What counts as a copy
A coin is a Copy if, compared with an earlier coin that counts, it has any of these:Examples: if “Sly Fox” ($SLY) launched on Monday, then “Real Sly Fox”, “Sly Foxx” or another coin called $SLY launched that week would be labelled Copy. “Sly Wolf” with its own picture would not.
Older coins
An older coin still counts while it’s trading: it has graduated, or it traded in the 7 days before the new coin launched. A community coin that’s been building for months keeps its name, and a coin that copies it is labelled Copy, however long ago the original launched. When an older coin is more than a week old and has stopped trading, its ticker and name are free to use again, and a coin using them can be Original. When you search Explore, each original is listed before the coins that copied it.Why it works this way
Similar ideas aren’t copies. Lots of coins share a theme, and that’s fine. The label is there for the low-effort kind: the same ticker, the same name or the same picture, launched straight after someone else’s coin. Together with the launch window and the $500 launch fee, it makes copying someone else’s coin far less rewarding.The label is information, not a verdict. An Original coin isn’t automatically a good one, and checking the safety badges is always worth it.