Token launch checklist.
Save this before your listing.
In total, we've launched over 1,500 tokens and we know what the most successful projects do before the launch. Save this list if you're planning to launch a token one day.
1. Build your tokenomics properly.
Team allocation, vesting schedules, supply mechanics. This is the first thing exchanges, investors and traders will look at. Get it wrong and everything else becomes harder.
2. Understand your full budget.
Listing fees, market-making costs, marketing spend. Most founders underestimate how much it takes to not just get listed but to stay listed. Know your numbers before you commit to anything.
3. Find a high-quality market maker and choose the right exchanges together.
Your MM should help you understand which exchanges actually make sense for your project based on your audience, your budget and your goals. Don't chase the biggest name. Pick exchanges where your community actually trades and where you can maintain the listing properly.
4. Lock your team and VC tokens with proper vesting.
Unlocked team tokens on listing day is how projects lose trust in the first 24 hours. If traders see large insider allocations available to sell immediately, they won't wait around to find out if they will.
5. Get a smart contract audit.
A reputable audit firm, completed before listing. Exchanges check for this. Serious investors check for this. Skipping it saves money short-term and costs credibility long-term.
6. Start marketing 6-8 weeks before TGE.
Not 2 weeks. Not 1 week. If your community is not active and engaged before listing day, the listing itself won't fix that. The projects that have the best launches are the ones where demand already exists before the token goes live.
7. Make sure all team members, the community and investors have received their tokens.
Sounds basic. But distribution errors and delays on listing day create chaos, confusion and unnecessary sell pressure.
8. Get your community channels ready.
Telegram, Discord, X. All active, moderated and populated before listing. Not after. The first people who find your token will go looking for a community immediately.
9. Have a post-listing plan.
What happens on day 2? Week 2? Month 2? Most projects plan everything up to listing day and nothing beyond it. That's where most problems start.
Getting listed is the starting point for your token - come to this day already prepared
For twenty years the only people who could own a slice of $SPCX were Musk's inner circle and a handful of venture funds.
On Friday that door blew open to everyone. The new owners think they bought a rocket company. They bought something far bigger and stranger. Let's dive in 🧵
The SpaceX IPO did the thing almost no mega listing does. It cleared the hype. $135 offer price, a valuation near $1.75 trillion, the largest IPO ever recorded, and a deal structure that handed roughly 30% to retail when the usual allocation runs 5 to 10.
The book was oversubscribed by more than 400%, so most retail orders got trimmed or skipped. A decade of locked access opened in a single morning.
Here is the part the price action skips. SpaceX is five businesses wearing one ticker. The company does not disclose a revenue split, so treat the percentages below as estimates, not gospel. The shape is what counts.
🛰️ STARLINK
Roughly half the business, and the reason SPCX trades like a tech name instead of an aerospace one. Satellite internet sold as a monthly subscription to homes, ships, planes and militaries. Recurring revenue is the whole game here. It turned a launch company with lumpy contract income into something with a predictable cash base, and it is the single line that justifies most of the valuation.
🚀 LAUNCH SERVICES
Maybe a quarter of revenue and the part everyone pictures when they hear the name. Falcon 9 reusability gutted the cost of getting to orbit and left SpaceX flying the majority of the world's payloads. Commercial satellites, NASA science missions, national security launches. It is a real cash business, but it is no longer the main one.
🛡️ STARSHIELD
The defense arm. Secure satellite constellations and comms built for the US government rather than your living room. Smaller slice, higher strategic weight. This is the line that makes SpaceX a national asset and gives it pricing power that a pure commercial operator never gets.
👨🚀 HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
Crew Dragon, astronaut transport, ISS resupply. A small share of the dollars and an outsized share of the credibility. When you are the only American company flying people to orbit, that reputation feeds every other contract you bid on.
🔭 STARSHIP & THE AI WILDCARD
The optionality bucket. Starship, lunar and Mars ambition, the long-dated R&D that may pay off in a decade or never. And the piece a lot of Friday's buyers missed entirely: SpaceX absorbed xAI in February. Grok and the compute build sit inside this same ticker now.
You bought rockets and a frontier AI lab in one click.
So what did 30% of retail actually buy at $135? A subscription internet business, the world's dominant launch provider, a defense contractor, a human spaceflight monopoly, and an AI bet, priced at roughly 110 times trailing sales with no profits to lean on. Elizabeth Warren already sent the SEC a letter calling the valuation detached from the financials. The pop says the market disagrees, for now.
🤖 The AI boom faces its biggest market test.
With SpaceX heading toward a historic #Nasdaq IPO, investors are watching closely to see whether AI-driven optimism can continue powering equities higher or if cracks will begin to show.
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Market snapshot: BTC hovering ~$75K–$77K, ETH around $2,100. Altcoins showing rotation strength.
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