Padcore is a launchpad for launchpads. Instead of launching your token on someone else's platform and paying them a fee, you create your own launchpad — your subdomain, your brand, your curve — and you keep half of every trading fee that every token launched on it ever produces.
One sentence versionAnyone can spin up a token launchpad in a single transaction, and the person who created it earns 50% of the trading fees generated on it, forever.
Padcore is a front-end and a coordination layer. The economics live in audited third-party contracts.
Layer
What it does
Who operates it
Solana
Settlement. Every action is a transaction you can inspect.
Solana validators
Meteora DBC
The dynamic bonding curve each token trades on until graduation.
Meteora
DAMM v2
The pool liquidity migrates into at graduation, with the LP locked.
Meteora
Padcore
Configuration, subdomains, dashboards, fee accounting and payouts.
Padcore
Padcore is non-custodialWe never hold your keys, your tokens or your funds. Every action is signed by you, in your wallet, and cannot be reversed by us afterwards.
What Padcore is not
Not an exchange, broker or trading venue. We do not match orders or take the other side of trades.
Not an issuer. Every token you see was created by a user, not by us.
Not an endorsement. A pad or token appearing in the directory means nothing about its quality or the honesty of its creator.
Not investment advice. Nothing anywhere in this documentation is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
Start hereQuickstart
Quickstart
From wallet to live launchpad in about five minutes
Creating a launchpad takes one transaction. Everything below happens on a single screen at /create.
1
Connect the wallet that gets paid
Whatever wallet you connect becomes the pad owner. It is the address the payout process sends your half to, so connect the one you actually want the money in — this cannot be changed casually later.
2
Claim a subdomain
Lowercase letters, numbers and dashes. The subdomain is checked live and becomes your pad's permanent public address. Pick carefully: it is not editable, so existing links never break.
3
Set the curve
Trading fee, quote token, starting market cap and graduation market cap. These are written on-chain and become immutable.
4
Optionally launch a pad token
One checkbox creates your own token on your own curve, in the same transaction. Its trading fees pay you the same 50%.
5
Add branding and links
Logo, primary colour, description, socials, and a Google Analytics ID if you want the traffic in your own property. All editable at any time, no signature required.
6
Sign once
You pay the creation fee plus on-chain rent. Your pad is live at its subdomain immediately, though the subdomain can take a few minutes to propagate everywhere.
What you getA public page at your subdomain, an owner dashboard, and a wallet that starts receiving half of every trading fee the moment the first token launches on your pad.
What it costs
Item
Amount
Where it goes
Launchpad creation fee
Dynamic — currently 0.1 SOL
100% into buying $PAD on the market and burning it
On-chain config rent
~0.03 SOL
Solana, to store your curve configuration
Network fees
Fractions of a cent
Solana validators
Pad token
Included
No additional fee if you create it in the same transaction
The creation fee is non-refundableUnder all circumstances, including if you stop using the pad, if the pad is removed from our directory, or if the service is discontinued.
Core conceptsLaunchpads
Launchpads
The unit everything else hangs off
A launchpad — a "pad" — is a configured space where anyone can launch a token. It has an owner, a permanent address, a set of curve rules, and a fee split.
Anatomy of a pad
subdomainpermanent
Your public address, yourname.padcore.io. Chosen at creation, never changes.
ownerwallet
The address that receives 50% of every trading fee. Changing it is possible but requires a signature and only affects future payouts.
Why some fields are immutableThe curve is written to an on-chain configuration when the pad is created. Nobody — including you, including us — can change the rules under a token that already launched. That is what makes a pad safe to launch on, and it is the reason the fee is a one-time decision.
One wallet, many pads
If you want different terms — a lower fee for a friendlier community, a higher one for a premium niche — create a second pad. There is no limit, and each one is an independent configuration with its own subdomain, branding and payouts.
Core conceptsThe bonding curve
The bonding curve
How price moves, and what graduation means
Every token on Padcore trades on a Meteora dynamic bonding curve. There is no order book and no market maker: price is a function of how much has been bought.
