Quick Answer
To create a meme coin on Solana, open the token creator, enter a name, ticker, supply and logo, revoke mint and freeze authority, and sign in Phantom or Solflare. That costs 0.5 SOL with social links and all three authorities revoked. The coin exists straight away, but nobody can buy it until you add a liquidity pool on Raydium.
Create the meme coin in five steps
- Pick the name and ticker. Short and easy to type. Search the ticker on DEX Screener first. If ten other coins already use it, buyers will struggle to find yours.
- Make a square logo. 500 by 500 pixels, PNG or JPG. This is the image wallets, Solscan and DEX Screener show, so it needs to read at thumbnail size.
- Set the supply. Most meme coins use 1 billion with 9 decimals. Nobody cares about the exact number, as long as it can never change.
- Revoke mint and freeze authority. Revoking mint means no one can print more coins. Revoking freeze means no one can lock a buyer's wallet. Rug checkers and most buyers look at these two before anything else. Revoke update authority too if the name and logo are final.
- Add your links and sign. X, Telegram and a website go into the on-chain metadata, so Solscan and DEX Screener can show them. Connect your wallet, check the summary and approve. The coin is live a few seconds later.
Open the form with meme coin settings ticked. It preselects social links plus all three revokes. Want every field explained with the form demo? Read how to create a Solana token.
What it costs
| Setup | Price |
|---|---|
| Coin with name, ticker, supply and logo | 0.1 SOL |
| Plus mint and freeze authority revoked | 0.3 SOL |
| Plus social links and update authority revoked | 0.5 SOL |
Mint network rent and gas are included. Making it tradeable costs extra. Raydium's pool fee and account rent come to about 0.2 SOL, or about 0.5 SOL through our Add Liquidity tool, and the liquidity you deposit is your own SOL and stays in the pool. The Solana token cost breakdown has the full numbers.
Pump.fun or your own token?
Both work. They suit different launches.
- Pump.fun is free to start. Your coin trades on a bonding curve straight away and moves to a DEX pool once enough people buy. You don't choose the supply or settings, and you don't put up liquidity yourself. It suits a quick, low-cost punt.
- Your own SPL token costs from 0.1 SOL plus the liquidity you add. You choose the supply, decimals, metadata and which authorities to revoke. You also pick the pool and the starting price. It suits a coin with a community or a plan behind it, where you want control from the first trade.
Make it tradeable
- Add liquidity on Raydium. Pair the coin with SOL. The ratio you deposit sets the starting price.
- Burn the LP tokens if you want buyers to know you can't pull the liquidity. Rug checkers flag pools where the creator still holds the LP.
- Check your coin the way buyers will, with the free rug checker.
- Jupiter usually picks the pool up within hours. The Jupiter listing guide explains the rest.
The full order of operations, including promotion, is in the token launch checklist. For timing and community ideas, see meme coin strategies.
Mistakes that kill meme coins early
- Leaving mint or freeze authority on. Rug checkers flag it in red, and a lot of buyers leave at that point.
- A ticker nobody can find. If search shows twenty coins with the same ticker, buyers pick the wrong one or give up.
- Too little liquidity. A tiny pool means every buy moves the price a lot, and that scares people off.
- Using someone else's character or brand. It can get the coin delisted from front ends, and it can bring legal trouble.
- Promising returns. Never tell people the price will go up. In many countries that can make the coin a regulated investment.
Meme coins are speculative and most go to zero. Only put in what you can afford to lose, and check the rules where you live before you launch.