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How to create a DLMM or DAMM v2 pool on Meteora

Anyone can create a pool on Meteora. This walks through the four create forms, what each setting means, what it costs, and which settings you can never change afterwards.

  • 8 min tutorial
  • Checked 29 Sep 2026
  • By StonkBuilder Community
Best for
Token teams, communities and LPs who need a market that doesn't exist yet.
You'll need
  • A Solana wallet with SOL
  • The token being priced (the base token) and a quote token such as SOL or USDC
  • The token's contract address
Cost
Shown on the review screen before you confirm. As a guide, Meteora puts a DAMM v2 pool with a position at about 0.022 SOL and a DLMM launch pool at about 0.25 SOL.
Open Meteora's create page

Worked example

The four create forms

  1. DLMM · Standardmeteora.ag/create/dlmm/standardAny pair. Pick a base fee and a bin step: both are fixed forever.
  2. DLMM · Launchmeteora.ag/create/dlmm/launchA new token, seeded from a starting price, with a lock and a start time. About 0.25 SOL.
  3. DAMM v2 · Standardmeteora.ag/create/dammv2/standardAny pair. Fee tier, fee collection mode, optional permanent lock. About 0.022 SOL with a position.
  4. DAMM v2 · Launchmeteora.ag/create/dammv2/launchA new token, one- or two-sided, with fees that can start high and fall.

Every form ends on “Review & Create”, which shows the pool creation cost before you sign. Costs from Meteora's guides.

Step by step

  1. Pick the form

    Choose DLMM or DAMM v2, then Standard (a normal pool) or Launch (for a new token). The four forms are at meteora.ag/create/dlmm/standard, /dlmm/launch, /dammv2/standard and /dammv2/launch.[1]

  2. Select your tokens

    Under “Select your tokens”, pick the base token and the quote token by ticker or by pasting the contract address.[1]

  3. Set the starting price

    Under “Configure Pool”, enter the initial price in quote tokens per base token. A market price may be offered as a reference; check it yourself.[1]

  4. Set the fees

    On DLMM, choose a base fee and a bin step; neither can be changed later. On DAMM v2, choose a Base Fee Mode (“Fixed”, “Time Scheduler” or “Market Cap Scheduler”), a fee tier, the dynamic fee and the Fee Collection Mode.[1]

  5. Add liquidity, or seed the launch

    Standard pools can start with liquidity: a strategy and range on DLMM, token amounts on DAMM v2. Launch pools take a seed amount, a lock period and a trading start time.[1]

  6. Decide on locking

    On DAMM v2 you can tick “Permanently lock my liquidity”. If you do, you can never withdraw those tokens.[1]

  7. Review and create

    On “Review & Create”, check the pair, fee, price, amounts and the pool creation cost (rent and transaction fees), then confirm in your wallet.[1]

Open Meteora's create page

Good to know

  • Only one DLMM pool can exist for a token pair with the same bin step and base fee.[1]
  • A DLMM pool's base fee and bin step can't be changed after it's created.[1]
  • Planning an airdrop? Send tokens only after the trading start time, or others can open their own markets first.[1]
  • Developers can do the same from a config file with Meteora Invent's command-line tools.[3]

Standard or Launch?

A Standard pool is an ordinary market for tokens that already trade. A Launch pool is for a new token: it can start trading at a set time, lock the team's liquidity, and on DAMM v2 use fees that start high to slow down bots.[1] How token launches work explains the launch tools.

What it costs

Pool creation costs in Meteora's guides
WhatAbout
A DAMM v2 pool with one liquidity position0.022 SOL[4]
A DLMM launch pool0.25 SOL[4]
Token-account rent when creating a DAMM pool0.02–0.03 SOL[2]

The review step always shows the exact cost for your settings before you sign.[1]

Sources

  1. Meteora docs: How to create a Liquidity Pool docs.meteora.ag/user-guides/creating-a-liquidity-pool
  2. Meteora docs: Getting Started docs.meteora.ag/user-guides/getting-started-with-meteora
  3. Meteora docs: launch pools overview docs.meteora.ag/invent/launch-pools
  4. Meteora docs: How to become a Liquidity Provider docs.meteora.ag/user-guides/becoming-a-liquidity-provider

Checked on 29 Sep 2026. Meteora ships often and changes fees, rewards and products; the linked pages and the chain are the source of truth.

Independent community guide by StonkBuilder. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Meteora. Nothing here is financial advice or an offer to buy, sell or deposit anything. Providing liquidity can lose money. Checked on 29 Sep 2026; meteora.ag and docs.meteora.ag are the source of truth.