Creating a token

The fields

• NameThe full name of the token, as wallets and explorers display it. Long names get truncated in narrow interfaces, so read it at about twenty characters and decide whether it still works.
• TickerThe short symbol. Three to six characters is the normal range. It does not have to be unique on Solana, which is exactly why scam clones exist, so pick something you can defend as yours.
• SupplyHow many tokens exist. This is the number people will divide by when they work out what one token is worth, so it changes how the price reads even though it changes nothing about the value.
• DecimalsHow finely one token divides. Six is the common choice for a launch token. Nine matches SOL itself. Zero makes the token whole units only, which is right for a collectible and wrong for anything that trades.
• ImageThe token picture. Square, and legible at the size of a wallet list row, which is small. Fine detail disappears.
• DescriptionA short line explaining what the token is. It travels with the metadata into explorers and aggregators.
• SocialsWebsite, X, Telegram, Discord. These go into the metadata so a holder can find you from their wallet rather than a search engine, which is where impersonators live.

Mint and freeze authority

Every SPL token carries two switches. Both start pointed at whoever created the token, and both can be given up permanently at creation.

Both switches are checked by traders within seconds of a launch, and a token that keeps either one is treated as a risk. Most launches revoke both, and the terminal revokes both by default.

When you might keep one

Keeping mint authority makes sense if the token has a real emission schedule and you intend to mint against it on a published plan. Keeping freeze authority makes sense for a token that has to satisfy a compliance requirement. Neither is a fair launch, and both need saying out loud rather than leaving for someone to discover.

Metadata and when it is written

Metadata is the name, ticker, image and links. It is uploaded before the mint goes out, and the mint points at it, so the token never appears on an explorer as an unnamed address while you catch up.

Metadata stays editable as long as you hold the update authority for it. That is a separate thing from mint authority, and it is the reason a token can fix a broken image without touching its supply.

Launching an existing mint

If the token already exists, paste its mint address instead of filling the create form. RELICLAUNCHER skips creation entirely and builds a bundle of buys against the mint you named.

Everything else is the same. The wallets, the roles, the randomised amounts, the protection rules and the simulation all behave identically. The only difference is that the first instruction in the bundle is a buy rather than a create, so there is no launch moment to protect, only an entry.

Bonding curve launches

RELICLAUNCHER also launches against pump.fun style bonding curves. In that model there is no pool to seed. The curve prices the token as a function of how much has been bought, so early buys cost less than later ones by construction.

The practical difference for you is where the first buys land on that curve. The bundle still puts the create and every buy in one slot, so the curve is walked in the order you set rather than in the order the public path happens to deliver.