What is Token Forge?

Token Forge is a token launchpad on Base. You set up a token in the wizard, buyers fund it in a presale, and when the presale is done the token goes live on Uniswap with its liquidity locked. No code, no manual pool setup.

Two sides of the platform

Token creators launch tokens. The wizard takes care of the contract, the presale, the liquidity pool and the LP lock, plus optional extras like a creator allocation or a staking pool for holders. After launch you manage the token from My Tokens and can promote it with Coal Boost.

Investors buy into presales, trade launched tokens, and earn on the platform. Staking PBTC pays out COAL, which you can burn for fee discounts, early access to presales and Coal Boost Heat. Presales are paid in PBTC. If you hold something else, such as ETH or USDC, it is swapped into PBTC for you as part of the purchase.

Why everything is paired with PBTC

PBTC is the Token Forge ecosystem token. Every token launched here trades against it, and every fee is paid in PBTC or converted into it. That gives the whole ecosystem one base asset: presale funds become PBTC/token liquidity, trades route through PBTC, and demand for new launches flows back into PBTC. PBTC has a fixed 100M supply and locked liquidity.

What happens in a launch

1. Create. Name, symbol, logo, description and socials. Quick Launch uses a fixed supply of 100,000,000; Advanced Launch lets you choose.
2. Presale. Buyers purchase tokens with PBTC. The launch type decides how the price behaves: a bonding curve rises with every purchase, a fixed price stays flat, a stepped price rises in tiers. A direct liquidity launch skips the presale. See Launch types explained.
3. Launch. A bonding curve launches the moment it sells out. Fixed and stepped presales launch when their timer ends with the soft cap reached; once the hard cap is hit, the creator can also launch early. The factory creates the Uniswap V3 pool from the raised PBTC and the remaining tokens, seeds a smaller token/WETH pool with 10% of the raise (up to $2,000), and locks the LP position. Bonding curve launches open at the curve's final price, so there is no price gap between the presale and the market.
4. Claim. Once the token is live, buyers claim their tokens on the token page.
5. Grow. The token shows up on Explore with charts, holders can stake it if you set up a pool, and the community can push it with Coal Boost.

A fixed or stepped presale that ends below its soft cap fails, and every buyer claims a full refund. Bonding curves have no deadline and cannot fail: they run until they sell out.

COAL

COAL is earned by staking PBTC and is meant to be burned. Burning it gets you launch fee discounts, early access to new presales, and Heat for Coal Boost campaigns. Supply is capped at 100M, with 80M paid out to stakers over ten years. See Staking PBTC for COAL.

Where to go next

• Launching something? Start with Quick vs Advanced Launch and Fees and payment.
• Investing? Read Launch types explained and Coal Boost.