Built by a builder who got burned by launchpads.
MoonSale is a multi-chain launchpad built on one idea: raising funds for a promising project should not require a fat wallet, and investing in one should not require blind trust. Here is why we built it, who is behind it, and where the platform stands today.
Why MoonSale exists
MoonSale was built out of three specific problems the founder ran into firsthand as a Web3 builder, years before MoonSale existed.
The first was cost. Raising funds for an early project meant paying thousands of dollars to a launchpad just for the listing. By the time the raise was live, there was often nothing left in the budget for marketing or promotion, so the raise underperformed anyway. Founders were paying for the privilege of failing quietly.
The second was silence. Some launchpads advertised free listings, so the application form got filled out in good faith. Then nothing. No rejection, no approval, no update, just months of waiting with no response at all. For a project on a timeline, that silence is its own kind of rejection.
The third was trust, or the lack of enforcement behind it. Permissionless launchpads like PinkSale, DxSale, and GemPad solved the access problem, anyone could list. But permissionless without enforcement just meant anyone could list, including low-effort or outright scam projects, since nothing in the contract actually required a project to behave. Investors were left trusting a token logo and a promise.
There are thousands of builders out there with a real project and real conviction, who simply do not have thousands of dollars to spend before they have raised a cent. MoonSale exists for them, and for the investors who want to back projects without gambling on whether the team behind them is honest.
What we do differently
MoonSale is permissionless, like the launchpads that came before it, but permissionless alone was never the whole answer. The part we added is enforcement: rules written into the smart contract itself that a project cannot skip, ignore, or quietly work around after the fact.
None of this makes a bad project impossible. It makes the worst tricks, honeypots, rug pulls at listing, and undisclosed control over the token, much harder to pull off, and much easier for anyone to check before they contribute a single dollar.
Who is behind MoonSale
MoonSale is co-founded by MAXIS, who serves as Co-Founder and COO. MAXIS is an MIT-trained engineer with eight years of experience building in Web3, including time at other established projects in the space before starting MoonSale. Five core team members work on the platform day to day.
The team behind MoonSale operates pseudonymously, and that is a deliberate choice, not an oversight. We built this platform specifically because too many investors were asked to trust a face or a name with no way to verify anything behind it. We do not want MoonSale judged by who we are. We want it judged by what the Security Score shows on every project, by what the audit report says, and by what the smart contract actually enforces, all of which anyone can check without taking our word for it.
Where we stand today
MoonSale is live and audited, not a whitepaper promise. Here is where the platform actually stands.
Every one of those raises finalized with locked liquidity and a project that actually delivered a working presale from start to finish, which is the entire point of building enforcement into the contract in the first place.