The life of a token
1
Launch
A creator picks a name, ticker and image. The token starts at your pad's starting market cap with no liquidity to seed and no presale.
2
The curve
Every buy moves price up along the curve, every sell moves it back down. The fee is charged on both sides.
3
Graduation
When the market cap reaches your pad's graduation target, the curve is complete.
4
Migration
Liquidity migrates into a DAMM v2 pool and the LP position is permanently locked. Nobody can pull it — not the creator, not the pad owner, not Padcore.
Why locked LP mattersThe most common exit scam in this category is the creator withdrawing liquidity. On a graduated Padcore token that is structurally impossible, because the LP is locked at migration.
Choosing your numbers
Setting
Range
How to think about it
Trading fee
2–10%
The dial that decides your income per trade. High fees earn more per trade but push volume elsewhere; low fees attract traders but pay less. Most pads sit between 2% and 4%.
Starting market cap
$1,000 – $20,000
Lower starts feel cheaper and move faster. Higher starts filter out the least serious launches.
Graduation market cap
≥ 1.5× start
How far a token has to travel before liquidity locks. Further means more fee-generating volume on the way, but fewer tokens ever get there.
Quote token
SOL or USDC
SOL is the default for memecoins. USDC keeps prices legible when SOL itself is moving.
There is no right answerAnyone who tells you the optimal fee is guessing. The fee that works depends on your audience, and you cannot change it later — so decide before you sign, not after.
Core conceptsFees and the 50/50 split
Fees and the 50/50 split
Where every cent goes
Every trade on a Padcore token pays the fee configured by the pad it launched on. That fee is split before it reaches anyone.
The split
Share
Recipient
What happens to it
50%
The launchpad owner
Paid to the owner's wallet. It is theirs. It never reaches Padcore for any purpose.
50%
Padcore
100% of it is spent buying $PAD on the open market and sending it to a dead address.
Worked exampleA token on a pad with a 3.5% fee does $100,000 of volume in a week. The fee generated is $3,500. The pad owner receives $1,750. The remaining $1,750 becomes $PAD bought on the market and burned. Illustrative only — real amounts depend entirely on real volume.
How payouts reach you
Fees accrue on-chain as partner fees. A public process splits and distributes them on a schedule, and every payout is an ordinary transaction with a signature listed in your pad's public fee history.
Amounts are not guaranteedFee income depends entirely on trading activity, which nobody controls or forecasts. It can be, and for most pads at some point will be, zero. Distribution can also be delayed by network congestion or third-party outages.
The creation fee
Separate from trading fees, creating a pad costs a dynamic fee — currently 0.1 SOL. 100% of it goes into buying and burning $PAD. It is not held in a treasury and is not refundable.
For pad ownersCreating your pad
Creating your pad
Every field on the create screen, explained
The create screen is one page with four sections. Only the curve section is permanent.
Identity
Subdomainpermanent
Lowercase letters, numbers and dashes, up to 32 characters. Checked live for availability.
Nameeditable
Display name shown on your page and in the directory.
Descriptioneditable
One line. Shown under your name and in the directory card.
Logoeditable
Up to 1.5 MB. Square images work best; anything else is cropped to a square with rounded corners.
Primary coloureditable
Repaints your pad's public page — header, buttons, curve, highlights. It does not affect Padcore itself.
Curve
This section cannot be edited after you signFee, quote token, starting market cap and graduation market cap are written to an immutable on-chain configuration. Read them twice.
Links and tracking
Twitter/X, Telegram and a website, plus an optional Google Analytics measurement ID. All editable at any time, none of them requires a signature.
Your own domain
Coming soonPointing a domain you already own at your pad is not live yet. When it ships it will be a single CNAME record, the certificate will be issued automatically, and your subdomain will keep working as a mirror so existing links never break.
For pad ownersYour pad token
Your pad token
The optional token on your own curve
When you create a pad you can create a token for it in the same transaction, at no additional fee.
