How to Create a Meme Coin on Solana: Updated 2026 Guide

Learning how to create a meme coin on Solana takes about five minutes and less than one SOL. The hard part is everything that comes after: getting the first buyers, surviving the first hour and keeping the chart alive once the hype fades. New to this? Start with our guide on how to make a meme coin and pick a chain first.

This guide covers the two ways to do it in 2026: launching on a launchpad, or creating your own token with its liquidity pool, with the pros and cons of each.

Prefer to watch? Here is the full process on Pump.fun, recorded by the Smithii team:

Launchpad or SPL token + pool: two ways to launch on Solana

First things first: a meme coin is a crypto asset with no utility. It exists purely to represent the viral meme of the moment. People trade them for fun, speculation, community, or just to ride the trend. That makes these coins extremely volatile.

Solana is where most meme coins are born for a simple reason: transactions cost a fraction of a cent and confirm in under a second, so buying and selling a coin worth a few thousand dollars still makes sense. It also has the widest choice of launchpads, which is what the first route relies on.

Right now there are two ways to create a meme coin on Solana: using a launchpad (the most popular and direct route) or deploying a custom token SPL + liquidity pool.

Everyone is launching memecoins on launchpads, but over 90% flop or fade into the void. Understanding the pros and cons of both options will help you decide which path fits your strategy.

Pros and cons: should you use a launchpad to launch memecoins?

The table below covers the pros and cons of each method for creating a meme coin on Solana. Use it to see your options clearly and pick the one that fits your strategy.

1. Launch on a Solana launchpad (Pump.fun, Bonk.fun, Jupiter Studio…)

Over 20,000 meme coins are created every day through launchpads, making it by far the most popular launch method. Part of the reason: the barrier to entry is extremely low, tokens get listed automatically, and trading kicks off instantly.

What is a Solana launchpad?

The concept of a launchpad has evolved a lot on Solana when it comes to meme coins. In the beginning, they were IDO platforms (Initial DEX Offering) built to raise funds and launch liquidity pools. These days they let anyone create meme coins, simulate an AMM with artificial liquidity, and have buyers trading instantly on a bonding curve.

Once a coin hits the market cap threshold set by the launchpad, it graduates to a DEX. At that moment, the accumulated liquidity is sent to a DEX (like Raydium or Pumpswap) and burned instantly, locking in its integrity.

This automation prevents rugs, but it doesn’t stop scam tokens from being created. That’s why every bit of effort you put into building legitimacy counts and usually improves how your memecoin performs.

What does it mean to ‘graduate’ a memecoin?

Graduating a meme coin refers to the process of migrating liquidity from the launchpad to a DEX. This happens once the token hits enough volume and reaches a solid market cap. The big advantage of this automated step is that liquidity gets burned and the project stays decentralized, meaning no one can force a liquidity pull.

Launchpad comparison

Before walking you through how to launch a meme coin on Solana using launchpads, here’s a quick rundown of the key differences between the most popular ones.

Whichever launchpad you choose, launch it through a bundler bot. You buy in the same block the coin is created, ahead of the snipers. The supply starts spread across several of your wallets instead of one, and if you launch as a team, each member’s allocation is in place from the first second.

Pump.fun

Pump.fun is the go-to launchpad and nothing seems to slow it down. Every day thousands of users jump on the platform to buy memecoins hoping to catch a 5x or even a 100x.

Bottom line: creator incentives, insane transaction volume, massive popularity and minimal costs.

Creating a meme coin there is as simple as connecting a wallet, hitting ‘Create’, filling in every field and clicking create coin.

For best practices, tips and tools to boost your coin’s performance, check out our guide on how to launch a meme coin on Pump.fun.

Pump.fun lets you make an initial buy from the dev’s wallet while you create the coin. Keep it small: a dev wallet holding a big chunk of the supply is the first thing buyers check, and it reads as a potential rug. For a bigger opening buy, split it across wallets with the Pump.fun bundler bot.

Bonk.fun

Bonk.fun, formerly known as LetsBonk, has overtaken Pump.fun in daily launches more than once, so it is always worth keeping an eye on. To launch your meme coin on this launchpad, fill in every field (name, image, description…), hit ‘Next’ and then ‘Create Token’.

Check out the best practices to launch a memecoin on Bonk.fun in our dedicated guide.

Bonk.fun graduates straight to Raydium, so the bonding curve is all that stands between your launch and an active pool. The Bonk.fun bundler bot fills part of it in the opening block.

Moonit

Formerly known as Moonshot, Moon.it is the launchpad from Dexscreener, one of the most popular sites for analyzing crypto. Unlike the rest, here you have to post a meme on 9GAG and if the community votes for it, it launches as a memecoin automatically.

In our guide on how to launch meme coins on Moonit, we also cover what it takes to stand out above the rest of the assets.

Because the vote makes the launch moment public before it happens, bots know when to aim. That is why a bundled opening with the Moonit bundler bot matters even more here.

