At a glance of 10 emerging Launchpad platforms: From AI Agent to MEME, Solana becomes the "launch center"

Author: Nancy, PANews

With the return of funds and the recovery of emotions, the world on-chain is quietly heating up, and many emerging token issuing platforms have also begun to launch blood-sucking attacks on the leader Pump.fun in turn. This article PANews has included 10 Launchpad platform rookies that have received high attention recently, involving MEME, AI Agent and SocialFi tracks, mainly focusing on the Solana ecosystem. These platforms have their own characteristics, mostly relying on a solid ecological foundation and resource advantages, and compete for market share through innovative mechanisms and differentiated positioning such as optimizing issuance mechanisms, enriching creator incentives, enhancing token empowerment, and improving platform security.

LaunchLab

LaunchLab is a Solana-based token issuance platform launched by Raydium in mid-April this year. The creators use the JustSendIt model to release tokens, and once the liquidity reaches 85 SOLs, the tokens will be moved to Raydium's AMM immediately. LaunchLab provides a variety of customization options, including token supply settings, distribution curves, vesting periods, etc., and can choose to get a 10% transaction fee share. The platform transaction fee is 1%, of which 50% belongs to the community pool, 25% is used for $RAY repurchase, and 25% is used for project infrastructure and operations. On April 26, Raydium announced that it had opened a 50,000 RAY reward pool to reward users who use LaunchLab for transactions.

According to Dune data, as of April 29, LaunchLab has issued 24,916 tokens, with a graduation rate of 0.84%. Judging from the number of token creations, the issuance of tokens has been in a downturn since LaunchLab was launched on April 16, usually hundreds, but the issuance of tokens has increased significantly since April 25, with the daily issuance of thousands. Among the 210 graduation projects, the total transaction volume is mainly concentrated in LetsBONK, TIME and Hosico tokens, with a cumulative transaction volume of nearly US$350 million, and the remaining token transaction volume is mostly concentrated between tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Letsbonk.Fun

Letsbonk.Fun, based on Solana, is developed by members of the MEME currency BONK community in collaboration with Raydium. It allows users to create their own MEME currency by clicking "Create token", filling in token details and customizing supply creation. It also provides developers with functions such as wallet tags and binding curves. After the token is launched, it can quickly connect to DEXs such as Raydium and Jupiter. Each transaction on the platform will be charged a 1% handling fee for development of fund pools, BONKsol validators, and repurchase and destroy BONKs. Platform users can also participate in LaunchLab's 50,000 RAY prize pool.

Arc Forge

Arc Forge, an Agent token issuance solution launched by Arc, an AI Agent project on Solana, in mid-February this year. Built on Meteora DLMM and integrated with Jupiter routing, the platform has the main advantages of more efficient liquidity, preventing order robbers and custom liquidity strategies, and only high-quality projects that have been reviewed can participate.

auto.fun

auto.fun is the Solana-free AI proxy Launchpad platform launched by Eliza Labs for issuing new tokens and autonomous agents. The native token is ai16z, which allows users to deploy complex artificial intelligence proxy without the need for technical background, adopting a more fair token issuance mechanism. auto.fun adopts a dual-pool system: SOL:AT main pool is the main liquidity pool of the platform, pairing the newly released proxy token (AT) with SOL and providing liquidity through Raydium; $ai16z:AT is the goal of the future stage, aiming to pair liquidity with AT through $ai16z in the repurchase platform revenue. Each project published on auto.fun will receive a liquid NFT powered by Raydium, which gives project creators ownership of liquidity and enables continuous revenue capture through NFTs. In the liquidity pool of each AT token, auto.fun charges a 10% fee, which will be used to return $ai16z tokens from the market. According to the official website, as of April 27, the highest market value of tokens on auto.fun was only hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Time.fun

Time.fun is a time tokenization platform that migrates from Base to Solana ecosystem. Creators need to register through the platform interface. They can customize token names, symbols and initial supply, and set the pricing of time services (in USDC), but they need to be authenticated.

