category.launchpads.label

category.launchpads.promise

Starting path

Nine platforms sell you the next launch. Not one publishes what the last ones did.

Token Launchpads evaluated across published launch track record, allocation rules and named exclusions, published cost to participate, and upfront sale and unlock terms.

category.launchpads.promise Reviewed on published launch track record, allocation rules and named exclusions, published cost to participate, and upfront sale and unlock terms.

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Audit

Infrastructure

Methodology

2026.04.0

published 2026-04-27

Providers tracked

710+

across 80 categories

Last verified

2026-08-07

editorial freshness

Editorial board

4

audit-log live

Decision guide

What matters most before choosing in this category

Weighted on the published launch track record, allocation rules and named exclusions, published cost to participate, and upfront sale and unlock terms. The finding that shapes the whole category: not one of the nine publishes a complete list of its prior launches with a post-listing performance figure and a stated measurement date. Every performance number found was hand-picked, undated, or wrong. CoinList shows an ATH ROI multiple for three deals on its homepage while its archive of 76 launches from 2017 to 2026 contains no ROI, no percentage, no price and not one "$" character. Legion advertises the number and the number is broken: "ATH ROI" renders as +0% on all six sale cards and "Oversubscription" as +10% on all six — including a sale pairing a $500,000 target with $10,000 committed, displayed as 10% oversubscribed.

Key question

Can you reconstruct how the platform's previous launches performed, from the platform itself?

Key question

Which jurisdictions are excluded — and is that list actually reachable?

Key question

What are the vesting and unlock terms at the moment you commit, not after?

Current editor lead

Fjord Foundry

Permissionless multi-chain sale venue running LBP, fixed-price and tiered sales with no platform KYC.

Data checked Aug 2026

Permissionless multi-chain sale venue running LBP, fixed-price and tiered sales with no platform KYC. Strongest on published cost to participate (9/10): The only platform in the pool that publishes both sides of the fee as numbers. Participants: "participants pay a 2% swap fee on their contribution", answered directly under the heading "Are there any fees?". Issuers: "Collateral is sent to your wallet (minus the 5% Fjord fee)" at sale close… Weakest on published launch track record (3/10): The creator LBP FAQ names past sales with reconstructable raise economics — Autonolas ($OLAS) with "Initial Liquidity: $50k", "Funds Raised: $550k", "Tokens Sold: 99%", "FDV: $39M" — but frames them as "several notable examples and their configurations" and gives no post-listing performance. The app carries a… Published price: "Yes. When buying into a sale, participants pay a 2% swap fee on their contribution. This is included during the purchase process and helps support the platform." — General FAQ, answering the question "Are there any fees?", fetched 2026-08-07. The issuer side…

Best for

Published cost to participate — 9/10Upfront sale and unlock terms — 7/10

Main tradeoff

The 2% swap fee is charged on your contribution at purchase, and on an unvetted sale nobody has looked at the project at all — Fjord's own docs say non-partnered sales are "indexed directly from the blockchain" with "No Fjord Team Review".

Verify before signup

"Yes. When buying into a sale, participants pay a 2% swap fee on their contribution. This is included during the purchase process and helps support the platform." — General FAQ, answering the question "Are there any fees?", fetched 2026-08-07. The issuer side is stated separately in the creator LBP FAQ: on sale close "Collateral is sent to your wallet (minus the 5% Fjord fee)" (help.fjordfoundry.com/fjord-foundry-docs/for-sale-creators/faqs-creators/lbp-faq).

Weighted criteria

Published launch track record35%

Allocation rules and named exclusions25%

Published cost to participate20%

Upfront sale and unlock terms20%

Leading options

Shared shortlist for this category

These providers are pulled from the same category comparison catalog used in validation, so the category page, comparison page, and provider reviews stay aligned.

Kraken Launch

Exchange-hosted token sale where allocation is scored on Kraken account history rather than pledge size, run alongside Legion.

