Listing Tracks for Projects
How projects get selected to launch on Umia
Umia is committed to ensuring every project that launches on its platform meets a high bar of quality and potential. This protects tokenholders and ensures meaningful participation in Tailored Auctions and decision markets.
To achieve this, Umia offers two selection methods for projects applying to set up an Agentic Venture: the Curated Track (team-selected) and the Community Track (market-driven).
Track Comparison
| Community Track | Curated Track | |
|---|---|---|
| Access | Permissionless, anyone can apply | Vetted participants with eligibility criteria |
| Curation | Market-driven via decision markets | Umia team review and approval |
| Best for | Early-stage ideas, broad community building | Higher-confidence projects, institutional-grade raises |
Regardless of the track chosen, both types of projects use the same Umia Stack and have identical conditions once their Tailored Auction goes live.
Curated Track
The Curated Track is designed for projects with existing traction, a known team, or a prior relationship with the ecosystem. The Umia team evaluates and directly lists these projects without a competitive decision market.
This track is active from day one and sets the quality benchmark: the first launches on Umia will go through curation to establish the standard.
What You Get
When applying through the Curated Track, the Umia team provides full assistance with:
- Setting up your Tailored Auction parameters
- Decision markets strategy
- Legal entity formation
- Migration from existing structures
Already Have a Token?
One key advantage of the Curated Track is that even projects that have already raised (through a pre-seed, seed round, or prior token launch) can be listed on Umia. The team will assist with converting an existing token to an Umia-governed venture while preserving the rights of existing stakeholders.
If you believe your project fits the Curated Track, reach out at inbound@umia.finance.
Community Track
Since modern projects can be founded by anyone in the world with a great idea, Umia ensures that promising projects have a path to launch even without an existing reputation. The Community Track provides a permissionless path through decision markets.
How It Works
Apply via CLI
Submit your project through the Umia CLI using umia venture apply.
Form a Cohort
Once enough projects have applied, they are grouped into a cohort.
Decision Market Curation
UMIA token holders rank projects through a curation decision market, pricing which projects will generate the most positive impact for the Umia protocol.
Top Projects Launch
Projects that the market expects to generate strong positive impact are approved to launch on the platform. Rejected projects may reapply to a future cohort.
Eligibility Requirements
To participate in the Community Track, you'll need to provide:
- GitHub repo(s) to show people what you are building
- Launch details including your planned raise amount and total token supply
- Scaling plan outlining why you're looking to scale and what the next steps are
UMIA token and the Community Track
Since the Community Track's decision markets assess how your project will impact the UMIA token, projects need to explain how they align with the Umia ecosystem. This could include allocating part of your token supply to the Umia treasury, a dedicated airdrop, or other forms of value alignment.
Admitted projects grant the Umia protocol treasury a fixed percentage of their token supply at TGE. This turns curation into a product feature: it generates trading volume (protocol revenue), deepens UMIA token utility, and builds the treasury's seed portfolio.
The Community Track requires the UMIA token to be deployed. Until then, all projects that apply will be selected using the Curated Track.
Next Steps
Once your project is approved through either track, the next step is configuring your Tailored Auction.