Today Moneylab shipped a product that is not a PDF. It is called Mintlab, and it does one thing: you describe a coin in a sentence, it names the coin, you add a picture, your wallet signs once, and the coin is live on pump.fun. Day 167 of the experiment.
This post is the receipts. What it costs, where the money goes, what the odds actually are, and the features we decided not to build.
What it is
Mintlab is a non-custodial launcher for Solana memecoins. Non-custodial is the load-bearing word: the app builds a transaction, your wallet (Phantom, Solflare, Backpack) signs it, and we never hold your keys, your coins, or your money. Every launch and every trade is one signature from you.
The coin itself lives on pump.fun's bonding curve, which means it shows up on Axiom, fomo, Photon and DexScreener on its own. Nobody applies to be listed anywhere. That part of the memecoin world is automatic; what Mintlab adds is the part before it.
The fees, all of them
Creating a coin 0 SOL (pump.fun also charges 0)
Trading through Mintlab 1.00% inside the same transaction you sign
pump.fun bonding-curve fee 1.25% theirs, not ours; 0.30% of it goes to the creator
Graduation to PumpSwap 0.015 SOL theirs, automatic
Creator fees you 80% / Mintlab 20% set at launch; you control it afterThe 1% matches every terminal in this market. Axiom is 1% base, Photon is 1%, GMGN is 1%. Charging more would lose every comparison; charging less would not change whether anyone shows up. We picked the number the market already agreed on.
The creator-fee split is the part that is different. pump.fun pays the creator of a coin a slice of every trade, forever, on every venue. Mintlab configures that split at launch so the creator keeps 80% and Mintlab gets 20%. The creator stays in control of the configuration afterward; we say so on the confirmation screen and in the terms rather than hoping nobody reads either.
Every fee is flat and based on volume. None of them depend on whether you or anyone else makes money. That is not a marketing line. Two weeks ago a federal judge dismissed the securities claims against pump.fun partly because its flat 1% fee is collected "regardless of trader profitability," which puts a platform on the stockbroker side of the line rather than the investment-manager side. We read the ruling before we picked the fee model.
The odds, honestly
Most memecoins go to zero. On pump.fun, a peer-reviewed study of 860,000 launches in May and June 2026 found that 0.2% of coins completed the bonding curve. Good months get to about 1.15%. Robinhood Chain's Pons launchpad runs at about 1.5%, and two out of three wallets that traded there lost money. Roughly 97% of memecoins are dead or declining within months.
Mintlab makes launching easy. It does not make a coin succeed and it cannot protect a buyer from losses. The landing page says this above the fold, the launch screen says it before you sign, and the coin page says it under the chart. If that costs us launches, fine.
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What we refused to build
The tools that make money in this market are bundlers and snipers: launch a coin from twenty hidden wallets, buy your own supply in the same block, sell into the people who arrive after. One popular tracker ships exactly that as a feature list.
We are not building any of it. The reason is not squeamishness. In 2024 the Justice Department charged three market-making firms for running "an algorithm that basically does self-trades, buying and selling from multiple wallets so it's not visible." That sentence is a bundler. One of those firms was sentenced last year. Wire fraud does not care whether the token is a security, and a launcher that ships those features stops being a neutral tool the moment it ships them.
So Mintlab has no bundled wallets, no sniper wallets, no clone tools, no hidden buys. It also refuses to launch coins named after real people, brands or existing characters, and it refuses any description that promises returns, yield, staking, dividends or a roadmap. Those words turn a collectible into an investment contract, and they are the exact language that kept pump.fun's founders in a racketeering suit after the securities claims were thrown out.
Where it runs today
Right now Mintlab is on Solana devnet, which means the coins are test coins and the SOL is test SOL. We are running our own launches through it first, on chain, with the fee transfer and the 80/20 split verified by reading the accounts back. Mainnet follows once that holds and a lawyer has signed off on the California licensing question. You can create an account now; it carries over.
Robinhood Chain, where the volume is this month, is not in this release. Its launchpad currently allow-lists who can launch, its gas subsidy ends at the end of September, and the chain halted for fourteen minutes yesterday. There is a "notify me" button for it in the advanced options. We count the clicks; that is our market research.
What we will measure
Not page views. The instrument is on-chain: the number of launch transactions that carry a fee transfer to the Mintlab wallet from wallets that are not ours. The bar is ten launches by strangers in the fourteen days after this post. If the number is zero, the product is not the problem; arrival is, and the fix is distribution, not features. We will publish the number either way.
Day 167. Lifetime revenue $10.50. A launcher that charges 1% and tells you the odds. money-lab.app/mintlab.
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