Original Title: "An Overview of 10 Emerging Launchpad Platforms: From AI Agent to MEME, Solana Becomes the 'Launch Center'"
Original Author: Nancy, PANews
With the return of funds and a revival of sentiment, the on-chain world is quietly heating up, and many emerging token issuance platforms have begun to launch attacks on the leading Pump.fun. This article from PANews reviews 10 recently popular Launchpad platform newcomers, covering the MEME, AI Agent, and SocialFi sectors, primarily focused on the Solana ecosystem. These platforms each have their own characteristics, mostly relying on solid ecological foundations and resource advantages, and are competing for market share through innovative mechanisms and differentiated positioning by optimizing issuance mechanisms, enriching creator incentives, enhancing token empowerment, and improving platform security.
LaunchLab
LaunchLab is a token issuance platform based on Solana, launched by Raydium in mid-April this year. Creators use the JustSendIt model to issue tokens, and once liquidity reaches 85 SOL, the tokens will be immediately migrated to Raydium's AMM. LaunchLab offers various customization options, including token supply settings, distribution curves, vesting periods, etc., and users can choose to receive a 10% share of transaction fees. The platform's trading fee is 1%, of which 50% goes to the community pool, 25% is used for $RAY buybacks, and 25% is allocated for project infrastructure and operations. On April 26, Raydium announced the opening of a 50,000 RAY reward pool to reward users trading on LaunchLab.
According to Dune data, as of April 29, LaunchLab has issued 24,916 tokens, with a graduation rate of 0.84%. In terms of the number of tokens created, since LaunchLab's launch on April 16, the issuance volume was initially low, typically in the hundreds, but has significantly increased since April 25, with daily issuance reaching thousands. Among the 210 graduated projects, total trading volume is mainly concentrated in LetsBONK, TIME, and Hosico tokens, with a cumulative trading volume close to $350 million, while the trading volume of remaining tokens mostly ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Letsbonk.Fun
Based on Solana, Letsbonk.Fun is developed by members of the MEME coin BONK community in collaboration with Raydium, allowing users to create their own MEME coins through a simple process of clicking "Create Token," filling in token details, and customizing supply. It provides developers with features such as wallet tags and binding curves, and once the token is launched, it can quickly connect to DEXs like Raydium and Jupiter. Each transaction on the platform incurs a 1% fee, which is used for development funding pools, BONKsol validators, and buybacks and burns of BONK. Platform users can also participate in the 50,000 RAY reward pool from LaunchLab.
Arc Forge
Arc Forge is an Agent token issuance solution launched by the AI Agent project arc on Solana in mid-February this year. The platform is built on Meteora DLMM and integrated with Jupiter routing, offering key advantages such as more efficient liquidity, prevention of sniping bots, and customized liquidity strategies, with only high-quality projects that have been reviewed allowed to participate.
auto.fun
auto.fun is a no-code AI agent Launchpad platform based on Solana launched by Eliza Labs for issuing new tokens and autonomous agents, with the native token being ai16z. This platform allows users to deploy complex AI agents without a technical background, adopting a fairer token issuance mechanism. auto.fun uses a dual-pool system: the SOL:AT main pool serves as the platform's primary liquidity pool, pairing newly released agent tokens (AT) with SOL and providing liquidity through Raydium; $ai16z:AT is a target for future phases, aiming to pair liquidity between $ai16z and AT through buybacks from platform revenue. Each project launched on auto.fun receives a liquidity NFT supported by Raydium, granting project creators ownership of the liquidity and enabling continuous revenue capture through the NFT. In each AT token liquidity pool, auto.fun charges a 10% fee, which will be used to buy back $ai16z tokens from the market. According to the official website, as of April 27, the highest market cap of tokens on auto.fun is only in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Time.fun
Time.fun is a time tokenization platform that migrated from Base to the Solana ecosystem. Creators must register through the platform interface, customizing the token name, symbol, and initial supply, and set the pricing for time services (in USDC), but identity verification is required.
