Launching a token
Launching a token
Open Create in the top bar. It is a single step — fill the form, confirm in your wallet, and the token is live.
What you fill in
| Field | Required | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Yes | The display name, e.g. MoonShot |
| Ticker | Yes | Up to 8 characters, automatically uppercased, shown with a $ |
| Description | Yes | Up to 280 characters |
| Coin image | Yes | PNG, JPG, GIF or WebP, up to 10 MB |
| Coin banner | Yes | Same formats and limit — must be a different file from the coin image |
| Website | No | A normal domain |
| No | An x.com/handle link | |
| Telegram | No | A t.me/handle link |
The right-hand panel previews your token card live as you type. That is exactly how it will appear on the market.
Images are uploaded to IPFS and referenced by the token itself, so the artwork is not hosted only by Holyhood.
What you pay
Nothing to Holyhood. There is no platform launch fee — you pay only the network gas to deploy the contract.
The costs that follow come later, from trading: a 1% fee on every buy and sell, split between you, a burn, and the protocol. See Fees and burns.
The first-buy option
After you press create, a dialog offers to buy some of your own token in the same transaction that creates it.
This is optional but worth understanding. Your buy executes before anyone else can trade, at the lowest point on the curve. It also puts some supply in your hands rather than leaving the whole float open to the first sniper. The amount defaults to 0.1 ETH with shortcuts for 0.1, 0.5 and 1 ETH, and the dialog shows how many tokens that buys.
If you skip it, the token still launches normally.
After you confirm
- Your wallet asks you to approve the transaction.
- The token is deployed and you are taken to its page.
- For a few seconds the page says the token is live on-chain and waiting to be indexed. That is normal — the app retries for about a minute while the trade history catches up.
From that moment the token is tradable by anyone, and you start earning your share of every trade.
What you cannot change afterwards
- Name, ticker and total supply are fixed at deployment.
- The fee split is snapshotted from the protocol config at launch and is immutable for the life of your token. Later protocol changes only affect tokens launched after them.
- The links and artwork can be updated — the token URI can be changed by the creator.