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Launching a coin

Launching takes one form and a flat 0.05 SOL fee: aio creates the coin for you and it starts at about $20k market cap.

  • sign-in (needed to launch from the site): on here

At a glance

launch fee
0.05 SOL
to aio's treasury, once per coin
start
about $20k
market cap, on the deep start curve
supply
1 billion
700 million sold on the curve, 300 million go to the pool
address
ends in aio
taken from a pool of pre-made addresses
daily limit
5
paid launches per wallet per 24 hours

The form

You need a profile, which means signing in, and a Solana wallet holding the launch fee.

  1. Step 1: Open the launch form. Enter a name (up to 32 characters), a ticker (1 to 10 letters or digits) and an image.
  2. Step 2: Pick who earns the creator fee: an X account, a GitHub user or a Solana wallet.
  3. Step 3: Pay the launch fee from your wallet.
  4. Step 4: aio builds, signs and pays for the transaction that creates the coin. The coin's address stays private until the pool is live and checked on chain.
  5. Step 5: The coin page opens and anyone can trade.

The 0.05 SOL fee

The fee covers the roughly 0.03 SOL of account rent the treasury pays to create a coin, plus a margin. It can't be set below 0.03 SOL.

If the fee lands but creating the coin keeps failing, retry from the form. The fee is never charged twice. There is no automatic refund.

Deep start: about $20k

Every new coin uses one curve shape, called deep start. It begins at about $20,000 market cap. aio reads the dollar price of SOL when the launch is prepared and again just before the coin is created, so the start is within 0.5% of $20,000 at that price. If no fresh price can be read, the launch is refused.

A higher start is not more liquidity. Nobody deposits the curve's depth, and aio adds no liquidity of its own. At the start, a $1,000 buy moves the price about 8%.

Older, lower curves were retired on 2026-11-03. Asking for one is refused with a message, never quietly swapped.

The address ending in aio

Coin addresses made by aio end in aio. aio keeps a pool of ready ones and gives each launch one. If the pool is empty, the coin gets an ordinary random address instead.

Limits

  • 5 paid launches per wallet per 24 hours.
  • At most 5 unpaid launches started by one wallet in the last hour.
  • On mainnet, names and tickers that read as aio's own coin or as a major asset are refused.
  • A recipient who opted out of aio can't be named.

More options

Instead of buying their own coin, a launcher can reserve 0 to 10% of supply as a locked dev allocation: nothing unlocks until 30 days after graduation, then it unlocks evenly over 90 days. Other launch styles, such as pairing against another token, paying holders, a charity share or trader cashback, are off unless the operator switches them on. The whitepaper describes each.

A stock coin's pool is quoted in a tokenized stock, and it pays holders in that stock. Mainnet only, not for US persons. See stock coins.

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