LaunchLab

When Pump.fun decided to graduate tokens to Pumpswap instead of Raydium, meme coin activity on that DEX dropped off a cliff. That’s why they launched their own portal to create meme coins on Solana, called LaunchLab. From Advanced mode you can tune how the curve behaves and decide when to migrate the memecoin to Raydium.

A curve you have tuned carefully can still get front-run in its first seconds. The LaunchLab bundler bot starts it with buys from your own wallets.

Jupiter Studio

The Jupiter aggregator has its own launchpad: Jupiter Studio. The advanced options add anti-sniping features and let you lock liquidity once the token graduates. Or you can just hit ‘Meme’ and ship with the default setup.

If you want to learn more about Jupiter Studio, we have a dedicated guide packed with strategies and tips to help you through the whole journey as a creator.

Its native anti-sniping helps, but the first buy still comes from a single wallet. The Jupiter Studio bundler spreads it across several.

Other Solana launchpads: Bags, Printr and Stonk.fun

The five platforms above carry most of the volume, but three newer launchpads have built their own audience and Smithii supports all of them.

Bags pays creators a share of the trading volume on their coin, so it suits launches built around a creator or an existing community. Our guide on how to launch a meme coin on Bags.fm walks through the process, including the Bags bundler bot.

Printr lets you launch one token on several chains at once, with Solana as one of them. The Printr bundler guide explains how to split the first buys across your own wallets there.

Stonk.fun pairs memes with tokenized stocks, and it has become one of the most active launchpads on Solana (more on that in the launchpad wars section below). You can bundle a launch there with the Stonk.fun bundler. Our guide explains how to launch a meme coin on Stonk.fun.

Which Solana launchpad should you use?

For a pure meme coin, Pump.fun is the safe default: it has the most volume over the long run and graduates coins to PumpSwap. Bonk.fun and LaunchLab graduate to Raydium, LaunchLab lets you tune the curve, and Jupiter Studio adds anti-sniping and can lock liquidity after graduation. The launchpad wars section below shows where the volume is right now.

As you have seen, creating the coin is the easy part on any of these launchpads. What decides whether it graduates is the first block, and that is where a bundler bot earns its place. Smithii has Solana bundlers for every launchpad in this guide, and they all give you three things:

• You buy before the snipers. The bundler creates the token and runs the first buys in the same transaction, so the opening candle comes from your wallets and not from the fastest bot.
• The supply is spread from minute one. The opening buy is split across several addresses you control, so the dev wallet does not sit at the top of the holders list on every explorer and screener.
• You set the initial distribution if you launch as a team. Each wallet can take a role from day one: one per team member, a treasury, a marketing wallet or a community rewards reserve. Much cleaner than moving funds after launch, where every transfer is traceable.

What the bundle does not change is who owns the coin. The wallet you connect stays as the dev wallet, so it is logged as the creator and receives the creator fees, exactly like in a direct launch.

The best exposure you can get is organic visibility on launchpad. And the only way to show up on the homepage where any user can see your coin is by using a volume bot.

This lets you back real transactions with simulated ones to push your volume up and land on trending. As we explain in the step-by-step guide, using the volume bot on Pump.fun is as simple as pasting the token address, setting your target volume, and clicking a button.

2. Create an SPL token and its liquidity pool

Now let’s get into the second way to create a meme coin on Solana. This method involves 3 separate steps:

1. Create the meme coin to manage the full supply.
2. Create a liquidity pool on Raydium.
3. (Optional) Revoke all authorities and burn the LP Tokens.

Let’s jump straight into the step-by-step on how to create a Meme Coin on Solana with no coding. We’ll be using our dApp called Solana Token Creator. If you would rather create the token and the pool in a single flow, the Smithii meme coin creator handles both. You can follow the full walkthrough in our YouTube tutorial right below.

2.1. Create the meme coin

In this step you’re going to create the token that represents your meme. Unlike on launchpad, here you aren’t setting up a trading pair with another coin. That comes later, when you create a liquidity pool. For now, you’re just minting the full meme coin.

The wallet connected on Smithii will have authority over the coin. If you want to manage it later, you’ll have to use that same wallet.

This is the interface you’ll use to bring your meme coin to life on Solana.

2.2. Create a liquidity pool

Before adding liquidity, keep these tips in mind:

• Revoke your meme coin authorities to build trust with buyers of your project.
• Add between 50% and 80% of the supply, not all of it. Use the leftover tokens for airdrops. Setting up your tokenomics and sharing it on social media builds trust among buyers.
• You can protect your liquidity from sniping by enabling the ‘Snipe Your Token’ feature, which works similarly to the bundles we covered for launchpad launches.
• The more liquidity, the more price stability for your token. Right now, a minimum of $5,000 is recommended to avoid sharp price swings.

With these tips clear, let’s create the liquidity pool.

1. Open the Create Solana Liquidity Pool tool and connect the wallet that holds the tokens.
2. Under ‘Base Token‘, select your meme coin.
3. Under ‘Quote Token ‘, pick a base token, usually $SOL or $USDC.
4. Set the amount of token and SOL/USDC you want to add.
5. Set a launch date (optional).
6. snipe your own token (optional).
7. Hit ‘Create Liquidity Pool‘ and confirm the transaction in your wallet.

