How claypad works
What a launch is, what it costs, and what your wallet signs.
Get started
claypad turns a description of a token into a Solana transaction you can read and sign. It builds the mint, simulates it against the live chain, and hands the exact bytes to your wallet. It never signs anything itself.
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Describe it
Say what you are launching in plain words, or fill the form on the launch page. A name, a ticker and a metadata link are all it needs.
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Read the transaction
claypad builds the mint, simulates it against the live chain, and shows the exact transaction: every fee, every authority, every lamport that moves.
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Sign it
Your wallet signs. Until that signature nothing exists on chain and nothing has been spent.
What a launch does
A launch creates a Token-2022 mint on pump.fun with a fixed supply and its metadata written into the mint itself. The mint, freeze, update and metadata-pointer authorities are all renounced in the same transaction, so nobody can mint more, freeze a holder, or rewrite the metadata afterwards. Not you, and not claypad.
What you need
- A Solana wallet holding roughly 0.05 SOL, to cover rent and network fees.
- A name of 32 bytes or fewer, and a ticker of 13 bytes or fewer.
- A metadata URL and an image URL. Any HTTPS link under 200 characters works, including IPFS.
Limits
These are enforced by the API rather than suggested. The server refuses to start unless its configuration matches them exactly, so a launch that would exceed one is rejected before it reaches your wallet.
- Venue
- pump.fun only
- Token program
- Token-2022 only
- Decimals
- 6
- Initial dev buy
- Not allowed
- Maximum total spend
- 0.01 SOL per launch
- Priority fee ceiling
- 40,000 lamports
- Transaction validity
- 75 seconds
Wallets and security
Connect an external Solana wallet such as Phantom, Solflare or Backpack. Recovery and signing stay with your wallet provider.
- The mint keypair is generated in your browser and never leaves it.
- claypad builds an unsigned transaction. Your wallet is the only thing that signs, and it signs once, for the transaction shown in the preview.
- The server reads the transaction back from its own bytes before offering it, and refuses one whose program ids, authorities or lamport destinations are not what it set out to build.
- There is no delegated signing. claypad cannot act while you are away.
What is live
V1 is a launchpad. Launch and Discover are the whole product today.
Held back for now
These surfaces are built but switched off while launching is proven. They appear in the sidebar marked Soon.
- Scan
- Portfolio
- Trades
- Automate (alerts and copy trading)
Managed wallets are temporarily unavailable. Use an external wallet in the meantime.
The claypad token
claypad has its own token. It was launched on pump.fun rather than through the pad, and it is pinned to the top of Discover and labelled as such.
CLAYwCrT4zgMqTEi2u2wfjEGkEsKE5UvxoRkVGKZAE75
FAQ
Does claypad ever hold my keys?
No. The mint keypair is generated in your browser and your wallet signs the transaction. claypad never receives a recovery phrase, a private key, or authority to sign on your behalf.
Can I buy my own token in the launch?
Not through claypad. The reviewed policy sets the maximum initial buy to zero, so the launch transaction cannot carry a dev buy. You can buy separately once it lands.
What happens to the mint and freeze authorities?
Both are renounced as part of the launch, along with the update and metadata-pointer authorities. This is not configurable, and the preview shows it before you sign.
Why does it cost so little?
pump.fun charges no creation fee. What you pay is Solana rent and network fees, which the policy caps at 0.01 SOL for the whole transaction.
Can I launch against something other than SOL?
Not yet through claypad. pump.fun supports non-SOL quote assets, but the reviewed policy pins launches to the standard path until that route is tested here.