You launch. Your coin enters by itself during registration, as long as the bundle in its creation block, your dev buy included, stays at 40% or under.
Every hour there is a close. The lowest 20% of what is inside goes out, measured on a 10-minute average market cap.
You keep your place by staying above the line. The cut always leaves one coin per close to come, so it bites hard early and takes one an hour after that.
One coin walks out. Landfall is close 24. The last clean coin is the one left standing.
These are the coins you would be watching (demo data). Distance from the line in percent, bundle beside it.
On pump.fun you launch alone and hope somebody looks. Here you launch into a crowd watching the same hour you are, and every close puts your coin in front of them.
Launch while registration is open and your coin is in the next storm. You are the on-chain creator from the first block.
Launch a coin