Launching a coin
A signature launches a coin for free. A dev buy makes it a transaction. Ticker rules, metadata, and the limits.
Creating a coin on moto.fun costs nothing. You sign a message, the coin gets an address, and the first buy deploys it. If you want to buy your own coin at launch, you send the transaction yourself and the deploy and your buy settle together.
| Name | 1 to 48 characters |
| Ticker | 1 to 16 letters or numbers, nothing else |
| Reserved tickers | MOTO, WETH, ETH, USDC, USDT |
| Ticker exclusivity | None. Two coins can share a ticker |
| Supply | 1,000,000,000, fixed, minted to the curve |
| Creator fee | On from the first trade, 0.5% while bonding |
| Dev buy | Optional, any amount, fills at the curve price |
| Launches per connection (IP address) | 5 per 10 minutes |
| Unbought coins per wallet | 3 at a time |
| Signature validity | Up to 7 days |
The two paths
No dev buy. You sign and you are done. No transaction, no gas, no wallet balance needed. Your coin appears on the board as pending and its address is already fixed. The first person to buy it pays the gas that deploys it. If nobody ever buys, the signature expires and the coin never exists.
With a dev buy. You send one transaction. It deploys the coin and fills your buy at the curve price in the same transaction, so nobody trades ahead of you. Your buy is a normal curve buy and pays the normal 1.2%.
The ticker is not yours
Tickers are not reserved and not exclusive. Two coins can carry the same one, and the address is what identifies yours. Nothing is held for you while you fill in the form, and there is no reservation window to race. This is deliberate.
The five reserved tickers above are refused outright because they name real assets. Any other ticker is open to anyone, any number of times.
What you fill in
Name, ticker, and a picture are the whole required set. Description, website, and X link are optional. The picture is resized in your browser before it is sent, so a large file is not a problem.
Your metadata is committed on chain as a hash at launch, and the site serves it back only after re-checking it against that hash. Nobody can change your coin's name, ticker, or picture after the fact, including us.
Creator fee recipient
The creator fee pays your connected wallet unless you point it somewhere else. The launch form fills the field with the wallet you connected; change it there before you sign, as an address or an ENS name, if the fees should go elsewhere. It cannot be one of the protocol's own contracts, and the launch refuses if you try. You can move it again later from your coin's page or from Your coins; see Creator fees.
The wallet that signed is still the coin's creator for everything else: the board, your profile, and the PvE credit if you turned PvE on.
PvE and the dev buy together
A launch can carry a dev buy, a PvE slice, or a split of one buy across both. You choose the split as a percentage. One buy fills at one price and the two halves are separated after, pro rata, so the PvE slice never costs you a worse fill than the dev slice.
Limits
Five launches per ten minutes from one connection, and three unbought coins per wallet at a time. Both exist to stop a script filling the board with coins nobody bought. Buying any of your pending coins frees the slot.