We are witnessing a fierce launchpad competition right now in the trenches
Its essentially between 3 parties:
- Pumpfun
- Raydium
- Meteora
Leading the race, pumpfun, known for its extractive nature, the OG launchpad which used to the lone king before raydium & meteora launched their launchpad stacks.
Raydium follows next with its sole prominent launchpad on its launchlab stack -
@bonkfun that has gained significant marketshare in just a few months & competes directly with pumpfun for the 1st place. Launchlab also does have some more launchpads like cookmeme, leftcurveai, etc., they have negligible traction but there are also some potential upcoming launchpads on raydium like
@finz_fun
Meteora comes next with its versatile launchpad lineup - jup studio, believe, moonshot, cookingcity, daosfun, boop, moonit, timefun, etc. are all built on meteora dbc stack each contributing its share of marketshare & volume - putting meteora 3rd in the race
The launchpad wars are just taking off and its just starting to get spicy
With the launchpad stacks like @RaydiumProtocol Launchlab, creating a launchpad takes very little time and the tokens get instant access to liquidity from trading terminals like axiom
So definitely we'll see many many more launchpads that'll come out of these stacks and its a net positive for the community