Adding liquidity on Raydium
A token on its own cannot be bought or sold — someone has to create a market for it. Raydium is the most common place to do that on Solana. Here is exactly what to do.
MintKit does not add liquidity. This page is guidance only. Every step below happens on Raydium, in your own wallet, with your own funds. Nothing here is financial advice, and liquidity you deposit can lose value.
- 01
Decide your starting price
The amounts you deposit set the price. If you add 1,000,000 tokens and 10 SOL, the starting price is 0.00001 SOL per token. Work out both numbers before you open Raydium.
- 02
Fund your wallet
You need the tokens you want to sell, the SOL (or USDC) for the other side of the pool, and extra SOL for Raydium's pool-creation rent and network fees. Raydium shows the exact cost before you confirm.
- 03
Finish your token settings first
Revoke the mint authority, disable freeze authority and lock metadata before you create a pool if you plan to. Traders check these, and doing it afterwards looks like a change of plan.
- 04
Open Raydium's liquidity page
Go to raydium.io, connect the same wallet, and choose to create a new pool (Standard AMM for most tokens; Token-2022 mints with a transfer fee are only supported by some pool types, so check Raydium's own notes).
- 05
Paste your mint address
Raydium looks the token up on-chain. If the name and image do not appear, your metadata may still be indexing — wait a few minutes and refresh.
- 06
Enter both deposit amounts and confirm
Review the starting price Raydium calculates, then approve the transactions in your wallet. Once confirmed, the pool is live and anyone can trade.
- 07
Handle your LP tokens
Creating a pool gives you LP tokens representing your deposit. Keeping them lets you withdraw later; burning or locking them is how projects signal the liquidity is permanent. Burning is irreversible — your deposit can never be withdrawn again.