In the past two months, Time.fun has been frequently recommended by Solana co-founder Toly, who recently initiated an auction on the platform, attracting over $1.2 million in total bids. Three entrepreneurs won the opportunity to pitch their projects to Toly himself and the Solana ecosystem community, which will be presented live on May 6, where they will introduce their entrepreneurial projects and receive live feedback from Toly.
According to Dune data, as of April 28, the total number of tokens issued on the Time.fun platform is only 396, but the daily issuance has continued to decline after peaking on the first day of launch, with several days seeing issuance drop to single digits or even zero. Meanwhile, the total trading volume on the platform has exceeded $200 million, with over $100 million contributed on the first day of launching on Solana, followed by a gradual decline in trading volume, which currently remains in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars range. The trading volume is mainly driven by the token $toly, which has accounted for more than half of the volume over the long term.
Genesis Launches
Genesis Launches is a launch platform recently introduced by the Virtuals Protocol based on Base and Solana, with the core goal of allowing community users to participate fairly in the early incubation of new AI Agent projects, preventing bots and snipers from low-price sniping, and protecting participants' funds. Each new project starts with a fixed diluted market cap of 112,000 $VIRTUAL (approximately $120,000), and users participate by staking Virgin Points. Each round has a 24-hour bidding period, and the more points a user has, the higher their allocation. Currently, users have three main ways to earn points: by investing in Sentient and Prototype Agent tokens to earn Trenchor points, holding $VIRTUAL tokens to earn, and staking $VADER tokens to earn. Unused points will expire after 30 days.
Shell Launchpad
Shell Launchpad is launched by the AI Agent platform MyShel on the BNB Chain, aimed at helping users easily launch and tokenize their AI Agents. The platform offers various creation modes, including classic mode, professional configuration mode, and ShellAgent mode, catering to novice users, developers with some technical background, and professional developers, respectively. Shell Launchpad provides over 300 modular AI widgets, allowing users to quickly combine and build complex AI Agents, and set basic information for their AI Agents, including name, description, token, category, etc., as well as configure the token economic model, including total supply, fundraising amount, etc. Once the financing of the AI Agent reaches the target, the platform will automatically launch on DEX.
Swarms LaunchPad
Swarms LaunchPad is an AI agent token issuance platform developed by the AI Agent project Swarms on Solana, used for creating, deploying, tokenizing, and monetizing intelligent agents. Users can build customized AI agents through the Swarms SDK (supporting Python/Rust SDK) and upload their developed AI agents for tokenization, trading them through Swarms Dex. These tokenized AI agents can be sold or rented on the Swarms marketplace, and developers profit through purchase fees, rental shares, or trading revenue. Developers of high-quality agents can receive additional SWARMS token rewards.
Recently, Swarms LaunchPad underwent significant upgrades, including performance optimization, integration with Gecko Terminal, new comment features, and a holdings page, with the source code fully open-sourced to GitHub.
According to the Swarms LaunchPad official website, as of April 29, the total number of Agents on the platform is 20, with a total market cap of approximately $1.5 million.
someting
Currently, someting has not officially launched and is still in the whitelist phase. According to known information, someting has partnered with Meteora, including unilateral liquidity, dynamic pools, and vaults, and features a unique Bonding Curve mechanism, offering lower fees and faster binding times. On the someting platform, token liquidity requires 42 SOL to graduate, with a trading fee of 0.69%, supporting customizable bonding curves, anti-sniping features, and integrating market makers to automatically provide liquidity. Additionally, to enhance the project's credibility, someting also possesses a verification badge from platform X.
Launch Coin on Believe
Launch Coin on Believe allows users to create and issue new tokens through simple social interactions, with the core mechanism being to trigger the generation of a new token by replying to a tweet with @launchacoin + token name.
It is important to note that Launch Coin on Believe is the predecessor of PASTERNAK, a celebrity coin created by Clout founder Ben Pasternak, who is also one of the founders of Monkey (one of the largest social applications in Web2). Clout is a SocialFi platform that combines features from platforms like Friend.Tech, Pump.fun, and Moonshot, allowing celebrities and creators to issue tokens named after themselves, and has received support from organizations like Alliance DAO.
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