Guides
pump.fun basics
Everything you need before your first pump.fun trade, in nine short guides.
Nine guides in three parts
Part 1 What it is
Part 2 How it works
- 4What is a launchpad?Where new coins are born, and how pump.fun differs from the tools around it.6 min
- 5What is a bonding curve?The price rule every new pump.fun coin trades on, from launch to graduation.8 min
- 6What is a trading pair?What a coin is priced in, and why that moves its dollar price.6 min
Part 3 Before you buy
Words you'll hear
- Meme coin
- A coin built on a joke, a picture or a moment, with no company behind it.
- CA
- Contract address: a coin's unique address. Names repeat; CAs don't.
- Launchpad
- A platform that creates coins and runs their first sale. pump.fun is one.
- Bonding curve
- The price rule a new pump.fun coin trades on: every buy raises the price, every sell lowers it.
- Graduation
- When a coin's curve sells out, at about 85 SOL for a coin paired with SOL, and pump.fun moves it to a PumpSwap pool.
- PumpSwap
- pump.fun's own exchange, where a coin trades once it graduates.
- Market cap
- A coin's price times its supply. Every pump.fun coin has 1 billion tokens.
- Trading pair
- What a coin is priced in and bought with: SOL, USDC or a token.
- Slippage
- The gap between the price you're shown and the price you get.
- Price impact
- How far your own trade moves the price. Bigger trades move it more.
- Vamp
- A copycat coin, or a creator switching a coin's fees to their own wallet.
- Rug pull
- When a coin's creators cash out and leave buyers holding a coin that's crashed.
- Dev buy
- A creator's own first buy, in the same transaction that creates the coin.
- Creator rewards
- The cut of every trade a coin pays its creator: 0.30% on pump.fun's curve.
- Vanity address
- An address that starts or ends with a word you pick, found by trying keys until one fits.
More guides
Launch a coin on pump.fun
- How to create a coin on pump.funWhat it costs, every field from image to dev buy, and a checklist for before you launch.
- How to get a custom CA on pump.funWhy pump.fun CAs end in pump, three ways to get one that starts with your word, and how long each takes.
- pump.fun creator rewards, up to 3%What pump.fun pays creators, how to set your own rate up to 10× the standard, and a calculator for your coin.
- How notrandomfun.com stops vampsHow copycats and fee switches work, and how to launch so neither lands.
- Vamp Protect: lock your CALock a live coin's CA, a week at a time, so nobody can order one from us that starts and ends like it.
- pump.fun MCP server for custom CAsPrice a custom CA in Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP app, and how it differs from trading servers that hold your key.
Variable Creator Rewards Splits
- Put your creator fees to workWhat a Share fees coin can do with its creator fees on every payout, and what every program has done so far.
- Buyback & burn for your pump.fun coinEvery payout buys your coin on the market and burns it, in the same transaction.
- Auto liquidity, locked for goodEvery payout deepens your coin's Meteora pool, starting on the bonding curve, and nobody can pull it.
- Holder rewards for Share fees coinsPay your holders from every payout, by pump.fun's own rules.
- The creator poolThe wallet in your coin's split that pays your side, minutes after every payout.
Solana vanity addresses
- How to use solana-keygen grindEvery command, how long each word length takes, and a calculator for your word.
- How to get a Phantom vanity addressWhy a username isn't an address, what an order gives you, and how to import it into Phantom on desktop and phone.
- How grinding worksWhy you can't pick an address, why each letter takes 58 times longer, and what happens after you pay.
