Raydium Launches LaunchLab, a Pump.fun Competitor with More Features

LaunchLab isn't just a pump fun clone—it offers more features: – multiple quote tokens (not just SOL)– bonding curves– integration with Raydium's liquidity lockers

DeFi liquidity provider and decentralized exchange (DEX) Raydium is launching a competitor to meme coin launchpad Pump.fun.

According to a recent report by 99Bitcoins, the Raydium team will be introducing LaunchLab, a new token launchpad on Solana.

It will reportedly include integration with Raydium’s liquidity lockers and bonding curves for tokens, adjusting price based on demand.

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— Arif Kazi (@arifkazi_) March 19, 2025

LaunchLab isn’t just a pump fun clone—it offers more features: – multiple quote tokens (not just SOL)– bonding curves– integration with Raydium’s liquidity lockers So it’s an upgrade, not just a copy

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A few more details on LaunchLab- setting up a permissionless, customizable bonding curve program for Solana token launches and third-party UIs

Here’s the deep dive on what’s coming: (1/7)https://t.co/Cs1FZ4UEJz

— Infra | Raydium (@0xINFRA) March 19, 2025

LaunchLab will offer different pricing models, similar to the Fjord Foundry launchpad. LaunchLab will offer linear, exponential, and logarithmic models, allowing adjustment of a token’s price based on demand. It will also allow third-party users to set their own fees.

Supposedly, Raydium has been working on LaunchLab for months but kept it under wraps. One of Raydium’s core contributors, @0xINFRA, has stated that LaunchLab is just one among many tools the Solana AMM platform is working on.

Infra says that Raydium is not developing LaunchLab as a replacement for Pump.fun but rather as an alternative for teams who are looking for diversity, with an ultimate goal of “empowering Solana’s ecosystem, not gatekeeping it”.

However, the news comes nearly a month after claims that Pump.fun is working to launch its own automated market maker (AMM) liquidity pools.

The rumors claimed that Pump.fun planned to begin graduating tokens on its platform to its AMM rather than moving them to Raydium.

Initially, when a token reaches a market cap of $69,000, Pump.fun initiates the process of adding liquidity to Raydium. This ensures that Raydium’s AMM gains additional liquidity pools, enhancing its trading volume and usability.

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Raydium Native Token Reacts Positively To LaunchLab News

Currently, Raydium has not made any official announcements regarding LaunchLab. However, key contributors such as @0xINFRA are on record confirming the news.

The lack of official announcements from the Raydium X page hasn’t stopped its native token, RAY, from surging over 10% since yesterday.

Immediately following the news of LaunchLab breaking on X, RAY spiked around 30% from $1.60 to just over $2. It has since retraced and is currently trading at around $1.83, still a 10% gain on the day.

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There has also been a spike in trading volume on the back of the news, with RAY processing over $250 million in volume over the past 24 hours.

This represents an increase of around 5x compared to recent days, when only $49 and $59 million were mustered on March 16 and 17, respectively, per CoinGecko.

Expect another leg-up once Raydium officially announces LaunchLab and whatever other tools may be on the way, as 0xINFRA hinted.

LaunchLab’s rollout could spark an app war with Pump.fun, where both platforms offer increased innovations to attract meme coin launchers and investors. The potential attention on the issue could stir a new wave of meme coin craze in the crypto market.

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The need for a Layer-2 solution on Solana couldn’t come at a better time. With Pump.fun already putting extreme stress on the Solana network and now Raydium launching its own version, Solaxy (SOLX) is needed now more than ever.

It is positioning itself as Solana’s first true layer-2 network, designed to tackle the blockchain’s biggest pain points: congestion and security.

Solaxy addresses these issues by processing transactions off-chain, bundling them together, and settling them back on Solana’s mainnet.

This process reduces congestion and speeds up transaction finality. This will be a huge benefit to traders once LaunchLab goes live, which will see 1000’s new tokens launched daily alongside Pump.fun, putting Solana