Answers
The questions
worth asking
The awkward one is first, because it is the one that decides whether any of this is worth an evening of your time.
- 01Do I need SOL to start?
- No, and there is no version of this where you do. You are not buying the coin, staking anything or paying a fee. You post, the shift ends, and SOL arrives in your wallet. The wallet is only somewhere to receive it — we never ask you to sign anything with it.
- 02So who is actually paying me?
- The coin is. Somebody wants people talking about it and has put money in a pot for exactly that — creator fees, SOL, or both. You are doing the work they would otherwise be buying from an agency, and the pot is split by who did the most of it.
- 03What if the coin does nothing — do I still get paid?
- It depends on how the pot was filled. A pot funded with SOL is fixed before you start, so a quiet coin pays exactly what it said it would. A pot fed by creator fees is only ever what the coin earned, and on a dead coin that is close to nothing. Every listing says which kind it is, up front.
- 04Does the coin have to be new?
- No. A coin that already trades can be listed too — its owner opens a pot and fills it by sending SOL. Only a coin launched through PAYROLL has creator fees filling its pot, because pump.fun fixes the creator address at launch and it cannot be re-pointed afterwards.
- 05Is this a pump.fun fork?
- No. Nothing about the coin changes — same curve, same chart, same liquidity. We count posts and pay out the pot. That is all of it.
- 06What stops a dev farming his own coin?
- The scoring rules. A post counts for one listing only — the first one it is submitted to. Only a person's best three posts in a shift count. A post earns its post bonus only once it has at least one like, and its replies count for no more than its likes. A post deleted before the shift settles counts for nothing.
- 07Do I have to own the coin to fund a pot?
- To list a coin that already exists, yes — its owner opens the pot and fills it with SOL. Its creator fees cannot be pointed at the pot; pump.fun fixes the creator at launch. Only a coin launched through PAYROLL has fees filling its pot.
- 08Why would I list instead of just keeping the fees?
- If your coin does not need a crowd, keep them and launch on pump.fun directly. Launching here means you keep none of the creator fees — half pays the crowd, half burns $PAYROLL. It is for coins where the crowd is the entire point, and where paying it is cheaper than paying for reach.
- 09Do I need to hold $PAYROLL?
- No. Posting is free and always will be, and so is putting a coin up — launching one costs what a pump.fun launch costs, and that goes to pump.fun. Nothing is ever taken out of a pot — all of it goes to the posters. $PAYROLL is bought and burned with the other half of the creator fees of every coin launched here, and it is the first listing on its own floor: half its creator fees fill the house pot.