Launch a token
You need a Solana wallet (Phantom, Solflare or Backpack) with some SOL. Open Launch a token and work down the page; the preview on the right updates as you go.
1. Token
Give it a name (up to 32 bytes) and a symbol (up to 10 bytes), and optionally a description, a website, an X link and an image (PNG, JPG, GIF or WebP, up to 1 MB). The image and text are stored on IPFS and linked from the token.
2. Pick a preset
Presets are starting points; you can change anything afterwards.
| Preset | What it sets |
|---|---|
| Standard | 1,000,000,000 tokens, 30 SOL → 400 SOL market cap, 1% trading fee, 50% of the fee to you |
| Fair launch | Standard, plus an anti-sniper fee that starts at 50% and falls to 1% over 10 minutes |
| Creator | Standard, with 80% of the fee going to you |
| Long-term | Standard, plus a volatility fee and 10% of supply vesting to you over 365 days after a 30-day cliff |
3. Adjust the rules
Supply and price, fees, graduation, vesting. Each setting and its limits are explained in Every setting. If a combination isn't allowed, the preview says why before you can launch: the app runs Meteora's own checks on your settings.
4. Check the preview
- Price curve: how the price rises as the curve fills, from the starting price to the price at graduation.
- Graduates after: how much the curve has to raise, and what share of the supply is sold by then.
- Where the fee goes: your share, Unbound's and Meteora's, as a percentage of each trade. See Fees: who gets what.
5. Launch
Press Launch and approve in your wallet. Your wallet signs two transactions in one request: one writes the rules, the other creates the token and its curve (with your first buy, if you set one). Then you land on your token's page.
What it costs: the 0.01 SOL launch fee, plus a few hundredths of a SOL of Solana rent and fees for the new accounts. The builder shows the total (about 0.05 SOL) and your balance before you sign. If you set a first buy in SOL, that's added on top.
Everything you set is permanent once the token exists. Check the summary before you approve.
After launch
- Share your token's page: anyone can trade it straight away.
- Your share of the trading fees builds up in the launch; claim it from the token page whenever you like. See Creator fees and vesting.
- When the curve raises its target, the token graduates by itself.