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73 Solana Token & Memecoin Guides

Grouped by what you're actually trying to do: create the mint, price the launch, seed and burn liquidity, get listed and verified, or work out whether Pump.fun fits — written by people who've shipped the same buttons you're about to click.

Practical guides for anyone learning how to create a Solana token, launch a meme coin, or manage liquidity on Raydium. Every post is written by people who have shipped the same flow you're about to ship — no recycled marketing fluff, no AI-generated guesswork. We cover SPL token creation, Raydium liquidity pool setup, LP burning and locking, post-launch distribution, and the unglamorous operational details that decide whether your token survives its first week.

New here? Start with How to Create a Solana SPL Token for the full launch walkthrough, then read the Solana memecoin launch checklist to see how successful meme coin launches stack 11 steps in 24 hours, plus How to Burn LP Tokens on Solana to learn the strongest on-chain trust signal you can send your community.

Reading is the research phase. The build takes three to five minutes.

Name, symbol, image, supply — one signed transaction creates the mint, writes the Metaplex metadata, sends you the entire supply and revokes freeze authority, which is included rather than sold as an add-on. Every extra is itemised with your exact SOL total before you connect a wallet, and it is a flat fee charged once, never a percentage of your trading volume.

Open the token creatorLaunch a meme coin with the defaults set

Create a Solana SPL token

Start here if you have never deployed a mint. These guides cover what the SPL Token Program actually stores — the mint account, the token accounts, and the three authority fields — plus how Metaplex metadata gets written, what revoking mint and freeze authority permanently changes, and which parts of a token you can still edit after launch. Once those decisions are made, the no-code token creator on the homepage turns them into a single signed transaction.

What a launch costs, and how long it takes

A standard Alchemii launch is about 0.21–0.22 SOL all-in: a 0.2 SOL service fee with Revoke Freeze already included, plus roughly 0.01 SOL of network fees and account rent. Adding a mint-authority revoke takes it to about 0.32 SOL. These guides break down where each of those lamports goes, why no tool on Solana can go below the ~0.0191 SOL protocol floor, and what “free” token creators charge you somewhere else instead. To see the number for your exact configuration, run it through the Solana token cost calculator.

Launch a meme coin

A meme coin launch is a tighter playbook than a utility token: fixed supply, authorities revoked at deploy, liquidity seeded and LP burned before anyone is invited to buy, then distribution. These guides cover the launch checklist, the marketing that works after the pool is live, the narrative clusters that keep recycling, and the structural reasons most Solana memecoins are dead inside 24 hours. The meme coin creation flow ships with those defaults already selected.

Liquidity, Raydium pools and LP burn

A token nobody can buy is a token nobody can find. These guides cover Raydium pool creation and the roughly 0.4 SOL of non-refundable account rent it costs, whether an OpenBook market ID is still required, how to burn LP tokens to the incinerator address, and what proof traders actually want to see once you have. Opening the pool itself is a separate step from minting — add liquidity on Solana when your mint is ready, and the LP tokens land in your wallet to burn or keep.

Listing, verification and trust signals

Getting indexed is a separate job from launching, and it is where most launches quietly stall. These guides cover the Jupiter strict list, the Phantom verified checkmark, DexScreener listing and Enhanced Token Info, CoinGecko submission, and the specific thresholds each aggregator checks before it shows a token by default. To see how a mint scores on the same signals a trader reads off Solscan in thirty seconds, the free token audit checks them in one pass.

Pump.fun, bonding curves and cloning

Pump.fun takes a small fee upfront and then a cut of every buy and sell for as long as the token trades; a flat launch fee does not. These guides compare the two models, explain PumpSwap and what graduation to Raydium actually does, cover the mechanics and legality of cloning a coin, and show how to get a pump suffix address without launching on the platform. The live trending board pulls what is moving right now and hands the ticker, image and supply into the create flow — no browser extension to install, and it finishes in a Raydium pool whose LP tokens are yours rather than on a bonding curve.

When something goes wrong

A token that exists on Solscan but never appears in Phantom, an image that renders as a grey placeholder, a create transaction that fails on the first signature. Each has a specific on-chain cause and a specific fix — check the account field named in the guide before you redeploy anything, because redeploying usually creates a second mint rather than repairing the first. If the question is custody rather than a bug, the security and custody model sets out what Alchemii can and cannot sign on your behalf.

Tool and launchpad comparisons

Side-by-side scoring of the platforms competing for the same launch — Pump.fun, smithii, CoinFactory and the wider 2026 launchpad field — on upfront cost, authority defaults, who ends up holding the LP tokens, and what post-launch tooling exists. We build one of these tools, so the bias is stated up front: cheaper options exist, and these pieces say where they win and what you give up. The creator comparison table is the condensed version.

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About this blog

Operator-perspective Solana token guides written by Gary Zhao, founder of Alchemii. Content is grounded in 47 launched tokens (12 paid client launches, 35 self-launched), cross-referenced with public on-chain data via Bitquery, DexScreener, and Birdeye. Methodology details are at /methodology/launch-data. New articles auto-publish via the RSS feed.