Launching a token
A field-by-field walkthrough of the launch form — what every control does, which choices are permanent, and exactly what making a coin costs you.
Everything happens on the Launch page. You fill in the form, confirm in your wallet, and your coin is live and trading.
You need two things first: a wallet connected to the chain you are launching on, and a little of that chain's gas token in it, enough to cover the launch fee plus gas.
Quick or Advanced
The first choice on the form is the Launch type:
- Quick is a plain token. Traders pay the pool's 1% fee and nothing else. Almost every launch is a Quick launch, and everything on this page applies to it.
- Advanced is a taxed token: the same pool, plus a tax on trades that you set, and optionally a sniper window and staking. See Advanced launch below. Advanced launches are switched off on every chain for now.
Either way your coin deploys straight onto a real pool with its full supply already in it. No bonding curve and no graduation, and the token contract itself is the same plain ERC-20.
It is tradeable on the exchange the moment the transaction confirms, and you are not asked to put up any liquidity to make that happen. The single-sided pool explains how that works and why there is no curve to graduate from.
Only four things are required
The form looks long because it offers a lot. Almost none of it is compulsory. To launch you need:
- A name
- A ticker
- A total supply within the allowed range (pre-filled)
- A valid fee recipient (pre-filled with your own wallet)
Everything else — image, description, socials, dev buy, stealth, venue, pair — either has a working default or is genuinely optional. If you fill in a name and a ticker and press the button, that is a complete launch.
The form, field by field
Coin
- Coin image — upload or drag and drop. Optional, but a coin with no art shows a plain grey placeholder everywhere it appears, which does it no favours.
- Name — the human name. "Sushi".
- Ticker — the short symbol. Typed in any case and upper-cased for you as you type, so "myt" becomes "MYT".
- Description — optional, shown on your coin's page.
Chain
Where the coin deploys. More chains are on the way; today this is where you confirm you are launching on the one you meant to.
AMM venue
Uniswap V4, Uniswap V3 or SushiSwap V3. Uniswap V4 is the default wherever a chain has it, and the one to take unless you have a reason not to — the same Uniswap, locked liquidity and fee, for about a fifth of the launch cost.
Every venue seeds your pool identically — 100% of your token, zero quote asset, at a 1.00% swap fee. SushiSwap V3 is an unmodified Uniswap V3 fork. Uniswap V4 is also the only venue that can pair against tokenized stocks. Take a V3 venue when you specifically want your coin to live in the V3 world, and accept the higher launch fee for it. See AMM venues for the longer version.
Pair with
What your coin trades against — see what your token trades against below. ETH by default.
Dev buy
Optional. Buys some of your own coin in the same transaction as the launch, so you get in at the opening price before anyone else can.
The form shows roughly what percentage of supply your amount would get, and the summary updates the starting market cap to show where your own buy will move it. That percentage is an estimate: the real figure depends on the price at the moment your transaction lands.
A dev buy is a normal thing to do and a visible one: whatever you buy shows up in your coin's Top holders tab as "Creator holds", live, for as long as you hold it.
With a sniper window, your dev buy runs before the window opens, so it pays only the 1% pool fee. The token page shows buyers that you bought this way, and how much.
Share the earnings
Who receives your share of every trade's fee. It starts as your connected wallet.
Add more wallets and give each a percentage, and the form creates a split for you: a small contract that stands in as your fee recipient and divides everything it is paid, up to ten wallets, shares adding up to exactly 100%. Creating it is its own transaction, before the launch one, and the form waits until the split is found on the chain you are launching on before the launch button unlocks.
The split receives your share of the pool fee (75% on a Quick launch, 50% on an Advanced one) and, on an Advanced launch, the Creator share of the tax. Sharing your earnings covers how it pays out and who can change it.
Stealth launch
Optional. Keeps your coin out of Explore, Pulse, search and the trade ticker on this site, so you choose who gets the link. The coin's own page still works.
Tick it and you can also set Show it on the site at — a time when it appears in listings by itself. Leave that empty to stay hidden until you reveal it manually.
This hides your launch from the website, not from the chain. Anyone watching contract events sees it the moment it is mined. It stops people browsing the site; it does not stop snipers.
Show more options
Two things live behind this toggle, both optional, both with sensible defaults. This is where to look if you cannot find a control you expected:
- Social links — X, Telegram, Discord and website, shown on your coin's page. Each is checked for the right shape, so a Telegram link has to actually be a Telegram link.
