Guides
Every venue behaves differently and every campaign fails for a specific reason. These pages go through the mechanics one at a time, including the parts that argue against spending money.
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Security Why a wallet gets drained after connecting What connecting authorises, which approvals cause losses, and what to do afterwards. Read Venue Volume activity on Jupiter Studio launches The curve phase, graduation, and what activity does at each stage. Read Venue Drift, perpetuals and volume activity Why perpetuals venues behave differently and when activity there is pointless. Read Venue Running volume activity on OpenBook How order book mechanics change volume activity, and what to configure differently. Read Guide When another token shares your symbol Why symbols collide, how buyers end up on the wrong mint, and what reduces the risk. Read Guide What a normal first week looks like Reference figures for holders, volume, depth and retention in week one. Read Comparison Solana token screeners compared What each screener indexes, how fast it updates, and which to check for what. Read Guide Applying for a centralised exchange listing What exchanges evaluate, what they ignore, and when an application is worth submitting. Read Playbook Community building for meme coins The habits that keep a meme coin community alive past the first month. Read Comparison Solana or Base for a token launch Costs, tooling, audience and failure behaviour compared across both chains. Read Guide A marketing plan for a Solana token The full sequence: pre-launch, launch week, and the long stretch afterwards. Read Explainer Impermanent loss, from the token team side What impermanent loss means when one side of the pool is your own token. Read Explainer Solana congestion, and what it costs What congestion looks like in practice, how it changes fees and failures, and what to do about it. Read Explainer Token-2022 extensions, explained What extensions add, which ones change trading behaviour, and how to check before buying. Read Growth guide Trending placement versus community Rented attention versus compounding attention, what each returns, and how to split a budget. Read How-to Wallet security for token teams Separating treasury from operations, what a signature authorises, and the mistakes that lose funds. Read Growth guide What to post during launch week A day-by-day framework for week one, and why the quiet days decide more than launch day. Read Growth guide Handling a rug accusation What to do in the first hour, why silence confirms, and the evidence that actually settles it. Read Troubleshooting Why your liquidity shows as zero Six reasons a funded pool displays as zero, and how to tell whether the capital is actually gone. Read Decision guide How much liquidity to seed at launch How to derive a seeding amount from the buy size you want to support, rather than from leftovers. Read Growth guide Reviving a token that has gone quiet What is recoverable, what is permanent, and the order that gives a dormant token a real chance. Read Growth guide Getting a Solana token listed on CoinGecko What aggregators require, why applications are rejected, and what to fix before submitting. Read Live data What priority fee should you pay? What Solana transactions really pay in priority fees, and why the median is a misleading guide. Read Live data Which Solana DEX fails least How failure rates differ between Solana venues, how we measure them, and what the spread means. Read Troubleshooting Transaction was not confirmed in 30 seconds What the timeout actually reports, why the transaction may still land, and the four real causes. Read Explainer Compute units, explained What compute units measure, why limit and price are separate, and how each one fails. Read Decision guide Volume bot versus airdrop Activity versus distribution: what each moves, what each costs, and why airdrops disappoint. Read Explainer Mint and freeze authority, explained What mint and freeze authority permit, how to check them, and when retaining one is defensible. Read Decision guide One-off versus recurring campaigns How the same budget produces different records depending on shape, and which suits which goal. Read Explainer Rent and token accounts, explained What the rent-exempt minimum is, why it is a deposit rather than a fee, and how to get it back. Read How-to Updating Solana token metadata What update authority controls, what is permanent, and the safe sequence for changing anything. Read Decision guide New token campaigns versus established ones Why a new token and an established one need opposite campaign shapes, and how to tell which you are. Read Troubleshooting Your pair is not on the screener at all Why a pool with real trades produces no pair page, and how to tell whether to wait or to act. Read Explainer Bonding curves, explained How curves price without a pool, why early buyers move them most, and what graduation actually changes. Read Decision guide Splitting a Solana token marketing budget Which line items are prerequisites, which are marketing, and how to sequence a limited budget. Read Explainer AMM versus order book on Solana How pools and books differ in pricing, depth and failure, and why small tokens end up in pools. Read Troubleshooting RPC rate limits and why campaigns stall How rate limiting breaks scripted trading, and why it looks like market failure rather than infrastructure. Read Pricing guide Solana DEX fees, and why they dominate your budget Why venue fees dominate campaign budgets, how tiers are set, and how to read the one you will actually pay. Read Decision guide When not to use a volume bot Seven situations where a campaign is the wrong spend, and what to fix in each case instead. Read Explainer Concentrated liquidity, explained How ranges work, why a funded pool can be empty at your price, and what that means for execution. Read Troubleshooting Your token image is not showing Where token images are actually loaded from, and the six reasons yours is not appearing. Read Launchpad guide Running volume on a LaunchLab token Why a launchpad inside an established DEX changes the migration question, and what it does not change. Read Decision guide Volume bot versus paid advertising Where crypto ads can run, what they cost per relevant visitor, and why ad traffic punishes an unfinished token. Read Explainer Slippage on Solana, explained What tolerance actually does, why tightening it is not protection, and how to size it from pool depth. Read Troubleshooting Your token price is not updating Five reasons a price freezes while trades continue, and how to identify which one applies. Read Exchange guide Running volume on Lifinity Proactive market making, oracle pricing and inventory