Version 1.2 — December 2025
A Roast Market is a live arena where internet attention is measured, ranked, and rewarded.
People roast a topic on X.
The best-performing roasts earn rewards or trigger a tokenized culture market.
- Post a roast on X
- Roaster scores it in real time
- Leaderboards rank performance
- Rewards unlock based on Market Type
- Performance of a single roast
- Share of total attention you command in a market
- Collective momentum of the market
- The point where something unlocks
Roast Score rewards individuals. Heat Score decides the market’s destiny.
- Started by brands
- Fixed reward pool
- Goal: Create awareness, spread narrative, increase mindshare of sponsored brand
- Heat may unlock perks, rewards, or optional token launches
- Started by the anyone (currently curated by Roaster Team)
- No upfront rewards
- Goal: culture formation
- At Heat Threshold market forges a Culture Coin by default unlocking potentially infinite rewards
Same roasting mechanics. Different economic outcomes.
- Fixed rewards
- Distributed at market end
- Earnings stop when market ends
- Tiered distribution
- Per-roast evaluation, not per-user
- Leaderboard freeze at end
- No upfront pool
- Ongoing trading fee rewards
- Earnings depend on market activity
- Tiered distribution
- Per-roast evaluation, not per-user
- Leaderboard may continue post token launch
Brand-led rewards end with the market. Community-led after it.
- No bots
- No farming
- No spam
- Quality beats volume
- Influence Boost
Roast Capital Markets is the endgame: markets where culture is not just content, it becomes an investable, tradable, community-owned asset. In short:
- Roasts create attention
- Attention creates Heat
- Heat forges token markets
- Markets turn culture into ongoing economic value for the people who created it
Roaster is building the rails where “culture before coin” is enforced by design, not vibes.
A Culture Coin is not a product token or a memecoin.
It is created and crosses the Heat Threshold.
- Forged from collective participation
- Launched only after culture forms
- Owned by the people who created the attention
- Earns value through ongoing market activity
How Culture Coins work → Coming Soon...