- Supply — total supply, how many tokens will ever exist. The allowed range is read from the contract and printed in the field's own label. There is no "right" number: supply and price are two sides of the same thing, and market cap is what people actually compare. More supply just means each token is individually cheaper.
Advanced launch
Pick Advanced under Launch type and the form adds the tax settings, and staking when your settings need it. Advanced launches run on Uniswap V4 only, so the venue is set for you. Every limit below is enforced by the contracts, not just by the form, so a launch that breaks one fails rather than going through.
Advanced launches and sniper windows are switched off on every chain for now, and the option is greyed out on the form. Ordinary Quick launches are unaffected.
Tax
| Setting | What it does | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Type: Static or Dynamic | Static fixes the rates and split forever. Dynamic lets you, later on, lower the rates at once and change the split with 24 hours' notice. | Rates can never be raised on either |
| Buy tax and sell tax | Your tax on each side, in percent. It is all yours: the platform adds nothing to it. | 0% to 9% each, to two decimals |
| Your share goes to | Where your part of the tax goes: Creator, Liquidity, Stakers, Burn. | The four must add up to exactly 100% |
Your buyers pay the tax plus the pool's 1% fee, so at a 5% rate a trade costs them about 5.95% in total. The form shows it beside each slider, as "trader pays 1% pool fee + 5% tax". On an Advanced launch that pool fee splits 50 / 50 between you and the platform, rather than a Quick launch's 75 / 25.
Auto-balance keeps the four shares at 100% as you drag: moving one takes the difference from the others in proportion to what they hold. The lock beside a share holds it where it is while you move the rest, and Reset puts everything back to 100% Creator and clears the locks. Switch Auto-balance off to move each share on its own; the form then tells you until the four add up to 100%. Fees and tax walks through the maths, where each share goes and how it is paid out.
On a dynamic launch, cutting a rate while a split change is waiting leaves that change and its 24-hour clock alone (the panel fills in the waiting split for you). Sending the current live split instead cancels the waiting change, and sending any other split replaces it and starts the 24 hours over.
Sniper tax
Optional, and labelled Sniper tax on the form. For a window you choose, the tax opens at 80% and falls in a straight line to your normal rate, which makes buying in the first block and dumping on the first real buyers a losing trade.
- The window is 1 to 300 seconds. It starts when your launch transaction lands and can never be restarted.
- On an Advanced launch, everything charged above your normal rate goes into the pool's locked liquidity, not to you.
- Your dev buy runs before the window opens (see Dev buy).
The sniper tax is offered on Quick launches too, wherever Advanced launches are open. There it is the pool fee that opens at 80% and falls to 1%, split 75 / 25 like any Quick launch's pool fee, and the launch goes on Uniswap V4, the only venue whose fee can change second by second.
Staking
A taxed token gets a staking vault when you give Stakers a share of the tax, and always on a dynamic launch, so a Stakers share can be added later. People stake your token in it and earn the Stakers share, paid in the quote asset.
| Setting | What it does | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Leaving | Free: stakers leave whenever they like, at no cost. Or locked: a staker asks to leave, waits out a cooldown, then withdraws for free. Tokens waiting out a cooldown earn nothing. | Cooldown up to 14 days (the form takes 1 to 14 whole days) |
| Exit fee | On a locked vault, a staker who does not want to wait can leave at once by paying this fee instead. It is paid in the token to the stakers who stay. | Up to 25%, to two decimals. The contract refuses an exit fee without a cooldown, and the form asks for both on a locked vault |
| Drip | Income that arrives is paid out evenly over this period rather than all at once, so staking just before a payment earns a slice of it, not the lot. | 1 hour to 14 days |
An exit fee only means something alongside a cooldown: with no cooldown anyone could ask to leave and withdraw in the same moment, for free. The contract refuses that combination.
These settings are fixed at launch. If a vault ever turns out to be faulty, the protocol's guardian can close it to new stakes, the tax's Stakers share can be pointed at a replacement vault, and stakers move across themselves. Nobody can move a staker's tokens for them.
