Launch Your Legacy: A Guide to Pump.fun Memecoin Creation

Pump.fun has fundamentally democratized crypto creation, allowing anyone to mint a new token on Solana for the cost of a cup of coffee. However, the technical launch is just the first 5% of the battle; the remaining 95% is driven by community and marketing.

This guide walks you through the initial steps, explains the lucrative fee structure, and shows you exactly why the success of your token depends on relentless community engagement.

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Phase 1: Costs, Mechanics, and Creator Fees

Pump.fun’s model is designed for a fair launch, meaning developers cannot pre-mine tokens for themselves—they must buy their initial supply just like everyone else. There is a practice called bundles where devs are able to acquire multi wallets worth of coins at the very launch in the 1st transaction block where the coin is created to give them a unfair advantage. More on that later. Read til the end for more information on that.

Initial Cost & Fees

Item	Cost	Purpose
Token Creation Fee	~0.02 SOL (approx. $3–$5 USD)	The mandatory fee to deploy the token’s initial metadata and bonding curve contract.
Gas/Transaction Fees	Minimal (~$0.005)	Fees for connecting your wallet and confirming the creation transaction.
Initial Buy (Optional)	Recommended 0.5 - 2 SOL	Your first purchase to acquire tokens for marketing, giveaways, and to signal confidence.

The Dynamic Creator Fee (Project Ascend)

Pump.fun rewards successful creators via a dynamic fee structure called Creator Fees. You earn a percentage of every trade made on your token’s bonding curve.

• Mechanism: Creators earn a percentage of the total trade volume, which scales dynamically based on the token’s market cap, and volume. The more poeple buy and sell your coin the more fees you earn.
• Incentive: The highest fee percentage (around 0.95% of volume) is paid when your token is in the crucial growth phase (approx. $88k - $300k market cap). This ensures the creator is highly incentivized to promote and shepherd the token during its most volatile period.

The Graduation Mechanism

The core goal of any Pump.fun launch is to Graduate. Coins start off at 5k mc and then rise from each purchase, with community members adding to the pumpswap liquidty pool.

• In the beginning When your token’s market cap reaches the target threshold (historically $69,000 USD), the funds accumulated on the bonding curve are used to create a liquidity pool (LP) on a major DEX like Raydium, but since then pumpfun has launched their own Dex called pumpswap, so the liquidity pool is created directly with pumpswap now.
• The corresponding LP tokens are then burned, effectively locking the liquidity forever and securing the token’s trading future on the broader Solana ecosystem.

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Phase 2: The 5-Step Pump.fun Launch Guide

The process is designed to be completed in under five minutes.

Step 1: Prepare Your Wallet & Funds

• Use a Solana-compatible wallet (Phantom, Solflare, Backpack).
• Ensure your wallet is funded with at least 0.25 SOL to cover the creation fee and your initial token purchase.

Step 2: Access the Platform & Start Creation

• Go to the official Pump.fun website.
• Click “Connect Wallet” and link your Solana wallet.
• Click the button to “Start a new coin.”

Step 3: Define Your Token’s Identity

• Fill out the simple form:
  • Name: The full name of your token (e.g., “Meme God Coin”).
  • Ticker: The short symbol (e.g., “MGOD”).
  • Description: A catchy, engaging summary of the idea. This is your first marketing pitch!
  • Image: Upload your token’s logo/meme graphic.

Step 4: Link Your Socials (Crucial Step)

• You will be prompted to add links. This is mandatory for serious projects.
• Traders have tools that they use to filter out projects that don’t fit within a criteria. Having a least one social or more may cause you get traders, whereas if you add no socials you might get filtered out.
• Add links to your dedicated X (Twitter) account and your Telegram community. This immediately gives buyers a place to go and verifies you are planning for a community-driven project.

Step 5: Finalize and Buy Your Supply

• Approve the ~0.02 SOL creation fee transaction in your wallet.
• The bonding curve will immediately start. You will be prompted to make your initial purchase. This is the only way to acquire developer tokens. Buy a reasonable amount (e.g., 0.5-2 SOL worth) to hold for marketing and giveaways.
• Once confirmed, your coin is LIVE and immediately tradable on the Pump.fun bonding curve.

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Phase 3: The Secret Sauce - Community & Promotion

The vast majority of tokens on Pump.fun fail not because they have a bad meme, but because they have a weak launch strategy and no community engagement. Once your token is live, the clock is ticking, and the goal is to hit the $69,000 Graduation threshold. Around this time people join your community and start shilling the coin on social media platforms in order to get more people to join.

Why Socials are Non-Negotiable:

• Trust & Legitimacy: Links to an active X and Telegram signal that the project has a team behind it and isn’t a likely abandoned project.
• The FOMO Engine: Memecoins are driven by hype. You must have dedicated social channels to post fresh memes, push community buy contests, and create relentless chatter.
• The Shilling Requirement: Your project needs constant visibility in key crypto communities, Telegram groups, and under popular crypto tweets. If people aren’t talking about your coin, they aren’t buying it. Communities who raid kols or larger pages, often win visibility for free as they are using the reply guy strategy to grow the coins popularity.

Building and maintaining this level of high-volume, 24/7 engagement is exhausting and is the single biggest failure point for new creators.

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Next Level: Accelerate Your Community with Professional Support

Successfully launching a token requires constant vigilance and hyper-responsive community management, especially in the first 72 hours. This is where most creators run out of steam, and their token dies from lack of chatter.

My Reply Guy Services are designed to solve this exact problem:

I offer professional community engagement and reply guy services to ensure your project’s X (Twitter) presence remains active, positive, and constantly visible in the feeds that matter, right from your TGE (Token Generation Event) and beyond.

• Pre-Launch Hype: We help build anticipation and start the initial shilling campaign.
• Launch Day Engagement: We flood the necessary feeds with buy confirmations, memes, and positive comments to sustain the initial pump.
• 24/7 Community Support: We act as your dedicated front-line team, maintaining chatter and enthusiasm so you can focus on the project’s big picture.

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Ready to launch and ensure your token’s success is backed by professional community support? Contact me today to discuss my tailored Reply Guy Service packages for your Pump.fun project.

Watch out for Scams, once a coin is launched, it only takes seconds to minutes for a Dev, or community to dump all their coins on your head. You need to be able to read on chain data, check several tools to see if the coin is bundled, or check the contract to make sure its a safe contract to interact with.

Some coins are launched for the sole purpose of dumping the coin later, and some coins are serious but still die because the hype and attention goes else where.