How Token Forge works
Everything you need to know about launching, buying, trading and earning on Token Forge.
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I want to launch a token
How launches work, what they cost, and what happens after your token goes live.
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I want to invest
How presales and trading work, and what COAL does for you.
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What Token Forge is and how to set yourself up.
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What is Token Forge?
A launchpad on Base. Tokens launch with PBTC as their trading pair, liquidity is created and locked for you, and staking PBTC earns COAL.
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Wallet and funding
Which wallets work, how to connect, and how to get PBTC, COAL and USDC for what you want to do.
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Glossary
The terms you will see across Token Forge, in one place.
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Launching a token and running it afterwards.
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Quick Launch vs Advanced Launch
Quick Launch gets a bonding curve token live in a couple of minutes with fixed presets. Advanced Launch lets you choose the launch type and every setting.
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Launch types explained
Bonding curve, fixed price, stepped price or direct liquidity. How each one prices the presale, how it ends, and what buyers can do.
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Fees and payment
What a launch costs, how to pay with PBTC or USDC, and how burning a small amount of COAL gets you 25% off.
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Setting up your presale
What each presale setting in Advanced Launch does and how to pick numbers your community can reach.
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Creator allocation and vesting
Reserving part of the supply for yourself, how it vests, and how to release it after launch.
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Community staking rewards
Setting aside part of the supply for holders who stake your token: allocation, reward period, reward curve and withdraw lock.
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Liquidity and LP locks
How the liquidity pool is created at launch, how the LP lock works, and what you can do with the position afterwards.
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After launch: My Tokens
What you can do with your token once it is live: earnings, liquidity, editing the token page and promoting it.
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When a presale fails
What happens when a fixed or stepped presale ends below its soft cap, for buyers and for the creator.
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Buying into presales, trading, and what you can do with COAL.
Investors
Finding tokens
Getting around Explore, the token page, search, favorites and the activity ticker.
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Buying in a presale
Paying with PBTC or almost any Base token, what the limits mean, getting in early, selling on a bonding curve, and claiming your tokens after launch.
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Trading launched tokens
Swapping on the Trade page and on token pages, reading the chart and setting slippage.
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Staking PBTC for COAL
Stake PBTC and earn COAL every second. Your rewards grow with a time boost of up to 2×, which you keep even if you withdraw part of your stake.
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Coal Boost
Burn COAL to give a token Heat and get it in front of more people. Heat fades every hour, so it rewards ongoing support rather than a one-off spend.
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Your portfolio
What the Portfolio page shows, how it is valued, and how to keep it up to date.
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