Approval
Your dot drafts.
You approve.
Nothing launches without your wallet.
Your dot can prepare a launch down to the last field. It cannot sign one. This page is about the one step that stays with you, and what to look at before you take it.
IN ONE PARAGRAPH
Approval means the coin launches only when your own wallet signs. Your dot prepares the draft and sends you a link. Told shows you every field, exactly as it will go to pump.fun. You read it, connect your Solana wallet and approve. Until then nothing has been spent and nothing has launched, because the only signature that can launch your coin comes from your wallet.
THE PROBLEM
Fast dots, final launches.
A dot is quick. It can turn a sentence into a finished launch in the time it takes you to put your phone down. A launch is final. Once a coin is out it cannot be renamed, its ticker cannot be fixed and its picture cannot be swapped.
Quick and final make a bad pair. A misheard ticker. A typo in the name. The wrong picture from your camera roll. A message that was a joke.
Each of those costs nothing to fix in a draft and cannot be fixed in a coin. So the dot stops at the draft, and the last step is one only you can take.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You are probably here because...
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You have a ticker in your head, and you want it launched before you forget it.
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You already talk to your dot all day, and opening a launch form feels like a step back.
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You do not want your dot holding money, but you do want it to do the typing.
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You have launched by hand before, and you know how easy it is to get one field wrong.
BEFORE YOU SIGN
What do you check before you approve?
Ten things, each one a single look. Pick any of them to see what you are looking for.
- The ticker Is it spelled the way you said it?
- The name Is this the name you want on it?
- The picture Is it the right picture, cropped right?
- The line Does the description say what you meant?
- The fee wallet Is the connected wallet the one you want paid?
- The chain Does it say Solana?
- The launchpad Does it say pump.fun?
- The fees Do you know what your wallet will ask?
- The link Did this link come from your dot?
- The moment Do you want this out now?
Not sure about one of them? Do not approve. Edit the draft, or tell your dot what to change and wait for the new link.
HOW IT WORKS
The approval.
Three steps, one signature.
Your dot writes. You read. Your wallet signs. In that order, and the order is the whole point.
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Step one.
You open the link.
The link your dot sent opens the draft: ticker, name, picture, description. Nothing has been sent to Solana. If the link shows something you did not ask for, close it and nothing happens.
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Step two.
You read. This step is yours, and it is the reason the draft exists.
Go through the ten checks above. Fix what is wrong in the app, or tell your dot and wait for a new link. Take as long as you like. The draft does not change while you read it and it does not expire.
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Step three.
Your wallet signs.
Connect your Solana wallet and approve. Your wallet shows the request and you confirm it there. The coin launches on pump.fun with that wallet as its creator, and the draft becomes a launch.
CHANNELS
Three ways to say it
The approval is always the same. How you start it is up to you. The app chat is the shortest way.
AFTER THE LAUNCH
What happens after you approve?
The coin is live. Told is out of the way.
The coin trades on pump.fun like any other. Your wallet is its creator, so the creator’s share of trading fees is paid to your wallet by pump.fun. Told is not in that path and holds nothing.
The app keeps the launch under My launches, under the wallet that approved it, so you can find it again on any device.
A second coin is a second sentence. It gets its own draft, its own link and its own approval.
Creator fees
How is this different
How is this different from giving your dot a wallet?
It is a fair question. Both end the same way, with a coin on pump.fun. The difference is who holds the key, and what a mistake costs.
How a funded dot works
A dot with its own wallet
You fund a wallet and hand it to your dot. From then on a message is enough to spend from it. The launch goes out as soon as the dot has parsed the sentence. If it parsed it wrong, or the message was not yours, the coin exists anyway, and its creator fees go to a wallet your dot controls.
How Told works
A draft you approve
Your dot holds nothing. It writes the draft and sends a link. You read the draft, and your own wallet signs the launch. A wrong draft is a link you close. The creator fees go to the wallet that signed, which is yours.
