Browse every CoinPaprika education article - guides, tutorials, and explainers on crypto, ordered by date.
Are launchpad tokens securities? On 31 August 2026 a New York federal judge held that the two tokens in front of her were not, on one narrow prong of the Howey test. The racketeering claims survived the same ruling.
Protocol revenue and token price both look like proof a launchpad is winning — the real difference is which mechanism routes revenue to the token, whether it is contract-enforced, and who finds out too late.
This breakdown walks you through six on-chain checks — deployer history, name collisions, fee-to-volume ratios, holder concentration, liquidity status and sniper activity — the exact signals public scanners run, explained well enough to run yourself.
Use this to size up creator revenue before launching: a flat curve-phase cut for early volume, a tiered post-graduation split for the rare token that grows, and a post-graduation-only model on platforms like Believe — weighed against how seldom any of it pays out.
Pump.fun's post-graduation fee runs from 1.25% down to a 0.30% floor by market-cap tier, not one flat number — here is the arithmetic that turns that schedule into what one real trade costs.
This breakdown walks through what changed when launchpads let creators price new coins in tokenized stocks instead of SOL — and why a completion threshold set in a floating share price can never equal one fixed dollar figure.
Use this to place a token sale correctly: pick ICO for self-directed control, IDO for DEX-launchpad speed, IEO for exchange-vetted trust, or a bonding curve for permissionless pricing with no sale event at all.
Published pump.fun graduation rates span 0.198% to 5% — a 25x gap depending on sample size and date. Here's the verified range, the study its own authors withdrew, and why the dollar threshold isn't fixed.
A bonding curve and a liquidity pool both quote a price automatically — the difference is that one holds real deposits from two parties, and the other prices tokens against reserves that are partly imaginary.
What is a crypto launchpad? A platform that mints and prices a token from zero, holding no liquidity of its own — then hands it to a real exchange, or never does. The mechanics, the base rates, and the law.
How are tokenized real-world assets taxed? By what the token legally gives you, a fund share, an SPV share, a bond or gold, not by the fact that it is a token. Plus the 2026 reporting rules now tracking sales.
What do you own if a tokenized asset's issuer fails? Whatever its legal wrapper says: a fund share, a claim on pledged collateral, a stake in a property company, or nothing. The RealT liquidation shows what that means.
Use this to match custodian to asset: a bank, broker-dealer or trust company for US tokenized securities, a CASP for MiCA crypto-assets, a MiFID firm or CSD for EU tokenized bonds.
This breakdown walks through the checks behind every restricted-token transfer, from identity claims and holder caps to freezes and forced transfers, and shows what each one means for the person holding the token.
83% of surveyed jurisdictions now have Travel Rule laws, yet the rule mostly misses the security token itself. Here is who checks you, what triggers a wallet freeze and how a holder can respond.
Sixteen firms entered the UK Digital Securities Sandbox and one went live; six EU DLT Pilot venues hold permits. This is what each sandbox measurably produced, and why uptake stays thin.
Use this to pick a home for a tokenized issue: Luxembourg for EU bonds and funds, Switzerland for on-ledger title, Hong Kong for retail fund tokens, and Abu Dhabi or Dubai for Gulf distribution.
This breakdown maps the investor tests of five markets against the documents of eight tokenized products, so you can see which ones your status and residence let you buy.
Reg D, Reg S, Reg A+ and Reg CF all let a token offering skip full SEC registration. The difference is who may buy, how much can be raised, and how long the tokens stay locked.
Gold and other commodity tokens make up about $5.2B of the $38.6B in distributed tokenized assets, and they are the main slice MiCA can reach. Bonds, fund units and notes answer to EU securities law.
