How it works

1. Connect a Solana-native wallet from the header — Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, Glow, or any wallet-adapter app.
2. Pick the network with the cluster selector — mainnet, devnet, or testnet. Devnet is free; grab disposable SOL at faucet.solana.com.

Cost: ~0.7 SOL on mainnet (mint + pool fees + Raydium rent) plus your initial liquidity · free on devnet

1. Connect your Solana wallet.
2. Open the Create tab and keep the choice on Express Launch (the default, recommended for most launches).
3. Fill in name, symbol, supply, logo, description.
4. Leave the Safety Lock armed — mint authority, freeze authority, and metadata lock all default ON.
5. Under Seed Liquidity, pick the quote asset (SOL, USD1, or USDC), enter how much of your supply to seed, and how much of the quote asset to pair against it. The implied launch price shows live.
6. Choose the LP disposition — Burn (cheap, permanent), Lock (permanent + keep trading fees), or Hold (risky for buyers — only pick if you understand why).
7. (Optional) Custom Address Generator (+0.05 SOL on mainnet).
8. Click Launch & Trade. Approve 3–4 wallet signatures in sequence: mint, authority revoke, pool init, and LP disposition. Each is atomic — a failed step never charges that step’s fee.
9. Token is live on Raydium Standard AMM and tradeable through Jupiter within minutes of confirmation.

Cost: ~0.065 SOL on mainnet · free on devnet

1. Connect your Solana wallet.
2. Open the Create tab and pick Standard Launch.
3. Write the token name (e.g. Doge of Solana).
4. Enter the symbol (a short uppercase ticker, e.g. DOGSOL).
5. Set the decimals — 9 matches SOL; lower values produce coarser units, higher values finer.
6. Set the initial supply — there is no protocol-imposed default; pick what suits your token (e.g. 1,000,000,000).
7. Add a description.
8. Upload the logo (PNG or JPG). Forge pins it to IPFS.
9. Choose your Safety Lock options — revoke mint authority, revoke freeze authority, and lock metadata. All three default to ON.
10. (Optional) Use the Custom Address Generator to grind a vanity prefix and/or suffix (max 4 characters per side) into the mint address. Adds +0.05 SOL to the create transaction; free on devnet.
11. Click Create token, approve in your wallet, and wait for confirmation. The transaction is atomic — failed mint = no fee charged.
12. When ready, head to the Liquidity tab to seed a Raydium pool.

Cost: ~0.175 SOL on mainnet · free on devnet

1. Connect your Solana wallet.
2. Open the Create tab and switch the toggle to Pro.
3. Fill name, symbol, decimals, supply, description, logo.
4. Pick the Token-2022 extensions you need — Transfer fee, Transfer hook, Interest-bearing, or Non-transferable. Extensions are written into the mint at creation and cannot be added or removed afterward.
5. Configure each enabled extension (e.g. fee in basis points, fee collector address). Verify wallet/explorer/DEX support for the extensions you pick before launching on mainnet.
6. Choose Lock metadata (default ON).
7. (Optional) Use the Custom Address Generator (prefix and/or suffix, max 4 chars per side, +0.05 SOL on mainnet).
8. Click Create token, approve in your wallet, and wait for confirmation.

Cost: ~0.6 SOL on mainnet (0.20 fee + ~0.4 Raydium rent) plus your liquidity · free on devnet

1. Connect your Solana wallet (you must hold the token plus enough SOL, USD1, or USDC for the deposit — depending on which quote asset you pair against).
2. Open the Liquidity tab. If you came here from Manage → Launch pool, your token is pre-selected.
3. Pick the quote asset — SOL, USD1, or USDC (or paste any other mint via Custom).
4. Enter how much of your supply to seed.
5. Enter how much of the quote asset to pair against it.
6. Review the implied price and fully-diluted market cap shown live in the form before signing. The CPMM formula is price = quote ÷ tokens.
7. Choose what happens to the LP token — Hold, Burn (permanent), or Lock (permanent, you keep an NFT that claims trading fees).
8. Click Create pool, approve in your wallet, and wait for confirmation. Forge always creates a Standard AMM (CPMM) pool — your pool will appear under the Standard AMM tab on raydium.io.

Cost: Free for 1 recipient · 0.01–0.30 SOL by tier · 0.0005 SOL × N at scale

1. Connect your Solana wallet.
2. Open the Airdrop tab.
3. Pick a mode — Single Send, Equal Split, or Custom List.
4. Choose the token from the dropdown.
5. Paste recipients — one address per line for Equal Split, or address,amount per line for Custom List. CSV files can be dropped onto the textarea.
6. (Optional) Use the Snapshot button to build the recipient list from existing holders of any on-chain token.
7. Review the validation summary — valid / duplicates merged / invalid addresses flagged.
8. Click Send airdrop and approve each batch in your wallet (Forge groups up to ~12 recipients per transaction).
9. Download the CSV report when complete.

Cost: Network fees only (~0.000005 SOL/tx) plus any service fee on the action you take

1. Connect your Solana wallet.
2. Open the Manage tab. Forge auto-lists every token where you hold the mint or metadata authority. Paste a mint address into the search field if it doesn't auto-detect.
3. Click a token to expand its action panel.
4. Update metadata — edit name, symbol, description, logo, and social links (Twitter, Telegram, Website). Only works on tokens minted with mutable metadata; the form is replaced by a “Metadata is locked” notice for tokens with isMutable: false. +0.05 SOL on mainnet, free on devnet, atomic with the update transaction.
5. Revoke mint or freeze authority if you didn't lock them at creation. One signature each, irreversible.
6. Lock metadata to make it permanent (one-way: locked tokens can't be made editable again).
7. Harvest accrued Token-2022 transfer fees into your fee-collector address (only shown for tokens with the transfer-fee extension).
8. Use Launch pool or Airdrop to jump to those tabs with this token pre-filled.

Five flows. If something feels unclear, the FAQ covers the questions that came up during the build, or email support@theforgemoon.com.