Coins and launches
- Memecoin
- A token whose value comes from attention, community and jokes rather than a product. Most launch on Solana through launchpads.
- Contract address (CA)
- The unique address of a token on-chain. Names and tickers can be copied, the CA can't, so always copy it from the chart or launchpad page.
- Launchpad
- A site that creates a token and starts it trading in one step, like pump.fun. See how to make a memecoin.
- Bonding curve
- A pricing formula that raises a new coin's price with every buy and lowers it with every sell, so a coin can trade before anyone adds liquidity.
- Graduation (migration)
- The moment a coin raises enough on its bonding curve and its liquidity moves to a regular trading pool. Most coins never graduate.
- Dev buy
- The creator's own first purchase of their coin at launch. Buyers check its size.
- Dev wallet
- The wallet that created a coin. Its history shows whether the creator tends to sell early. Most trading terminals show it on the token card.
- Market cap
- Token price times supply. Memecoin traders think in market cap rather than price, which is why our memecoin calculator works from entry and exit market cap.
- Liquidity
- The pool of SOL and tokens you trade against. Thin liquidity means your own buy moves the price a lot.
- LP burn
- Destroying the tokens that represent a pool's liquidity, so nobody can withdraw it. Burned or locked liquidity rules out the classic hard rug.
Risks and scams
- Rug pull
- When the people behind a coin take the money and leave. A hard rug pulls the liquidity; a soft rug sells a large supply into buyers. See how to spot a rug pull.
- Honeypot
- A token you can buy but can't sell, usually because the contract lets the creator freeze accounts or block transfers.
- Bundling
- A dev buying a large share of supply from many wallets in the launch block, so it looks spread out. See bundled memecoins.
- Cabal
- A group of insiders who coordinate buys and sells on a coin, often holding a big combined share of supply.
- Insider wallet
- A wallet connected to a coin's team, often funded from the same source, that bought early. Bubblemaps shows these links.
- Holder concentration
- How much of the supply the top wallets hold. High concentration means a few sellers can crash the chart.
- Exit liquidity
- The buyers that early holders sell into. If you're buying after a coordinated pump, you might be it.
- Drainer
- A fake site that gets you to sign a transaction that empties your wallet, often disguised as a login or claim. See fake bots and terminal clones.
- Seed phrase
- The 12 or 24 words that restore a wallet. Whoever has them owns everything in it. Never type them into a site, bot or DM.
- Private key
- The secret that signs transactions for one wallet. Trading bots hold one to trade for you. See private key safety.
- Volume bot
- Software that trades a coin back and forth to fake activity and climb trending lists. High volume with few real holders is a warning.
- Boost
- A paid promotion that raises a token's visibility on a chart site. A boosted token means someone paid, which says nothing about safety. See DEX Screener.
Trading
- Ape
- To buy fast, usually without much research. The rug check takes five minutes and is worth it.
- Jeet
- Slang for someone who sells quickly, often at the first small gain or loss.
- Trenches
- The fast, risky market for brand-new coins in their first minutes and hours.
- Sniping
- Buying a coin in the first blocks after it launches, usually with a bot. See sniper bots.
- Trading terminal
- A web app built for memecoin trading, with a live new-coin feed, holder data and one-click buys. See trading terminals.
- Telegram bot
- A trading bot you use inside Telegram by pasting a contract address. See Telegram bots.
- Slippage
- The most worse-than-quoted price you'll accept on a trade. Too tight and trades fail; too loose and you invite sandwich attacks.
- Price impact
- How much your own trade moves the price. Bigger on small, thin coins.
- Priority fee
- An extra SOL payment so validators include your trade sooner. See trading fees explained.
- Tip (bribe)
- A payment to the validator or block builder to land your trade first in a busy block. Many terminals call it a bribe.
- MEV
- Profit bots make by reordering, inserting or front-running other people's transactions.
- Sandwich attack
- A bot buys right before your trade and sells right after it, so you pay a worse price and it pockets the difference. Tight slippage and MEV protection help.
- Limit order
- An order that only fills at the price or market cap you set.
- Take-profit and stop-loss
- Orders that sell automatically when a coin rises to your target or falls to your limit.
- DCA
- Dollar-cost averaging: buying or selling in several smaller chunks over time instead of all at once.
- PnL
- Profit and loss. Realized PnL counts closed trades; unrealized PnL is what open positions are worth right now.
- Rent
- A small refundable SOL deposit locked in every token account. Close empty accounts with a tool like Sol Incinerator to get it back.
- Cashback (rakeback)
- Part of a platform's trading fee paid back to you, usually in SOL and higher for bigger volume.
- Paper trading
- Practice trading with a virtual balance at live prices. See memecoin paper trading.
- Perps
- Perpetual futures: leveraged long or short bets on a token's price with no expiry. See memecoin perps.
- Liquidation
- When a leveraged position loses enough that the exchange closes it and keeps your margin.
People and signals
- CT
- Crypto Twitter, now X. Where most memecoin attention starts.
- KOL
- Key opinion leader: an influencer who posts calls. Kolscan shows whether their wallets actually profit.
- Copy trading
- Automatically mirroring another wallet's trades. See memecoin copy trading.
- Fresh wallet
- A brand-new wallet with no history. Lots of fresh wallets buying a new coin often points to one person or a bundle.
FAQ
What is a bonding curve in memecoins?
A pricing formula that raises a new coin's price with every buy and lowers it with every sell, so it can trade before anyone adds liquidity. When enough SOL flows in, the coin graduates to a regular pool.
What does bundling mean in crypto?
A dev buying a large share of a new coin's supply from many wallets in the launch block, so the supply looks spread across many holders when one person controls it.
What is a dev wallet?
The wallet that created a token. Traders check its history to see whether the creator tends to sell early.
Nothing here is financial advice, and we never call a coin or tool safe. We say what we checked and when.