Launch a track

Launching turns a track you've made into a token anyone can trade. It is one transaction, and it is permanent.

Name and ticker

• Name is the track title, up to 64 characters. It's what people read.
• Ticker is the trading symbol, 2–10 characters, letters and numbers only, and it must be unique across the whole platform. First come, first served.

Both are set at launch and written on-chain. Choose carefully — see the FAQ on deleting a track.

The dev buy

Optional. It's your own first purchase, bundled into the same transaction as the launch.

It fills at the same price as the next person's. There is no discount, no reserved allocation and no earlier entry — the curve opens at a fixed starting price and your buy is simply the first one through it. It exists so a creator can hold some of their own track without racing strangers to click first.

What the transaction actually does

One signature does all of this, atomically — either all of it happens or none of it does:

1. Creates the token with 1,000,000,000 supply, and immediately destroys the mint authority so no more can ever be created.

2. Writes the metadata — name, symbol, and your cover art — so the token shows up properly in wallets and explorers rather than as an unknown mint. This can only happen at launch; it cannot be added later.

3. Puts 800,000,000 on the curve and holds 200,000,000 back to seed the DEX pool if the track ever bonds.

4. Makes your dev buy, if you asked for one.

You'll pay network fees for this, and rent for the accounts it creates — under a tenth of a SOL in total. See Fees.

Where it appears

Straight onto the board, under New. From there it's up to whoever finds it. If it starts getting traded and played it'll climb into Trending, and if it gets close to the thresholds it shows up under About to Bang — see Bonding.