Launch a coin
What you choose, what it costs, and which of it can never be changed.
Creation works at any hour. Trading does not. You can launch a coin while its exchange is shut; it will sit with a countdown until the bell.
What you choose
Name, symbol and image
The name is up to 32 characters, the symbol up to 12. An image is required: it is what the coin looks like everywhere it appears. Upload one and it is pinned to IPFS so it outlives this site, or paste an HTTPS link to a picture that already lives somewhere.
What it is priced in
This is the important one. It decides what buyers pay with, what sellers receive, and which exchange's hours the coin keeps. It cannot be changed afterwards. One tokenized stock is the usual answer and brings its own exchange with it; SOL or USDC and a bundle you define here do not, so those ask you to pick the hours yourself.
Creator tax
Optional, from nothing up to ten percent, taken on every trade and paid wholly to you on top of the protocol fee. Fixed at creation and shown on your coin's page before anyone trades.
Start now, or at the next bell
Starting at the next bell means nobody trades before the opening tax has a bell to decay from, yourself included.
A buy of your own, optionally
You can buy some of the coin for yourself at launch. It is a trade like any other, so it is only possible while the exchange is open and only if the coin starts immediately; the form says so when it cannot. It is sent as its own transaction straight after the launch, which puts you first on the curve, and the opening tax never applies to the creator.
What it costs
The launch fee is 0.01 SOL, plus the usual Solana rent for the accounts your coin needs. There is no fee to you when people trade; you earn from the fee split instead.
What happens in that transaction
The whole billion coins are minted into a vault the program controls, and the mint authority is destroyed before the transaction ends. No more can ever be created. There is no freeze authority either, so nobody can stop your holders from moving their coins.
Everything above is permanent
The exchange, what it is priced in, the creator tax, the opening tax, the supply and the exempt wallets are all fixed the moment the coin exists. The only thing you can change afterwards is the wallet your fees are paid to.
After launch
Your coin appears on the floor under its exchange. If that exchange is open, it can be traded immediately, with the opening tax decaying from the moment of creation. If it is shut, the page shows the countdown instead.