This guide just covers the basics, the tools used are way more powerful than what I use them for, this is just creating a basic token with no taxes or locked supply or anything complex, but these tools do support those options.">
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"description": "I wanted to create an SPL token and after looking online I couldn\u0026rsquo;t find an updated guide. So I thought I would learn and share. There are much easier ways to create these tokens but they cost $ and spending more $ than needed is no fun. This guide costs as little SOL as possible as everything is transacted directly on-chain. Everything is done from the CLI.\nThis guide just covers the basics, the tools used are way more powerful than what I use them for, this is just creating a basic token with no taxes or locked supply or anything complex, but these tools do support those options.",
"articleBody": "I wanted to create an SPL token and after looking online I couldn’t find an updated guide. So I thought I would learn and share. There are much easier ways to create these tokens but they cost $ and spending more $ than needed is no fun. This guide costs as little SOL as possible as everything is transacted directly on-chain. Everything is done from the CLI.\nThis guide just covers the basics, the tools used are way more powerful than what I use them for, this is just creating a basic token with no taxes or locked supply or anything complex, but these tools do support those options. If you are interested in doing more I would read the proper documentation.\nhttps://docs.solanalabs.com/cli/install https://metaboss.rs/overview.html https://spl.solana.com/token NetworkChuck has a video from late 2021 on doing this, but some commands are a bit outdated, and Solana updated their entire metadata process in 2022.\nI am using an Ubuntu 22.04 VM with 60GB storage to run these commands.\nStarting balance: 0.079975 SOL Ending balance: 0.05731652 SOL Total SOL cost: 0.02265848 SOL ($4.22 on 3/15/2024) Installing Solana Tools First we need to download Solana tools to our system:\nsh -c \"$(curl -sSfL https://release.solana.com/stable/install)\" then run the export path command that is given to you:\nexport PATH=\"/home/mafyuh/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin:$PATH\" Restart your terminal session.\nCreating Wallet We will create a new SOL wallet to fund our token. To do this run:\nsolana-keygen new You don’t have to put a passphrase if you don’t want to. I would backup your recovery seed phrase and take note of the public address. I would fund this wallet with some SOL as well at this time.\nKeep note of the keypair directory for later step.\nCheck your SOL balance with:\nsolana balance Install Rust We need Rust in order to create the token, to install Rust run:\ncurl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh Press enter for default installation. Once completed, restart your session again.\nThen we need to install some needed packages:\nsudo apt install libudev-dev llvm libclang-dev libssl-dev pkg-config build-essential protobuf-compiler -y Install spl-token-cli Now using Rust we are gonna install Solana’s CLI tools, this will take a few minutes.\ncargo install spl-token-cli Create Token Creating a new token is simple, make sure your wallet is funded with SOL and just run:\nspl-token create-token Your token’s address will be printed on screen. You will use this address in pretty much all the rest of the steps so keep handy. You do need to have your wallet funded first.\nNow we need to create a token account for this token:\nspl-token create-account Example:\nspl-token create-account 7njsg9BA1xvXX9DNpe5fERHK4zb7MbCHKZ6zsx5k3adr If you get errors like:\n“unable to confirm transaction. This can happen in situations such as transaction expiration and insufficient fee-payer funds”\nYou just need to retry a few times, it will eventually go thru but sometimes takes 3-4 runs.\nMinting Tokens Now that you have a token and an account for the token, you can actually mint some tokens. To do this run:\nspl-token mint \u003c# of tokens\u003e Example:\nspl-token mint 7njsg9BA1xvXX9DNpe5fERHK4zb7MbCHKZ6zsx5k3adr 1000000 CkaGbdriXVMHtzFBPtnpDjQvZ9gM9bwd8XdTTKR2Wx32 To see your tokens you can run:\nspl-token accounts Now you will want to send these tokens to a new address, so make a new wallet and get its pubkey, then to send these tokens run:\nspl-token transfer --fund-recipient --allow-unfunded-recipient \u003c# of tokens\u003e Example:\nspl-token transfer --fund-recipient --allow-unfunded-recipient 7njsg9BA1xvXX9DNpe5fERHK4zb7MbCHKZ6zsx5k3adr 1000000 2DDyEt5N4y77ETWhhUmkZiympQbpjkfrt8FcMKhB1iWU Installing Metaboss Once this completes you can install metaboss which is needed to upload metadata. Again, this takes some time:\ncargo install metaboss Arweave/Github While we wait on metaboss to install, we should start uploading our tokens Logo to a cloud provider, I use Arweave in this exampl
<divclass="post-content"><p>I wanted to create an SPL token and after looking online I couldn’t find an updated guide. So I thought I would learn and share. There are much easier ways to create these tokens but they cost $ and spending more $ than needed is no fun. This guide costs as little SOL as possible as everything is transacted directly on-chain. Everything is done from the CLI.</p>
<p>This guide just covers the basics, the tools used are way more powerful than what I use them for, this is just creating a basic token with no taxes or locked supply or anything complex, but these tools do support those options. If you are interested in doing more I would read the proper documentation.</p>
<p><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befUVytFC80">NetworkChuck has a video</a> from late 2021 on doing this, but some commands are a bit outdated, and Solana updated their entire metadata process in 2022.</p>
<p>I am using an Ubuntu 22.04 VM with 60GB storage to run these commands.</p>
<ul>
<li>Starting balance: 0.079975 SOL</li>
<li>Ending balance: 0.05731652 SOL</li>
<li>Total SOL cost: 0.02265848 SOL ($4.22 on 3/15/2024)</li>
<p>We will create a new SOL wallet to fund our token. To do this run:</p>
<pretabindex="0"><code>solana-keygen new
</code></pre><p>You don’t have to put a passphrase if you don’t want to. I would backup your recovery seed phrase and take note of the public address. I would fund this wallet with some SOL as well at this time.</p>
