DOCS / USE SATURN / 05
The SATURN token
SATURN lives twice: as the $SATURN token on Solana, and as native gas on the Saturn chain. The bridge is the only door between the two — one to one, both directions.
One token, two forms
- $SATURN on Solana — an SPL token launched on pump.fun, fixed supply of 1,000,000,000. This is what you buy, sell, and hold on Solana.
- Native SATURN — the gas of the Saturn chain. It exists only while $SATURN sits locked in the settlement program: bridge in to mint it, bridge out to burn it and take your $SATURN back.
Launch & distribution
$SATURN launches as a pump.fun fair launch — no presale, no private rounds. The team's entire position is 35% and is disclosed here:
| ALLOCATION | AMOUNT | SHARE | TERMS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public | 650,000,000 | 65% | pump.fun launch — open market from block one |
| Team — locked | 300,000,000 | 30% | under lockup, out of circulation |
| Initial liquidity | 50,000,000 | 5% | seeds the market and the bridge |
No emissions schedule, no staking inflation, no unlock cliffs beyond the single team lockup above. What you see is the whole table.
Units
| PARAMETER | VALUE |
|---|---|
| Total supply | 1,000,000,000 $SATURN (fixed) |
| Native decimals | 9 — 1 SATURN = 10⁹ lamports, same arithmetic as SOL |
| L1 decimals | whatever the mint defines — the bridge rebases 1:1 automatically |
| Fee per signature | 5,000 lamports (0.000005 SATURN) |
| Native pre-mine | 0 — gas exists only against locked $SATURN |
Native supply: minted by the bridge, nothing else
The Saturn chain's genesis allocates zero native SATURN. The only mint in the protocol is the bridge: lock $SATURN in the settlement program on Solana and the same amount is credited as gas on Saturn. When value bridges back out, native supply shrinks by exactly that amount.
- Circulating native SATURN is backed 1:1 by $SATURN the settlement program holds — an on-chain fact anyone can audit on Solana.
- The chain operator cannot mint gas out of thin air: credits require a real, finalized L1 deposit, receipted exactly once.
Where fees go
Every transaction pays 5,000 lamports per signature, debited from the fee payer and credited to the fee collector account pinned at genesis (listed in network parameters). Private transfers inside the pool can carry a fee too — it's the one public field of a shielded transfer, and only native SATURN can pay it.
Getting SATURN
- Buy $SATURN on pump.fun (CA to be announced) with any Solana wallet.
- Bridge it in at saturn.cx/bridge — it arrives as native gas in about a minute.
- Test deployments — the faucet, via
solana airdroporrequestAirdrop. Free, capped per request.
There is no presale and no allocation program — anyone selling you a "Saturn allocation" is lying. Check official links before signing anything.