management, and what each does to campaign execution. Read Troubleshooting Blockhash not found, and why transactions expire Why transactions expire, the blockhash lifetime, and the four patterns that cause it in scripts. Read Decision guide Volume bot versus influencer marketing What each buys, why influencer traffic converts badly on an empty chart, and how to sequence them. Read Explainer Price impact, explained properly What impact measures, how it scales with depth, and why it is not the same thing as slippage. Read Exchange guide Running volume on Phoenix Why order book execution differs from pool execution, and when Phoenix is the wrong venue for a campaign. Read Launchpad guide Running volume on a Heaven token Curve execution versus pool execution, migration questions, and what to verify on a smaller launchpad. Read Launchpad guide Running volume on a Bags token What creator fee sharing changes about campaign economics, and how routing works after graduation. Read Comparison Solana launchpads compared Curve mechanics, migration destinations, fee structures and post-graduation reality across Solana launchpads. Read Explainer Wash trading versus volume generation What separates the two terms mechanically, where the line blurs, and why it matters how you describe it. Read Growth guide Paid boosts versus real trading activity What a paid slot buys, what activity buys, and why the order you buy them in decides the result. Read Growth guide Solana token launch checklist What is permanent, what is reversible, and the week-one work most launches skip entirely. Read How-to Locking liquidity on Solana What locking LP tokens guarantees, what it leaves open, and how to choose a duration. Read Troubleshooting Why you cannot sell your Solana token Six reasons a sell will not go through, and how to tell which one applies in about a minute. Read Explainer Jito bundles, explained without the jargon Atomic execution, private submission, how tips work, and when bundling is not worth paying for. Read Explainer Sandwich attacks on Solana How a sandwich works, why predictable flow invites it, and the four defences that actually help. Read Growth guide Why most Solana tokens die in the first week Six failure modes, the order they occur in, and which are still fixable afterwards. Read Decision guide Holder count vs volume What holders, volume, trades and makers each measure, what each costs, and which one your goal needs. Read How-to How to read a Solana token chart properly What volume bars, maker counts, the buy-sell split and liquidity each measure, and the shapes that matter. Read Decision guide How to spot a volume bot scam The claims, payment patterns and permission requests that mark a scam, and how to check in five minutes. Read Pricing guide Free volume bot scripts, and what they really cost What a self-hosted volume bot really costs in RPC, failures, key risk and time. Read Explainer Volume bot vs sniper bot One races for a fill at launch, the other produces activity afterwards. Who each is actually for. Read Decision guide Volume to market cap ratio, and what looks normal How to read the ratio, what looks organic, and why overshooting is worse than undershooting. Read Troubleshooting Why your token is not showing on Jupiter Routable, searchable and verified are three different states. Which one you are missing and why. Read Exchange guide Running volume on PumpSwap after migration What changes at migration, why the pair starts from zero, and how to size against the seeded pool. Read Exchange guide Running a volume campaign on Orca Whirlpool ranges, out-of-range pools, fee tiers, and what each one does to a campaign. Read Growth guide Does volume help you get a CEX listing? What listing teams check, why sustained beats spiky, and the six things volume cannot fix. Read How-to How to read a Solana token on-chain yourself Mint authority, holder lists, activity patterns, and how to verify a volume claim in minutes. Read Decision guide Do you need liquidity before running a volume bot? Why thin pools waste budget twice over, and the one-minute test that tells you if you are ready. Read Explainer Volume bot vs market maker Liquidity versus visibility: what each provides, what each costs, and which comes first. Read Troubleshooting Your token graduated and the volume died Migration creates a new pair with no history. What resets, what carries over, what to check. Read Timing guide The best time to run a Solana volume campaign How the UTC day changes results, and why busy hours cost more per confirmed swap. Read Decision guide Are Solana volume bots detectable? Which patterns give a fleet away, what cluster tools see, and which signals cannot be removed. Read Growth guide How to get a Solana token trending What trending feeds weight beyond volume, and why density beats total spend by a wide margin. Read Decision guide How many wallets does a volume campaign need? What wallet count buys, what it costs in recoverable rent, and how to derive the right fleet size. Read Troubleshooting Why your Solana swaps keep failing Seven errors, measured failure rates by venue, and the diagnostic order that finds the real cause. Read Pricing guide What a volume campaign actually pays in fees Base fee, priority fee, rent, tips and pool fees, with a worked example at 75 SOL of volume. Read Troubleshooting Why your volume is not showing on DexScreener Eight reasons a screener shows no volume after a campaign, and the checklist that finds the real one. Read
Core guides
Launchpad guide Pump.fun volume bot The bonding curve, the migration to PumpSwap, and what breaks in between. Read Launchpad guide Bonk.fun volume bot The LetsBonk curve, the Raydium handoff, and how it differs from Pump.fun. Read Exchange guide Raydium volume bot AMM pools versus concentrated liquidity, and why the range decides execution. Read Exchange guide Meteora volume bot DLMM bins, dynamic fees, and the campaign design they force. Read Decision guide How much volume do I need? A screener-based method that produces a number you can defend. Read Decision guide Is a volume bot safe? Custody is the whole question. Red flags, and the risks that remain. Read Pricing guide What it should cost Percentage, subscription, per-wallet and free scripts, priced honestly. Read Explainer Volume bot vs bundler Two different tools, constantly confused. Different moment, different risk. Read Comparison Best Solana volume bots Six options ranked on coverage, pricing, custody and setup. Read Live data Measured DEX failure rates Failure rate by venue and priority fees actually paid, read from finalized blocks weekly. Read Editorial How we measure Where the numbers come from and which claims we refuse to make. Read
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