RiskMemecoins are highly speculative, and most lose nearly all their value. Nothing here is financial advice.
What vamp means
To vamp a coin is to launch a new coin that copies an existing one: the same name, ticker and picture, at a new address. The copy is called a vamp.
- A vamp is a separate coin. Holding the original gives you nothing in the copy, and the other way round.
- It can be on the same launchpad, a different one, or another chain.
- The word is trader slang, and it's used for honest relaunches and for bad-faith copies alike.
Why coins get vamped
Coins are copied to move a meme to another chain or launchpad, to relaunch one whose first version died, or simply to catch attention a popular coin already has.
- A new home. A meme that took off on Solana gets launched on Robinhood Chain, or the reverse.
- A relaunch. A community restarts a coin whose creator sold and left.
- Riding attention. Someone copies a coin that's trending, hoping buyers pick the copy. This is the kind that hurts people.
How to tell a copy from the original
Names and pictures can be copied exactly. A coin's address can't, so the address is what to check.
- The address. Get it from a source you trust, and compare all of it, not just the first and last characters.
- When it was created. The original is older. A copy made minutes ago of a coin that's been around for weeks is a copy.
- Where it trades. Check the launchpad and chain match what you expect.
- Its links. A copy can paste the original's website and X account into its own page. That proves nothing about who made it.
- Holders and volume. A brand-new copy has few of both.
Vamp in memetools
In the Launch panel, Vamp fills the form from a live token: paste its address, on Solana or Robinhood Chain, and it copies the name, ticker, description, image and socials.
- Open Launch and press Vamp.
- Paste the token's address.
- Check what came in, and edit anything. Replace its X, Telegram and website with your own.
- Pick the platform, wallet and first buy, then launch as usual.
Vamp copies the token's website, X account and Telegram too. Swap them for your own before you launch: someone else's accounts on your coin make it look like theirs.
If you launch one
A copy that pretends to be the original misleads buyers. Launch a vamp as what it is: a new, separate coin.
- Don't call it “official”, “the real one” or a “migration” unless the original's community really is moving to it.
- Don't use the original's website or social accounts.
- A coin about a real person or brand must not suggest they back it, and their names and logos may be protected.
- Expect to be one of several copies. Being a copy is not a reason for anyone to buy a coin.
Memecoins are highly speculative, and most lose nearly all their value. Nothing here is financial advice. For other terms, see the memecoin launch glossary.