Time.fun has been frequently recommended by Solana toly in the past two months. Recently, he launched an auction on the platform, attracting more than US$1.2 million in total bidding. The three entrepreneurs won the opportunity to conduct a project roadshow to Toly himself and the Solana ecological community. They will introduce their entrepreneurial projects in the live broadcast on May 6 and accept Toly's live comments.

According to Dune data, as of April 28, the cumulative number of tokens issued by Time.fun platform was only 396, but the daily issuance volume has continued to decline since it hit a peak on the first day of its launch, and even the number of issuance volume dropped to single digits or even zero for many days. At the same time, the total transaction volume of the platform exceeded US$200 million, of which more than US$100 million was contributed on the first day of its launch. The transaction volume gradually declined and is currently in the range of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The transaction volume is mainly driven by the token $toly, accounting for more than half of the long term.

Genesis Launches

Genesis Launches is a launch platform recently launched by Virtuals Protocol based on Base and Solana. The core goal is to enable community users to participate fairly in the incubation of the new AI Agent project, prevent robots and snipers from scrambling for low-priced funds, and protect participants' funds from being secured. Each new project starts with a fixed dilution market value of 112,000 $VIRTUAL (about 120,000 US dollars). Users participate by pledging Virgin Points. There is a 24-hour auction period for each round. The more points, the higher the allocation. Currently, there are three main ways for users to earn points: earn Trenchor points by investing in Sentient and Prototype Agent tokens, earning earning with $VIRTUAL tokens, and earning with pledge of $VADER tokens, unused points will expire in 30 days.

Shell Launchpad

Shell Launchpad is launched by MyShel, an AI Agent platform on BNB Chain, aims to help users easily launch and tokenize their AI Agents. The platform has a variety of creation modes, including classic mode, professional configuration mode and ShellAgent mode, which meet the design of novice users, developers with certain technical backgrounds and professional developers. Shell Launchpad provides 300+ modular AI widgets, where users can quickly combine and build complex AI agents, and set basic information such as the name, description, tokens, categories of their AI agents according to their needs, and configure the token economic model, including the total supply, fundraising amount, etc. Once the AI ​​Agent's financing reaches its target, the platform will automatically go online on DEX.

Swarms LaunchPad

Swarms LaunchPad is an AI agent token issuance platform developed by Swarms, an AI Agent project on Solana, for creating, deploying, tokenizing and monetizing smart agents. Users can build customized AI agents through the Swarms SDK (support Python/Rust SDK), upload their own developed AI agents for tokenization, and trade them through Swarms Dex. These tokenized AI agents can be sold or leased on the Swarms market, and developers make profits through purchase fees, leasing share or transaction income. Developers with high-quality agents receive additional SWARMS token rewards.

Recently, Swarms LaunchPad has undergone major upgrades, including performance optimization, integration of Gecko Terminal, added comment functions and holding pages, and the source code has been fully open sourced to GitHub, etc.

According to the official website of Swarms LaunchPad, as of April 29, the total number of Agents on the platform was 20, with a total market value of about US$1.5 million.

Something

At present, someting has not been officially launched and is still in the whitelist stage. According to known information, someting has partnered with Meteora, including unilateral liquidity, dynamic pools and vaults, and has a unique Bonding Curve mechanism with lower fees and faster binding times. On the someting platform, the liquidity of tokens requires 42 SOLs to graduate, with a transaction fee of 0.69%, supports a custom bond curve, has anti-sniper function and integrates market makers to automatically provide liquidity. At the same time, in order to improve the credibility of the project, someting also has the verification badge of the X platform.

Launch Coin on Believe

Launch Coin on Believe allows users to create and issue new tokens through simple social interactions. The core mechanism is to trigger a new token generation by replying to tweets with @launchacoin+ token name.

It should be noted that Launch Coin on Believe's predecessor was 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 the characteristics of platforms such as Friend.Tech, Pump.fun and Moonshot, allowing celebrities and creators to issue tokens named after themselves, and has received support from Alliance DAO and other platforms.