Overview of 10 Emerging Launchpad platforms: From AI Agent to MEME, Solana has become the "launch center".

Reviewing the 10 most popular new Launchpad platforms recently, covering MEME, AI Agent, and SocialFi tracks, mainly focused on the Solana ecosystem.

Written by: Nancy, PANews

With the inflow of funds and the recovery of sentiment, the on-chain world is quietly heating up, and many emerging token issuance platforms have begun to launch successive blood-sucking attacks on the leading Pump.fun. This article by PANews reviews the 10 Launchpad platform newcomers that have recently garnered high attention, involving MEME, AI Agent, and SocialFi tracks, mainly concentrated in the Solana ecosystem. These platforms each have their own characteristics, mostly relying on a solid ecological foundation 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 publish tokens using the JustSendIt model, and once the 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, and the option to receive a 10% share of transaction fees. The platform transaction 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 with 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 was launched on April 16, the issuance of tokens was once in a slump, usually in the hundreds. However, since April 25, the issuance of tokens has significantly increased, with daily issuance reaching thousands. Among the 210 graduated projects, the total trading volume is mainly concentrated in LetsBONK, TIME, and Hosico tokens, with a cumulative trading volume close to 350 million USD, while the trading volume of the remaining tokens is mostly concentrated between tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of USD.

Letsbonk.Fun

Letsbonk.Fun, based on Solana, is developed by members of the BONK community in collaboration with Raydium. It allows users to create their own MEME coins through a simple process of clicking "Create Token", filling in token details, and customizing supply. It also provides developers with wallet tagging and bonding curve features. Once the token is launched, it can be quickly integrated into DEXs such as Raydium and Jupiter. Each transaction on the platform incurs a 1% fee, which is used for developing the funding pool, BONKsol validators, and for repurchasing and destroying BONK. Platform users can also participate in the 50,000 RAY prize pool of 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 customizable liquidity strategies, with only vetted high-quality projects allowed to participate.

auto.fun

auto.fun is a Solana-based no-code AI agent Launchpad platform launched by Eliza Labs for the issuance of new tokens and autonomous agents, the native token is ai16z, the platform allows users to deploy complex AI agents without technical background, adopting a fairer token issuance mechanism. auto.fun adopts a dual-pool system: the SOL:AT main pool is the main liquidity pool of the platform, pairing the newly issued Proxy Token (AT) with SOL and providing liquidity through Raydium; $ai 16z: AT is a target for a future phase, which aims to be liquidity matched with AT through $ai 16z of repo platform revenue. Each project released on auto.fun receives a liquidity NFT powered by Raydium, which gives the project creator ownership of the liquidity and enables ongoing yield capture through NFTs. In the liquidity pool of each AT token, the auto.fun charges a 10% fee, which will be used to return $ai 16z tokens from the market. According to the official website, as of April 27, the maximum market value of tokens on auto.fun is only hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Time.fun

Time.fun is a time tokenization platform that has migrated from Base to the Solana ecosystem. Creators need to register through the platform interface, customize the token name, symbol, and initial supply, and set the pricing for the time service (in USDC), but identity verification is required.

Time.fun has been frequently recommended by Solana co-creator Toly in the past two months, and recently launched an auction on the platform, which attracted more than $1.2 million in bidding, and the three entrepreneurs won the opportunity to conduct a project roadshow to Toly and the Solana ecological community, and will introduce their startup projects and receive live reviews from Toly in a live broadcast on May 6.

According to Dune data, as of April 28, the total number of tokens issued by the Time.fun platform is only 396, but the daily issuance has continued to decline since peaking on the first day of its launch, with several days seeing issuance drop to single digits or even zero. Meanwhile, the platform's total transaction volume has exceeded 200 million USD, with over 100 million USD contributed on the first day of its launch on Solana, after which the transaction volume gradually receded, currently maintaining in the range of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of USD. The transaction volume is mainly driven by the token $toly, which has accounted for more than half in the long term.

Genesis Launches

Genesis Launches is a launch platform recently launched 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-priced preemptive buying, and protecting the safety of participants' funds. Each new project starts with a fixed diluted market cap of 112,000 $VIRTUAL (approximately 120,000 USD), and users participate by staking Virgin Points. Each round has a 24-hour bidding period, and the more points, the higher the allocation. Currently, users have three main ways to earn points: earning Trenchor points by investing in Sentient and Prototype Agent tokens, earning by holding $VIRTUAL tokens, and earning by staking $VADER tokens. Unused points will expire after 30 days.

Shell Launchpad

Shell Launchpad is an AI Agent platform launched by MyShel on the BNB Chain, designed to help users easily launch and tokenize their AI Agents. The platform offers multiple creation modes, including Classic Mode, Professional Configuration Mode, and ShellAgent Mode, catering to novice users, developers with certain technical backgrounds, 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 such as name, description, token, and category according to their needs, as well as configure token economic models, including total supply, fundraising amount, etc. Once the financing for 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 smart 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 via 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 gains. Developers of high-quality agents can receive additional SWARMS token rewards.

Recently, Swarms LaunchPad underwent a major upgrade, including performance optimization, integration of Gecko Terminal, new comment feature and holdings page, as well as the source code being fully open-sourced to GitHub.

The Swarms LaunchPad official website shows that as of April 29, the total number of Agents on the platform is 20, with a total market value of approximately 1.5 million USD.

someting

Currently, someting has not been 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 that offers lower fees and faster bonding times. On the someting platform, token liquidity requires 42 SOL to graduate, with a transaction fee of 0.69%. It supports customizable bonding curves, has anti-sniping features, and integrates market makers to automatically provide liquidity. Additionally, to enhance the project's credibility, someting also holds 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 tweets that contain @launchacoin + the token name.

It is important to note that Launch Coin on Believe was formerly known as PASTERNAK, who is one of the founders of Monkey (one of the largest social applications in Web2) and also the celebrity coin created by Clout founder Ben Pasternak. 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 such as Alliance DAO.