Creating a Pool Tutorial

Step-by-step tutorial for creating a new liquidity pool on Orca.

Create a new liquidity pool on Orca to enable trading for your token pair.

Create a pool

• Select Liquidity at the top of the main screen.

• With the Explorer tab active click on +Create a pool.

• Read the explanation in the Create a pool modal, and then select Get started.

• Enter Token A using its label, symbol or mint address, then repeat for Token B.

• (Optional) if you have not already done so select Connect wallet.

• Select Continue to next step.

• Carefully set initial deposit parameters.

  Note: these parameters are critical to how your pool will operate. Pool fee rates are analogous to a spread in a traditional orderbook: a 0.30% fee rate equates to a 60 bps spread for traders. Different fee tiers are useful for market makers during varying levels of market volatility. Please do your research and swim carefully when creating your pool.

• When you are ready select Preview.

• Review details of your pool carefully.

  Warning: high transaction fees: creating a pool uses a lot of space on the blockchain. Solana network fees will be higher than for standard transactions.

• Select Create pool and deposit, review and approve in your wallet: this transaction creates your pool.

• A second transaction is needed to deposit to the pool, review and approve in your wallet.

• That’s it! Your pool is live!

  Note: you can find links in the modal to your pool, but new pools may take up to 10 minutes to appear in the explorer.

• (Optional) select Add token to the Orca Token List if you wish to add a token to Orca’s token list - this will open a form on which you can submit a request. Please see How to add a token to the Orca Token List and/or How to add rewards to a pool.