LaunchPad Platform Comparison: Exploring the Features and Potential of Three Major Meme Coins Launchpads

Decentralized platform LaunchPad is usually operated by blockchain projects or DEX, providing channels for emerging projects to issue tokens through IDO. This article focuses on meme token launch platforms, which are characterized by low market capitalization of listed tokens, high circulation rates, mostly meme coins, low threshold for users to issue tokens, and a high potential wealth effect.

The main functions of LaunchPad include:

1. Raise funds for the project
2. Assist in token distribution
3. Acquire Traffic
4. Create a wealth effect

After achieving great success on a well-known platform, LaunchPad has become the first choice for many teams to start their ventures. In addition to this platform, a well-established meme coin in the Solana ecosystem recently launched its own LaunchPad, with several of its tokens having reached a market cap of over $10 million. At the same time, the representative project of AI Agent LaunchPad has recently introduced new participation methods and activities, with its native coin price doubling within a week.

Let’s take a look at the differences between these three platforms and the tokens worth paying attention to recently.

A well-known meme coin launch platform

This platform sparked a meme frenzy in the second half of 2024, with daily revenues exceeding $7 million at its peak, and even during the current market cooling period, it still maintains a level of about $1.5 million per day. Since its launch, total revenue has surpassed $600 million, making it a veritable money printer in the coin realm.

The revenue of the platform is priced in SOL, but unlike other native Solana projects, it chooses to exchange the obtained SOL for USDC instead of staking or operating nodes. Since 2025, the platform has sold SOL tokens worth $317 million.

Although this approach does not look good and combined with some previous controversial events, the platform, despite its strong profitability, has not received strong support from the Solana Foundation.

The platform offers a wide variety of tokens, covering various themes such as animals, puns, news events, AI, and more, with almost any concept being able to serve as material for meme coins. Currently, it remains the preferred platform for token issuance.

A Certain Solana Classic Meme Coin LaunchPad

Compared to the former, this platform has a more orthodox position in the ecosystem. As the most representative meme coin on the Solana chain, it has been deeply cultivated in the ecosystem for over four years and often appears in various offline events related to Solana.

The platform mechanism is more transparent, with revenue coming from a 1% transaction fee used for platform operations, supporting validators, and repurchasing and destroying platform coins. In addition, it has also collaborated with a certain DEX's LaunchLab, demonstrating its sincerity towards the Solana ecosystem.

The token with the highest market capitalization currently listed on the platform is inspired by a famous internet celebrity cat, with a peak market value of 38 million USD. Additionally, the platform's eponymous token and another token that has drawn attention due to the founder's actions are also worth noting.

AI Agent LaunchPad

The AI Agent LaunchPad, originally built on the Base chain, recently expanded to Solana. Its business model is simple: users need to consume platform coins to create and trade tokens on the platform. Although the AI craze has waned, the platform has recently launched new participation mechanisms.

The new mechanism includes:

• Virgen Points: Used to access pre-TGE coin allocation
• Multiple ways to earn points: trading, holding coins, content creation, etc.
• Staking System: Users can participate in token distribution by staking points.

The participation method includes three steps: staking points, investing platform coins, and receiving tokens. Overall, the platform is building a smaller but more loyal LaunchPad ecosystem.

Summary

These three platforms each have their advantages and challenges:

• A well-known platform is renowned for its strong traffic advantages and profitability, but it has also sparked controversy due to frequent cash-outs.
• The Solana old-school meme coin platform has gained favor through community engagement and low fee strategies, but faces the issue of attention diversion.
• The innovative mechanism of the AI Agent platform is eye-catching, but whether it can continuously attract user participation remains to be seen.

The future development of the LaunchPad track hinges on value realization and community resilience. The platform needs to find a balance between short-term hype and long-term ecological construction, while project parties should provide real utility rather than relying solely on narrative. For researchers and participants, in addition to focusing on traffic and price fluctuations, they should also analyze the risks and potential of each platform's mechanism in depth to find projects that are truly worthy of long-term attention.