How to Create a Token on Solana and Pass the Trust Checks

If you are looking for how to create a Solana token for your project, the short answer is that you no longer need a developer, a compiler or a single line of code. You open the tool, sign once from your own wallet, and the token is yours in about a minute.

That is the easy part, and it is genuinely easy. What tends to catch people out is everything around it: giving the token an identity that wallets and explorers actually display, deciding what you will still be able to change later, and getting it to a point where somebody can buy it. All of that lives in the same tool, and none of it asks you to trust us with your keys.

Below is the full walkthrough: how to create the token, which settings are worth switching on, what it costs and what to do once it exists. Managing it afterwards works the same way, whether that means minting more, sealing the metadata or opening liquidity. A tool, your wallet, no code.

If you prefer a visual walkthrough, here’s a video that covers everything you need to do:

What is a Solana token

A token on Solana is a tradable asset issued under the SPL standard, which is the format every wallet, explorer and exchange on the network already understands. Creating one is what puts your project on-chain.

Something worth knowing if you have launched on Ethereum before: on Solana the name, symbol, logo and description travel with the token itself. You fill them in while you create it, and wallets and price trackers pick them up on their own. There is no separate application afterwards to get your logo to show up.

What you are building it for shapes most of the decisions that follow:

• Utility token for a dApp that needs an internal asset. Supply and decimals should be sized around how the app will actually spend them.
• Governance token standing in for an ecosystem, where the price mostly tracks how people feel about the project.
• Meme coin running on speculation and momentum, where trust signals do more work than any technical decision.

How to create a token on Solana: step by step

Everything happens in the Solana Token Creator from Smithii. Have a funded wallet ready, plus your logo and a line describing the project. If you have not settled on a wallet yet, our comparison of the best Solana wallets covers the usual suspects.

1. Connect the wallet you intend to keep. It receives the full supply and holds the authorities you do not give away.
2. Name and symbol. Up to 32 characters and 8 characters respectively. These are what DexScreener and every wallet will display, so they are worth a minute.
3. Decimals. The field accepts 0 to 9 and 6 is the recommended setting. Drop to 0 only for whitelist or ticket-style tokens where fractions make no sense.
4. Supply. Everything that will ever exist unless you keep the mint authority. It arrives in your wallet in one piece.
5. Description and image. PNG or JPG around 1000×1000. Both are attached to the token in this same step, so there is nothing to submit later.
6. Switch on Add Social Links & Tags. Website, Telegram, Discord, X and up to five tags, stored with the token at no extra cost.
7. Work through the authorities and Advanced Options before you commit. Both sections are broken down below.
8. Create Token, then approve. The tool totals the fee first; read it, then sign.

Smithii hands you the mint transaction links so the creation can be verified on-chain, and the token shows up in your wallet immediately.

The three authorities, and why buyers check them

Every Solana token is created holding three permissions over itself, and anyone can check them in seconds before deciding to buy. You can hand each one back during creation for 0.1 SOL, and once it is gone it is gone for everyone, you included.

• Revoke Mint. No more tokens can ever be printed. Your supply becomes a fact instead of a promise, and keeping it means every holder has to price in the chance of dilution tomorrow.
• Revoke Freeze. Nobody can freeze a holder’s token account. It proves you cannot lock someone out of their own position, and rug checkers flag this one first.
• Revoke Update. The metadata is sealed: name, symbol and image stay put. It closes the door on the post-launch identity swap, where a token quietly becomes something else after the buys land.

For a public launch, giving up all three is the default expectation, not a nice extra. Hold one back only if the project genuinely needs it, and if you do, say so out loud before anyone has to discover it themselves.

Revoke Update also exists as a standalone job if you would rather wait and seal the metadata later, through the Make Token Immutable tool.

What else you can set up in the same tool

These sit under Advanced Options, and each one carries the same 0.1 SOL as an authority. None of them is required to ship a working token.

• Modify Creator Information. The metadata credits Smithii as creator by default. This overwrites it with your project name and site, so explorers and aggregators show the token signed by you rather than by the tool that built it.
• Custom address. Generates a token address that starts and ends with characters you choose, up to four at each end. A token beginning with your ticker is quicker to verify at a glance, and it gives your community something concrete to check against the impostor tokens that appear within hours of any decent launch.
• Multi-Wallet Supply Distribution. Splits the supply across as many as ten wallets while the token is being created, at whatever percentages you set. Team, marketing, airdrop reserve and liquidity all land where they belong in one signature instead of a long evening of transfers.
• DEXTools socials and banner. Pushes your links, logo and banner to DEXTools from inside the tool. Cheaper and considerably faster than submitting the request yourself, and it means the pair is branded from the first chart anyone looks at.

Opening the pool on Raydium

A minted token has no price. The supply sits in your wallet and nothing can be bought or sold until liquidity exists behind it. The creator can handle that in the same run.

