Raydium · RAY

What is Raydium (RAY)?

Raydium is one of the venues where a Solana memecoin gets its first real liquidity pool, so a token bought minutes after launch has often traded through it. RAY is the protocol token of that venue.

Raydium is issued and deployed by a third party and trades in permissionless Solana liquidity pools. GMGN is a trading terminal that can route an order into those pools; it does not issue, list, curate or endorse RAY. GMGNGuide is an independent site with no affiliation to GMGN or to this token's issuer, it earns a referral commission from GMGN, and nothing here is financial, legal or tax advice.

Where the RAY price on this page comes from

There is no single RAY price. The token trades in several pools at once and each one quotes slightly differently, so a headline price averaged across all of them describes a market you cannot actually trade in. This page quotes one specific pool instead, the deepest RAY pool on Solana at the time the page was built, which means the price, the 24h change, the volume and the liquidity above all describe the same market. That pool is the one your order is most likely to route through, and its depth is the constraint on how large an order can be before slippage starts to hurt. Everything refreshes about once a minute from the GeckoTerminal public API.

Which RAY pool this page quotes, and why

RAY is quoted from Raydium's own RAY/USDC pool, live since April 2022 and holding $3.64M when the registry was resolved on 6 August 2026. Volume that day was $72.4K, so the pool is deep relative to how much of it trades. Quoting against USDC rather than SOL also means the price on this page does not inherit SOL's own move, which matters if you are comparing this chart against one you read somewhere else.

The table above is a fixed snapshot from the day the pool was chosen and it does not update. The live figures are in the stats block near the top of this page, and the two are worth reading against each other: if the live depth has fallen well below the figure recorded here, the pool has thinned out and this page needs re-resolving. Every pool in the set was picked by querying Solana pools for the token, keeping the ones where it sits on the base side, and taking the deepest, with the two exceptions noted on their own pages. The full process is on our methodology page.

Is buying RAY on GMGN different from buying it on a DEX?

Buying RAY through GMGN is not a different asset from buying it anywhere else. The terminal routes your order into the same on-chain pools a DEX front end would use, so what you end up holding is the token itself, sitting in the wallet GMGN generated inside your account. What you are paying for is the layer on top: a chart, holder and security checks on the contract, copy trading, and one interface that covers Solana alongside every other chain GMGN supports. The cost of that layer is a flat 1% of trade value, charged on the buy and again on the sell, per GMGN's fee documentation read 6 August 2026, and it is separate from the SOL you spend on a priority fee, and optionally a Jito tip, on top of the base transaction cost. One difference from a DEX front end is worth knowing before you fund anything: GMGN's documentation states that private key export is prohibited on all chains, including wallets you import yourself, so the wallet holding your RAY cannot be moved into Phantom or a hardware device.

What should you check before trading RAY?

The number that decides how a RAY order actually fills is pool liquidity, shown live above. Your order trades against the tokens sitting in that pool, so the larger your order is relative to the pool, the further you push the price against yourself before the fill completes. Slippage tolerance is the guard rail: set it too tight on a moving token and the transaction reverts, set it too loose and a sandwich bot has room to take the difference. Keep a working balance of SOL for a priority fee, and optionally a Jito tip, on top of the base transaction cost, because an order that cannot pay for its own inclusion never lands, and always confirm the contract address matches the one below rather than trusting a ticker search.

How to Buy Raydium on GMGN in 4 Steps

1. 1Open GMGN: go to gmgn.ai on the web or start the Telegram bot. GMGN generates a wallet for you, and its documentation describes no identity-verification step.
2. 2Fund the Solana wallet: deposit SOL to the address GMGN shows you, and keep a buffer beyond your trade size so you can always pay for gas. See getting started.
3. 3Paste the RAY contract address: search by contract, not by ticker. Tickers are not unique on-chain and copycat tokens rely on that. The correct address is 4k3Dyjzvzp8eMZWUXbBCjEvwSkkk59S5iCNLY3QrkX6R.
4. 4Set slippage, then buy: check the pool liquidity above against your order size, set a slippage tolerance you can live with, and enable Anti-MEV if the token is moving. GMGN takes 1% of the trade.

Raydium Token Details

Fee, custody and identity rows are read from GMGN's own documentation on 6 August 2026, and describe what the documents say rather than any compliance or legal position. Contract and pool addresses were resolved on 6 August 2026. Verify current terms in the docs and in the app before trading.

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