# How to create and launch a token on Solana with ripr

> Create a token on Solana from one page on ripr: the wallet and SOL you need, the name and ticker rules, where the coin's market opens, and what it costs.

- URL: https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-create-a-token-on-solana
- Publisher: ripr (https://ripr.trade)
- Author: ripr Editorial Team
- Published: 2026-11-13
- Category: Guides

On ripr, creating a token on Solana is a form rather than a coding project. You add a name, a ticker and a logo, choose where the coin's market opens, then sign one transaction from the wallet that came with your account. Meme coins run on the same rails as any other Solana token, so this is also the short answer when someone asks how to launch a Solana meme coin.

## What you need before you create a token on Solana

Three things get you to a launch on ripr, and the first of them arrives with your account. A token on Solana is a mint account on the chain that holds the supply and the coin's name, ticker and image; everything else — a price, a chart, holders — comes from people trading it. If you want the chain-level detail, it is in [Solana's own documentation](https://solana.com/docs).

1. **A Solana wallet.** Signing up for ripr creates one for your account, so there is no separate wallet app to install and no recovery phrase to write down first.
2. **Some SOL.** It pays the on-chain cost of creating the coin. You can send SOL in, or add money by card, Apple Pay or UPI where those methods are available, and the help centre explains [why you need SOL before creating a coin](https://ripr.trade/support/do-i-need-sol-before-creating-a-coin).
3. **Your coin's identity.** A name, a short ticker in capitals, and a logo, which is the only image you have to upload. ripr's help centre sets out [the coin name and ticker rules](https://ripr.trade/support/what-are-the-coin-name-and-ticker-rules): keep the name readable, and stay off well-known brands and symbols.

Settle the name and ticker before you open the form, because the form is blunt about it: the name, the ticker, the logo and the curve are all permanent once the coin is created.

## Step 1: Fill in your coin's name, ticker and logo on ripr

Every launch starts on ripr's [Create a coin page](https://ripr.trade/create), on the web or in the iPhone and Android apps, which carry the same launchpad. What you type appears in a live preview of the coin page buyers will see. The name, the ticker and the logo are required; a description, social links and a banner are optional, and they are what make a new coin page look finished rather than empty.

Use artwork you own, and a description that says plainly what the coin is. The app runs checks and moderation on new coins, and a coin can be restricted afterwards, so borrowed art and hype-heavy copy are a bad trade. The help centre keeps a short [pre-launch safety checklist](https://ripr.trade/support/what-safety-checks-should-i-do-before-launch).

## Step 2: Choose where your new coin's market opens

ripr creates the market as well as the coin, and the venue is your choice: its own bonding curve, or one of nine other Solana venues, in the same flow. A bonding curve is a formula that sets the price from how much has been bought so far, so trading can start without anyone depositing liquidity first. The help centre explains [what a bonding curve is in simple terms](https://ripr.trade/support/what-is-a-bonding-curve-in-simple-terms). Some of the external venues work the other way round and ask the creator to put up starting liquidity, which is worth knowing before you pick one.

ripr runs its own bonding-curve program on Solana, in a standard and an advanced version, and its fee and graduation settings can be read on chain. Trades on either carry the same 1% fee, and a quarter of that goes to the coin's creator.

Graduation is the moment the curve fills up. When a coin on that curve graduates, 95% of the SOL it raised moves into the coin's liquidity pool and 2% goes to you. Until then, the coin page shows curve progress updating live as people trade.

## Step 3: Launch now, or schedule the launch

ripr gives you two launch times: publish now, or a time you pick. On ripr's own curve a scheduled launch is held on chain until that moment, so the coin exists and can be looked at before it opens for trading.

Scheduled coins sit in the [Coming Soon tab](https://ripr.trade/?tab=coming-soon) on ripr's home page, where traders go to find launches that have not opened yet. On iPhone, the countdown can run on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. On web and iOS, traders can also pre-authorise SOL for a scheduled curve launch, which fills at the open on the same curve as everyone else.

Scheduling earns its keep if you have people to tell. If you don't, publish now and spend the time on the coin page instead.

## Step 4: Check the cost, then sign

ripr prices the whole launch in a Review and launch step before you sign anything. Creating a coin on ripr's curve comes to about 0.063 SOL in total, most of it the on-chain deposits the coin's new accounts need.

Two more choices come before the signature. You can add a first buy of between 0.001 and 100 SOL at the opening price, so you hold some of your own coin from the start, and it pays the usual 1% curve fee. And when one is available, the coin can get a contract address ending in "ripr" at no extra charge.

Then you sign. Before your wallet does, the app checks the prepared transaction against the amounts and limits you set, and refuses it if anything differs. Keep a little SOL spare so the follow-up steps go through.

## Step 5: What happens once your token is live

Your coin becomes a tradable Solana token the moment the creation transaction confirms, and it shows up in the [New tab](https://ripr.trade/?tab=latest) on ripr's home page a few seconds after the block that created it. The mint is a public account like any other, so you can look it up on [Solana Explorer](https://explorer.solana.com/) as well.

From there, the coin is something you can work on.

- **Creator rewards.** You earn 0.25% of the volume traded on your coin while it trades on ripr's curve, claimable in SOL, with only the Solana network fee to pay when you claim. The help centre covers [how creator rewards work](https://ripr.trade/support/what-are-creator-rewards).
- **Reward pools.** You can fund a pool for your holders, from 0.05 SOL, running anywhere from six hours to seven days.
- **A room to talk in.** Creators livestream about a coin from web, iOS and Android, with live chat and tips, and the feed carries posts and comment threads about the coin.

Traders are reading you back. The coin page shows rug-pattern warnings, checks brand-new coins for coordinated-launch patterns, lists the other coins a creator has launched, and prints the share of supply held by the creator and the biggest holders. On one coin in ripr's market data, a single wallet outside the liquidity pool held more than four-fifths of all the supply sitting in wallets — and anyone who opened that coin page could see it. Our guide to [how to spot a risky meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-spot-a-risky-meme-coin) is the checklist your buyers are running on you.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does it cost to create a token on Solana?

On ripr's own bonding curve, creating a coin comes to about 0.063 SOL in total, most of it the on-chain deposits the coin's new accounts need. An optional first buy is extra, and coins launched on the other Solana venues carry those venues' own costs.

### Do I need to write code to create a Solana token?

No. On ripr, the Create flow builds the coin and opens its market when you sign, so the only things you supply are the name, ticker and logo, the venue, the launch time and your signature.

### How do I launch a Solana meme coin?

A meme coin is an ordinary Solana token, so launching one takes the same steps as any token: a name, a ticker, a logo, a venue, a launch time and one signature. The walkthrough of [how to launch a meme coin on ripr](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-launch-a-meme-coin-on-ripr) goes through the Create page screen by screen.

### How do creators earn from a token they launch?

Creators earn 0.25% of the volume traded on their coin while it trades on ripr's bonding curve, paid in SOL. If the coin graduates from the curve, another 2% of the SOL the curve raised goes to the creator.

## Launch when the page is ready, not before

There is not much to the launch itself. The name, the logo and the description are what people judge, so get those right, keep your own allocation modest, then open the Create page and sign. If you want to see the other side of the trade first, read [how to buy a Solana meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-buy-a-solana-meme-coin).

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*Last verified 3 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.*