Upcoming token launch calendar: how to plan ahead on ripr

If you want a calendar of upcoming Solana token launches, start on ripr's Explore screen. Alongside Trending and the newest coins there's a Coming soon list of scheduled launches, each with the time it opens. Most Solana meme coins, though, arrive with no announcement at all. So planning your week is really two jobs — diarising the launches that already have a set time, and being ready for the ones that appear without warning. ripr covers both, and this guide walks through each.

Where ripr shows upcoming launches

ripr's Explore screen lists trending coins, newly launched coins and upcoming coins, and lets you keep watchlists, on web, iOS and Android. The Coming soon tab is the upcoming part: coins whose creators have scheduled a launch time in the app, shown with the time they open.

Those times aren't promises in a post. When a creator schedules a launch on ripr's own bonding curve, the launch is held on chain until its open time. A bonding curve is simply a pricing formula written into a program: early buys cost less, and the price rises as more people buy. Until that open time arrives the coin isn't trading, so the schedule holds whether or not anyone keeps their word.

That makes a launch like this something you can genuinely plan around. Open Coming soon, read the times, and pick the one or two you actually want to be awake for.

Build your own calendar with a ripr watchlist

A tab full of launch times is only a calendar once it's your list. Watchlists do that job, so the handful of launches you care about sit in one place instead of being re-found every day.

1. Open the Coming soon tab in Explore and tap a launch that interests you.
2. Add it to a watchlist, so it's waiting for you next time you open the app.
3. On an iPhone, follow the launch's countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island: a running clock to the open time, without opening the app.
4. Check back once before the open to confirm the time hasn't moved.

ripr's notifications also cover launch alerts among dozens of event types, with caps on how many pushes you can get in an hour or a day, so a busy week doesn't turn into a flood.

Check a scheduled launch before it opens

Knowing when a coin opens is the easy half. The half that protects your money is deciding whether you want it at all. A scheduled launch gives you something rare in meme coins: time to look before you act.

Two checks are worth doing every time:

• Who is launching it. ripr shows the other coins a coin's creator has launched, so you can see their track record yourself rather than taking a thread's word for it.
• Whether you're even on the right coin. You can search any Solana coin in the app by name, ticker or full contract address. The contract address is the coin's unique on-chain ID, and it's the only part a copycat can't fake. When a launch is announced, copy the address from the official source and paste it into the app's search in full, instead of trusting a similar name.

ripr also checks coins, including newly created ones, for coordinated-launch patterns, linked wallets and creators keeping supply, and shows anything it finds as a warning on the coin. In the iOS and Android apps, a coin page will also tell you when a coin is under review, has low liquidity or is still being checked.

ripr shows those warnings before you buy, so treat one as a reason to slow down and look closer. Meme coins are risky whatever a page shows. Start small. Read the coin's page yourself. Our guide to spotting a risky meme coin goes through the patterns in more detail.

Get your ripr wallet ready before the launch opens

Launches are won by preparation, not reflexes. Everything below is easier the day before than in the sixty seconds after a coin opens.

1. Fund the wallet. You can add money to ripr by card, Apple Pay or, in India, UPI and bank transfer. The providers set their own fees and show them at checkout. Our help centre covers depositing SOL into your app wallet step by step.
2. Keep a little SOL spare. Trades on ripr are sent with Solana's base network fee and no priority fee, and your first buy of any coin opens a token account with a small refundable deposit. Both are tiny, but a wallet with nothing left over can't trade.
3. Decide your size now. Pick the number you'd be relaxed about losing entirely, and write it down. New coins move hardest in their first minutes, which is exactly when people improvise.
4. Consider pre-authorising. On iOS and web, you can pre-authorise SOL for a coin scheduled on ripr's curve. It fills at launch on the same curve as everyone else, and it doesn't guarantee you an allocation or a price. Treat it as a decision you've made rather than a placeholder, and commit only what you'd be happy to have filled.

When you do buy, ripr's servers prepare the transaction, the app checks it on your device against the amount and slippage you chose, and your own wallet signs it. Slippage is the gap you'll tolerate between the price you were shown and the price you get, so on a brand-new coin it's worth setting deliberately. If the prepared transaction differs from what you set, the app refuses it before your wallet ever signs.

Most launches aren't announced: watch the newest coins

Scheduled launches are the minority. For everything else you watch the moment of launch itself, which is what ripr's newest coins list is for. It shows coins that have just launched. That turns "this week's launches" into a feed you check rather than a schedule you read.

When that feed is too busy to read, narrow it. The Explore screener filters coins by launchpad and trading venue, with range filters such as market cap, liquidity and age, so you can ask for coins launched in the last few hours that have already cleared a liquidity floor. Sorting by market cap also hides coins under about $5,000 of liquidity or 100 holders unless you set those limits yourself, which keeps dead coins off the top of the list.

One more thing worth reading on a fresh launch is how far along it already is. ripr shows bonding-curve progress that updates live as a coin trades toward graduation.

Explore also has a Hide warnings filter that takes out coins the app has flagged; it's off by default, so switch it on when a day's feed runs long. Brand-new coins can still be mid-check, so open a coin and read its own page before you buy. If a new coin's price swings surprise you, the help centre explains why price moves so quickly on new coins.

Your launch-watching week on ripr

Pulling it together, a week of launch-watching on ripr looks like this:

1. Once a week, open Coming soon and diary the launches with times you can actually make.
2. Add each one to a watchlist, and let the iPhone countdown do the remembering.
3. Before each open, check the creator's other coins and paste the contract address into search to confirm you've got the right coin.
4. Fund your wallet and fix your size the day before, keeping a little SOL spare.
5. For everything unannounced, check the newest coins list and the screener instead of hunting for a calendar.

Start with the Coming soon tab and pick one launch to follow properly this week. One launch watched carefully teaches you more than ten skimmed, and the routine you build on a scheduled launch is exactly the one you'll use when the next coin opens with no warning at all.

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Last verified 2 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.