Overview

Runitup is a place where anyone can make their own coin in a couple of minutes, and where anyone else can buy and sell it. The industry word for that is a token launchpad, and "token" is just the technical name for the coin you make — the two words mean the same thing on this site.

Creating one costs a small fee plus a little gas — the exact amount is shown on the launch form before you confirm. You don't need to put up any money to make your coin tradeable, and you don't hand over a chunk of the supply to anyone. From the moment it's live, every single trade of your coin pays a 1% fee, and 75% of that comes straight to you, automatically, for as long as people keep trading it.

New here? These are the only words you need

If you've never used a launchpad before, five terms cover almost everything on this site.

• Token — a coin you create. It has a name (Sushi), a ticker ($SUSHI), and a total supply (how many exist). Nothing else about it is special; it's just an entry on the blockchain that people can own and trade.
• ETH — the currency of this chain. It's what you pay gas fees with, what you buy tokens with, and what most prices here are quoted in.
• Pool — the thing that makes a token tradeable. A pool is a shared pot holding two things: some of the token, and some ETH. You buy by putting ETH in and taking token out; you sell by doing the reverse. Nobody has to be on the other side of your trade — the pot always is.
• Price — not set by anyone. It's just the ratio of the two sides of the pool. Buying takes token out and puts ETH in, so the token gets scarcer and the price goes up. Selling does the opposite. That's the whole mechanism.
• Market cap — price × total supply. A rough measure of how big a token is. Runitup leads with this rather than price, because a new token's price is often something like $0.0000045, which tells you nothing at a glance.

One way to launch

There is a single launch path, and no mode to choose between. Your token deploys straight onto a real pool with its full supply already in it — no waiting period, no target to hit first, and no tax on trades beyond the standard fee every token carries.

If you have used other launchpads, this is the part that differs most: there is no bonding curve here, and nothing to "graduate" from. A token is tradeable from the transaction that creates it.

Full walkthrough: Launching a token.

What every token gets

• You don't fund the pool. The pool opens with all of the supply and $0 of real ETH in it. ETH only arrives as people actually buy. The money doesn't come from you.
• The pool is locked forever. Once a pool exists, the position that holds its liquidity is moved into a contract with no withdraw function — not for you, not for us, not for anyone. Liquidity cannot be pulled out from under holders, because there is no code that could do it.
• Supply is fixed. There is no mint function anywhere in the token. Nobody can create more of it later, including us.
• Every number here is real. Prices, volume, holder counts and market caps all come from actual on-chain trades and balances that Runitup reads and indexes. Nothing is estimated. Where a number would require guessing, you'll see an honest blank instead of an invented figure.

Where to go next

• Launching a token — a walkthrough of the launch form, field by field.
• Trading — how buying and selling actually work, including slippage.
• AMM venues — what an AMM is, and what picking Uniswap vs. SushiSwap does.
• Tokenized stocks — every equity you can pair against or trade, and which can be bought with ETH.
• Fees — where the money goes, with worked examples.
• Security — exactly what these contracts can and cannot do to you.