Create a Token on AVAX With the Avalanche Token Creator

What it costs to create a token on Avalanche

On the Avalanche token creator, the Tokenry fee is 3 AVAX, plus 0.8 AVAX for each paid feature you switch on. 7 features are paid: Tax, Anti-whale, Mintable, Burnable, Pausable, Blacklist and Votes. Renounce at creation adds no Tokenry fee.

With no paid feature, the Tokenry fee is 3 AVAX. With Tax and Anti-whale, it is 4.6 AVAX. With all 7 paid features, it is 8.6 AVAX. Gas comes on top of each.

The Tokenry fee goes to Tokenry. Gas goes to the network: a small amount of AVAX, shown in your wallet before you sign. Keep enough AVAX for both.

The fee is paid inside the transaction that creates the token. If it fails, the whole transaction reverts and the Tokenry fee is not taken, but the gas it used is spent. A slow confirmation is never charged twice: retrying checks the same transaction instead of sending a new one.

The 8 feature switches on the Avalanche form

The Avalanche token creator shows 8 switches, all off by default. Pick what you need now: a feature you skip can never be added later.

Renounce at creation: the token has no owner from the first block, so nothing can change later. This is permanent.

Tax: the token takes a share of each buy, sell or transfer, up to 20%.

Anti-whale: caps one wallet's holding ("Max wallet") and one trade's size ("Max per trade"). After launch, these limits can only go up or be removed.

Mintable: the owner can mint more tokens later. An optional supply cap is fixed at creation, and nobody can mint past it.

Burnable: holders can burn their own tokens.

Pausable: the owner can pause and unpause every transfer.

Blacklist: the owner can stop chosen wallets from moving tokens.

Votes: holders can vote with the token on Snapshot, using its erc20-votes strategy, once they delegate their votes.

Mintable, Pausable, Blacklist and Anti-whale need an owner, so the form grays them out while Renounce at creation is on.

How token tax works on Avalanche

Token tax on Avalanche is set in the token creator: a buy, sell and transfer rate, each from 0% to 20%. Buys and sells are taxed in the token's Uniswap v2 pools with AVAX, USDC, USDt, USDC.e or USDT.e, not in Uniswap v3 or v4 pools. Transfer tax applies to sends between two plain wallets, not to trades or to sends to or from a contract.

Under "After launch", pick "Can only go down" (lower it later, never raise it) or "Changeable" (raise or lower it any time, up to 20%).

Split the tax across up to 5 fee wallets, plus an optional burn share and liquidity share, totaling 100%. Fee wallets are paid in the token or in WAVAX, and the split is permanent.

What is permanent and what the owner can change later

On an Avalanche token from Tokenry, these are permanent: the name, symbol, decimals, supply cap, feature set, fee wallets, tax shares, payout coin and exempt addresses.

A token gets an owner only if it has Mintable, Pausable, Blacklist, Tax or Anti-whale, and Renounce at creation is off; otherwise nobody can change it. Depending on its features, that owner can lower the tax (or change it up to 20% if "Changeable"), raise or remove limits, and mint more (up to the cap, if you set one). The owner can also pause transfers, edit the blacklist, and transfer or renounce ownership. To make these changes, manage your Avalanche token: no Tokenry fee, only gas.

Snowtrace, Snowscan and how to check the contract

Avalanche has 2 separate C-Chain explorers. Snowtrace (snowtrace.io) has been run by Routescan since the original Etherscan-built Snowtrace closed on November 30, 2023 (Avalanche docs). Snowscan (snowscan.xyz) is a separate explorer built by Etherscan. After the deploy, the Avalanche token creator links your token and its transaction on Snowtrace.

Tokenry submits the source for verification once the deploy confirms, which is why step 5 asks you to keep the page open. Once verified, the explorer shows your token's own source code.

After the token exists: pool, airdrop and settings

To let people buy and sell your Avalanche token, create a pool: Tokenry's pool tools on Avalanche use Uniswap v2, v3 and v4, with AVAX, USDC or USDt as the paired coin. To create a liquidity pool on Avalanche, the Tokenry fee is 1 AVAX plus gas. For a taxed token, pick Uniswap v2.

To put the token in holders' wallets, send AVAX or tokens to many wallets for 0.02 AVAX per recipient, plus gas. For the token manager and every other next step, see all Avalanche tools.