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How a launch works
What you choose, what you pay, what happens on chain.
The launch wizard has four steps: Basket, Token, Economics, Review. Everything you set is final at launch; nothing can be edited afterwards, not even by Blend.
What you choose
| Setting | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Assets | 1 to 4 | tokenized stocks and large Solana tokens |
| Weights | whole percent, at least 5% each | decide how the supply is split across pools |
| Name, symbol, image | symbol up to 10 letters or digits, image up to 5 MB | stored permanently in the token’s metadata |
| Creator tax | 0 to 5% | paid to you on every trade, forever |
| Dev buy | 0 to 75% of supply | your own first buy, executed before anyone else can trade |
What you pay
- Pool rent: about 0.02 SOL per pool plus 0.01 SOL for the token, measured on mainnet. Blend charges no launch fee.
- Dev buy: paid in the basket stocks. If you don’t hold them, Blend buys them for you with SOL through Jupiter, with a 30% buffer so the launch cannot fall short. Whatever is left stays in your wallet.
- Even with no dev buy, each pool needs a few cents of its stock to open; the wizard buys that too.
The Review step shows every number in SOL before you sign anything.
What happens when you click Launch
- If any basket stock is missing from your wallet, Blend buys it first. You approve that in your wallet, and the launch continues on its own.
- You approve the launch once. Your wallet simulates every transaction before you sign, so a launch that would fail is stopped before it costs anything.
- 1,000,000,000 tokens are minted and all of them go into the pools. You get none for free.
- One Meteora DAMM v2 pool opens per asset, holding only the token, priced from a $4,000 opening market cap.
- Your dev buy lands in each pool in the same transaction that opens it. Nobody can trade in a pool before you.
- Every position is permanently locked. Fees stay claimable; the liquidity can never be withdrawn by anyone, Blend included.
- The token page opens automatically. Share it; the link works everywhere.
One token, N pools
A launch against a 40% NVDAx basket puts 400,000,000 tokens into the TOKEN/NVDAx pool at the same opening price as every other pool. Each pool is its own market and can pay sellers only the stock it took in from buyers. Buying through Blend splits your payment across the pools, so they stay aligned. Anyone buying a single pool elsewhere moves only that pool; arbitrage closes the gap.
Why there is no migration
Launchpads on other chains run two phases because their curve venue is invisible to trackers. Meteora DAMM v2 pools are ordinary indexed pools from the first block: Jupiter routes them, DexScreener lists them. The pool you launch in is the pool you stay in. Graduation is a badge and a moment, not a move.
After the launch: what you earn
Your tax is part of the pool fee on every trade, collected in the stock of each pool. Blend collects it for you every 10 minutes and sends it straight to your wallet; there is nothing to claim and nothing to set up. See Fees for the exact split.