How to launch a token on BNB Chain

What a launch gives you

• A BEP-20 token with a fixed supply and a fixed split, so investors can see exactly who holds what.
• A raise in USDT, USDC, BNB, the currency you pick, open for up to 90 days.
• A vault that holds 85% of every contribution and pays it to your team one milestone at a time.
• A PancakeSwap pool, created and funded automatically when the raise reaches its target. Its liquidity tokens are burned, so nobody can pull the liquidity later.
• Vesting contracts for the team and the investors, set up in the same transaction.

Before you start

• A clear description, a logo, and links people can check.
• Your team, with real names or public profiles.
• 3 to 5 milestones, each with a result you can prove and a date.
• A raise target and a deadline.
• A wallet with a little BNB for gas. The wallet you launch from becomes the project's team wallet.

Step by step

1. 1

   Sign in

   Sign in with email or Google and ZASH creates a wallet for you, or connect MetaMask, Trust Wallet or Binance Wallet.

2. 2

   Create the project

   Open Launch and fill in the form: name, ticker, description, logo, team and links. Pick BNB Chain and the currency you want to raise in.

3. 3

   Set the raise and milestones

   Choose a target, a deadline up to 90 days away, and 3 to 5 milestones. Each milestone is due within 90 days of the previous one. The first pays 10% of the vault and the rest is split evenly.

4. 4

   Launch

   Review the terms and sign one transaction. It creates the token, the sale, the vault and the vesting contracts, and your raise is open as soon as it confirms. You pay the gas; ZASH charges nothing for launching.

5. 5

   Raise

   Every contribution is split as it arrives: 85% into the vault, 12.5% kept for the PancakeSwap pool and 2.5% as the platform fee.

6. 6

   List on PancakeSwap

   When the target is reached, the raise closes and the token starts trading on PancakeSwap. Investors get their tokens on the schedule you set.

7. 7

   Deliver milestones and get paid

   Publish proof for each milestone and token holders vote. It passes when YES reaches 30% of the tokens that can vote and beats NO. On BNB Chain the money then waits 48 hours, in case a proof turns out to be fake, before it reaches your team wallet.

What it costs

Launching is free apart from the gas for the launch transaction, paid in BNB. ZASH takes 2.5% of each contribution as its platform fee. Once the token trades, swaps made on the ZASH project page carry a 1% fee; swapping the same token on PancakeSwap directly doesn't.

Token supply and split

Every project uses the same split of its supply: 65% is sold in the raise, 20% goes to the team, 8.125% seeds the trading pool and 2.5% goes to ZASH. The remaining 4.375% is never minted. The supply depends on the target, and a raise in BNB always uses the largest tier, 1,000,000,000 tokens.

The team's tokens wait for delivery: nothing unlocks at launch, vesting starts after at least 180 days and runs for at least 365, and nothing can be claimed until every milestone has passed.

If the raise doesn't fill

If the raise ends below its target, the project fails and investors get back everything they put in except the 2.5% platform fee. The same contracts handle refunds if a milestone fails its last vote or a proof deadline is missed after launch. See Refunds.

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