Create a launchpad

A launchpad is a Pump coin with permanent rules for the coins launched under it. You choose the fee split and who can launch. Each new coin inherits those terms.

Before you start Have your artwork and a Solana wallet ready. On mobile, open Pad inside your wallet app. Keep SOL for the 1 SOL creation fee plus about 0.0115 SOL of network fees and rent for the new accounts.

1. Choose a kind.

   Pick direct payouts, a flywheel, holder rewards, a collection, or a stock pair. Compare the kinds before deciding.

2. Add your identity.

   Upload a PNG, JPEG or WebP up to 2 MB, then enter a name and symbol. Description and X profile are optional. Check the live preview as you go.

3. Set the economics.

   Allocate 100% of creator fees, including Pad's fixed share. Choose launch access and, for a stock-paired pad, its quote asset.

4. Review, connect and create.

   Check the artwork, fee recipients and access requirement. Approve the transaction in your wallet, then wait for confirmation and payment verification.

When Pad shows Your launchpad is live, open it and share its link. If confirmation takes longer, use Check status before trying again.

Launch a coin

1. Find a launchpad.

   Open a pad from Explore. Read its creator-fee split, round policies and launch-access requirement.

2. Use an eligible wallet.

   Your wallet must pass the pad's access rule. A wallet already receiving a fixed share, including the pad owner, cannot also be that coin's launcher.

3. Add the coin's identity.

   Name, symbol and artwork are required. Description, X and Telegram links are optional. Its website links back to the pad.

4. Review and launch.

   The Pad fee is 0.1 SOL, plus about 0.0115 SOL of network fees and rent. An optional initial buy is extra, with about 0.002 SOL more for its token account. Follow the wallet approvals shown by the form.

Adding an initial buy

A dev buy is your optional first purchase of the coin, from 0.001 to 50 SOL. It is made in the same transaction that creates the coin, so nobody trades before you; the permanent split and the Pad fee follow in a second approval once the coin has landed. Under a stock-paired launchpad the buy is placed in its quote token, with the amount read against your wallet balance.

Stock-paired names and symbols must fit within 28 UTF-8 bytes together. Emoji and some other characters use more than one byte.

Costs at a glance

These are creation charges. The creator-fee split below applies separately to trading fees. SOL reserved for new Solana accounts is not a Pad service fee. The figures are what recent creations paid on mainnet; priority fees move with the network.

Your launchpad's own coin pays its creator fees to Pad. The split you set governs coins launched under your pad.

Choose a launchpad kind

A kind is a starting configuration. Review its actual split and policies before creating or launching; the name alone does not describe every fee destination.

Direct payout

Every coin's creator fee goes straight to Pad, you and the coin's launcher.

Flywheel

Part of every coin's fee buys your launchpad's coin and burns it.

Holder rewards

Part of every coin's fee is paid out to that coin's holders.

Collection

Part of every coin's fee buys what launches here and drops it on your coin's holders.

Stock-paired

Your launchpad and every coin on it trade against a tokenized stock instead of SOL.

Stock-paired pads offer 30 supported quote assets. Trades and creator fees settle in the chosen asset instead of SOL. A token pair does not itself give you ownership of the underlying company. Check the asset issuer's terms.

Understand creator fees

The percentages divide the coin's creator-fee revenue, not its market cap, total supply or the whole value of every trade.

Pad's share stays at 5%. The pad owner chooses between 1% and 20%. The coin creator keeps at least 10%. All shares together must equal 100%.

Pump's fee-sharing program records the recipients. When a pad allocates rewards or treasury shares, those shares go to wallets controlled by Pad's crank for the configured rounds. Direct recipient shares and crank-managed balances are different.

Know what is permanent

Each launched coin's recipient list and fee split are frozen on chain. The authority to edit the sharing configuration is revoked. Pad cannot later change those recipients or their percentages.

Pad verifies the launchpad's signed configuration and compares the launched coin's split against it. If verification fails or the chain cannot be read, the interface must not present that coin as a verified member.

Choose your artwork and identity carefully. Pad stores its metadata document by content hash; changing that file produces a different address. The builder does not offer an edit-after-launch flow.

Follow rewards and rounds

Rewards and treasury funds follow the pad's configured policies. A round is scheduled by its funding threshold or longest wait. Small per-holder payouts carry over until they meet the configured minimum.

1. Read the pad's policy.

   Check the reward asset, holder weighting, payout minimum and round timing. Holding a coin does not promise a fixed payout.

2. Open the Rounds feed.

   A published receipt shows the round's activity and links to its transactions. Check the status and receipt rather than assuming an empty feed means zero fees.

3. Check your payout choice, if offered.

   On holder-choice pads, eligible holders can choose a supported payout asset. That control only appears for pads configured to support it.

Who holds these funds? Pad's crank holds the keys to the rewards and treasury wallets. These balances are operator-controlled while waiting to be spent. Frozen policies and public receipts do not make them noncustodial.

Check launch access

Anyone

Any eligible wallet can launch, subject to the fixed-recipient conflict rule.

Selected wallets

Your connected address must appear in the approved list.

Launchpad coin holders

Your wallet must meet the configured minimum balance of the pad's coin.

NFT collection holders

Your wallet must hold an eligible NFT from the specified collection. The setting takes a collection mint, not an individual NFT mint.

Pad checks eligibility when reserving the launch. Confirm the wallet and requirement before retrying. An operator's X link is supplied by that operator; Pad does not verify X account ownership.

Resolve common issues

Availability and Solana basics

Launchpad creation

Configured on this deployment. Wallet, balance and transaction checks still apply.

Rewards and treasury kinds

Enabled on this deployment. Read each pad's configured policies and receipt status.

Launch approvals

Two: the coin with any dev buy, then its permanent split with the fee. The fee is charged only when the split is written.

SOL

The network's native asset, used for transaction fees and account funding.

Mint address

The coin's identifier. Names and symbols can repeat; the mint identifies the specific token.

Transaction signature

A transaction's identifier. Follow its explorer link to inspect confirmation and instructions.

Burn

Destroy token units, reducing their total supply. A burn is not a promise about price.

Every new launchpad coin and every coin launched through Pad gets a mint address ending in pad. The address is generated automatically. Adopted coins keep their existing addresses.

Protocol references: Solana tokens · Pump documentation