post, upfront, in stablecoins — before you've raised, before you've launched, and with no obligation to still be around next week.
They quoted you at midnight. They replied with the thing your own copy failed to say. They have no equity, no allocation, and no reason to still care in March.
The one asset a pre-token project has in abundance is the thing it hasn't issued yet — and no clean way to point it at the people who earned it.
Retro closes the gap between the two. The people already doing it for free become the people holding the token — paid out of supply, not out of the bank account you're trying to make last another six months.
You set aside a slice of supply and say so publicly. That commitment is the thing that moves people — the measuring and the paying both happen later.
Quotes, replies, reposts. Their own words, their own accounts, their own audiences. Nobody is briefed and nobody invoices.
We pull the whole quote and reply graph off the post and score every person on reach delivered, resonance, how far past their own audience they got, and how early they showed up.
Once the token exists you deposit the pool and each person claims their share against the leaderboard they can already see. You never handle a spreadsheet of wallets.
The order matters. A reward nobody knew about buys goodwill after the fact; it can't make anyone show up. What moves people is the commitment being public before the post goes out — the measuring is what makes it fair, not what makes it work.
Below is a full run on Halcyon, a project we invented, with a 2.0M $HALO pool. No real accounts, no real pool — but every number on it is computed by the same engine that would run on your post, including the two farm accounts it caught and damped.
| # | Amplifier | Reach | Yield | Per 1K | First touch | Share | Allocation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @deepfieldres✓ 88K followersQuoted | 15.0%cap | 300KHALO | ||||
| 2 | @onchain_maya 13K followersQuoted | 15.0%cap | 300KHALO | ||||
| 3 | @protocolpaula 4.1K followersQuoted | 15.0%cap | 300KHALO | ||||
| 4 | @ninelivesdev 640 followersQuoted | 11.8% | 236KHALO | ||||
| 5 | @basebuilder_t 2.3K followersQuoted | 8.7% | 173KHALO | ||||
| 6 | @quietcapital✓ 41K followersQuoted | 8.1% | 162KHALO | ||||
| 7 | @mirrorstack 9.7K followersQuoted | 6.2% | 124KHALO | ||||
| 8 | @ellenbuilds 1.2K followersReplied | 3.9% | 79KHALO | ||||
| 9 | @thegasfee 16K followersQuoted | 3.8% | 76KHALO | ||||
| 10 | @devrelkat 5.4K followersReplied | 3.3% | 66KHALO | ||||
| 11 | @smallcapsam 310 followersReplied | 2.8% | 56KHALO | ||||
| 12 | @latenightbuild 820 followersReplied | 2.0% | 40KHALO |
+ 8 more amplifiers in the full report
A flat split pays the bots. A split by follower count pays whoever was already famous. Neither is what happened on your post, so neither is what Retro pays.
Writing a quote is work. A reply is a conversation. A repost is a click. They are not worth the same and the model doesn't pretend they are.
Impressions on their post, damped so that 100× the reach is about 20× the reward. More reach always pays more — it just never pays everything.
Engagement rate on their own post. A high-impression post nobody replied to was an algorithm accident, not advocacy.
Reach delivered per follower they have. This is the term that pays a 600-follower believer who got eight thousand views, and the reason the board isn't just a list of whoever was already famous.
Quoting twenty minutes in is a bet. Quoting three days in is a bandwagon. The premium decays to nothing after about two days.
On top of that sits a cap — no single wallet takes more than 15% of a pool, however big their account — and a damper that quietly reduces accounts with no bio, no words, or far more views than they have followers. Every damped row shows the reason next to the number.
There's no affordable way to see who liked a post on X, and a like carries no reach. Eligibility is quotes, replies and reposts — the things that actually put you in front of someone new.
X folds a repost's impressions into the original post's view count, so a reposter has no view number of their own. We model theirs from their audience, label it as modelled, and keep it out of every reach total on the report.
A share of a pool is a share of a pool. Retro never puts a dollar figure on unlaunched supply, and no surface we build will tell someone what their allocation will be worth.
People amplifying a launch while expecting an allocation are doing paid promotion, whether or not the money has moved yet. Disclosure is written into the reward terms — not buried in a policy nobody reads.
Any public post, yours or a competitor's. You get the ranked list of who carried it, what each of them delivered, and how much of it came from outside your own audience. Most launches turn out to have been carried by fewer people than the founder thinks — that number alone usually changes the next launch.
The same leaderboard, with supply behind it. You commit publicly before the post, fund it once the token exists, and everyone on the board claims their own share against a wallet they connect themselves.
Pools carry a refundable bond, held until the token lands. If it never does, the bond goes to the people who showed up — so a public commitment costs something to break.
Paste a post — a launch, an announcement, anything that got carried. It's free, it takes about a minute, and there's nothing to sign up for.
Reach figures on this page describe a made-up project. ProductClank does not issue, price, or make any representation about any project's token.