Seed the pool and lock it, step by step
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Decide how much GRAM the pool holds
This is the money that pays anyone who wants out, so it is the number that decides whether the token can be traded at all. The app grades what you type: below 100 GRAM is too thin, 400 is where the price stops jumping on every buy, and 500 or more is a deep pool.
Where: Token wizard → Give it a price400GoodThis GRAM is not a fee and it is not spent. It is the reserve that pays sellers — and once the LP is locked, you cannot take it back out.
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Choose how many tokens go in with it
The second screen takes the token side. The two amounts together are the starting price, shown the way people actually read it — 1 GRAM = 60,000,000 TOKEN — with the exact decimal underneath. The screen also shows what a normal 10 GRAM buy would do to that price.
Where: Token wizard → And how many tokens400,000,0001 GRAM = 1,000,000 TOKEN -
Confirm the proportion, because it does not get corrected
Seeding asks you to type SEED and shows the price that is about to be fixed. After this the proportion only moves by people buying and selling — there is no edit button, and a wrong ratio is paid for by trading against it.
Where: Token wizard → confirmCheck the decimal place twice. A price that is ten times off is not a cosmetic mistake; it is the price of your token.
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Wait for the pool to appear on-chain
Seeding does not create the pool instantly — the router takes a few blocks. The app watches the blockchain for you and tells you when it appears, instead of leaving you in front of a screen that has not changed.
Where: Token wizard → Seal the pool -
Lock the liquidity forever
The LP tokens are the key to the pool: whoever holds them can take the money out. Locking sends the entire balance to an address made of zeros, which nobody has the key to, because finding one would mean breaking sha256. After it lands, the money in the pool can only ever leave by paying someone who sells.
Where: Token wizard → Lock the liquidity400.00 GRAMlocked 🔒This is the one action nobody can reverse — not you, not us. That irreversibility is exactly what makes it worth anything to a buyer.
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Verify it somewhere that is not us
The app links the pool on an explorer. Check three things yourself: the pool has funds, you hold no LP tokens, and the LP sits at the null address. All three must be true; the first two alone would also be true of an owner who simply moved the LP to another wallet of their own.
Where: Token wizard → Check the pool on the explorer
The pool is nobody's
Your token has a price, a reserve that pays sellers, and liquidity that cannot be pulled by anyone. That is the strongest thing a small launch can say, and it is verifiable without trusting a word of this page.
Open the token tools ↗Why a token without a pool has no price
A price is not a field you fill in. It is what someone is willing to pay right now, and on a decentralized exchange that comes from the ratio of two reserves sitting in a pool. With no pool there is no ratio, so there is no price — the token can be handed out, but it cannot be sold, and a holder who tries discovers that immediately.
This is why the pool, not the contract, is the real launch. It is also why the pool is where the money and the risk are. Creating a token costs gas; seeding a pool moves capital you are choosing to put behind the project, and locking the LP means accepting you will never take that capital back out directly.
Choosing a starting price you can live with
The proportion you seed is the price, so the decision is really about how the token should feel to hold. A supply of a billion paired with a small reserve produces a price with many leading zeros, which reads as dust to some buyers and as upside to others. A smaller supply produces a friendlier number but makes every reward you hand out more expensive.
The number that matters more than the price itself is depth: how much the first ordinary buy moves it. A pool of 400 GRAM behaves very differently from one of 40, and the difference is visible to anyone who tries to trade. Decide the depth first, then let the price fall out of it.
| GRAM in the pool | How it behaves | How it reads to a buyer |
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| Under 100 | A single small buy swings the price sharply | Low liquidity warning in wallets |
| 100 to 400 | Tradeable, but the price still jumps | Early and thin, but real |
| 400 to 500 | The price holds through normal trades | A launch that funded itself |
| Over 500 | Deep enough for several sellers to exit | Credible for a wider audience |
Starting price = GRAM in the pool ÷ tokens in the poolLocked is not the same as burned, and the difference costs pools
It is tempting to say "we burned the LP" because it sounds final. On STON.fi, sending the TEP-74 burn operation to an LP jetton does not destroy anything: it triggers the pool's burn notification, which is the route for withdrawing liquidity. The pool would return the GRAM and the tokens to whoever sent it.
The correct action is an ordinary transfer of the whole LP balance to the null address — a workchain zero address made of 256 zero bits. An address is the hash of an initial state, so producing one that hashes to all zeros would mean breaking sha256. Nobody holds that key, which is why those LP tokens never move again.
What to check before you believe any locked pool
- The pool exists and holds funds
An empty pool is not a locked pool; it is a pool that was never funded or was already drained.
- The owner holds no LP tokens
If any LP remains in the creator's wallet, that share of the liquidity can still be withdrawn.
- The LP sits at the null address
This is the condition that separates locking from moving the LP to a second wallet the owner also controls.
- The mint key is renounced, if fixed supply was promised
Otherwise the supply can still grow, whatever the pool looks like.
- All of it on an explorer
Every one of these is public. A screenshot from the project is not evidence.
Common questions
How much liquidity does a new token need?
Below roughly 100 GRAM a single small buy swings the price sharply and wallets flag the token as low liquidity. Around 400 GRAM the price stops jumping on every trade.
Can I get the GRAM back out of the pool?
Not once the LP is locked. That is the point: the reserve stays available to pay whoever sells. It leaves only by buying tokens back from the market.
What happens to the price when someone buys?
The GRAM they pay enters the pool reserve and the tokens they receive leave it, so the price rises. The owner is not involved in the transaction at all.
Is burning the LP the same as locking it?
No. The TEP-74 burn operation on an LP jetton triggers the pool withdrawal path. Locking is a plain transfer of the LP balance to an address nobody holds the key to.
Can I add more liquidity later?
Yes. Adding to a pool is always possible; what is irreversible is the LP you already sent to the null address.
Does a locked pool mean the token is safe?
It means the liquidity cannot be pulled. It does not mean the price will rise, and no honest launch claims otherwise.
Sources and further reading
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