How to Add Liquidity on Raydium After Creating Your Solana Token
Creating a Solana token is only the first step. Before anyone can buy or sell your token, you need to add liquidity on Raydium. This guide walks through creating an AMM pool, setting an initial price, and going live on Dexscreener.
Raydium is the largest automated market maker (AMM) on Solana and the standard destination for new token liquidity. When someone wants to trade a new Solana token, they almost always do it through Jupiter - Solana's DEX aggregator - which routes trades through Raydium pools behind the scenes.
Unlike centralised exchanges, Raydium requires no approval process or listing fee. Anyone can create a pool for any Solana token in minutes. Once your pool exists, your token is instantly tradeable by anyone using Jupiter, Raydium, or any other Solana DEX aggregator.
Why You Need Liquidity
When you create a Solana token using Launchify, the tokens are minted directly to your wallet. At that point your token has no market price - it simply exists as a balance in your wallet. For anyone else to buy it, there needs to be a pool that defines:
How much your token is worth in SOL or USDC
A reserve of both assets that buyers and sellers can trade against
A mechanism (the AMM formula) that automatically adjusts price with every trade
Creating a token on Launchify does not automatically add liquidity. Liquidity must be added separately on Raydium before your token can be bought or sold.
AMM Pool vs Concentrated Liquidity (CLMM)
Raydium offers two pool types. For new token launches, Standard AMM is almost always the right choice.
Pool Type
How it works
Best for
Standard AMM
Liquidity spread across all possible prices using the x*y=k formula
New token launches - simple to set up, no active management needed
CLMM
Liquidity concentrated in a specific price range for higher capital efficiency
Established tokens with predictable price ranges and active managers
For a brand new token, price will move unpredictably based on buying and selling pressure. A Standard AMM pool handles any price range automatically, which makes it the right starting point.
What You Need Before Adding Liquidity
A Phantom wallet that holds your newly created token
SOL to use as the other side of the trading pair (your token is paired against SOL)
A small additional amount of SOL for the pool creation transaction fee (around 0.3-0.5 SOL)
Connect PhantomClick Connect Wallet and select Phantom. Make sure the wallet holds your token and the SOL you plan to add as liquidity.
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Select Standard AMM and enter your token detailsChoose Standard AMM as the pool type. Paste your token's mint address in the Base Token field. Select SOL as the Quote Token (or USDC if you prefer a stablecoin pair).
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Set the initial price and enter your liquidity amountsEnter the starting price - this is how many SOL one token costs. Then specify how many tokens and how much SOL you want to deposit. Raydium will show you the implied market cap based on your inputs.
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Confirm the transaction in Phantom - your pool is liveReview the transaction details in Phantom and approve. The pool is created on-chain immediately. Dexscreener and Birdeye will detect the pair within minutes of the first trade.
The initial price you set when creating the pool determines the starting market cap. Once set, price moves with trading. Think carefully before confirming - you cannot edit the starting price after the pool is created.
How Much Liquidity Should You Add?
There is no fixed rule, but more liquidity generally means a more stable token price. Each trade moves the price by a smaller percentage when the pool is deeper.
For memecoin launches, adding $500-$5,000 worth of SOL is a common starting range
Less than $100 in liquidity makes the token extremely volatile - a single small buy or sell can move the price dramatically
Traders actively avoid tokens with very thin liquidity because slippage on entry and exit is unpredictable
You can add more liquidity later at any time without affecting the pool's existence
What Happens After You Add Liquidity
Your pool goes live immediately and trading can begin
Dexscreener and Birdeye pick up the pair automatically within minutes of the first trade
Jupiter routes trades through your pool once it is detected, making your token buyable from the Jupiter interface
Holders can buy and sell your token on any Solana DEX aggregator without any additional setup from you
How to Lock Liquidity on Raydium
When you create a Raydium liquidity pool you receive LP tokens - they represent your share of the pool and can be redeemed at any time to withdraw the underlying liquidity. The ability to withdraw is the source of one of the biggest trader fears: a "rug pull", where the creator withdraws all liquidity and the token becomes untradeable.
Locking liquidity removes that fear. There are two common approaches:
Option 1 - Burn the LP tokens
Sending your LP tokens to the burn address (1nc1nerator11111111111111111111111111111111 on Solana) is irreversible. Once burned, no one can ever withdraw the underlying liquidity. This is the cheapest and simplest method.
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Open PhantomFind your LP tokens in the token list. They will be named after the trading pair, e.g. "RAY-SOL LP".
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Send to the burn addressChoose Send, paste the Solana burn address 1nc1nerator11111111111111111111111111111111, send all of your LP tokens. The transaction is permanent.
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Share proofTake the transaction signature and share the Solscan link with your community as proof that liquidity is permanently locked.
Option 2 - Use a liquidity locker service
Locker services like Streamflow or Team Finance hold your LP tokens in a smart contract that releases them on a schedule (e.g. unlock after 6 months, 1 year, or 5 years). This is preferred when you want optionality - you can release the LP later if needed - but still want a credible "I am not running off with the liquidity tomorrow" signal.
Burn is the strongest commitment. A timed lock is a middle ground. Either is significantly better than leaving the LP tokens in your wallet.
How to Remove Liquidity from Raydium
If you want to withdraw liquidity from a Raydium pool (and have not burned or locked the LP tokens), the process is:
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Go to raydium.io/liquidityConnect the wallet that holds the LP tokens. The pools you have provided liquidity to are listed under "My Positions".
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Click Remove on your poolChoose how much liquidity to withdraw - 100% removes the entire position, or you can withdraw a percentage.
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Confirm the transactionPhantom asks you to approve. After confirmation, the underlying token and SOL (or USDC) return to your wallet, proportional to the pool composition at that moment.
Removing liquidity affects price. Removing a large share of a small pool will cause significant slippage on the next trades and can be a community-trust event for memecoins. Communicate any planned withdrawals with your community in advance, or burn the LP entirely to prevent the issue.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Creating a token mints it to your wallet but gives it no market price. A liquidity pool on Raydium is what enables buying and selling. Without it, your token cannot be traded by anyone else.
Dexscreener typically picks up a new Raydium pool within a few minutes of the first trade being confirmed on-chain. The pair page is created automatically - you do not need to submit anything manually.
Yes. When you create the pool, Raydium issues you LP tokens representing your share. You can return those LP tokens to Raydium at any time to withdraw your portion of the pool. Removing liquidity can impact price stability, especially for smaller pools.
Standard AMM pools spread liquidity across all prices using the constant product formula. CLMM pools let you concentrate liquidity in a specific price range for better capital efficiency, but require active management as price moves. AMM is the right choice for new token launches.
You need SOL for the liquidity itself (this sets your starting market cap) plus around 0.3-0.5 SOL for the pool creation transaction. There is no minimum liquidity amount, but thin pools are less attractive to traders due to high price impact on each trade.
Yes, Orca supports custom pools as well. However, Raydium has broader integration with Jupiter routing and Dexscreener detection, and is the standard choice for new Solana token launches. Most traders and tools in the Solana ecosystem expect to find new tokens on Raydium first.
Create Your Solana Token First
Launch your token on Solana in under 30 seconds, then head to Raydium to add liquidity and go live.