Launch a Coin
Launch your coin (in crypto terms, a token) and the pool it trades in, in one step, with nothing up front. The pool is the market where people buy and sell your coin. There is no liquidity to add or manage: liquidity is the money in the pool that lets people trade, it comes with your coin, and nobody can withdraw it. Traders pay a small fee on each trade, and most of it goes to you, for the life of the coin. Every launch also gets a free verified coin page on chaindaddy.io, the home of your community.
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Launch a coin
- Type your coin's name in the box on chaindaddy.io and pick Launch with its name.
- Say what you make, and answer three questions. Your answers set a team share and where your trading fees go.
- Check the launch page: where it lives, your plan, and the numbers.
- Sign in with email, a social account or a wallet, and press Launch. You don't need a wallet first: signing in with email makes one for you. Signed in with email or a social account, the launch is sent for you on Base, Arbitrum, Robinhood and Solana, so you pay no network fee (gas). Who pays the network fee
You should see a Manage your token panel, with Set up next: what your answers asked for on your page. Manage on chaindaddy.io opens your coin manager: the next steps.
Every screen, and what each answer sets: Your First Launch. Have a code? Codes
Then claim your fees whenever you like from My Coins.
All the settings
Want every setting in one form? Open chaindaddy.io/_launch, or press See all the settings on the launch page. It holds the basics (chains, name, ticker, image and supply), your market, and the optional parts: where your fees go, a team allocation and your coin page details. The defaults suit most launches.
What you get
- Your coin and its market. The pool is created with your coin, and you don't put any money in.
- Liquidity you never have to manage. The money in the pool that lets people buy and sell can't be withdrawn, by you or anyone, so there is nothing to lock and nothing for traders to worry about. Your coin page shows it as Locked.
- Most of the trading fees, for the life of the coin. The split
- A free verified coin page. What it includes
None of the supply comes to you unless you keep a team allocation or buy some at launch with a dev-buy. Your side of the launch is your share of the trading fees.
Who gets paid when your coin trades
Traders pay a fee on every trade: 1% by default, or 0.3% if you pick it on an EVM launch. It is the pool's fee, paid by traders, and it is divided by shares written into the pool when it is created.
The split, on $100 of trading
Of every $100 traded at the 1% fee, the pool collects $1. On EVM chains it divides like this — the same way for everyone, whatever plan you are on:
| Your plan at launch | You (and anyone you share with) | Chain Daddy | Doppler |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every creator, on every plan | $0.75 | $0.20 | $0.05 |
EVM chains are Ethereum, Base and the chains that work like them. Doppler is the protocol that sets up EVM pools, and its 5% is fixed. On Solana, Meteora takes 20% of the fee first, and you get 80% of the rest: $0.64 of the same $1, and Chain Daddy $0.16.
There is no plan that gives you a bigger share. Plans buy capacity, not a cheaper launch. The split is written into the pool when the pool is created, and the pool has no function to change it — so a coin launched before 10 October 2026 keeps the split it was launched with. Launchpad fees
On a launch with two fee streams, this table covers the first one. The second goes to your fee address, unless you chose Burn or Holders.
How to collect your fees
Fees build up as people trade. Nothing is claimed automatically, so claim whenever you want:
- Open My Coins at chaindaddy.io/_tokens. It lists every coin launched from a wallet on your account.
- Find your coin. Its row shows your unclaimed fees and a Claim button. Open the row to see each fee stream separately.
- Press Claim and confirm in your wallet. You pay the network fee. The amount shown is a minimum: a claim often collects a little more.
A Solana launch is claimed from its coin page. A Dutch-auction launch has nothing to claim until it graduates.
Sharing fees with others
On most launches, one claim pays everyone their share, whoever sends it. On a launch with two fee streams, each person claims their own share from their own wallet: a partner finds it under Fees you share in on Rewards, or looks it up there by chain and token address (the coin's contract address). Who you can share with
What each row shows
Each line in an opened row is one fee stream. Its fees arrive in the two assets the pool trades: your coin and what it trades against. On a launch with two fee streams, each stream has its own row and Claim button, because the two are held by different contracts.
A claim is sent from the connected wallet. If a share is recorded to another wallet on your account, the row shows which wallet to connect.
The basics
The first fields on the launch form. You can change the page's name, image and look later.
Chains
Pick one chain or several. Several launches the same ticker on each and links the coin pages. The chain decides what your coin can trade against and which options you get, and the form shows the options for the chains you selected.
Pick the chain your community already uses. What differs is the network fee your holders pay to trade: under a penny on Solana; low on Base, BNB Chain and Robinhood; usually under $0.10 on Arbitrum; highest on Ethereum.
Coin name
The full name of your coin, like "Chain Daddy", up to 32 characters. Shown on the coin page and in wallets. You can change how it shows on your coin page from Managing Your Coin.
Ticker: the short name
Your coin's ticker: the short name traders see, like "CDADDY". Registrations are first-claim-wins per ticker, chain and contract. A ticker can free up if its registration lapses: see Reclaiming an expired slot.
A well-known coin's ticker (like PEPE, USDC or ETH) can still be launched, but your coin gets no verified page here. The form says so as you type the ticker.
You can launch a ticker once per chain. If you already launched it on a chain you picked, the form links your coin's page instead of launching a second one. If other coins already use the ticker on a chain, the form says so, and you can still launch yours.
Image
Your coin's logo, shown on the coin page, in wallets and in listings. Square works best. Change it later from the style editor.
