Create a token

Anyone with a Solana wallet can create a token on a pad. It goes on the pad's board straight away, on the pad's curve, and every trade of it feeds the pad's plan.

Steps

1. Open the pad and choose Create a token.

2. Add an image: PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF. It is cropped to a square.

3. Fill in the details:

   Field	Rules
   Name	Up to 32 characters.
   Ticker	Up to 10 letters and numbers.
   Description	Optional, up to 280 characters.
   X, Telegram, Website	Optional links shown on the token's page.

4. Choose Create and approve the transaction in your wallet.

The token's page opens as soon as it is listed. A preview of its card on the board updates while you type, so you see it before it exists.

What is fixed

• Supply and curve. The pad's: every token on a pad starts at the same market cap and graduates at the same raise.
• Mint authority. Revoked when the token is created. Nobody can make more of it.
• Metadata. Name, ticker and image can't be changed afterwards. Your description and links are part of what you sign, so the listing matches what you approved.

What you earn as its creator

As the token's creator you earn the creator's share of every trade's fee, on the curve and after it graduates, as the pad set it. You collect it the venue's way:

• Meteora DBC and Raydium LaunchLab: claim your creator fees from the venue, with the wallet that created the token.
• pump.fun: your share of the creator fee is paid to your wallet whenever the token's shared fees are distributed, which the pad's router does on its passes.

Some pads pay creators more on top, or a bonus when a token graduates. The pad's fees page shows what its plan does.