How Launchora works

Quick start

1. Get a Solana wallet such as Phantom, Solflare or Backpack, with a little SOL in it. About 0.05 SOL is enough to launch, plus whatever first buy you want.
2. Open Launch, connect your wallet, and fill in the name, ticker and image. Links to your X, Telegram and website are optional but help traders trust the coin.
3. Pick a fee mode. Lite (0.25%) if you want the cheapest trading. Rewards (1%) if you want to be paid on every trade and pay your holders too. Max (2%) puts 1.75% of every trade into a pool paid in SOL to the top 10 launchers by trading volume.
4. Choose a first buy (optional). It runs in the same transaction as the launch, at the starting price, before anyone else can buy.
5. Approve in your wallet. The coin is live as soon as Solana confirms it, usually a few seconds. You land on its page with the chart and trade panel.
6. Share it. Post the contract address on X and in your groups. The coin page has a one-click post button.

The basics

Every coin has a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. 79.31% are sold on the curve. The rest goes into the Raydium pool at graduation, paired with the SOL the curve raised. No tokens are set aside for the creator or for Launchora. See Tokenomics for the flow charts.

If the creator wants a stake, they buy it on the curve like everyone else. A first buy inside the launch transaction is still a normal curve buy at the starting price. It just lands before anyone else can buy.

Graduation

When the curve has raised 85 SOL, Raydium’s program closes the curve and opens a Raydium CPMM pool with the remaining tokens and the raised SOL. Nobody has to press a button, and nobody can stop it.

The pool’s LP tokens are never handed to the creator. What happens to them depends on the fee mode: all locked in Lite and Max, or 70% burned and 30% locked in Rewards. Burned LP can never be withdrawn. Locked LP can’t be withdrawn either, but its share of the pool’s trading fees can be claimed.

Costs

Network costs move with Solana's fees. Your wallet shows the exact total before you approve.

Trading on the curve

Before graduation, every buy and sell goes straight to the coin's Raydium LaunchLab curve. There is no order book and no other seller: the curve always quotes a price, and the price only moves when someone trades.

• Buying sends SOL into the curve and takes tokens out, so the price goes up. Selling does the opposite.
• Slippage (1% by default) is how far the price may move between your quote and your trade landing. If it moves further, the trade fails safely and you only pay the network fee.
• Market cap on Launchora is the last price times the full 1,000,000,000 supply, shown in USD at the current SOL price.
• Curve progress is the SOL raised so far out of 85. At 100% the coin graduates.

You can also trade any other LaunchLab coin from Launchora. Paste its address into search and it gets the same live chart, tape and safety grade. Its fees are set by its own launchpad, not by us.

Fee modes

You pick a mode before launch. Each mode is its own LaunchLab platform with fixed rates, so the fees can’t be raised on a coin after it launches, by us or anyone else.

• Lite is the cheapest way to launch: Raydium’s 0.25% and nothing more. Launchora earns only after graduation, from the locked LP’s share of pool fees.
• Rewards charges 1% per trade. 0.25% goes to the creator, 0.25% to holders, 0.25% to Launchora, and 0.25% to Raydium.
• Max charges 2% per trade: 0.25% to Raydium and 1.75% to the launcher pool. The pool is divided among the top 10 launchers by trading volume and paid to them in SOL. There is no per-coin creator or holder share, and all graduated LP is locked.

After graduation, trades pay the Raydium pool fee instead of the curve fees above.

Holder rewards (Rewards mode)

The holder share builds up in the coin’s platform fee vault on chain. Launchora splits each coin’s balance into the holder part and Launchora part using the fixed rates above, then pays holders in SOL.

• Your share follows how much you held and for how long. Holding through the period counts more than a quick in and out.
• The creator’s wallet, wallets that bought in the launch block, and known sniper bots are left out.
• Every payout is a public Solana transaction, and the coin page lists them.

Creator fees and claiming

On a Rewards coin, 0.25% of every curve trade is set aside for the creator. It builds up on chain in Raydium's creator vault for that wallet. Launchora never touches it.

