Can a project graduate purely by waiting out a countdown?

No. A minimum stabilization period elapsing is necessary but not sufficient. The pool's risk score must also sit at or below a graduation-specific ceiling, none of an enumerated set of disqualifying conditions -- including material wash trading and sybil-cluster abuse -- may be present, and a separate set of required positive indicators must independently hold.

Is a graduation denial a black box?

No. Every disqualifying condition present and every required positive criterion missing is collected into a full reasons list and anchored regardless of outcome -- a project that fails graduation gets the complete, disclosed set of reasons, not a single first-failure message.

How long is the minimum stabilization period?

30 days under default policy for a standard-risk launch, extended to 180 days for a launch classified into the high-risk release profile at certification.

Anti-Wash Graduation Gate as a Liquidity-Access Precondition

Q: What is graduation, and why does it matter?

Graduation is the state transition that moves a launch pool out of its protected phase into full liquidity access, and is itself the precondition a separate vault-support authorization routine checks before enabling liquidity backstop for that pool. Once granted, it is not casually reversible, so the gate has to be right the first time.

Executive Summary

"Graduation" — the transition from a launch pool's protected phase into full liquidity access — is one of the highest-leverage decisions ProofGuard makes, because it is also the precondition a separate vault-support authorization routine checks before enabling backstop liquidity for that pool. Many launch platforms treat this transition as either purely time-based (a fixed countdown, regardless of what happened during it) or a discretionary human sign-off with no fixed, disclosed criteria — both are vulnerable to a project that simply manufactures enough real-looking volume through the qualifying window to clear a naive bar.

ProofGuard's graduation reviewer instead evaluates a fixed conjunction of objective, code-enforced criteria in a single deterministic pass: the minimum stabilization period, set by risk tier, must have actually elapsed; the pool's risk score must sit at or below a graduation-specific ceiling; none of a set of enumerated disqualifying conditions — including material wash trading and sybil-cluster abuse — may be present; and a separate set of required positive indicators must independently hold.

Core Innovation: Every element of the conjunction, satisfied or not, is collected and anchored regardless of outcome. A denied project receives the complete, disclosed reason set — not a single first-failure message — and the criteria themselves are fixed and code-enforced, not subject to case-by-case discretion.

Problem Statement

Fixed-countdown "graduation" mechanics on bonding-curve launchpads are defeatable by wash trading: a project only has to produce enough round-trip volume through the qualifying window, and the countdown alone doesn't distinguish organic demand from circular self-trading. Discretionary manual sign-off avoids that specific weakness but introduces its own — undisclosed criteria applied inconsistently across projects, with no guarantee a denial is explained or even internally consistent.

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Minimum stabilization days before graduation eligibility (180 for high-risk launches)

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Independent disqualifying conditions checked, including material wash trading and sybil-cluster abuse

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Required positive criteria that must independently hold before graduation is permitted

Technical Architecture

The Conjunction

Element	Type	Requirement
Stabilization period	Time gate	Elapsed since quarantine start, length set by risk tier
Risk score	Threshold	At or below graduation-specific ceiling (default 40)
Critical compliance alert	Disqualifier	Must be absent
Material wash trading	Disqualifier	Must be absent
Sybil-cluster abuse	Disqualifier	Must be absent
Treasury misuse	Disqualifier	Must be absent
Abnormal LP exit	Disqualifier	Must be absent
Sanctions exposure	Disqualifier	Must be absent
Beneficial-owner diversity	Required positive	Must be present
Clean capital inflow	Required positive	Must be present
Organic holder retention	Required positive	Must be present
Stable liquidity behavior	Required positive	Must be present

The risk score's own wash-trading sub-component blends circular-volume share with abnormal trade velocity, so the "material wash trading" disqualifier is itself grounded in the same composite scoring architecture that governs the rest of the liquidity lifecycle in this filing.

Full-Reasons Evaluation, Not First-Failure

The reviewer does not stop at the first unmet element. It evaluates every element of the conjunction and accumulates every failing reason into a single list, so a denial is always fully explained rather than reporting only the first problem found. Graduation is permitted only when that list is empty, at which point the pool advances through its review state into a graduated state; if not, the denial and its complete reason set are anchored regardless.

Upstream Grounding in Certification

The risk tier that sets the stabilization-period length traces back to the Phase 0 certification process — a 16-point certification checklist evaluated before a project's pool is ever allowed to open — so the length of the road to graduation is itself set by an earlier, equally objective assessment rather than chosen arbitrarily at review time.

Prior Art Differentiation

Approach	Basis	Wash-Trading Resistant?	Disclosed, Full Reasons?
Fixed-countdown bonding-curve graduation	Elapsed time or volume only	No	N/A
Discretionary manual sign-off	Human judgment	Inconsistent	No
JIL ProofGuard	Code-enforced conjunction	Yes	Yes, anchored

Patent Claim

Independent Claim 74: A computer-implemented method for gating an irreversible liquidity-access state transition for a launched token comprising: evaluating, in a single deterministic pass, a conjunction of (a) whether a minimum stabilization period, whose length is set according to the launch's assigned risk tier, has elapsed; (b) whether a persisted market-integrity risk score is at or below a graduation-specific ceiling; (c) the absence of each of a plurality of enumerated disqualifying conditions including a wash-trading indicator and a sybil-cluster-abuse indicator; and (d) the presence of each of a plurality of required positive-behavior indicators; permitting the state transition only when every element of the conjunction is satisfied; and, regardless of outcome, persisting and cryptographically anchoring the complete set of satisfied and unsatisfied conjunction elements as the recorded reason for the determination, wherein the state transition, once permitted, is itself a precondition evaluated by a separate liquidity-support authorization routine.