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How to Make a Meme Coin on Pump.fun: What the Docs Say
How to make a meme coin on Pump.fun, from its own docs: four steps, no supply field, 0 SOL to create, 0.015 SOL at graduation, 1.25% on the curve.
To make a meme coin on Pump.fun, connect a Solana wallet, open Create, fill in a name, ticker, description and image, and sign one transaction. Pump.fun’s fees page lists 0 SOL to create. The coin then trades on a bonding curve and moves to PumpSwap automatically once its market cap on the curve reaches a graduation threshold.
This is an evergreen how-to, watched from outside the queue. This desk read Pump.fun’s fees page, create-coin guide and bonding-curve page on 8 October 2026. The fees page says “Last Updated: 20 May 2026”.
How to make a meme coin on Pump.fun: the four steps
The create-coin guide calls Pump.fun “a memecoin launchpad on Solana” and lists four steps. Connect a wallet (Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, any Solana wallet, or email via Privy). Click Create and fill in name, a ticker of typically 3-6 characters, description, a square image and optional socials. Sign the launch transaction.
What the form lacks matters more. The guide says there is no liquidity to seed, no presale and no team allocation, and its field list has no supply box. Name, symbol and image are immutable SPL token metadata, so the joke is permanent.
How much does it cost to create a meme coin?
As listed on the fees page, 8 October 2026:
| Item | Pump.fun’s figure |
|---|---|
| Create a coin | 0 SOL / 0 USDC |
| Graduation to PumpSwap | 0.015 SOL |
| Bonding-curve trade fee | 1.25%: creator 0.300%, protocol 0.95%, LP 0% |
| Market cap basis | price × 1 billion tokens |
| Canonical pool, 0-420 SOL cap | 1.250% total, creator 0.300% |
| Canonical pool, 420-1470 SOL cap | 1.200% total, creator 0.950% |
| Canonical pool, 98240 SOL and up | 0.300% total, creator 0.050% |
| Non-canonical PumpSwap pools | 0.3% total, creator 0% |
USDC can be the paired token from 21 May 2026, on its own ladder. The page adds that some mobile users “may experience fee increases of up to .1%”, and that the creator’s share may go to charities if the creator opts in.
What the ranking guides say instead
Nansen’s guide, posted 22 May 2025, says Pump.Fun lets you launch “on Base network” and has the creator enter a total supply and a locking period. Pump.fun’s own page describes a Solana launchpad. fomo’s answer page, dated 23 January 2026, tells creators to “define initial supply” and puts launchpad fees “often less than $5”; it also puts graduation “often around $69K”, a figure none of the three Pump.fun pages read states.
What the finished coin looks like on-chain is a separate inspection: mint authority, what happens to graduated liquidity and who bought in block zero.
Questions readers ask
How to create a meme coin for free?
On Pump.fun, the platform’s own create fee is listed as 0 SOL or 0 USDC, and the create-coin page says there is no fee to create a coin. The launch is still a signed Solana transaction, and the pages this desk read do not price the network side, so free means free of Pump.fun’s fee.
What happens when a meme coin graduates on Pump.fun?
Per the bonding-curve page, once market cap on the curve hits the graduation threshold, the curve closes and the whole pool migrates atomically to PumpSwap. The move is automatic and irreversible, the fees page charges 0.015 SOL for it, and the migrated liquidity becomes a canonical pool owned by the protocol.
Can anyone make a meme coin?
Pump.fun’s create-coin page says anyone can launch one in under a minute with a Solana wallet, and its site banner asks visitors to certify they are over 18. The same page warns that coins breaking its Terms and Conditions or Trademark Guidelines may be removed, so anyone is a description of the form, not a promise.
The desk documents the ride; it does not board it. Memecoins are extremely high risk and frequently go to zero; nothing here is financial advice, so do your own research.