Guide

Your first coin, by text.

About ten minutes, start to finish. You need a phone that can text and 0.02 SOL or more. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.

Step 1

Save the number.

Text Pad is a phone number: +1 (857) 294-3858. Save it as a contact so every text arrives from Text Pad, with our logo, instead of a bare number you won't recognise in a week.

If you keep Do Not Disturb on, add Text Pad to your allowed contacts so deposit and launch texts get through.

Step 2

Text START.

Text Pad
START
Text Pad: you're in. Your Solana wallet is ready (address in the next text).
7xKXtg2CW87d97TXJSDpbD5jBkheTqA83TZRuJosgAsU

Send START to +1 (857) 294-3858. A Solana wallet is made for your number on the spot, and its address comes in a text of its own so a long-press copies all of it.

  • Lost it? Text WALLET any time and it comes again.
  • Want more than one? NEW makes another (up to 10); USE 2 switches. Launches and trades come from the one in use.
  • Your phone number is the account. There is no password, no email, no app.
Step 3

Fund it with SOL.

Text Pad
Text Pad: 0.5 SOL arrived in wallet 1. Balance 0.5 SOL ($92). Text LAUNCH when you're ready.
Within about 20 seconds of it landing.

Send SOL to your address from anywhere that holds it. 0.02 SOL covers a launch with change left over; a launch itself costs about 0.006 SOL in Solana rent and fees, plus whatever you choose to buy at launch.

CoinbaseBuy SOL, then Send. Pick Solana as the network, paste your address.
KrakenBuy SOL, then Withdraw. Add your address as a Solana withdrawal address.
RobinhoodBuy SOL in Crypto, then Send. Paste your address.
Phantom, Solflare, BackpackAlready have SOL in a wallet? Send it to your Text Pad address.

Always pick the Solana network. SOL sent on another network can't be recovered.

Step 4

Text LAUNCH.

Two ways, same result. Nothing is spent until you reply the code from the summary.

One question at a time

Text Pad
LAUNCH
Let's launch a coin. What's it called?
Moon Dog
Ticker for Moon Dog? Reply OK for $MOONDOG, or send your own.
MDOG
Picture? Send a link, PIC for an upload link, or SKIP and we'll make one.
SKIP
...about, links, and a first buy, then: Ready to launch: Moon Dog ($MDOG) First buy: 0.25 SOL Reply 4821 to launch.
4821
$MDOG is live on pump.fun! pump.fun/coin/9xQe...pump

Or everything in one text

Copy this, change what you like, and send it. Leave out any line you don't need (only Name is required). Text TEMPLATE and we'll send you a blank one.

LAUNCH
Name: Moon Dog
Ticker: MDOG
About: the dog that went to the moon
Pic: x.com/moondog/status/1872
X: @moondog
TG: t.me/moondog
Web: moondog.fun
Buy: 0.25

Or from a post

Text LAUNCH and a link to a post on X, TikTok or Instagram. We read the post and draft the coin: a name, a ticker, a description crediting the post, and its picture. You check the summary and can change anything with EDIT.

Extras for the one-text form: Pair: USDC to pair with something other than SOL, Fees: holders to pay creator fees to holders instead of you, Slippage: 5.

Pictures

Four ways to a picture.

An example of made-for-you coin art: $MDOG in Text Pad's glass speech bubble on a purple gradient.
Made for you: SKIP at the picture question.
  • A link to an image. Any public PNG, JPG, GIF or WebP. GIFs stay animated.
  • A link to a post on X, TikTok, Instagram or YouTube. We take its picture.
  • PIC texts you an upload link (works for 30 minutes). Pick a photo from your camera roll; the conversation carries on by itself.
  • SKIP and we make one: your ticker in our glass bubble, turned a little differently for every coin.

Texts can't carry pictures here (the number is SMS only), which is why it's a link.

After launch

Watch it, trade it, collect.

  • COINS: what you hold, valued on each coin's curve. MINE: the coins you launched, with market cap and how far along the curve they are.
  • SELL MDOG 50% sells half back into the curve; BUY $MDOG 0.1 buys more. Both wait for a code.
  • FEES shows creator fees your coins have earned; CLAIM collects them into your wallet.
  • Every coin gets a page on this site to share: textpad.fun/coin/<address>, with its own preview card.
  • Once a coin graduates from its curve it trades on pump.fun's own exchange. Take your key there with EXPORT, or WITHDRAW the coin to another wallet.
Your money

Take it with you, any time.

Withdraw

WITHDRAW 0.5 then a Solana address sends SOL. WITHDRAW ALL sends everything but the network fee. Add a ticker to send a coin: WITHDRAW ALL $MDOG and the address. We reply with exactly what will move and a 4-digit code; reply the code and it's sent.

Export your key

EXPORT (or EXPORT 2 for wallet 2), then the code. We text a link that shows the wallet's secret key once, for 10 minutes, behind a button. Keys are never sent by text.

  1. Open the link somewhere private and press Reveal.
  2. In Phantom: Add wallet, Import private key. Solflare and Backpack: Import wallet, Private key.
  3. Paste the key. It's the same wallet: same address, same coins, same creator fees.

Exporting doesn't switch anything off. The wallet keeps working by text, too.

Trouble

If something's off.

I texted and nothing came back.

Check it went to +1 (857) 294-3858 and wasn't sent as iMessage only (a green bubble on iPhone is fine). Replies usually take a few seconds. If you texted STOP before, text START first.

It says it didn't catch that.

Commands are one word first: LAUNCH, WALLET, SELL. Text HELP for the list, or see every command.

My code doesn't work.

Codes work once, for 10 minutes, and only the newest one counts. Start the request again for a new code.

The launch failed.

The reply says why, and nothing is spent when a launch fails in simulation. Your answers are kept: fix it (often, add a little SOL) and reply GO.

I'm outside the US.

Texting a US number from abroad works on most plans but may cost more. Your number is your account wherever you are.

Texts arrive late.

Carriers sometimes hold texts for a few seconds. Nothing is lost: every text is answered once, in order.

Still stuck? Text HELP, or see support.

Ready?

Text START to +1 (857) 294-3858. The rest of this page will make sense the moment your wallet arrives.