The place a token is created, not a place it is vetted
A launchpad turns "I have an idea for a coin" into a live tradeable token in about a minute, with no code and no upfront liquidity. That is the whole product, and it is worth being clear eyed about what it does not include.
Solanapump.fun
The launchpad that made one click token creation normal, and the busiest one on Solana.
How it worksSolanaFOMO
A Solana meme coin launchpad built around live streaming, where creators trade on camera.
How it works
SolanaLetsBonk.fun
The Bonk ecosystem launchpad that briefly overtook pump.fun on tokens created.
How it worksSolanaBelieve
Launch a token by posting on X, aimed at real products rather than pure memes.
How it worksSolanaMoonshot
A mobile app, now part of Jupiter, that lets people buy Solana meme coins with ordinary payment methods.
How it works
Base and other EVM chainsZora
Turns posts and media into tradable coins, so creators earn from what they publish.
How it worksBase, and SolanaVirtuals Protocol
A launchpad for AI agents, where each agent has a token and a revenue share.
How it worksBNB ChainFour.meme
The dominant meme coin launchpad on BNB Chain, built on the same curve model.
How it worksTronSun Pump
Tron's meme coin launchpad, run by the team behind SunSwap.
How it works
Robinhood ChainLaunchpads on Robinhood Chain
Robinhood runs the chain, not a launchpad. Everything launching on it belongs to somebody else.
How it worksFour stages, and the one that matters is the third
A token is minted
Somebody picks a name, a ticker and a picture, and pays a small fee. The supply is fixed at that moment. No code is written and nobody reviews anything.
Trading opens against a curve, not a pool
Instead of an ordinary liquidity pool there is a formula. Each buy moves the price up along the curve and each sell moves it down. This is why the earliest buyers pay the least, and it is why the creator buying their own supply first is both common and invisible until you go looking.
The curve fills, and the token graduates
When enough has been bought, the launchpad closes the curve and moves the collected liquidity into a real pool on a DEX. From that point it trades like any other token. Graduation is the moment a launch stops being a launchpad product and becomes an ordinary market.
Most of them do not get that far
The large majority of tokens created on any launchpad never fill the curve, and of the ones that do, most still fall to near zero afterward. This is the base rate, not bad luck.
Six things, all of them public
Holder concentration
If a handful of wallets hold most of the supply, the price is theirs to decide. Any DEX viewer shows you this in seconds.
DEX viewersReal liquidity
A chart with no pool behind it is not a market. Check what is actually in the pool, not the market cap on the screen.
How old the pool is
Minutes old means the entire trading history you are looking at is a handful of wallets.
Mint and freeze authority
If the creator can still mint more supply or freeze transfers, everything else on this list is irrelevant.
Who is selling into the buys
Trade history is public. A steady stream of sells from one early wallet during a rally is the oldest pattern there is.
Whether anyone is telling you to hurry
Urgency is the mechanism, not a side effect. A launch that will still be there in an hour costs you nothing to check.
How the pressure worksEvery one we cover, and the chain it runs on
| Launchpad | Chain | What launches there | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| pump.fun | Solana | Meme coins | Bonding curve, then a migration to PumpSwap when the curve completes |
| FOMO | Solana | Meme coins | Bonding curve launches with live video attached to each coin |
| LetsBonk.fun | Solana | Meme coins | Bonding curve, with fees routed into BONK buybacks and burns |
| Believe | Solana | Tokens tied to products and creators | Bonding curve, triggered from a social post |
| Moonshot | Solana | Meme coins, bought with card or Apple Pay | Consumer app front end onto Solana launches and markets |
| Zora | Base and other EVM chains | Content coins from posts and media | Every post becomes a coin with its own market |
| Virtuals Protocol | Base, and Solana | AI agent tokens | Agent tokenization with bonding curve launches |
| Four.meme | BNB Chain | Meme coins | Bonding curve, graduating to PancakeSwap |
| Sun Pump | Tron | Meme coins | Bonding curve, graduating to SunSwap |
| Launchpads on Robinhood Chain | Robinhood Chain | Meme coins, through third party launchpads | Third party bonding curve launchpads deployed on an Arbitrum layer 2 |
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