Supply
How many coins are created at launch: from 1,000 to 10 billion. With a Standard launch quoted in USDC or USDG, the pool holds at most 10 million, so pick a smaller supply, ETH, or Boost. None come to you unless you keep a team allocation. The pool holds what it sells, and the rest is sent to a burn address (an address nobody controls) as the coin is created.
How much goes where depends on how trading opens, so the form measures it for your settings and shows it under Supply, in Advanced options:
- Standard: about half the supply is in the pool to be bought, and about half goes to the burn address. At the default settings it measures 49.4% and 50.6%.
- Protected open: about 90% is in the pool and 10% goes to the burn address.
A team allocation comes out of the pool's side, and on Standard it lowers the burn address share too: with 10% kept for the team, a Standard launch measures 44% pool, 46% burn address, 10% team.
These are measurements at the default settings, not fixed numbers. The figures on the form are the ones for your launch.
The burn address share is the part of the supply the pool's price range can't use. The pool takes the coins it needs, and the rest goes to the burn address in the same transaction that creates the coin. It leaves circulation, but the coin's total-supply figure does not change: an explorer may keep showing the supply you launched with.
Your market
How your coin trades: the fee, what buyers pay with, the starting price, how trading opens, and whether you buy in at launch.
Pool trading fee
The fee traders pay on each trade: 1% by default, or 0.3% on an EVM launch (under Advanced). It is fixed for the life of the coin. How it is split
On a launch with two fee streams, the pool and its hook each charge this rate. On a decaying-fee Protected open, it is where the fee settles after the opening.
What your coin trades against
Every trade swaps your coin for a quote asset: what buyers pay with, what your starting market cap is converted into, and what your share of the fees arrives in. On EVM chains you pick one:
- The chain's own coin (ETH, or BNB on BNB Chain, in its wrapped form). This is the default.
- The chain's dollar stablecoin, where it has one: USDC, or USDG on Robinhood Chain.
There is no option for any other asset. Solana launches take no quote-asset choice.
The pool records its quote asset when it is created, and this form gives you no way to change it afterwards. Launching on several chains, you pick once and it resolves to each chain's own address. If some of your chains don't offer it, drop those chains or pick the other option.
What picking the stablecoin changes
- Your share of the fees arrives in it, instead of in ETH. Claiming works the same.
- Your starting market cap is converted into it.
- Dev-buy is not offered, because a dev-buy pays with the chain's native coin.
Buying and selling from your coin page work either way. A buy on a stablecoin-quoted pool takes a token approval (a wallet permission to spend it) first, the same way a sell does.
Starting market cap
What your whole supply is worth at the first trade, in US dollars. Pick an offered figure or enter your own, from $5,000 to $10 million. It is converted into your quote asset at the rate when you launch, so the opening figure is approximate. The pool's price range reaches about 10x that figure.
How trading opens: Standard or Protected open
- Standard. Tradeable from the first block at a fixed opening price.
- Protected open. Defends the opening against bots, using the mechanism your chain runs (what runs your coin):
- Decaying fee. Trading opens at once with a fee of 80% that falls to your pool's fee over about ten minutes. A bot buying in the first seconds pays most of its trade as a fee.
- Dutch auction. A timed auction where the price starts high and falls until buyers step in, so there is no fixed opening price to front-run.
Both have a per-wallet cap, a limit on how much one wallet can buy early. Protected open is preselected when every chain you selected runs the decaying fee. A Dutch auction is never preselected, because it must raise its minimum to get a permanent pool.
Launch mode: zero capital or dev-buy
- Zero capital (the default): you spend nothing.
- Dev-buy: you also buy some of your own coin at launch, with your own money.
A dev-buy needs a launch sent from your own wallet, and isn't offered when your coin trades against the stablecoin. On a Standard launch it is sent right after the launch confirms. On a Protected open it waits, so you don't pay the opening premium: buy from your coin page once the opening fee has fallen or the auction has started.
More launch settings
The optional parts of the launch form, and what runs your coin underneath, are on the Launch Settings Reference:
- Where your fees go: a fee address, and sharing fees with others
- Boost: spend part of your fees on buying your coin, for you, a burn or your holders
- Team allocation: keep up to 20% of the supply, locked and unlocking every week or every month, for you or split with your team
- Your coin page: description, banner, anthem and links
- Who pays the network fee
- Which chains, and linked pages when you launch on several
- What runs your coin, and launches with two fee streams
- Launchpads run by others: Clanker, Zora, pump.fun and more, with a free coin page
- A dev-buy inside the launch transaction, through the API or CLI
Advanced: run your own liquidity
Want to fund and manage the pool yourself? A plain coin is a standard ERC-20 token (SPL on Solana) with no pool: $5 per chain once, the whole supply in your wallet, and no share of trading to Chain Daddy. You then create the pool, fund it with your own ETH or SOL, lock it if you choose, and open trading (Liquidity). It also runs on chains the launchpad doesn't.
| Launch a Coin (this page) | Plain coin | |
|---|---|---|
| Up front | Nothing (network fees) | $5 per chain |
| Liquidity | Comes with the pool, can't be withdrawn | You fund, lock and manage it |
| Trading fees | Most go to you | No share to Chain Daddy |
| Supply | Sold through the pool; keep up to 20% as a team allocation, for you or split across up to 10 wallets, unlocking every week or every month on up to 4 schedules, each wallet claiming its own. On Solana the schedule is fixed | All of it in your wallet; lock some for each person on their own schedule with Vesting |
To make a plain coin, press See all the numbers on the launch page, then Launch a plain token, or open chaindaddy.io/?launch=1&fee=fixed. Both get the same verified coin page.
Next: open your coin manager, then set the look, add an app and open a store. Plans has what each plan changes about a launch.