<p>Keep note of the keypair directory for later step.</p>
<p>Creating a new token is simple, make sure your wallet is funded with SOL and just run:</p>
<pretabindex="0"><code>spl-token create-token
</code></pre><p>Your token’s address will be printed on screen. You will use this address in pretty much all the rest of the steps so keep handy. You do need to have your wallet funded first.</p>
<p>Now we need to create a token account for this token:</p>
<p>While we wait on metaboss to install, we should start uploading our tokens Logo to a cloud provider, I use Arweave in this example but you can use anything really. There are also many ways to upload to arweave so this is just a friendly example thats free.</p>
<p>First create an account at <ahref="https://akord.com/use-arweave">https://akord.com/use-arweave</a>
Upload your image to a new vault. (PNG)
Click on the information icon next to your image and copy the arweave.net URL. (Not under Share) We need this for our JSON file we will create next.</p>
<p>Now you can create a json file, and in it paste the following:</p>
<pretabindex="0"><code>{
"name": "TOKEN_NAME",
"symbol": "SYM",
"description": "Description of token",
</code></pre><p>Now save this file with .json extension and upload it to Arweave just like the image. Now we need this JSON file’s Arweave link. Copy it from akord and create a new json file in your Solana server’s working directory. Fill in the following:</p>
</code></pre><h2id="bonus-creating-a-market">BONUS Creating a Market<ahiddenclass="anchor"aria-hidden="true"href="#bonus-creating-a-market">#</a></h2>
<p>Now that you have a coin ready to go, you probably wanna get it listed so others can buy, I’ll try to make this process as cheap and easy as possible. Thanks to this <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/1b50vj0/create_cheap_openbook_market_solana_only_04_sol/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Reddit post</a> for finding these values.</p>
<p>You need to connect your wallet and have the tokens in the wallet that is connected for this to work, so either restore your private key or send tokens to your wallet on PC.</p>
<p>Note I would not create this small of a market for a production coin, as what you are paying for when creating a market is essentially space on the blockchain for all your transactions. Long term projects should certainly not pay this little for a market, probably only good for smaller meme coins. If you are planning a long-term project you should probably be paying a few SOL for your market fee.</p>
<p><ahref="https://docs.raydium.io/raydium/pool-creation/creating-a-standard-amm-pool">Raydium has some good docs on how to create a market and pool</a>, I would review these docs as well.</p>
<ul>
<li>First go to <ahref="https://openbook-explorer.xyz/market/create">https://openbook-explorer.xyz/market/create</a></li>
<li>Click Existing under mints</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Base Mint: Your token address</li>
<li>Quote Mint: So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 (this is swapping for SOL)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Under Mints , since by default our token was 9 decimals, we will set these values</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Min Order size: 0.1</li>
<li>Price Tick: 0.99999998 or 0.99999999</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Under advanced options check use advanced options. (this is what we are paying for, if long-term pay the 2.78 SOL)</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Event Queue Length: 128</li>
<li>Request Queue Length: 63</li>
<li>Orderbook Length: 201</li>
</ol>
<p>At this time the cost to create this market is 0.32 SOL. Keep note of the market address.</p>
<p>Now that we have a market, we need to create a pool. I’ve found Raydium to be the cheapest fee, but I would not cheap out on how much SOL you delegate to the pool as this is gonna be your liquidity, and having almost no liquidity is gonna be big red flag. But I have in the past just delegated .1 SOL and it worked, but trust me this is not gonna work out well.</p>
<ul>
<li>First go to <ahref="https://raydium.io/liquidity/create/">https://raydium.io/liquidity/create/</a></li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Connect Wallet</li>
<li>Paste Market ID</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Under Price and initial liquidity</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>What we are doing here is setting our tokens starting price, the amount of tokens you put in the pool at the start decides how much they’re worth compared to SOL. All your tokenomics and things like this should probably already be done at this point, unless you’re just YOLO’ing it like I did. This is by far the most costly part of the process.</li>
<li>Set a certain start time if you want.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Hit Initialize Liquidity Pool and confirm in your wallet.</li>
</ul>
<p>The total fee currently is .68 SOL to create this pool.</p>
<p>You will recieve all the LP tokens in your wallet. You will probably want to burn these LP tokens so buyers won’t be scared off. There are many ways to do this, you can use the cli using this command:</p>
</code></pre><p>You can get the address on Solscan. Some wallets like solflare allow you to burn tokens thru the wallet. Or you can use online services like <ahref="https://sol-incinerator.com/">https://sol-incinerator.com/</a></p>
<p>If you want to get your price to show on the wallets, you need to get listed on CoinGecko. There’s a bunch of requirements, to apply here is a <ahref="https://support.coingecko.com/hc/en-us/articles/7291312302617-How-to-list-new-cryptocurrencies-on-CoinGecko">link</a>.</p>
<p>To get listed on Jupiter, they will automatically list your token once it hits some benchmarks whcih can be found <ahref="https://station.jup.ag/docs/get-your-token-onto-jup#getting-on-the-strict-list">here</a></p>
<p>Now you just need to start your social media campaigns and best of luck!</p>
<p>Total in Fees: 1 SOL (plus your liquidity)</p>
<p>Hope this guide has helped you save some $ when creating your Solana tokens! If you appreciate the post and wanna send some tokens as thanks, my SOL wallet address is: 2DDyEt5N4y77ETWhhUmkZiympQbpjkfrt8FcMKhB1iWU</p>
