1.7.4
The token builder in Solana Hub now tells you what a launch costs before you sign it. Creating a mint used to be three tabs of form and a single warning that it cost a small amount of SOL in rent; the real figure only appeared in the wallet popup, at the moment of approving, with rent, network fees and everything else already added together. It is now a three-step flow that ends on a priced review: what will be created, the address the token will have, and every line of the cost read from the chain, with the part that is a refundable deposit marked as one and taken back out of the total. Your balance is checked against that figure before the button will do anything. Managing a token you already own is its own mode, so minting more supply and revoking an authority both work on one mint you load once, rather than two tabs that each asked for the address again. Every transaction the tab sends now carries a priority setting you choose, which is what keeps a launch from sitting unconfirmed until it expires.
12 changes in this release
Highlights
- 01
Every line of what a launch costs
Mint rent, the rent on the account that holds your supply, the network fee, the priority fee and a flat builder fee, each on its own row with a sentence saying what it pays for. Two of those rows are deposits rather than spend: rent is held by the accounts and comes back if they are ever closed, so it is labelled as a deposit and the total says what the launch actually costs once they are taken out. The rent figures are read from the chain at the moment you look at them rather than carried as a fixed rate, and the priority figure is the one the transaction goes on to use, so nothing on the screen is a rounder version of what you sign. Managing a token you already own carries no builder fee, and the screens for it say so.
- 02
Three steps, then one screen that asks
Identity, supply, review. The program choice comes first and explains itself, because it decides whether the token can carry a name at all. Supply offers the decimal conventions people actually use and lets you create the mint empty and issue later. Review is the confirmation rather than a dialog stacked on top of one: a summary of what will exist, the address it will have, the cost, your balance, and one box to tick. The address is generated before you sign, so you can see it in advance, and a cancelled or failed attempt keeps it, which means retrying does not quietly rename your token.
- 03
One mint, loaded once
Minting more supply and giving up an authority used to be separate tabs that each wanted the mint address typed in again. They are now two sections under a single mint you load at the top, with its supply, decimals, program and authority state on screen while you work. Whether your wallet holds the authority for what you are about to do is answered before you try it rather than by a failed transaction, and a launch hands its own mint straight across, so the token you just made is already loaded.
Everything in this release
New5
- A cost breakdown before you sign: mint rent, token account rent, network fee, priority fee and builder fee, each on its own line, with a total.
- Rent is marked as a deposit and taken back out of the total, because it returns if the account is ever closed.
- The token's address is shown before you sign, and stays the same if an attempt fails and you try again.
- A priority setting of Normal, Fast or Turbo on every transaction the tab sends, priced from live network rates where the endpoint reports them.
- A flat builder fee on creating a token, charged in the same transaction and shown as its own line. Managing a token you already own is not charged.
Improved5
- Creating a token is a three-step flow of identity, supply and review, where the review screen is the confirmation instead of a dialog on top of one.
- Minting more supply and revoking authorities work on a single mint loaded once, in a Manage mode, instead of two tabs that each asked for the address.
- Your SOL balance is checked against the total before the create button will do anything, and it says how much short you are.
- Choosing the classic token program now says that a name, symbol and image cannot be stored on it, rather than dropping them without a word.
- A draft survives a trip to the Manage screens and back, so checking a mint mid-form no longer clears what you had typed.
Fixed2
- An over-long image or metadata link is refused instead of quietly increasing the rent you pay for the mint.
- Token creation, minting and revoking no longer go out with no priority attached, which is what left them sitting unconfirmed until they expired.