• Claim it any time from your coin's page: connect the wallet you launched with and a Your creator fees card shows what is ready, with a Claim button. One signature, paid out as SOL. There is no minimum and no deadline.
• Fees from all your Rewards coins collect in the same vault, so one claim covers them all.
• Lite and Max coins have no creator fee.

If a coin was launched for an X or GitHub account, that account's share is held until its owner signs in and claims it. See launch for an account.

Safety grade

Each coin page shows a letter from A to F, worked out from what’s on chain since launch. It is a summary of risk signals, not advice, and it changes as the coin trades.

Mint or freeze authority still switched on means F. Coins launched here always have both off.

An A needs the launch bundle and the top 10 share both checked; until then a coin shows B at best. The coin list shows a quick grade, and the coin page shows the full one, which reads the launch itself.

Creator lock

A creator can lock part of their first buy in a Streamflow vesting contract when they launch. Choose 25 to 100% of the first buy and a schedule: a 7-day cliff then 30 days of vesting, or a 30-day cliff then 90 days.

The contract is public. Anyone can open it and see how much is locked and when it unlocks. The lock is shown on the coin page and improves the safety grade.

Launch for an X or GitHub account

You can launch a coin for someone by their X or GitHub handle. It uses Rewards mode, and the coin’s creator is Launchora’s escrow wallet, so the 0.25% creator fee builds up for that account instead of for you.

1. The account owner opens the claim page and enters the wallet they want paid.
2. They post a one-day code from that account: an X post, or a public GitHub gist.
3. We ask X or GitHub who wrote it. If the author is that account and the code matches, the wallet is linked. Claiming again with a new code changes the wallet.

Payouts go out in batches from the escrow wallet, signed by a person. Each one is a public Solana transaction. Until the account claims, its share waits in the escrow.

Chat

There is one chat room for the whole site and one for each coin. Every message is signed by the sender’s wallet, so names can’t be faked. Messages are rate-limited and can be reported.

API

Everything on the site is also open as a public API: free, no key, read-only, and allowed from any website (CORS). It returns the same numbers the pages show, from the same live engine. Use it for bots, dashboards or your own terminal.

Base URL /api/v1 on this site. Every answer is JSON. The limit is 240 requests a minute per IP. Errors look like {"error":{"code":"bad_mint","message":"…"}} with a matching HTTP status. Status 202 means the coin is still loading: try again in a few seconds.

curl -s "https://launchora.fun/api/v1/coins?sort=volume&limit=5"

const r = await fetch('/api/v1/coins/' + mint + '/candles?tf=5m').then((x) => x.json());
for (const k of r.candles) console.log(k.t, k.c);

The API only reads. To launch or trade, use the site: each launch, buy and sell is built here and signed in your own wallet. Prices and grades come from the chain and can be a few seconds behind.

Contracts and addresses

Everything below can be checked on a Solana explorer. The fee rates are read straight from each launchpad's on-chain settings.

To tell which launchpad a coin belongs to, open its pool on an explorer and look at the platform_id field, or call /api/v1/coins/<mint> and read feeMode.

FAQ

Why is my coin not on the board yet?
New coins appear within a few seconds of Solana confirming the launch. If you opened the coin page from your wallet, it is already live; refresh the board.

My launch failed. Did I lose SOL?
A failed transaction changes nothing on chain except the small network fee. The coin was not created and your first buy was not spent.

Can I switch a coin to another mode?
No. The mode is the launchpad the coin was created on, and that cannot change. Choose before you launch.

Who can claim the creator fee?
Only the wallet that launched the coin (or, for an account launch, the account owner once they claim). Nobody else can sign for it.

Is there a token for Launchora?
No. Any coin claiming to be Launchora's own token is not from us.

How do I report a scam coin?
Check its safety grade first: it flags bundles, snipers and dev selling. Coins live on Solana, so nobody can delete one. The grade is there so you can spot a bad one before you buy.

What we can’t do

• Change a coin’s fees after launch. They are set by its platform on chain.
• Mint more tokens or freeze anyone’s tokens. Both authorities are off.
• Pull liquidity. The curve’s SOL sits in Raydium’s program, and graduated LP is burned or locked.
• Hold your keys. Every launch, buy and sell is signed in your own wallet.

Meme coins are risky and most go to zero. Only trade what you can afford to lose.