How to Launch a Coin on pump.tires

A free, honest, step-by-step guide to fair-launching on PulseChain — written by someone who actually did it, mistakes included. No fee, no catch, nothing to sign up for.

What pump.tires is

A fair-launch platform on PulseChain. Your coin starts on a bonding curve: there's no pre-sale and no team allocation — the price simply rises as people buy and falls as they sell. Anyone can launch in about five minutes for the cost of gas.

What "graduation" means

Once enough of the supply is bought off the curve, the coin graduates to PulseX (a real DEX). At graduation the liquidity is handled automatically — the LP is burned and ownership renounced. That's your on-chain "I can't rug you" proof, and it's the moment most coins aim for.

The honest part

Most coins never graduate. Launching takes five minutes; getting attention takes everything you've got. The platform is not the hard part — distribution is. Read that twice before you spend a single PLS.

Parameters like curve size, burn rate and the graduation threshold are set by the platform and can change. The figures here were accurate when this was written — always confirm the current numbers on pump.tires itself before you launch.

Before you start

Have all of this ready. Fumbling mid-launch is how mistakes happen.

A PulseChain wallet

ZKX Wallet or Internet Money — both are PulseChain-native and just work. MetaMask can be pointed at PulseChain, but the native wallets give you less to get wrong.

PLS for gas (and maybe a dev buy)

You pay gas in PLS. If you want a creator buy, that's PLS too. Bridge in with LibertySwap from ETH, BNB, SOL or USDC.

Your coin's identity

Name, ticker, a square image, a description, and ideally a website and X account. Write it all in a text file first, then paste. You cannot easily change these later.

The launch, step by step

About 30 minutes if your assets are ready.

  1. 1

    Get a PulseChain wallet

    Install ZKX Wallet or Internet Money and back up your seed phrase somewhere offline. Nobody legitimate will ever ask you for it.

  2. 2

    Bridge funds onto PulseChain

    Use LibertySwap to bring ETH, BNB, SOL or USDC across to PLS. Send a small test amount first if it's your first bridge — it costs a few cents to learn the flow is working before you move real money.

  3. 3

    Prepare the coin image and copy

    This is where most launches quietly lose. Your coin image is shown as a tiny circle in a scrolling feed — that's the whole first impression.

    What actually works: a square (1:1) PNG of a face or one bold shape, filling the frame, high contrast. Test it at 32 pixels. If you can't tell what it is, it's the wrong image.

    What fails: full-body characters (the head becomes three pixels), detailed logos, text on the image, busy backgrounds, and anything with a transparent background that vanishes against a dark feed — use a solid or filled background so it reads on every theme.

    Write your name, ticker and description into a text file now, then copy-paste at launch. Say what the meme is in the first line — that line is the pitch.

  4. 4

    Create the coin

    Go to pump.tires, connect your wallet and sign the verify message. Click "create a coin", then fill in:

    • Name and Symbol — keep the ticker short and sayable.
    • Image — the square PNG from step 3.
    • Description — paste it; don't write it live.
    • Website / X — links make you look real. Have them ready first.

    Confirm the transaction (you pay PLS gas), then copy the contract address and the token page URL immediately. You will paste that CA everywhere for the rest of the coin's life.

  5. 5

    Size your dev buy — the trap

    This is the one that nearly got us, so pay attention. The dev-buy field may come pre-filled with a large default. When we launched, the suggested amount would have bought roughly 15% of the entire supply into the creator wallet.

    Buyers check the creator's holdings first. A fat creator wallet reads as rug risk, and people scroll straight past. We dropped ours to about 3%.

    Rule of thumb: zero to ~3%. Enough to show conviction, small enough that nobody fears you. Clear the default and type your own number — don't accept whatever is in the box.

  6. 6

    Set up the moment it's live

    The first hour matters more than the next week.

    • CA in your X bio and pinned post. If people can't find the contract in three seconds, they buy a fake one.
    • Post the launch with the CA and an image, then pin it.
    • Publish a site. It's the difference between "a random contract" and "a project." Ours is open source below — fork it.
    • Watch for impersonators. Fake CAs appear fast. Repeat the real one constantly and never trust a CA from a reply.

Mistakes to avoid

Cheap to read now; expensive to learn live.

A huge dev buy

The single fastest way to kill trust before you've said a word. See step 5.

Promising returns

Never promise price, gains or a "guaranteed" anything. It's a meme — say so. Promises are how a meme becomes a legal problem.

Faking it

Wash trading, fake volume, invented partnerships and bot followers are all visible on-chain or obvious in the replies. Getting caught is terminal, and the grind you avoided is shorter than the recovery.

Launching with no art

No image, no site, no X. You get one scroll-past to exist. Prepare before, not after.

Disappearing

Most coins die of silence, not of selling. If you're not prepared to show up daily for weeks, the launch is the easy part you'll waste.

Trusting any CA you're sent

Verify against the official page every single time — yours and anyone else's.

Free kit — take any of it

Everything we built for $HAALAND is open source under MIT. No fee, no permission needed, no strings. Fork it and ship your own.

This whole site

A complete coin site — hero, how-to-buy, tokenomics, meme maker, arcade game. It's config-driven: swap the contract address, name, ticker, colours and character and it's yours. Zero build step, plain HTML/CSS/JS.

The meme maker

Runs in your browser — drop a character in, add text, export. Use it for your own mascot; it's in the repo.

The asset scripts

Python scripts that generate coin images, profile pictures, OG previews and meme kits from one character image. That's how the art on this site was made.

Who wrote this, and why

Fair question — always ask it.

We launched $HAALAND on pump.tires and wrote down what we learned, because the guide we wanted didn't exist. We are not affiliated with pump.tires, LibertySwap, or any wallet mentioned — this is an independent community guide. We take no fee, we get nothing if you launch, and we don't endorse, vet, or promote any coin — including the ones that use our template. If this helped, tell someone. That's the whole deal.

Nothing here is financial or legal advice. Launching a token carries financial, legal and tax consequences that differ by country — if you're doing anything serious, talk to a real lawyer. Crypto is high-risk and you can lose everything. Verify every URL and contract address yourself. DYOR.