How to create a token on Solana, with no code

What you need

• A Solana wallet such as Phantom, Solflare or Backpack.
• About 0.02 SOL for a bonding-curve launch, in rent and network fees. A plain pool costs 0.1 SOL plus the liquidity you deposit.
• A name, a ticker of up to 10 characters, and an image.

The steps

1. Open Launch a token and pick how it trades: a bonding curve, where the price rises with each buy until the token graduates to a Meteora pool, or a plain pool that trades from the first second against liquidity you add.
2. Name it: a name of up to 32 characters, a ticker of up to 10, an image, and a description and links if you like. The image and details are stored permanently on Arweave.
3. Check the supply and decimals. The default is 1,000,000,000 tokens with 6 decimals, which is what almost every Solana token uses.
4. Set the rest or keep the defaults: the trading fee, an anti-sniper fee for the first minute, where the fees go, and whether the liquidity is locked.
5. Connect your wallet and read the review. It is decoded from the exact transactions you are about to sign.
6. Sign. The token is minted and trading opens in the same launch.

Which powers you keep

A Solana token has a mint authority, which can create more of it, and a freeze authority, which can freeze anyone's tokens. Buyers and token scanners check both. On a bonding curve, Meteora's program switches both off. In a plain pool, T-minus switches them off by default, and you keep them only if you choose to in the advanced settings. The name, ticker and image are locked by default too. More in Mint and freeze authority on Solana.

After the launch

• The token gets its own page on T-minus with its chart, trades and holders, and anyone can buy or sell it there, routed by Jupiter.
• A bonding curve graduates to a Meteora pool by itself once it fills.
• The fee wallet claims its trading fees from Manage whenever it likes.

Questions