Launch a token
Create a native token and open its market in one step.
A token on QRDX is not a contract. It is a registry entry (name, symbol, supply, authorities) and balances held in consensus, so creating one is a single transaction and there is no code to audit. Every native token is also an ERC-20 inside the EVM.
On trade.qrdx.org
Launch creates a token and a market for it at once:
- Name, symbol and supply. Symbols are not unique; the token is identified by its address, which is fixed before the block includes it.
- How much you keep. The rest goes on the launch curve.
- Launch price and curve. The curve is a concentrated-liquidity position holding only the new token, from the launch price up to a multiple of it. Buyers swap the quote asset in and walk the price up the range, which behaves like a bonding curve but is an ordinary pool that anyone can trade on, add to or route through.
- Pool cost. Stake QRDX (refunded if the pool is later removed) or burn it (the pool is permanent). The form shows what your network charges: 10,000 to stake or 5,000 to burn before qrdx-node's 2026-10 release, 25 or 10 from it.
The wallet asks you to approve the token, the pool and the curve. They can all land in the same block.
Authorities
A token has optional authorities. Each can be handed over or renounced; renouncing is permanent.
| Authority | Can | If none |
|---|---|---|
| Mint | create new supply, up to the max supply if one is set | the supply is fixed forever |
| Freeze | freeze and thaw accounts' balances of the token | no account can ever be frozen |
A launch on trade.qrdx.org never sets a freeze authority, so nobody can lock a holder's coins. By default it has no mint authority either, so the supply is fixed; you can choose to keep the right to mint (for yourself or another address), and buyers will see that. The explorer shows Fixed supply, Mintable and Freezable on every token page.
Token standard options
Token standard options on the launch form opt the token into the standard's extensions. They are chosen when the token is created and cannot be added later; buyers, wallets and the explorer see each one.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Decimals | how wallets display amounts (0–18; 18 by default) |
| Metadata | a URI and up to 16 fields (website, description, …), editable by you or locked forever |
| Freeze authority | may freeze a holder's balance; optionally every account starts frozen until thawed (permissioned assets) |
| Pausable | you can stop every transfer, mint and burn, and resume them |
| Permanent delegate | may move or burn anyone's balance without permission (a regulated issuer's clawback) |
| Default operators | up to 8 addresses that may move every holder's balance until the holder revokes them (ERC-777) |
| Soulbound | holders can never send it |
| Transfer fee | basis points withheld from every transfer, for you to collect; a new rate applies 100 blocks after it is set |
| Backed by locked classical assets | an advisory flag for trading after the Doomsday Protocol |
A token with a transfer fee, a soulbound token and a default-frozen token cannot be pooled, so those are created as a token only. Native tokens explains each extension.
After launch
- The token page on the explorer shows its price, chart, supply, markets and holders' trades.
- As the creator, you can claim the token on the explorer and set its image, description and links. QRDX Trade and the wallet show the image.
- Claim its ticker (Launch → Your tokens, on networks from the 2026-10 release): anyone can create a token with any symbol, but a ticker is unique. Its creator buys the symbol as the token's ticker in a Dutch auction (250 QRDX falling to 25 over about a day and a half, doubling after each sale), burned; no other token can hold it after.