Everything people ask before their first token.
A Solana wallet such as Phantom, Solflare or Brave Wallet. Enough SOL to cover the platform fee plus around 0.006 SOL in network costs. A free Pinata account, which is used to store your token image. And a square image, ideally 512 by 512 pixels or larger.
No. You fill in a form, upload an image, and approve two prompts in your wallet. The whole process takes a few minutes. There is a step by step guide if you want to read it first.
Devnet is Solana's practice network. It uses free test SOL that has no value, and it behaves exactly like the real network.
Yes, use it. Do a complete run on Devnet before spending real money. It costs nothing and it means your first real token is not also your first attempt.
Your token image and its metadata have to live somewhere permanent and public. Pinata puts them on IPFS, a distributed storage network. Using your own account means the files belong to you rather than to us.
The free tier is more than enough for a token.
Two separate amounts. The platform fee, shown on the main page before you approve anything, which goes to us. And roughly 0.006 SOL in costs that do not go to us: account rent held by the Solana network, and transaction fees paid to validators.
Rent varies slightly with how much metadata your token carries, and network fees rise when Solana is busy. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Solana charges a deposit, called rent, to keep an account alive. Your token needs two accounts: the mint itself, and the account that holds your balance. That money is held by the network, not by us.
Usually not. Transactions on a blockchain are final once confirmed and cannot be reversed by us, by you, or by anyone. This is why we recommend a Devnet run first.
There are exceptions. If you were charged twice, charged without receiving a token, or a discount code was accepted but not applied, write to us and we will put it right.
Full detail is in the Refund Policy.
No, and not because we promise it. Because of how it is built. We never receive, request or store your private key or seed phrase. There is no code path that could ask for one. Every transaction is signed inside your own wallet, on your own device.
Your wallet shows you exactly what each transaction does, including the fee amount and where it goes, before you approve it. Read that screen. It is the strongest check available to you and it does not require trusting us at all.
Never, for any reason, through any channel. Anyone who does, including anyone claiming to represent this site on Discord, Telegram or anywhere else, is trying to steal from you.
That warning is automatic for any recently registered domain. It is not a finding against this site, and it fades as the domain ages.
It is still good advice in general. Check the address bar reads the correct domain, and read what your wallet shows you before approving.
Your wallet has its own network setting, separate from the one selected on this site. If the site is on Devnet and your wallet is on Mainnet, or the other way round, your wallet cannot make sense of the transaction and shows a warning.
Switch your wallet to the same network. In Phantom that is under Settings, Developer Settings, Testnet Mode.
No accounts, no tracking cookies, no analytics and no database of users. Cloudflare sets one or two strictly necessary security cookies for bot protection. Our server briefly sees your wallet address and the token name and symbol so it can build the transaction, then forgets them. The only database we keep holds discount codes and a list of the token addresses this site has created.
Your Pinata key never reaches our server at all. It is used only in your browser. Full detail is in the Privacy Notice.
You do, entirely. The supply goes to your wallet and the authorities go to your address, not ours. We have no ownership, no control and no continuing involvement in it.
That also means you are responsible for it, including anything you tell other people about it. See the Terms of Use.
The first creates your token and pays the fee. The second mints your supply into your wallet and applies any revocations. Solana limits how much can fit in one transaction, so this work is split across two.
Approve both. If you stop after the first, your token will exist with no supply.
Revoking the mint authority permanently fixes the supply. Nobody can ever create more of the token, including you.
Revoking the freeze authority permanently removes the ability to freeze anyone's tokens.
Revoking the update authority permanently locks the name, symbol and image. They can never be changed by anyone afterwards.
All three are ticked by default, because together they are the standard signal to buyers that a token cannot be inflated and their holdings cannot be locked or changed. All three are permanent once the transaction confirms.
If you plan a staged release, a treasury allocation, or any later minting, untick "revoke mint authority" before approving. Once it is revoked, nobody can restore it and your supply is fixed forever.
Leave "revoke update authority" unticked if there is any chance you will want to fix a typo, replace the image, or rename the token. That decision cannot be undone.
If you are unsure, the ticked defaults are the safer choice for a community token.
Decimals control how finely your token can be divided. Nine is the Solana convention and is what most tokens use. Pick zero only if you want whole units that cannot be split, such as a collectible.
Only if you leave the update authority in place. If you tick "revoke update authority" when creating your token, the name, symbol and image are frozen permanently and nobody can ever change them, including you.
If you keep it, the metadata can be edited later using other Solana tools. This site does not currently offer editing.
The original image stays on IPFS permanently regardless, since content published there cannot reliably be deleted.
Use the token safety checker. Paste any token address and it reads the mint, freeze and update authorities straight from the blockchain, along with the largest holders.
It works on any Solana token, not only ones made here, so you can use it to check something before you buy it.
Your token exists but has no supply. Nothing is lost, and you do not pay the platform fee again.
Go to the recovery page, connect the same wallet, and paste your mint address. It will mint your supply and finish the job. There is no platform fee there, though you still pay the Solana network its own cost, around 0.002 SOL for the account that holds your balance.
Yes. Open your wallet's transaction history, or look up your wallet address on Solana Explorer, and find the transaction from when you created the token. The new token account created in it is your mint address.
If you downloaded the summary file at the end, the address is in there too.
Not necessarily. A timeout means we could not confirm in time, not that the transaction failed. It may have succeeded seconds later.
Check before retrying. Look up your wallet on Solana Explorer first, because starting over would charge the fee a second time.
If the first transaction failed, no. The fee and the token creation are in the same transaction, so either both happen or neither does. There is no outcome where you pay and get nothing.
No. Creating a token gives it a name, a supply and an image. It does not give it value, liquidity, buyers or a market. Those come from what you build afterwards, if anything.
Most meme coins end up worthless. Do not spend money here that you cannot afford to lose.
Wallets and explorers cache token metadata and can take a while to pick up a brand new token. Give it some time.
If it still does not appear after a day, check that your Pinata upload is still pinned and that the link opens in a browser.
That happens on decentralised exchanges such as Raydium or Meteora, using tools separate from this site. You would pair your token with SOL to create a market.
This is a significant financial decision with real risk of loss, and it is outside what this site does.
Yes, if you still hold it. The free authority revoker works on any Solana token your wallet controls, including ones created with other tools. There is no platform fee, only the Solana network cost.
Yes, as many as you like. Each one is a separate creation and pays the fee again.