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Fees and launch costs

What a launch costs in SOL, what mining costs per accepted proof, and why no fee can exceed the maximum you sign.

launching

A launch is one transaction that creates the mint, the vaults, the metadata and the Raydium pool. Its cost is the platform launch fee, Raydium's pool creation fee, the SOL you place in the pool, and account rent. The wallet shows the exact total before you approve. §7.3

launch fee: 0.3 SOL
raydium pool creation: 0.15 SOL
pool liquidity: your choice, at least 0.01 SOL
lookup table rent: about 0.005 SOL, refundable
account rent: up to about 0.06 SOL, partly refundable

Public launches take two approvals: first a wallet-owned address lookup table, then the atomic mint and pool launch. The pool is created in the launch transaction so the market cannot be front-run; the LP tokens go to your wallet and are not locked. §1.4

mining

platform mine fee: 0 SOL in the release config
miner account rent: one-time, refundable when the account is closed
per transaction: the Solana network fee

Each accepted proof is one transaction, so mining pays a network fee every round it submits. The platform mine fee is configurable and reads live from chain; the token page states the current amount before you sign.

the maximum you sign

The platform authority can change the two Core fees. Every fee-charging instruction carries a maximum you sign, and fails rather than exceeding it, so a fee raised after you built a transaction cannot be charged to you. §7.2

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The paper is the authority. Where this page and §7.2 disagree, the paper is right and this page is a bug.