Once that’s done, you’ll be able to confirm your memecoin is now tradable on Raydium. Our tool charges 0.1 $SOL, but keep in mind the Raydium fee and network costs. All in, creating a liquidity pool can run you at least 0.4 $SOL.

Make sure to configure vesting to build trust in the liquidity pool so others buy the coin without hesitation.

2.3. Revoke authorities and burn the LP Tokens (optional, but strongly recommended)

The meme coin comes with authorities you should revoke. Keep in mind that you need to prove your memecoin is trustworthy so others buy tokens without hesitation. You can do this during coin creation or at any point after. These authorities can’t be recovered once revoked.

To give your project more legitimacy, you’ll want to lock the LP Tokens through Smithii vesting, using Streamflow, or burn the liquidity outright. These are standard moves to signal trust and show you won’t rug the community you’re building.

How to keep your Solana meme coin alive after launch

Creating the coin is the easy part. On Solana, traders find new tokens on DEX Screener, Birdeye and Jupiter, so what keeps a coin alive is staying visible there: revoked authorities and locked or burned liquidity, a small dev wallet, and a chart that keeps moving in the first hours, which a Solana volume bot helps with.

For the rest of the playbook, see our guide to promote a meme coin, and for a real example, the meme coin strategy on Solana case study on $fih.

The Launchpad Wars on Solana

Picking the best launchpad on Solana to launch your meme coin isn’t as straightforward as it sounds. Each one has different features and incentives, and a brand-new launchpad can show up any week and pull all the attention.

In our Memecoin Wars analysis (in Spanish) we followed the 2026 launchpad boom. After Pons launched on Robinhood Chain, a wave of new platforms tried to copy it, and at one point Pons and Stonk.fun took 75% of all on-chain launchpad revenue.

Creators used to track this race on a community Dune dashboard by @adam_tehc, but it was discontinued and only has data up to September 22. So we built a new version: the Launchpad Wars dashboard on Smithii Tools keeps that full dataset and adds the metrics you need to decide when and where to launch, with Solana and Robinhood Chain side by side.

Timing matters as much as the meme. Launching where the liquidity already is means buyers don’t have to bridge, and a launchpad’s KOLs prefer to push tokens from their own platform. As a rule of thumb:

• A pure meme coin, and no idea where to start: Pump.fun, the launchpad with the most volume over the long run.
• A meme paired with a stock: Stonk.fun on Solana, which moves considerably more volume than Long on Robinhood Chain.
• A 100% RWA project: Heaven on Solana, thanks to its fair launch, or the launchpads on Base.

Every platform keeps tweaking its terms to pull in creators, so check the dashboard before each launch. The balance of power can flip in a week.

FAQ

These are the most common questions we get about creating meme coins on Solana, answered with our hands-on experience, ongoing conversations with users, and the market research we do day in and day out.

How much does it cost to create a meme coin on Solana?

Launching on a launchpad with our bundler bot costs 0.1 SOL, plus the SOL you put into the first buys. Creating your own token costs 0.5 SOL, and adding a liquidity pool (0.1 SOL plus Raydium and network fees) brings the total to around 0.9 SOL. See the full breakdown in how much it costs to create a meme coin.

Can you create a meme coin on Solana for free?

Yes. On launchpads like Pump.fun or Bonk.fun creating the coin is free: you only pay network fees and whatever first buy you make. We explain the options in how to create a meme coin for free.

Is Solana good for meme coins?

It is the most popular chain for them. Fees of a fraction of a cent and sub-second confirmations make small trades viable, and Solana has more meme coin launchpads and more daily launches than any other network.

Pump.fun or Bonk.fun: which is better?

It depends on what you launch. Pump.fun has the most volume over the long run and graduates coins to PumpSwap, so it is the safe default for a pure meme coin. Bonk.fun graduates straight to Raydium, charges no creator fee and has overtaken Pump.fun in daily launches more than once. Check the Launchpad Wars dashboard before you launch, because the balance changes from week to week.

Do I need to revoke mint authority on Solana?

On a launchpad, no: the authorities are revoked automatically. If you create your own SPL token, you should. An active mint authority means you can still print more supply, and buyers and rug checkers look for it before they buy. Revoking it costs 0.1 SOL when you create the token with Smithii, or 0.2 SOL later with the Revoke Mint tool, and it can’t be undone. Here is how to revoke authorities on Solana.

Conclusion

Memecoins have been an unstoppable force since they first showed up in 2013, but they’ve found their natural home on Solana. Creating one takes minutes; keeping it alive takes trust signals, a community and good timing.

Now that you know how to create a meme coin on Solana, it’s time to find a theme with real viral potential and put it into action. Yours could be the next $DOGE.

Juan Manuel Sanchez

Crypto writer focused on the Web3 space. Former contributor to the Smithii editorial team.