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What Is the Listing Rate in a PinkSale Presale? The Maths
PinkSale's listing rate sets how many tokens pair with 1 BNB in the DEX pool. Inverted into a price beside the presale rate, from PinkSale's own docs.
By Staff, Presale Press
The listing rate in a PinkSale presale is the number of the project’s tokens paired with 1 BNB, or 1 SOL, when the DEX pool is created under Auto Listing. Inverted, it is the pool’s opening price. PinkSale’s docs say it is usually lower than the presale rate, which puts that opening price above what contributors paid.
This is an evergreen explainer. This desk read PinkSale’s EVM and Solana presale-creation guides and its service-fees page on 15 October 2026, which describe a creator’s form, not any pool’s contract.
Listing rate vs presale rate: what the docs define
The EVM creation guide defines the presale rate as how many tokens contributors receive for 1 unit of the contribution currency, and the listing rate as the token’s initial price on the DEX, written as 1 BNB = X tokens and used for pool creation if Auto Listing is chosen. Fewer tokens per BNB is a higher price per token.
The Solana guide says it outright: the listing rate is usually lower than the presale rate to allow for a higher listing price.
What the listing rate means for a contributor’s price
None of the three ranking pages this desk read for this query, PinkSale’s two guides and one exchange explainer, converts the two rates into prices. The figures are illustrative inputs chosen by this desk, not any real sale: a presale rate of 100,000 tokens per BNB, so a presale price of 0.00001 BNB, and a 100 BNB hard cap, which needs 10,000,000 tokens for contributors.
| Listing rate (tokens per BNB) | Opening pool price | Against the presale price | Pool tokens at 51% liquidity | At 100% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80,000 | 0.0000125 BNB | 25% higher | 4,080,000 | 8,000,000 |
| 100,000 | 0.00001 BNB | Equal | 5,100,000 | 10,000,000 |
| 120,000 | about 0.0000083 BNB | about 16.7% lower | 6,120,000 | 12,000,000 |
The pool columns multiply the BNB sent to liquidity by the listing rate. They ignore PinkSale’s BSC presale fee of 1 BNB plus 5% of BNB sold, from its service-fees page; the pages read do not say whether the 5% comes out before the liquidity percentage, so the table leaves it out.
The opening price is a starting ratio, not a forecast; the first trade moves it.
Auto Listing, Manual Listing and the lock
The listing rate binds the pool only under Auto Listing, where PinkSale adds the liquidity after the creator finalises. Under Manual Listing the creator adds liquidity themselves; the docs’ lockup setting covers liquidity added via PinkSale.
The soft cap must be at least 25% of the hard cap on both chains, so a sale can finalise well short of these figures; what happens below the soft cap is its own question.
FAQ
Why is the listing rate lower than the presale rate on PinkSale? PinkSale’s Solana creation guide gives the reason in one line: the listing rate is usually lower than the presale rate to allow for a higher listing price. Fewer tokens per BNB or SOL means a higher price per token. It is the creator’s choice, not a rule.
What is the difference between the presale rate and the listing rate? The presale rate is how many tokens a contributor receives for 1 BNB during the sale. The listing rate is how many tokens are paired with 1 BNB when the DEX pool is created under Auto Listing. Both are tokens per coin, so each inverts into a price, and the two prices need not match.
How does the liquidity percentage interact with the listing rate? Liquidity percentage decides how much of the raised BNB goes into the pool; the listing rate decides how many tokens sit beside each of those BNB. Multiply the two and you have the tokens the pool needs. PinkSale’s EVM guide sets liquidity at 51% to 100%; its Solana guide sets a 25% minimum.
Where this fits
Fixed rates separate a presale from a fair launch, and tokens bought at the presale rate still have to be claimed after the sale. We cover this market; we do not participate in it. Crypto assets are high risk, nothing here is financial advice, and a listing rate is a number the creator typed, not a price anyone has promised to hold.