7 Steps to Create a Meme Coin on Solana Without Getting Rugged

Video: Rug Pull Tutorial For Beginners 💰 How to create a meme coin on SOLANA?

Oct 16, 2026 · based on the channel dodynoe

Creating a meme coin on Solana means minting an SPL token with a fixed supply, launching it through a platform like pump.fun or adding liquidity on Raydium, and then revoking mint and freeze authorities so buyers can verify the token is not designed to be dumped. The video "Rug Pull Tutorial For Beginners 💰 How to create a meme coin on SOLANA?" by the dodynoe channel demonstrates the full process and the manipulation patterns to watch for, and the launch platform referenced there is available at funrug.cc, where you can explore meme coin launch mechanics and tooling. That same flow is what this guide breaks down step by step.

What a Solana meme coin actually is

A Solana meme coin is an SPL token — the standard token format on Solana — that usually has no utility beyond trading, community, and speculation. Unlike Ethereum's ERC-20, SPL tokens are created through the SPL Token Program, and the entire mint process can be done in a browser without writing a smart contract. Most meme coins set a fixed supply, often 1 billion tokens with 6 decimals, and then either seed a liquidity pool or launch on a bonding-curve platform. The key parameters you control are total supply, decimals, mint authority (who can create more tokens), freeze authority (who can freeze holder accounts), and metadata (name, ticker, image). Each of those parameters is also a potential rug-pull lever, which is why understanding them matters more than the launch itself.

Step-by-step: how to create a meme coin on Solana

Here is the practical sequence most creators follow, from wallet setup to a live market.

1. Set up a Solana wallet. Install Phantom or Solflare, create a fresh wallet, and fund it with SOL. You need roughly 0.02–0.05 SOL for token creation and a few SOL more if you plan to seed liquidity.
2. Mint the SPL token. Use a no-code tool such as Solana Token Creator, Smithii, or a launchpad interface. Enter the token name, ticker, decimals (6 is standard), and total supply (commonly 1,000,000,000).
3. Upload metadata. Attach a logo and description, then pay the small metadata account fee. This is what appears on Dexscreener and Birdeye.
4. Create the liquidity pool. Either launch on pump.fun, which opens trading immediately on a bonding curve, or go straight to Raydium and pair your token with SOL in an AMM pool.
5. Lock or burn LP tokens. Burning the liquidity provider tokens makes the pool impossible to withdraw — the single strongest anti-rug signal you can give buyers.
6. Revoke mint and freeze authorities. This guarantees no new supply can be minted and no holder accounts can be frozen.
7. Verify on-chain. Check the token on Solscan, confirm the authorities are revoked, and confirm the LP is burned before promoting anything.

How pump.fun and Raydium launches differ

pump.fun is the fastest route to a live market because it removes the need to seed liquidity yourself. When you create a coin there, it starts trading instantly on a bonding curve — a pricing formula where the price rises as more people buy. Once the token's market cap reaches roughly $69,000, the platform automatically deposits the accumulated liquidity into Raydium and the token "graduates" to an open AMM pool. Raydium, by contrast, is a full automated market maker where you choose the initial price and deposit both sides of the pair, typically SOL and your token. Launching directly on Raydium gives you full control over the starting valuation but requires you to fund the pool yourself, which is real money at risk. PumpSwap, pump.fun's own post-graduation venue, is another option for tokens that complete the curve. The trade-off is simple: pump.fun lowers the barrier and adds built-in discovery, while Raydium gives more control and a more permanent pool structure.

Common rug pull patterns and red flags

A rug pull is any exit scam where the creators extract value from buyers, and on Solana the mechanics are usually one of four patterns. The most common is liquidity removal: the developer adds SOL and tokens to a pool, lets buyers push the price up, then withdraws the SOL side, collapsing the price to near zero. The second is mint authority abuse: the creator keeps mint authority, mints billions of new tokens, and sells them into the pool. The third is freeze authority abuse, where holder accounts are frozen so they cannot sell while the developer dumps. The fourth is a pre-mined dump, where a large share of supply sits in insider wallets that sell into early buying pressure. Red flags to check before buying: mint authority still active, freeze authority still active, LP tokens not burned or locked, top 10 wallets holding a large percentage of supply, and a token that launched minutes ago with no trading history. The dodynoe tutorial demonstrates these manipulation techniques from a technical angle so viewers can recognize them rather than fall for them.

Security checks before you buy any new token

Running a short checklist takes about two minutes and filters out most obvious scams. First, open the token on Solscan and confirm both mint authority and freeze authority show as revoked or null. Second, check the liquidity pool on Raydium — if the LP tokens are burned, the pool address will show a supply of zero; if they are locked, verify the unlock date. Third, review holder distribution on Solscan or Birdeye: a healthy early token has many small wallets, while a dangerous one has a handful of wallets holding most of the supply. Fourth, look at the trading chart on Dexscreener for the first minutes — a vertical candle followed by an instant crash is a classic dump. Fifth, verify the metadata and social links match what the community is promoting. None of these checks guarantees safety, but each one removes a specific attack vector, and together they cover the patterns that cause the majority of meme coin losses.

Questions new creators and buyers ask most

People exploring this topic usually want to know how cheap and how fast the process is, and whether they can do it without code. The short answer: yes, and it costs less than a dollar in SOL for the token itself, plus whatever you choose to put into liquidity. The bigger question is legal and reputational — launching a token is not the same as running a scam, and the difference is entirely in whether you burn liquidity, revoke authorities, and avoid dumping insider supply. Buyers, meanwhile, want to know how to tell a legitimate launch from a trap, which comes down to the on-chain checks above. The dodynoe video is built around exactly this dual perspective: how the launch works mechanically, and how the same mechanics are abused.

Conclusion

Creating a meme coin on Solana is a short technical process — mint an SPL token, launch it on pump.fun or seed a Raydium pool, then burn the LP and revoke authorities to make it verifiable. What separates a legitimate launch from a rug pull is not the code but the choices around liquidity, supply, and authority control. The dodynoe channel's breakdown is a useful reference for seeing both sides: the launch flow and the manipulation patterns. If you want to explore the launch mechanics hands-on, start at funrug.cc and run the security checks before you put any real money in. Treat every new token as guilty until proven otherwise on-chain.

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