Why it exists
A pad token trades on your own curve like any other token on your pad — which means its trading fees pay you the same 50%. It is the only token on your pad whose launch you fully control, and it gives your pad a face beyond its branding.
It is pinnedWhile it is on the curve, your pad token is displayed above the grid on your public page, marked as the pad token.
What you set
Token nameeditable before signing
Usually the same as the pad, but it does not have to be.
Tickereditable before signing
Up to 8 characters, letters and numbers, automatically uppercased.
It is still a token on a curveYour pad token is subject to exactly the same risks as every other token on Padcore. Creating one does not make it valuable, and nothing about it is guaranteed.
Skipping it
Turn the toggle off and the pad is created without a token. There is currently no way to add one to an existing pad in the same transaction, so if you are unsure, it costs nothing to include it.
For pad ownersOwner dashboard
Owner dashboard
What you can change, what you cannot
Your dashboard is where you manage branding and tracking — those update instantly and for free. Anything touching money or the chain requires a signature.
Section
Editable
Requires signature
Overview and stats
—
No
Fees and payouts
View history
No
Branding, colour, logo, links
Yes
Yes, one message
Curve
No — immutable
N/A
Pad token
View only
N/A
Featured token
Yes
Yes, one message
Subdomain
No — permanent
N/A
Analytics ID
Yes
Yes, one message
X verification
Yes
Yes, one message
Fees and payouts
Shows the full payout history with transaction signatures, on your pad's public dashboard. Payouts run automatically on a schedule.
Hiding is not deletingRemoving a pad from the Padcore directory does not affect on-chain state. The subdomain keeps working and tokens keep trading regardless of anything in this dashboard.
For token creatorsLaunching on a pad
Launching on a pad
What to check before you commit
Launching a token means picking a pad and accepting its rules. Read them first — they are printed on every pad page and cannot be changed afterwards.
Check these four things
What
Where
Why it matters
Trading fee
The chip on the pad's header
It is charged on every buy and every sell, on your token, forever.
Quote token
Same header
Determines what your token trades against.
Curve range
Same header
Start and graduation market caps decide how far the token has to travel.
Who owns the pad
Footer of the pad page
Half of every fee your token generates goes to that wallet.
The pad owner earns from your tokenThat is the model, and it is not hidden. What you get in exchange is a curve with locked LP at graduation and a pad that has an incentive to bring traffic.
After graduation
Liquidity migrates to a DAMM v2 pool with the LP locked permanently. Your token continues to trade there, outside the curve.
Most tokens go to zeroThis is not pessimism, it is the base rate in this category. Launch with money you can afford to lose entirely, and never tell anyone else otherwise.
$PADThe platform token
The platform token
Supply, buyback and burn
$PAD has one job: to absorb the revenue Padcore makes. Every fee that reaches the platform is spent buying it on the open market and sending it somewhere unreachable.
Property
Value
Total supply
1,000,000,000, fixed
Mint authority
Revoked — supply cannot increase
Contract address
Published at launch
Revenue burned
100% of what reaches Padcore
Burn destination
An address with no known private key
Where the burned revenue comes from
1
The creation fee
100% of every launchpad creation fee.
2
The platform's half of trading fees
From tokens launched by third parties, on launchpads owned by third parties. The launchpad owner's half is theirs and never reaches Padcore.
How a burn happens
1
Only our share arrives
The launchpad owner's half is paid straight to their wallet and never touches this account.
2
A bot buys on the open market
No treasury allocation, no minted tokens, no private deal. The buy competes for the same liquidity as anyone else's.
3
It goes somewhere unreachable
The $PAD is sent to a dead address, and every swap and transfer leaves a public signature listed in the burn ledger.
What $PAD is notIt is not a share, not a claim on revenue, not a yield product, not governance and not a promise about price. Burning is a use of revenue, not a distribution of it. No holder is entitled to any payment because they hold $PAD, and the token may lose all of its value.
