Vanity addresses
A vanity address is a token address that starts or ends with characters you chose - a signature, a ticker, the classic “pump” suffix. Degenland can grind one for you, entirely in your browser, on both EVM and Solana. The mechanism is different on each, and that difference is worth understanding before you spend minutes searching.
What it is
An address is normally whatever the chain hands you. A vanity address is found by searching: try candidate after candidate until one produces an address matching your pattern. Because each extra character multiplies the search, short patterns are quick and long ones are effectively impossible - the same physics on both chains, even though what gets searched differs.
The whole search runs in your browser, spread across your CPU cores in background workers. Nothing is sent to a server, and the feature is off by default.
EVM: a CREATE2 salt
On Robinhood Chain, BSC and Base, the launchpad deploys your token with CREATE2, which means the address is fully determined before deployment by a number called the salt:
address = last20( keccak256( 0xff ++ launchpad ++ salt ++ initCodeHash ) )
- You choose a hex prefix and/or suffix (characters
0-9,a-f, after the0x). - The grinder tries millions of salts locally - no RPC call per candidate - until one yields an address matching your pattern, then hands that winning salt to the launch transaction.
- The address depends on your token’s name, ticker and supply, so you fix those first; changing them afterwards would change the address.
It lives in the launch form’s address section and is Live on every EVM venue you can launch on.
Solana: a ground keypair
Solana has no CREATE2. A token’s address is a public key, so a vanity mint is found by generating keypairs until one’s public key matches your pattern - the exact same mechanism that gives pump.fun’s own tokens their …pump ending.
- You choose a base58 prefix and/or suffix, optionally case-insensitive (so
PUMPalso acceptspump,Pump, …). - Because the bundle already mints the token in your browser, the winning keypair is used right there at creation and never leaves the page.
Today the Solana grinder is offered only inside the pump.fun bundle flow, so it carries that mode’s state - built, not yet switched on. A standard Solana curve launch does not offer a chosen mint yet.
How long a pattern is realistic
Each additional character multiplies the work by the alphabet size (16 for hex, 58 for base58), so cost is exponential in pattern length. The grinder caps the combined prefix + suffix length and warns before you commit to something slow:
| EVM (hex) | Solana (base58) | |
|---|---|---|
| What you match | Address after 0x | The mint’s public key |
| Max pattern length | 5 | 5 |
| Comfortable | ≤ 5 chars (~1M tries, seconds) | ≤ 3 chars, quick |
| The practical edge | 6 chars gets slow | pump |
A four-character base58 suffix like pump is about the practical browser limit; a fifth character can take a long time, and the form tells you so rather than letting you wait blindly.
Is it safe?
EVM - the salt is public and harmless
The salt is not a secret and grants no power: the deployed token has no owner, no mint and no pause (it is renounced at graduation regardless), so publishing the winning salt gives nobody anything. A vanity address is pure cosmetics.
Solana - the keypair is used once, then defanged
The ground mint keypair is generated locally and used only to create the token. Reward and standard launches revoke the mint’s authorities, so even the momentary key cannot be used to inflate supply afterwards. It never leaves your browser.