Raydium LaunchLab's Fee Stack Is Turning Solana Token Launches Into a Higher Hurdle Race
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Most coverage of Solana launchpads still treats fees like side details.
That framing is obsolete.
As of April 5, 2026, Raydium's LaunchLab documentation and related analytics make the more important point hard to ignore: launching and trading a new token on Solana is increasingly an additive fee stack, not a simple AMM event.
The reason this matters is not just that traders pay more. The deeper market-structure consequence is that by the time a token graduates into a live liquidity pool, the market may already be carrying a larger hidden cost basis than many LPs and traders realize.
That changes what post-migration liquidity has to do in order to feel healthy.