The pool is created on Raydium CPMM. You set how many tokens go in, how much SOL pairs against them, and which Raydium swap fee tier applies. The opening price is calculated and displayed before anything is committed, and the whole launch is two signatures: one for the mint, one for the pool.

Two things are worth knowing in advance. The swap fee tier is locked once the pool exists, so choose it on purpose rather than accepting a default. And CPMM is used specifically because it needs no OpenBook market, which is what turned this into a three-step, far pricier exercise in the past.

Different pair, a concentrated CLMM range, or anything more hands-on than this calls for the full tool instead: how to create a liquidity pool on Solana. If the choice between models is not obvious to you, CLMM vs AMM lays out the difference, and sizing the liquidity for a Solana token is the one to read before settling on a number.

Taking the first fills yourself

Sniper bots watch for new pools and buy the instant one opens, then sell into whoever arrives next. Nothing about that is hypothetical: it is the ordinary outcome of announcing liquidity on a public chain.

The pool step includes a bundle snipe for exactly this. Your own purchase is submitted together with the pool creation, as a single package the network processes in one go, so your fills land before anything that reacts to the pool afterwards. You can buy from the connected wallet or from as many as sixteen wallets you import. Our Solana Bundle Bot guide covers how bundling behaves in more detail.

What it costs

The mint starts at 0.5 SOL, and the on-chain cost of the SPL token is already inside that. Each flagged extra adds 0.1 SOL, whether it is an authority, the creator information, the custom address or the multi-wallet split. DEXTools and the pool are priced on their own, and the pool also covers the on-chain cost of keeping itself open.

Social links and tags never cost anything, whatever else you turn on. Beyond that, the tool reads current pricing and totals it on screen before you sign, so treat the tool as the number that counts rather than any figure written here.

Your own mint or a launchpad?

Both are legitimate, and they suit different launches.

Mint it yourself when the token has a job to do. Utility tokens, anything wired into a dApp, anything where you need to control the split at genesis or decide the authorities deliberately. You own the supply and the liquidity decisions from the start.

Use a launchpad when speed and low capital matter more than control, which is usually the case in pure memecoin territory. The bonding curve handles price discovery and you skip funding a pool. We walk through that path in how to launch a meme coin on Pump.fun, and how to create a meme coin on Solana surveys the wider launchpad options.

Before you tell anyone

The token is the easy part

Solscan Analytics puts new SPL mints at roughly 40,000 a day, and on CoinGecko’s numbers the top ten Solana meme coins account for close to 79% of the category’s entire market cap. Minting has not been the bottleneck for a long time.

What moves a token is people talking about it, and that only happens when a project is legible. Transparent, readable projects are genuinely scarce on-chain, so being one is closer to an advantage than a formality. A community that shares your memes without being asked outperforms any airdrop you could fund. If you want the short version of what tends to go wrong, the three mistakes we see most is worth five minutes.

Getting listed

DexScreener indexes your token automatically once the pool is live. After that the targets are the larger trackers: getting listed on CoinMarketCap and getting listed on CoinGecko, both free to apply to. Applications go much better with a real market and some trading history behind them than with a fresh contract address. Once there is volume to look after, a Solana volume bot can keep the pair active.

FAQ about creating tokens on Solana

What does it cost to mint a token on Solana with Smithii?

From 0.5 SOL, network fees included, with each optional extra at 0.1 SOL. Giving up all three authorities therefore adds 0.3 SOL. The pool and DEXTools carry separate pricing, and the tool totals your exact configuration before you sign.

Do I have to prepare a logo and description first?

Yes, and this is where Solana differs from Ethereum. The logo and description are stored with the token itself, so you add them while you create it and every wallet and price tracker picks them up automatically.

Should I revoke all three authorities?

For anything public, yes. Mint fixes the supply, freeze proves you cannot lock a holder out, update seals the metadata. Keeping one is defensible when the project has a concrete reason, provided you publish that reason.

Can I still mint more tokens later?

Only if you keep the mint authority, and keeping it is a visible decision that buyers will price in. If your model needs future issuance, say what it funds and who controls it.

How do sniper bots drain a new pool?

They monitor for pool creation and buy in the same block it opens, then exit into the buyers who follow. The bundle snipe is the counter, since it places your own purchase alongside the transaction that creates the pool.

Could someone buy the whole supply while liquidity is thin?

No. The price climbs as the order fills, so a large buy against a shallow pool ends up with far fewer tokens than the headline numbers imply, while the SOL stays in the pool.

Conclusion

The mint is one tool and one signature. The consequential choices are the permanent ones: which authorities you keep, whether the metadata is sealed, how the supply is divided at genesis, and whether the pool opens with your buy inside it.

Settle those before signing. After that the tooling stops mattering and the project has to stand on whatever reason people have to hold it.

Jorge Rodriguez

CEO & Co-Founder at Smithii. Building on Solana since 2021 and sharing playbooks from the trenches. Also founder of Lince after years investing in DeFi.