Taking Stock of the Top 10 Emerging Launchpad Platforms: Who Will Succeed in Disrupting Pump.fun?

Original Article Title: "A Look at 10 Emerging Launchpad Platforms: From AI Agent to MEME, Solana Becomes the 'Launch Center'"

Original Article Author: Nancy, PANews

With fund inflows and emotional recovery, the on-chain world is quietly heating up, and many emerging token launch platforms have begun to take turns launching attacks on the leading Pump.fun. In this article, PANews lists the recent 10 high-profile Launchpad platforms, involving the MEME, AI Agent, and SocialFi tracks, mainly concentrated in the Solana ecosystem. These platforms each have their own characteristics, mostly relying on a solid ecosystem foundation and resource advantages, and competing for market share through innovative mechanisms and differentiated positioning such as optimizing issuance mechanisms, enriching creator incentives, enhancing token empowerment, and improving platform security.

LaunchLab

LaunchLab is a Solana-based token issuance platform launched by Raydium in mid-April of this year. Creators use the JustSendIt model to release tokens, and once liquidity reaches 85 SOL, the token will immediately migrate to Raydium's AMM. LaunchLab offers various customization options, including token supply settings, distribution curves, lock-up periods, and the option to receive 10% of transaction fee sharing. The platform transaction fee is 1%, with 50% going to the community pool, 25% for $RAY buyback, and 25% for project infrastructure and operations. On April 26, Raydium announced the opening of a 50,000 RAY reward pool to reward users trading on 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, the token issuance volume was in a downturn shortly after LaunchLab's launch on April 16, usually in the hundreds, but since April 25, the token issuance volume has increased significantly, with daily issuance reaching thousands. Out of 210 graduate projects, the total transaction volume is mainly concentrated in LetsBONK, TIME, and Hosico tokens, with a cumulative transaction volume close to 3.5 billion US dollars, while the transaction volume of the remaining tokens mostly ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Letsbonk.Fun

Letsbonk.Fun, based on Solana, is a collaboration between MEME coin BONK community members and Raydium. It allows users to create their own MEME coin in a simple process by clicking "Create Token," filling in token details, and customizing the token's supply. It also provides developers with wallet labeling and bonding curve features. Once the token is launched, it can quickly integrate with DEXs such as Raydium and Jupiter. The platform charges a 1% transaction fee for each transaction, which is used for development funds, BONKsol validators, and BONK buyback and burn. Platform users can also participate in the LaunchLab's 50,000 RAY prize pool.

Arc Forge

The Arc Forge is an Agent token issuance solution launched by the AI Agent project arc on Solana in mid-February of this year. The platform is built on Meteora DLMM and integrated with Jupiter routing, offering advantages such as higher liquidity efficiency, preventing front-running bots, and custom liquidity strategies. Only high-quality projects that have passed review can participate.

auto.fun

auto.fun is a Solana-based no-code AI Agent Launchpad platform launched by Eliza Labs for issuing new tokens and autonomous agents. The native token is ai16z. This platform allows users to deploy complex AI agents without a technical background and adopts a fairer token distribution mechanism. auto.fun uses a dual-pool system: SOL:AT is the main pool of the platform, pairing newly released agent tokens (AT) with SOL and providing liquidity through Raydium. $ai16z:AT is a target for future stages, aiming to pair $ai16z from platform revenue with AT for liquidity. Each project launched on auto.fun will receive a liquidity NFT supported by Raydium, giving project creators ownership of liquidity and continuous revenue capture through NFTs. A 10% fee is charged in each AT token's liquidity pool on auto.fun, which will be used to buy back $ai16z tokens from the market. According to the official website, as of April 27, the highest token market value on auto.fun was only several hundred thousand dollars.

Time.fun

Time.fun has migrated from Base to the Solana ecosystem as a tokenized time platform. Creators need to register through the platform interface, where they can customize the token name, symbol, initial supply, and set the pricing of their time services (in USDC). However, identity verification is required.

Time.fun has been frequently recommended by Solana co-founder toly in the past two months. Recently, he even initiated an auction on the platform, attracting over $1.2 million in total bids. Three entrepreneurs won the opportunity to pitch their projects to Toly himself and the Solana community. They will introduce their entrepreneurial projects and receive Toly's live feedback on May 6th during a live broadcast.

According to Dune data, as of April 28, Time.fun has only issued a total of 396 tokens. However, the daily issuance has been declining since its launch, with several days even seeing single-digit or zero issuance. Meanwhile, the platform's total transaction volume has exceeded $200 million, with over $100 million contributed on Solana's listing day. Subsequently, the transaction volume gradually decreased and is currently maintained in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars range. The transaction volume is mainly driven by the $toly token, accounting for over half in the long term.

Genesis Launches

Genesis Launches is an issuance platform recently launched by the Virtuals Protocol on Base and Solana. Its core goal is to enable community users to fairly participate early in the incubation of new AI Agent projects while preventing bots and snipers from unfairly acquiring tokens at a low price and safeguarding participants' funds. Each new project starts with a fixed diluted market cap of 112,000 $VIRTUAL tokens (approximately $120,000). Users participate by pledging Virgin Points, with a 24-hour bidding period per round. The more points a user has, the higher their allocation. Currently, users have three main ways to earn points: earn Trenchor points by investing in Sentient and Prototype Agent tokens, earn points by holding $VIRTUAL tokens, and earn points by pledging $VADER tokens. Unused points will expire after 30 days.

Shell Launchpad

Shell Launchpad, launched by the AI Agent platform MyShel on the BNB Chain, aims 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 some technical background, and professional developers. Shell Launchpad provides 300+ modular AI widgets that users can quickly combine to build complex AI Agents. Users can set basic information such as their AI Agent's name, description, token, category, and configure the tokenomics, including total supply, fundraising amount, etc. Once the AI Agent's fundraising goal is reached, the platform will automatically list it on a DEX.

Swarms LaunchPad

The Swarms LaunchPad is an AI agent token issuance platform developed by the Swarms AI Agent project on Solana, used to create, deploy, tokenize, and monetize intelligent agents. Users can build customized AI agents using the Swarms SDK (supporting Python/Rust SDK) and upload their developed AI agents for tokenization. These tokenized AI agents can be traded on the Swarms Dex, sold, or leased on the Swarms marketplace, allowing developers to profit through purchase fees, lease splits, or transaction revenues. Developers of high-quality agents can receive additional SWARMS token rewards.

Recently, the Swarms LaunchPad underwent a major upgrade, including performance optimizations, Gecko Terminal integration, new comment features and holdings page, and the complete open-sourcing of the source code on GitHub.

The Swarms LaunchPad website states 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.

someting

Currently, someting has not yet been officially launched and is still in the whitelist phase. According to available information, someting has collaborated with Meteora, including single-sided liquidity, dynamic pools, and a treasury, and has a unique Bonding Curve mechanism with lower fees and faster bonding times. On the someting platform, token liquidity graduation requires 42 SOL tokens, with a 0.69% transaction fee, support for a customizable bonding curve, anti-snipe functionality, integrated market maker automatic liquidity provision, and to enhance the project's credibility, someting also has the X Platform verification badge.

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 a new token generation by replying to a tweet with @launchacoin+token name.

It is important to note that Launch Coin on Believe's predecessor was PASTERNAK, a celebrity coin created by Clout founder Ben Pasternak, who is also one of the founders of Monkey (one of the largest social apps in Web2). Clout is a SocialFi platform that combines features of platforms like Friend.Tech, Pump.fun, and Moonshot, allowing celebrities and creators to issue tokens named after themselves, and has received support from alliances such as Alliance DAO.

Original Article Link