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How to create a token
On Vistomail you don't fill out a launch form — you write an email. Sending it is what mints the token.
#Step by step
1
Connect & claim your handle
Open the app and sign in (wallet or social). The moment you're authenticated you're assigned a
handle@vistomail.comaddress — that's who your tokens are sent from. If you logged in with a social account you'll be asked to connect or generate a Solana wallet first (see Authentication).2
Compose
Go to Compose. Fill in To, Subject, and the email body — this is a real email. Then set the token ticker and name (defaults are derived from the subject). Optionally enter a dev buy amount in SOL to buy the first tokens for yourself.
3
Send & mint (one click)
Hit Send & Mint. The server builds the launch transaction, you sign it with your own wallet, and the token deploys. If you set a dev buy, the SOL is swapped to cbBTC and your first purchase is bundled into the same deploy transaction — atomic, no lag, no front-run gap.
4
It's live
The email is delivered via email, the token page opens at
/token/{CA}, and the recipient's inbox shows the message with a footer linking back to the token. The token is now tradeable on the bonding curve.#What happens on-chain
- A fresh SPL mint is created. Its address is a pre-ground vanity address ending in
…vist. - A Meteora DBC pool opens with cbBTC as the quote token.
- The token is bound to your email by a content hash (SHA-256 of the canonical message), recomputed and verified server-side.
- The new pool is registered with our indexer so its price and trades update in real time.
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The dev buy
Buying at deploy is optional. With a dev buy, two signatures: (1) SOL→cbBTC, (2) deploy + your first buy together. Without it, one signature deploys the token. Either way the buy can never be sandwiched between deploy and purchase — they're in one transaction.
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Self-custody
Vistomail never holds your keys. Every transaction — minting, buying, selling, claiming fees — is built by the server and signed by your own wallet. The subject and body of your email are stored to deliver it and prove the token's provenance; the message content itself is not made public.