Beware of anything claiming to be $PAD before launchThe contract address will be published on this site. Anything circulating before then is not ours.
GuidesAnalytics
Analytics
Putting your pad's traffic in your own property
Pad owners can connect their own Google Analytics property. Padcore does not inject any third-party script on your behalf.
1
Create a GA4 property
In Google Analytics, create a property for your pad and copy its measurement ID.
2
Paste it into your dashboard
Analytics section, measurement ID field. It looks like G-XXXXXXXXXX.
3
Save
gtag.js starts loading on your pad's pages. Clearing the field removes it.
You become the data controllerIf you connect analytics, you are responsible for your own privacy notice and for any consent your users' jurisdictions require, including under the GDPR and the LGPD. See the Terms.
html
<!-- what gets injected, and nothing else -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-XXXXXXXXXX"></script>
GuidesAttribution
Attribution
The Powered by Padcore badge
Pages served on Padcore subdomains display a "Powered by Padcore" badge in the corner. It links back to the platform.
Removing it is a breachRemoving, obscuring or misrepresenting the attribution violates the Terms of Service and can result in your pad being removed from our interfaces.
Both a light and a dark version are provided; use whichever contrasts with your pad's primary colour.
ReferenceSecurity and risk
Security and risk
Read this before you commit anything
You can lose everything you commitTokens on bonding curves are highly speculative, frequently illiquid, and routinely go to zero. Do not commit funds you cannot afford to lose entirely.
Risks that apply to everyone
Risk
What it means
Total loss
Most tokens in this category end worthless. This is the base rate, not a worst case.
Bad actors
Creators may abandon projects, sell their holdings, impersonate brands or run coordinated schemes. Padcore does not screen for this.
Smart contract risk
Audits reduce but never eliminate the possibility of a vulnerability in any contract in the stack.
Irreversibility
Signed transactions cannot be cancelled, reversed or refunded by anyone.
Regulatory risk
Rules applying to tokens are unsettled and change. Access may become restricted where you live.
Front-end risk
Interfaces can be spoofed. Always verify the domain and read what a transaction does before signing.
Basic hygiene
Check the domain character by character before connecting a wallet.
Read the transaction in your wallet. If it asks for permissions the action does not need, reject it.
Use a separate wallet for launching and trading than the one holding anything you care about.
Nobody at Padcore will ever ask for your seed phrase, for any reason.
ReferenceFAQ
FAQ
The questions that come up most
Pads
Can I change my fee after creating the pad?
No. The fee, quote token and market cap range are immutable on-chain configuration. Create a second pad if you need different terms — one wallet can own many.
Can I change my subdomain?
No. It is permanent so existing links, shared charts and embeds never break.
What happens if I stop using my pad?
Nothing changes on-chain. Tokens keep trading and you keep receiving your half of the fees they generate, whether or not you ever open the dashboard again.
Can Padcore take my pad away?
We can remove it from our directory and interfaces under the Terms. We cannot touch on-chain state: the configuration, the tokens and the fee split continue to exist regardless.
Money
When do I get paid?
Automatically, on a schedule, whenever your accrued fees pass the minimum payout amount. Every payout appears in your pad's public fee history.
Is the creation fee refundable?
No, under any circumstances.
Who pays gas?
Whoever signs the transaction. Padcore does not sponsor transactions.
Do I owe taxes on fee income?
Almost certainly, and it is entirely your responsibility to determine, report and pay it. Padcore does not provide tax advice or documentation.
$PAD
Does holding $PAD entitle me to anything?
No. It carries no claim on revenue, profit, assets or governance.
Can the supply increase?
No. It is fixed at 1,000,000,000 with the mint authority revoked.
What if the burn process fails?
Nothing is lost. Fees stay in the account until the next successful run, and failed attempts are visible on-chain like any other transaction.
ReferenceLegal
Legal
Policies and where to find them
Your use of Padcore is governed by the Terms of Service. This documentation explains how things work; the Terms govern what you agree to.
