rules
you call the coin on pump.fun and put real names in the callout. the first person to drop a name gets its full value for 24 hours. anyone dropping the same name after that gets less. once 24 hours are up the name is free again. creator fees get split by score and paid out in SOL. all of it is on the board.
pump.fun only lets you post one callout per coin, so the names in it are all you get. drop real accounts. a real account is worth something, and the bigger it is the more it is worth. how many followers you have does not matter.
24 hours
a drop lasts a day
a drop scores and holds its slot for 24 hours. then it comes off the live board. the event and anything you earned stay on the record.
first gets it
whoever dropped the name first holds it. when that expires the next person can drop it and start at first again. every name is checked against pump.fun. if it is not a real account it is worth nothing.
second place
the first drop on a name takes its full value. the second takes half. the third takes a third.
you got there first. you take all of it.
someone beat you to it. half.
a third. still counts.
fourth is a quarter, fifth a fifth, and so on. it never hits zero and it never beats being first. that is what stops fifty wallets pasting the same five famous names: number fifty is dropping for a fiftieth. only the last 24 hours hold slots, so old drops cannot lock anyone out.
what a name is worth
bigger accounts are worth more. not proportionally more.
| their followers | worth |
|---|---|
| 0 | 1.00 |
| 100 | 2.04 |
| 1,000 | 3.00 |
| 10,000 | 4.00 |
| 100,000 | 5.00 |
a 100,000-follower account beats a 100-follower account by about 2.5x, not by 1000x. ten normal people beat two whales. that is on purpose. otherwise everyone chases the same five famous names and there is no reason for anyone else to play.
those are first-drop numbers. drop it first and the whole figure is yours. drop one somebody already holds and you get the decayed slice.
what does not count
- names that are not real accounts. @asjdajsd gets nothing. every name is checked against pump.fun.
- dropping yourself.
- @everyone. it is a broadcast. it names nobody.
- copying a live drop. it does not count as first. you get the decayed slice. after 24 hours the name is free at full value again.
- a bought audience is worth less on its own. we do not sample anyone's followers to check. we do not need to: the value curve is logarithmic, so a faked fifty thousand is worth about twice a real thousand, not fifty times. buying followers is a bad trade before we do anything about it.
limits
nobody takes more than 25% of a round no matter how well they did. the cap is never tighter than an equal split, so it kicks in at 4 droppers and does nothing below that. one dropper on the board still takes the round. anything the cap claws back goes to everyone else first. anything that still will not fit is simply not sent — it stays in the wallet and goes into the next pot.
sold it? you are out of that payout
you have to be holding the coin at the moment a payout goes out. sell before it fires and you are disqualified from that one, and your share gets split among the people who did hold — so selling pays them, not you. buy back in and you are on the next one. the operator sets the minimum balance live, from any positive balance up to 10% of supply.
payouts
creator fees build up in the coin's vault. every five minutes we look at it. once it holds 0.01 SOL it gets collected and split across the board by score, and sent straight to dropper wallets. below that nothing happens and the vault keeps filling — you can watch it on the board.
too small to send is nothing
nothing under 0.01 SOL goes out, because the network fee would eat a real slice of it. if your share lands below that you get nothing from that payout and it does not carry over — there is no running balance and nobody is owed anything between payouts. said here up front so nobody thinks they have money waiting.
we can only pay who we can see
pump.fun only ever hands back a coin's best 50 callouts, so we find everyone else by following replies and checking known wallets one at a time. if you called this coin, never made that top 50, and nobody ever replied to you, nothing links to you and we cannot pay you. that is a real gap, not a policy.
disclosure
droppers are paid to call this coin. that is the mechanism. it is not buried anywhere. every payout, who got it, and what it scored on is published on the board, including the drops that were rejected and why.