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21- Launchpads and the bonding curveThe bonding curve, step by stepHow pump.fun's curve sets the price of a new coin, with the real numbers, and why the first buyers get so many more…
- Launchpads and the bonding curveGraduation: what happens and what changesWhat happens the moment a coin fills its curve, where it goes, and why trading feels different right after.
- Reading a coinChart basics and the tools…plus each wallet's buys and sells. The launchpad's own page On pump.fun: the bonding curve progress, the creator and the holders. Each has a free way to look up a coin as of October…
- Reading a coinChecking one coin, step by step…billion tokens, the market cap is $184,000. It is 3 hours old and has left its bonding curve for a pool. Step 3: liquidity and volume Liquidity is $52,000, so about $26,000 of SOL is in…
- The trading playbookEntries: when to buy and when to stay out…have a working X account and community. I only buy after the coin has left its bonding curve. I skip any coin where a handful of wallets hold most of the supply. I never buy a coin that…
- Fees and executionFailed transactions and what they cost…it is thrown away. The coin moved under you. A coin that graduates from its bonding curve moves to a new pool, and a trade still aimed at the old curve can fail. Out of compute. The…
- Trading platformsFees side by side, and how to pick one…Whatever app you use, the coin's own pool charges a fee too. On pump.fun's bonding curve that fee was 1.25% of each trade in October 2026, and part of it goes to the coin's creator.…
- Launchpads and the bonding curveFees, creator rewards and cashback…before you rely on them. Where the trade happens Creator pump.fun Pool Total Bonding curve 0.30% 0.95% 0% 1.25% PumpSwap, market cap under 420 SOL 0.30% 0.93% 0.02% 1.25% PumpSwap,…
- Reading a coinHolders, the top 10 and the dev…could wipe out the chart. One catch trips up almost everyone. The pool, or the bonding curve before graduation, holds tokens too, and on a block explorer it often shows up as the…
- Memecoins 101How a coin is born and how it dies…it, and who is likely selling to you. The short version: a coin launches on a bonding curve, where most die. The few that fill it graduate to a pool, then either keep finding buyers or…
- Danger zoneHow bundling works and why bundlers are dangerous…anyone else can act. Why it is cheap to grab half a coin A new coin on a bonding curve starts very cheap, and the price climbs with every buy. Whoever buys first gets the most…
- Reading a coinLiquidity and volume…of SOL in its pool. Before a pump.fun coin graduates, it trades against a bonding curve instead of a pool, which behaves in a similar way. Why liquidity decides what you can sell…
- Danger zoneMint, freeze and LP pulls…is no pool left to sell them into. On a pump.fun coin that came through the bonding curve, this exact move is blocked. Before a coin graduates there is no pool to pull, because the…
- Fees and executionPlatform, launchpad and creator fees…and pool fees The place the coin trades takes a cut too. On the pump.fun bonding curve the total is 1.25% of every trade: 0.95% to the platform and 0.30% to the coin's creator.…
- Fees and executionSlippage and price impact…your own trade moves the price A memecoin's price comes from a pool, or from a bonding curve before it graduates. When you buy, you put SOL in and take tokens out, and the price climbs…
- Fees and executionThe fee stack: where your money goes…1 SOL buy, line by line You buy 1 SOL of a coin that is still on the pump.fun bonding curve. You use a trading terminal that charges 1%, and you leave its priority fee and tip at 0.001…
- Trading platformsThe four kinds of trading apps…in a pool on the blockchain. While it is new, that pool is a launchpad's bonding curve, like pump.fun's. After it graduates, it trades in a pool on an exchange such as PumpSwap.…
- Launchpads and the bonding curveThe other launchpads in 2026…on Solana. **Raydium LaunchLab.** Raydium's launch engine. Coins trade on a curve and graduate into a Raydium pool. Each launchpad built on it sets its own fees. BONK.fun and…
- Launchpads and the bonding curveWhat a launchpad is…A new coin does not start in a pool the creator controls. It starts on a **bonding curve**: a price rule written into the launchpad's code. Buyers send SOL to the curve and get…
- Fees and executionWhy fees decide who wins…100 flat round trips 0.5% 3.67 SOL 1% 1.34 SOL 2.25%, a 1% app on a 1.25% bonding curve 0.11 SOL Prices never move in this example. Every bit of the loss is fees. Break-even: how…
- Memecoins 101Why people trade them…the fee the coin's own pool or launchpad charges (1.25% on a pump.fun coin's bonding curve as of October 2026, whatever app you use), the network fee, and often a priority fee or tip…
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10- Bonding curve…new coin does not start with a normal pool. The launchpad sells tokens along a curve: every buy nudges the price up and every sell nudges it down. On pump.fun's curve the last tokens…
- MeteoraA Solana DEX with several pool types, whose bonding curve other launchpads build on.
- GraduationWhen a launchpad coin sells out its bonding curve and moves to a normal trading pool.
- King of the hillA spotlight pump.fun gave to a coin that had climbed a good way up its bonding curve.
- LaunchpadA site where anyone can create a new coin in a minute, usually on a bonding curve.
- MigrationThe move of a graduated coin's liquidity from the bonding curve into a normal DEX pool.
- pump.funThe best-known Solana memecoin launchpad, where coins start on a bonding curve.
- Virtual reservesStarting balances that exist only inside a bonding curve's formula, used to set a new coin's opening price.
- Bonk.funIt works much like pump.fun: a coin starts on a bonding curve and graduates into a Raydium pool. In July 2025 it passed pump.fun in daily launches and…
- Survivorship bias…2025 to October 2026 found that only about 1 in 58 even graduated from the bonding curve, so the winners you see are rare exceptions.