Guide

How to create a memecoin on Solana

Minting the token is the easy part and takes minutes. The decisions you make in that same form — quote asset, fee tier, name and image — are the ones you cannot change afterwards.

Reviewed and updated 2026-09-17

Short answer

Fund a Solana wallet, open a launchpad's create form, upload a name, ticker and image, pick the asset your token will trade against and the fee tier, then sign one transaction. The launchpad mints a fixed supply, opens the first pool and hands you the creator share of trading fees. No coding, no account and no seed phrase are involved at any point.

What you need before you start

Requirement	Why	Notes
A Solana wallet	It signs the launch and receives the creator fee stream	Any standard Solana wallet; the launchpad never sees your keys
SOL for fees	Network fees plus the launchpad's own launch fee	Keep a little spare; a failed signature still costs network fees
A name, ticker and image	They are written into the token metadata	On StonkFun metadata is stated as stored on Arweave, so treat it as permanent
A decision on the quote asset	It sets what your token is priced in forever	SOL is the default expectation; other assets change the risk profile

The launch, step by step

Fee tiers decide your income for the life of the token. On StonkFun a 1% pool splits fees evenly with the platform while a 2% pool pays the creator 1.5%. Our launchpad comparison puts the published numbers side by side.

What you cannot undo

The mint address, the supply, the quote asset, the fee tier and the on-chain metadata are fixed once the transaction confirms. Burned liquidity cannot be retrieved either — that is the point of burning it. Assume every field in the form is permanent and you will make better choices in it.

Costs to expect, honestly

Three separate costs exist: Solana network fees, the launchpad's own launch fee, and the liquidity you choose to seed. The first is small. The second is published on the launchpad's page — read it there, on the day, because these change. The third is entirely up to you and is the number people underestimate: a pool with almost nothing in it moves violently on tiny trades, and that is what buyers see first.

We do not quote a specific launch fee here because it is a live value on the platform rather than something we can promise stays fixed. Check it in the form before you sign.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. A launchpad performs the mint, the metadata upload and the pool creation for you. Writing the deployment yourself is possible but gives you no advantage on a memecoin launch.

Is creating a memecoin legal?

That depends entirely on where you live and on how you promote it. Making claims about returns, or presenting a token as an investment in a company, is where people run into trouble. This page is information, not legal advice.

How much can a creator earn?

It is a share of trading volume, so it is zero unless people trade. Published fee splits tell you the rate; nobody can tell you the volume in advance, and most launches produce very little.

Can I launch a token that is priced against a stock?

On StonkFun the quote asset is selectable, and tokenized equity categories appear in that list, though availability varies by day. The StonkFun launch guide covers the current form.

Launch a token on StonkFunstonkfun.xyz

Sources and verification

Checked 2026-09-15.