Product guide

Launch, discover, and inspect pump.fun coins.

Balloon has one direct path to launch a pump.fun coin for 0.1 SOL and one advanced path for a plain token without a curve. This guide explains where each path leads and what to check before signing.

Launch or advanced create

Launch

Use Launch for the main Balloon path: a new pump.fun coin on pump.fun's bonding curve for one payment of 0.1 SOL. Every coin has a supply of 1,000,000,000, and pump.fun revokes its mint and freeze authority at creation. The coin appears in Discover once the chain confirms it, and graduates to PumpSwap when its curve fills.

Open Launch

Advanced create

Use Advanced create when you want a plain Solana token without a pump.fun bonding curve. It is a separate path: it does not create a pump.fun coin, and Balloon opens no curve or pool for it.

Open advanced create

Discover coins

Discover lists coins launched on Balloon once the chain confirms them. Sort and filter the list, or search by name, ticker, or mint address. Prices and volume come from Balloon's own index of each coin's trades, which can lag the chain by a minute or more.

Browse Balloon coins

The launch flow

01
Add the coin
Upload a picture, then enter a name (3 to 32 characters), a ticker (1 to 10 letters or digits), and a description of up to 512 characters. Website, X, and Telegram links are optional.
02
Connect and sign in
Connect Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, or any Wallet Standard wallet, then sign a message to sign in. Signing in pays nothing, and Balloon never sees a private key.
03
Pay 0.1 SOL
Your wallet signs one payment of 0.1 SOL to Balloon's launch wallet. That is the whole price: pump.fun's own cost of creating the coin, about 0.02 SOL, is paid by Balloon out of it, never added on top.
04
Go live
Balloon's launch wallet creates the coin on pump.fun. It appears on Balloon once the chain confirms it, usually within seconds. An optional pre-buy, off by default, is then signed in your own wallet and is not paid to Balloon.

Inspect a coin

Public state first

A coin page brings the picture, bio, links, market cap, bonding curve progress, chart, trades, and top holders together, with links to the coin on pump.fun and Solscan. Values nobody has measured yet stay empty instead of being guessed.

Powers stay visible

Immutable on Balloon means no mint and no freeze: pump.fun revokes both at creation, so nobody can mint more or freeze wallets. The on-chain creator of every coin is Balloon's launch wallet; Balloon records the wallet that launched it as the launcher.

Controls and safety

Your wallet signs one transaction: the 0.1 SOL payment to the launch wallet. Before your wallet asks, the page checks that it is exactly that payment, and the server checks it again on chain before any coin is created.

Balloon never asks for a seed phrase or private key. Never type either into any site, including this one.
If something fails before you pay, nothing is charged and you can start again. If your payment arrives but the coin cannot be created, the launch goes to a refund list and is refunded by hand.
Names and tickers are not unique, and anyone can launch a coin. Check the mint address before you buy, and treat every coin as high risk.

What the launch wallet does

Payment: Receives your one payment of 0.1 SOL. Its memo, balloon launch <id>, ties the payment to your launch.
Create: Creates the coin on pump.fun through PumpPortal and pays pump.fun's create cost, about 0.02 SOL, out of the 0.1 SOL.
Creator: Is every Balloon coin's on-chain creator on pump.fun.
Creator fees: Receives pump.fun's creator fees from every coin. That is how Balloon earns. The launcher does not receive creator fees.
No dev buy: Buys none of your coin. A pre-buy is your own buy, signed in your own wallet after the coin is live.
Waiting: When it is low on SOL, a paid launch waits and is created as soon as it is topped up.
Refunds: If a payment arrives but the coin cannot be created, the launch goes to a refund list and is refunded by hand.

Trading stays external

Balloon has no exchange of its own. Coins trade on pump.fun's bonding curve, on PumpSwap after graduation, and through Jupiter and trading apps. Coin pages link out to pump.fun.

Balloon adds no trading fee of its own; traders pay pump.fun's normal fees. Because Balloon's launch wallet is every coin's creator, pump.fun's creator fees from every coin go to Balloon. No rewards, airdrops, or payouts are promised to anyone.