There is a cost, and we would rather say it than hide it: one extra tap, every time. If you would rather not, turn on Skip approval in the app: your dot then decides and launches in one go, from a wallet of its own that you top up.
| Comparison | A dot with its own wallet | A draft you approve |
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| Where it starts | With a wallet you funded and handed over. | With a sentence. Your dot needs nothing else from you. |
| Where the key lives | With the dot, on its computer. | In your wallet, where it already was. |
| Who signs | The dot, as soon as it has parsed the message. | You, after you have read the draft. |
| What you get | A coin, and a message saying it is out. | A draft first. Then a coin with your wallet as its creator. |
| What a mistake costs | A coin you cannot take back. | A link you close. |
| After the launch | The fees sit in a wallet the dot controls. | The fees are paid to your own wallet. |
How is this different from launching by hand?
The launch is identical. Same pump.fun, same fields, same wallet. What changes is who does the typing.
By hand
You open the launch page, type the ticker, the name and the description, upload the picture and check it all yourself. Every field is your typing, and every typo is yours too.
With Told
You say one sentence. Your dot does the typing and the upload. You get the same fields back, already filled in, and your only job is to read them and approve.
If you would rather type it yourself, the app lets you: every draft can be written or edited by hand. Told is for the times you would rather say it and have the typing done.
THE SCOPE
What Told does, and what it doesn't.
We would rather tell you where it stops.
What it does
- Carries a launch draft from your dot to you.
- Shows every field before you sign: ticker, name, picture, description, fee wallet.
- Launches the coin on pump.fun once your wallet approves.
What it doesn't
- Hold your key or your funds.
- Buy, sell or trade.
- Launch on a message alone.
- Promise that anyone will buy what you launch.
- If you need any of those, Told is the wrong tool, and it is better to hear that here.
THE COUNTS
How many steps are yours?
One to start it. One to finish it.
Everything between your sentence and your signature is done by your dot. No form, no upload, no copy and paste.
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sentence
1
approval
0
keys handed over
Those three numbers are the whole design. A sentence only you can say, an approval only your wallet can give, and no key that ever leaves it.
THE DRAFT
What do you get in the link?
The link opens one draft. It is short enough to read in a few seconds and exact enough that what you see is what launches. It is not a summary of what your dot understood. It is the launch itself, waiting.
Here is what is inside it.
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The ticker and the name.
What the coin is called and what people type to find it. Up to 10 characters for the ticker and up to 32 for the name. Neither can be changed after launch.
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The picture.
One square image, shown at the size it will have in a list. Your dot attaches the one you sent. You can swap it before you approve.
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The description.
One or two plain sentences, up to 280 characters. Your dot writes it from what you said, or uses your words as they are.
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The fee wallet.
Empty until you connect. Then it shows your wallet’s address, because the wallet that approves is the wallet that gets the creator fees.
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The status.
Draft, approved or live. A draft has cost nothing and done nothing. Only you can move it on.
The draft is kept on your device, not on a server. Delete it and it is gone.
QUESTIONS
Approval questions, answered straight
Does my dot launch the coin, or do I?
You do. Your dot prepares the draft and sends the link. The launch is signed by your wallet when you approve, and by nothing else.
How does an approval run, step by step?
In three steps, in a fixed order: you open the link, you read the draft, your wallet signs.
- Open the link your dot sent. The draft is shown field by field.
- Read it. Edit anything that is wrong, or ask your dot for a new link.
- Connect your Solana wallet and approve. The coin launches on pump.fun.
Nothing makes you hurry. The draft waits.
Which wallets work?
A Solana wallet that runs in your browser and can sign, such as Phantom. On a phone, open the link in your wallet’s built-in browser.
The app asks the wallet to connect only when you press Connect, and to sign only when you press Approve.
How long does it take?
As long as your dot takes to write the draft, plus the time you take to read it. The launch itself is one Solana transaction.
The one thing that slows it down is a missing field. If you sent no picture, your dot has to ask you for one first.
What does it cost?
Told adds no fee. You pay the Solana network fee when you approve, and pump.fun sets its own fees on trading.
Every fee, and who it goes to, is on the fees page.
My dot already has a wallet. Where does this fit?
Beside it. Told never uses your dot’s wallet. The launch is signed by the wallet you connect in the app, so the coin and its fees are yours and not the dot’s.
What if the draft is wrong?
Then you have lost nothing. Edit it in the app, or tell your dot what to change and it sends a new link. Finding a mistake in a draft costs a message. Finding it after launch costs the launch.
What happens after I approve?
The coin is live on pump.fun and the draft moves to My launches in the app.
From there it trades like any other coin. The creator’s share of the fees is paid by pump.fun to the wallet that approved.
