Every question we can answer about launching a coin

Launching a memecoin on pump.fun costs about 0.01495 SOL — roughly $1.45 — which is 0.01444 SOL of refundable account deposits plus 0.00051 SOL of network fee; there is no platform fee to create a coin.

A pump.fun launch costs 0.01495 SOL in total — 0.0144428 SOL of refundable account deposits plus a 0.00051 SOL network fee — but you want roughly 0.05 SOL in the wallet so a first buy, a priority fee and one failed attempt do not empty it.

The pump.fun creator fee is 0.30% of every bonding-curve trade, taken out of the 1.25% total trading fee, and it accrues in a vault that has to be claimed rather than arriving in your wallet.

You claim pump.fun creator fees by sending the collect instruction for each vault the coin has — one for the bonding curve, a separate one for PumpSwap after migration — because the fees accrue on-chain and are never pushed to your wallet.

A priority fee is an optional, market-set tip added on top of Solana's fixed 5,000-lamport base fee to raise a transaction's chance of landing in the next block, and it is charged even when the transaction fails.

Creating a Solana token without a launchpad costs about 0.1 to 0.5 SOL at mainstream token-creation services, roughly 0.1 SOL per revoked authority, plus rent and then a funded liquidity pool.

A generated icon costs nothing to a few dollars and a designer costs more, but the only number that matters is whether it still reads at 48 pixels, because the image is immutable after launch.

A bonding curve is a fixed formula that sets a token's price from how much of it has been bought, so a memecoin trades from the first second without anyone creating a liquidity pool — on pump.fun it starts at 30 virtual SOL against 1.073 billion virtual tokens and completes at 85.0054 SOL raised.

A coin graduates when its bonding curve completes at 85.0054 SOL raised — about 410.88 SOL of market cap, roughly $38.6k — and it migrates automatically to a PumpSwap pool for a 0.015 SOL fee, permanently.

Mint, freeze and update authorities are the three permissions that let someone create new supply, freeze a holder's tokens or change a token's name, ticker and image — and on a pump.fun coin all three are null at creation.

Token-2022 is Solana's newer token program — a separate program from the original SPL token program that can keep a token's metadata inside the mint account and support opt-in extensions, and it is what pump.fun's current launches use.

A token shows no price because no trade has happened yet — on a pump.fun curve the first buy prints the first price, and screeners such as DEX Screener list a pair only after that first trade.

No — a bonding-curve launch needs no liquidity pool, because the curve itself quotes every trade; a pool only appears at graduation, when the coin migrates to PumpSwap and the LP tokens are burned.

The contract address is the token's mint address on Solana, and pump.fun shows it to you the moment your launch transaction confirms.

Upload a square image, ideally 512x512 as a PNG or JPG, and design it to survive being shrunk to a feed thumbnail.

No. On a pump.fun launch the mint authority, freeze authority and metadata update authority are all set to null in the create transaction, so the name, ticker and image cannot be changed by anyone — including you — once it is signed.

On a pump.fun launch you don't need to revoke anything, because the mint, freeze and update authorities are already null at creation.

Any self-custody Solana wallet works — Phantom, Solflare and Backpack are the three most used — because the launch transaction must be signed by a wallet whose keys you hold yourself.

No — an exchange wallet cannot sign a launch transaction, so you have to withdraw SOL to a self-custody wallet before you can create a coin.

Assume any request for your seed phrase is theft — no launchpad, wallet, support desk or airdrop needs it — and treat a token site that connects and then asks you to approve as the usual first step of a drain.

A honeypot is a token you can buy but cannot sell — a restriction in the token contract blocks transfers out, so the money you put in is trapped.

Buyers check five things — mint and freeze authorities, holder concentration, the first transactions, liquidity depth and whether the socials are real — and most coins still go to zero anyway.

A sniper bot is a script that buys your token in the first block after launch, and yes, you should expect them — bundling buys is the common defence, at about 0.01 SOL per bundled buy.

Check five things — whether authorities are revoked, how concentrated the holders are, who bought first, where the liquidity is, and whether the social accounts resolve to a real person — and treat all five as filters rather than a guarantee.

No, but it is the strongest social signal measured — coins advertising a Telegram channel graduated at 1.485% against 0.166% for those without, about 8.94 times the rate.

You get buyers by having an audience before the coin exists — paying for calls returned a median 0.075x after 24 hours, and over 65% of KOL-backed coins went to zero.

Buying fake followers or engagement for a commercial purpose is unlawful in the United States under 16 CFR 465.8, and paying for raids also breaches the platforms' own rules.

A Telegram call channel is a broadcast feed where an admin posts buy calls on tokens, and across 2,635 graded calls the median result 24 hours later was 0.075x.

X publishes no warm-up rule at all — the only numbers are daily caps of 50 posts, 200 replies, 500 direct messages and 400 follows, and none of them are confirmed for a new account, so treat them as a ceiling rather than a schedule.

Nobody publishes a follower threshold, and the only measured comparison is between channels rather than counts — coins advertised on Telegram graduated at 1.485% against 0.166% for X, an 8.94x gap.

Post 2-5 times a day for weeks on a topic you actually know, link to one real artefact you made, and say nothing about the coin until launch day.

Because the pair is created by the first trade — a coin nobody has bought has no pair, no price and so nothing for DEX Screener to show.

Nothing breaks and nothing happens — 68.67% of coins make their last trade on creation day and 80.37% are dead within a day, and the 0.0144428 SOL of deposits stays locked as rent while the accounts exist.

Yes, at the same 0.01495 SOL measured cost — but a relaunch is a new mint with new addresses, and the old coin stays on chain holding the name and ticker you already used.

For 80.37% of them, less than a day — and only 4.55% are still alive at 90 days, out of a sample of 18.67M tokens.

Post one announcement in your Telegram channel and one on X, both with the contract address in the text, then spend the rest of the day answering questions rather than repeating it.

The opening market cap is arithmetic on the curve's virtual reserves, roughly 28 SOL, and it exists before a single real buy.

No — a launch needs a wallet and 0.01495 SOL, and a website on its own barely moves graduation, so build one for the profile link rather than for reach.

pump.fun if you want a curve to find the price for 0.01495 SOL, Raydium if you already hold the liquidity to open and seed a pool yourself.

No — a bundler only buys your own coin from several wallets in one block, and at 0.01 SOL per bundled buy on Jumpbit plus the wallets it exposes, it changes how the launch looks rather than how it performs.

No — a volume bot trades against itself and pays the 1.25% curve fee each way, the pattern is legible on chain, and buying fake indicators of influence for a commercial purpose is unlawful in the US under 16 CFR 465.8.