Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost across 7 non-EVM L1 chains

The live USD cost to create a fungible token on each of the 7 tracked non-EVM L1 chains, refreshed every 5 minutes, using each chain's canonical and most used method. SPL mint plus ATA plus Metaplex metadata account for Solana, Move publish for Sui and Aptos, TokenFactory MsgCreateDenom for Osmosis and Injective, native asset minting policy for Cardano, two account asset issuance for Stellar.

7 non-EVM L1 chains: Solana, Sui, Aptos, Osmosis, Injective, Cardano, Stellar.

The harness path for EVM chains currently ships a placeholder ERC20 init bytecode to eth_estimateGas, which understates the real deploy cost of the canonical OpenZeppelin v5 ERC20 by roughly 30 to 500x depending on chain. Rather than publish misleading numbers, we removed the EVM leg until we finalise the real OZ v5 artifact and re-enable it in a follow-up.

As fair as the underlying chains allow. Token creation means structurally different things in each ecosystem. We do not pretend the numbers are perfectly equivalent. Instead we publish exactly what the canonical and most used method costs in dollars on each chain, plus the formula and inputs for every value so readers can adjust. The methodology field lists the precise method per chain.

Osmosis TokenFactory has set its denom_creation_fee parameter to an empty list, meaning the only cost is the gas to execute MsgCreateDenom (roughly one tenth of a cent at current gas prices, well below our display precision). We render this as less than zero point zero zero one dollar with a tooltip explaining no protocol level creation fee. Injective by contrast charges a flat zero point one INJ for a tokenfactory denom.

Yes. Earlier versions of the benchmark only counted the bare 82 byte mint account rent, which understated the realistic cost by about 2.5 times. The current methodology also includes the 165 byte Associated Token Account for the initial holder and the 679 byte Metaplex Token Metadata account that holds name, symbol and URI. EVM ERC20 deployments embed name and symbol in the contract storage natively, so adding the Solana metadata account is the apples to apples adjustment. A bare mint without metadata would not be discoverable in Phantom, Jupiter or any wallet UI.

The Cardano min UTxO formula is deterministic. The coins_per_utxo_size protocol parameter is set by governance and moves rarely. A standard native asset bundle (32 byte policy hash plus short asset name) sits around 70 bytes, and the on chain mint transaction fee is a few cents of ADA. The USD figure on the leaderboard moves with ADA price, not with congestion.

Yes. Every number is a live Prometheus query against the OpenChainBench gateway. The harness source is open at the link in the source field below. Cite the value, the chain and the timestamp at the top of the page.

Because deploying a token is a one off decision and the operator wants the cost at the time of decision, not last quarter's average. The bench is the only public source that publishes this number live with reproducible methodology. Static blog posts go stale within hours when gas prices move.