Editor lead

Exchange-hosted token sale where allocation is scored on Kraken account history rather than pledge size, run alongside Legion. Strongest on upfront sale and unlock terms (9/10): The sale page publishes a "Price per token" metric card carrying the value 0.045 in USD, "Fully Diluted Value (FDV)" of "$45,000,000", "Total allocated for sale" of "50,000,000 (5%)" against a "Total supply" of "1,000,000,000", and a dedicated step headed "Understand your unlock schedule". The support article carries… Weakest on published launch track record (2/10): The Kraken Launch landing page has a section headed "Past sales" introduced by "Explore notable token sales we’ve featured in the past." — "notable" is the platform selecting which sales to show. Corrected during verification: the draft said these cards carry nothing; they do carry a details panel with "Sale starts"… Published price: Sale-details table read cell by cell on the Squid ($QUID) support article, fetched 2026-08-07: "Accepted currencies" / "USDC"; "Minimum pledge" / "$10"; "Fully Diluted Value (FDV)" / "$45,000,000"; "Price" / "$0.045"; "Vesting" / "100% unlocked at Token…

Best for: Upfront sale and unlock terms — 9/10

Fjord Foundry

Permissionless multi-chain sale venue running LBP, fixed-price and tiered sales with no platform KYC.

Best for: Published cost to participate — 9/10

Legion

Merit-scored pre-ICO sale platform where a reputation score, not capital or speed, determines allocation priority.

Merit-scored pre-ICO sale platform where a reputation score, not capital or speed, determines allocation priority. Strongest on upfront sale and unlock terms (9/10): The sale overview publishes the unlock schedule as a first-class field under the heading "Token Unlock & Vesting": "50% of tokens unlock at TGE", "Remaining 50% vest linearly over 3 months", "No cliff", "No lockup", alongside "Raise Valuation: $130,000,000", "Raise Hardcap: $6,500,000", "Minimum Allocation: $100" and… Weakest on published launch track record (1/10): Legion is the only platform here that puts a performance field on its homepage, and it is wrong. Under "Recent pre-ICO sales on Legion" every card carries the labels "Sale Target", "ATH ROI", "Committed Funds" and "Oversubscription". Corrected during verification: the draft said three cards; the fetched page renders… Published price: "Raise Valuation: $130,000,000 Raise Target: $4,000,000 Raise Hardcap: $6,500,000 ... Minimum Allocation: $100 Maximum Allocation: $250,000 Allocation limits are enforced per investor" — Solstice Finance public sale overview, bylined "Written by Tim December…

Best for: Upfront sale and unlock terms — 9/10

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Methodology

How this category is reviewed

Reviewed on published launch track record, allocation rules and named exclusions, published cost to participate, and upfront sale and unlock terms.

Reviewed on: Published launch track record, Allocation rules and named exclusions, Published cost to participate, Upfront sale and unlock terms.

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Frequently asked

Questions people ask before choosing token launchpads

Do launchpads publish how their previous launches performed?

Not in a form a buyer can check. All nine advertise outcomes; none publishes the full set with dates. CoinList is the clearest case: the homepage shows an ATH ROI multiple for three deals, and the archive at coinlist.co/token-launches links 76 launches from 2017 to 2026 containing no ROI, no percentage, no price and not one "$" character anywhere in its text. Legion is the sharper one, because it does publish a number and the number is broken — under "Recent pre-ICO sales on Legion" the "ATH ROI" value renders as +0% on all six sale cards and "Oversubscription" as +10% on all six, including the Sport.fun card pairing a Sale Target of $500,000 with Committed Funds of $10,000. A sale that raised 2% of its target is displayed as 10% oversubscribed, and the same page reports two different Committed Funds for the same Giza deal.

Can I find out whether I am eligible before I register?

Often not, and CoinList shows how a list can be documented and still unreachable. Its sale FAQ sends readers to "unsupported jurisdictions found on our Legal page" and separately says eligibility is "on its deal page". The Legal page fetched the same day contains no country list — no "unsupported", no "Cuba", no "Iran", no "North Korea" — the two deal pages loaded name no jurisdiction either, and the help article search engines still index for that list returns 404. Both routes the site offers lead nowhere, so the only way to discover you are excluded is to try.

Is Binance Launchpad still a launchpad?

No, and this matters because it is the most-cited brand in the category. launchpad.binance.com/en 302-redirects to the Launchpool page, which offers only Launchpool, a Simple Earn subscription and HODLer Airdrops — locking assets to receive tokens, not buying into a sale. Anyone arriving expecting to purchase an allocation is being offered a different product. Bybit, by contrast, still runs sales but documents only how to win an allocation: searching both Launchpad 3.1 FAQ bodies returns zero occurrences of "vest", "unlock" or "fee".

REVIEWEDApr 2026METHOD4 criteriaCATEGORYlaunchpads

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