Your first launch

After this, you'll have gone from a fresh account to a live token, start to finish.

Time needed: 10 min

You'll need:

A device with a browser and access to ballistic.app
Some SOL (Solana's native coin) to fund your launch
Your token's name, symbol and image

This is the short version, for Solana. Each step links to the page with the full walkthrough.

Step by step

Create your account from your invite link with Google or a Solana wallet. See Sign up and sign in.

Find your primary wallet

Your primary wallet is created for you on the Wallets page. See Wallet Manager.

Add wallets (optional)

Add more wallets, or buy aged wallets from the Wallet Oven so they already have on-chain history. See Wallet Oven.

Create your token

Set the name, symbol, image and launchpad. See Create a token.

Configure the launch

Pick a mode, set your buy amount and how many wallets buy at launch. Block-0 is the usual choice. See Configure your launch.

Fund the launch

The funding page shows your launch's funding wallet address and the amount to send. Send that much SOL to it, wait for the balance to confirm, then press Fund. Ballistic then sends SOL from the funding wallet to each buyer wallet. See Fund your launch.

Launch

Ballistic creates the token and buys across your wallets in the same block.

Trade and manage

Trade and manage the token from its page once it is live. See Trade panel.

Launching on Robinhood Chain

On Robinhood Chain you launch on Pons in Block-0 or Reserve mode, funded with ETH, and the setup form tells you the one amount to fund. See Reserve mode.

About Block-0

Block-0 creates the token and lands every buy in the launch block, then washes the supply so your launch looks clean on-chain. For the full breakdown and when to use each mode, see Launch modes.

What can go wrong

Symptom	Likely cause	Fix
The launch will not fire	Your buyer wallets are not fully funded	Complete funding first. The launch only fires once every buyer wallet holds its share of SOL.
Fund stays disabled	The funding wallet holds less than the amount shown	Send the difference to the funding wallet address on the funding page.
I want a clean map	The wash is off, so your buys link together on-chain	Run the wash from the Wash Bundle button on the token page. Next time, leave Automatically wash bundle on.