$hooked Vs
$BORDR
Maybe just bet on the house
$MET lolz
It's a Solana launchpad copycat fight from the last two days. Hooked and Bordrless (often written Borderless) are both selling the same idea: memecoins whose rules live inside the token, not in a bot or a website the team can turn off.
**What each one actually is**
Hooked (`
@Hoookedpad`, token `HOOKED`) showed up in late September as a Meteora launchpad. Creators pick rules (max wallet, sell caps, anti-dump, market hours) and Solana's Token-2022 transfer hook rejects any transfer that breaks them. A transfer hook can only say yes or no. It runs after balances change and cannot rewrite the amount.
Bordrless (`
bordrless.app`, `
@bordrlessdex`, token `BORDR`, `6Mix12…bordr`) shipped a different stack on October 7: its own token program, DEX, launchpad, and bridge, open-sourced under Apache-2.0. Their pitch is that a Token-2022 hook is too weak, so they built Uniswap-v4-style hooks that run before and after a trade and can change the amount — pay holders in SOL, burn a cut, pay the creator, age-based exit fees. Rules are fixed at launch. The programs still have an upgrade authority until an audit.
**The drama**
On October 8, about a day after Bordrless deployed, Hooked announced "the Hooked standard": its own token program, DEX, and launchpad, where a hook answers with amounts. Same feature list: pay holders in SOL, burn part of the trade, pay the creator, plus a bridge.
Bordrless holders immediately called it a paste. Replies on the announcement said Hooked copied the open GitHub and swapped the name. One post put it as "they literally stole his code and put HOOKED instead of BORDERLESS." The Hooked side says Bordrless was the vamp — a new pad built to ride Hooked's September attention — and that shipping the same capability back in hours is fair game. A reply in that thread notes the repo is Apache-2.0, so forking is the point, and calling it theft only when the bigger name does it is picking a side.
Apache-2.0 does allow reuse and modification. It also requires keeping copyright notices and stating what you changed. Nobody has posted a verified diff showing whether attribution was stripped, so the "stolen code" claim is an allegation, not a proven license breach.
Underneath the bag war, the product fight is real: Token-2022 hooks can only veto a transfer. A custom program can tax, burn, and redirect on the trade itself. Bordrless published that design first. Hooked had the audience and the earlier pad, then shipped the same class of system the next day. Both are days old, upgradeable, and thinly liquid.