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how pumpfirm works
Trading tournaments on Solana memecoins. You pay a real entry fee, trade a simulated stack against live market prices, and the pool pays out to the top of the leaderboard.
real money vs paper
This is the distinction worth reading twice, because the site mixes both on purpose.
- Your trades are simulated. Entering gives you a virtual cash balance. Buying a coin does not send an order to a DEX and does not touch the real pool — the fill is recorded in our database and priced against the live market. Nothing you do here moves a real chart.
- The prices are real. Every mark comes from live on-chain market data, so your position rises and falls with the actual coin.
- The money is real. Entry fees are USDC transfers on Solana, verified on-chain before you are seated. Prizes are USDC transfers back out.
the shape of a run
Every tournament works the same way, and only the numbers change between formats.
- Enter. Pay the entry fee in USDC, or join the free roll for nothing. One entry per account per run.
- Trade. Everyone starts with an identical virtual stack and trades any listed coin until the clock runs out.
- Rank. The board sorts on equity. Since every player starts from the same balance, that is the same ordering as percent return.
- Get paid. When the window closes the pool is split across the top places and sent as USDC.
where the entry fee goes
The whole fee goes into the prize pool. The pool for a run is simply the entry fee multiplied by the number of players, plus any sponsor contribution — there is no rake, and a free roll has a $0 pool unless someone sponsors it.