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What is a contract address and where do I find mine?
The contract address is the token's mint address on Solana, and pump.fun shows it to you the moment your launch transaction confirms.
Mint address, contract address, same thing
Solana tokens are not contracts in the Ethereum sense. A token is an account created by the Token program, and the address of that mint account is what everyone means when they say contract address. It is a base58 string, typically 32 to 44 characters, and it is the identifier you paste into a block explorer or a chart.
There is exactly one per token. Your launch creates it; you do not choose it, and you cannot change it afterwards. Everything else a buyer checks — supply, authorities, holders, the first trades — hangs off that one string.
- Also called: mint address, token address, CA
- Case-sensitive — a single wrong character points at a different token or at nothing
- Fixed at creation; name, ticker and image are immutable too
- Supply is fixed at 1,000,000,000
Where it appears after you sign
When the create transaction confirms, the interface returns the new mint address, and the coin's page is live at a URL containing it. That page is the canonical place to copy from. A measured CreateV2 launch cost 0.01495 SOL, of which 0.0144428 SOL is refundable deposits and 0.00051 SOL is fee, and the base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature is charged whether the transaction succeeds or fails — so a failed attempt still leaves a hole.
Copy the address from your own launch confirmation, not from a chart, a screenshot, or a message someone sent you. Copies of copies are how people end up buying the wrong token.
- Immediately after signing: the confirmation screen and the coin page URL
- Later: your wallet's token list, or the explorer link from the coin page
- Always cross-check the first and last four characters against the page itself
Why the copy button matters
The address is long, has no words in it, and is easy to mistype by one character. Hand-transcribing it into an announcement is the single most common way a launch sends its audience to the wrong place. Use a copy button wherever one exists and paste, never retype.
Scam tokens frequently use addresses that begin and end with the same characters as a popular one, because that is what a glance checks. When someone sends you an address, verify it against the coin page before doing anything with it.
- Paste into Telegram and X; never type from memory or from a screen
- Compare more than the first four characters when confirming
- Keep one canonical copy — the coin page — and treat every other source as suspect
Related questions
Is the contract address the same as the coin's ticker?
No. The ticker is a label anyone can reuse; the mint address is unique and is the only thing that identifies your token.
Can I change my contract address later?
No. It is created with the mint, and the token's authorities are null at creation, so there is nothing to update.
Where do I find it if I closed the tab?
Open your wallet's token list or search the ticker on the launchpad; the coin page URL contains the address and is the safe source to copy from.
Where to go next
- How should I announce the launch?
- Why does my coin show a market cap but no buys?
- The full launch guide: costs, socials, 21-day runway
- Every question we have answered
If the brand and the page are what is stopping you
Mint a Brand draws the icon, banner and stickers, builds the token site on its own subdomain and prepares the launch for your wallet to sign, for $30. Your wallet pays the network fee and is the creator of record.
Sources
Checked 2026-10-31 · nothing here is financial advice, and most meme coins go to zero.