The summary, before you confirm
Four figures sit above the button, and one panel beside it.
| Row | What it means |
|---|---|
| Starting market cap | The valuation your pool opens at. Set by the platform, not by you — every launch opens at the same figure. With a dev buy it reads opening → after your buy. |
| Launch fee | Read live from the contract, not hard-coded here. |
| Dev buy | Your amount, and the estimated share of supply it buys. "None" if you skipped it. |
| Total ETH needed | Launch fee plus dev buy. Gas is on top, and small. |
The preview panel shows the card your coin will produce: the artwork, name and ticker exactly as they will appear in the grid everyone else browses. The artwork and the name are the two hardest things to change later, so it is worth looking at.
On an Advanced launch the preview also shows the tax as it stands on the form, and moves with every slider: the card's Advanced and Tax marks, the buy and sell tax a trader pays (your rate, with nothing added), the pool fee and your 50% of it, whether the tax is static or dynamic, the sniper window and max wallet when set, and where your share goes. With a sniper tax on a Quick launch, the window is shown too.
What it costs
- The launch fee, in ETH.
- Gas, a small amount, also in ETH.
- Your dev buy, if you chose one. Optional.
That is the whole cost. You are not required to contribute any liquidity: the pool opens holding 100% of the supply and zero real ETH. ETH only enters as people buy.
Confirming
For an ordinary ETH-paired launch this is one signature. The launch fee and any dev buy are both paid as native ETH in the launch transaction itself — there is nothing to approve first.
You will see a second, earlier transaction in exactly one case: a dev buy on a pair that is not
ETH. A USDG or stock dev buy is pulled by transferFrom, so it needs an allowance, and the
button says Approve USDG (or the stock's ticker) before it says Launch token. Without that
step the launch reverts inside the transfer, and the wallet reports it as "insufficient funds"
rather than as a missing approval — which is why the form makes it a separate, labelled step.
Then you land on your coin's page, already trading.
Things worth knowing before you launch
- The AMM venue is permanent. Chosen at launch, never changeable.
- The pair is permanent. Also chosen at launch.
- Supply is fixed forever. There is no mint function — not for you, not for us. See Security.
- The fee recipient is the one thing you can change afterwards, from My Launches. On an Advanced launch that moves the Creator share of the tax as well as the pool fee.
- The launch type is permanent. A Quick token cannot gain a tax, and a taxed token's static or dynamic setting, sniper window and staking settings are fixed at launch.
Image, description and social links can all be edited after launch too. The chain-level decisions cannot.
What your token trades against
Every pool has two sides: your coin, and a quote asset — what buyers pay with, and what your price is quoted in.
ETH is the default and the right answer for most launches, because it is what most people already hold. The Pair with section offers the alternatives:
- USDG, a dollar stablecoin, so your coin's price reads directly in dollars.
- Tokenized stocks — 30 of them, on the Uniswap V4 venue only. Your coin's price is then quoted in shares of that stock, and it is labelled Anchored to RWA across the site. The full list is here.
- Memecoins — 8 established coins already trading on this chain (CASHCAT, PIPEDOG, HMM, CHUMP, TENDIES, MANCER, YOLO and STONKBROKER), also V4 only. Pairing against one anchors your coin to a community that is already here: anybody holding that coin can trade yours without buying anything else first.
Whichever you pick, a buyer can still pay in ETH — the site routes it through the pair asset in a single transaction, so they never have to go and find shares or a memecoin first. See Buying with ETH.
Pairing against a stock requires ticking an acknowledgement first. If you then switch to a different stock, the acknowledgement resets — agreeing to the risks of one equity is not agreeing to another's.
Three things to know before choosing:
It is permanent. The pool is created at launch and its pair can never be changed.
A dev buy follows the pair. Pair against USDG or a stock and your dev buy is paid in that asset rather than ETH, so you need to hold some and will approve the spend first. The launch fee is always paid in the chain's own gas token regardless.
It narrows your buyers. Someone needs the quote asset to trade the pair. ETH and USDG are easy to buy into; a stock pair is more distinctive. Both are legitimate — choose knowing the trade-off.
Somebody has to be able to get the stock. Of the 30 equities you can pair against, 11 have a market on this chain and can be bought with ETH on the Swap page — MSTR, SPY, NVDA, SPCX, COIN, CRCL, META, QQQ, GME, TSLA and AAPL. The other 19 can be paired against, but there is nowhere on this chain to buy them yet, so a buyer would have to bring their own. That makes them a harder pair to trade, not a broken one. See Tokenized stocks.
After you launch
Your coin appears in My Launches, where you can edit its image, description and links, change where its fees are paid, and collect what it has earned.
You do not have to collect anything for the money to arrive — see Collecting your fees.