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How Sift works

Sift is the launchpad and the trading terminal in one. Coins are launched on pump.fun, Solana's bonding-curve launch program, through Sift: Sift's terminal lists exactly those coins and nothing else, and only a set number are launched a day.

What Sift is

Two things on one page. The launchpad: launch a coin with a name, a ticker, an image and your links, with an optional dev buy. The terminal: Trenches (New Pairs, Final Stretch, Graduated), coin pages with charts, holders, top traders and live trades, Discover, wallet trackers and Portfolio, all for Sift coins.

A coin launched on Sift is a normal pump.fun coin on a normal pump.fun curve. It trades in Sift and anywhere else that trades pump.fun coins: pump.fun itself, PumpSwap, every terminal and bot.

Launching a coin

  1. Open the app and press Launch in the header.
  2. Add an image, a name and a ticker. A description, X, Telegram and a website are optional.
  3. Pick a dev buy in SOL if you want one: the SOL you buy your own coin with at launch.
  4. Press Launch coin. The launch is paid from the wallet the trade panel trades with: the dev buy plus the launch's network fees and account rent.

Launch slots. Sift launches a set number of coins a day (UTC). Once the day's slots are taken, launching opens again at 00:00 UTC.

The coin page opens when the launch lands, and the coin shows in New Pairs. Your dev buy shows in Positions and sells from the coin page like any buy.

Wallets

Your trading wallet on Solana is made the first time you open the wallets window (the wallet chip in the header, or Deposit), press Launch or buy.

  • Deposit: send SOL on the Solana network to the wallet's address. The balance updates when the transfer lands.
  • Withdraw: send SOL to any address, part of it or all of it.
  • Key: show and copy the wallet's private key. Phantom, Solflare and Backpack import it as it is.
  • Up to 10 wallets; buys, sells and launches use the wallets ticked in the trade panel.
Your wallets belong to this browser. Export each key to keep a copy: with the key you can open the wallet in any Solana wallet app.

Trading

Every row in Trenches has a quick-buy button; the coin page has the trade panel and instant trade. Buys are in SOL, sells in percent of your bag or in SOL. Every order is a real Solana transaction on the coin's pump.fun curve (or its PumpSwap pool once it has graduated), signed for your wallet and sent at once. Your positions and PnL show on the cards, on the coin page and in Portfolio.

The bonding curve

A pump.fun curve sells the coin's supply against SOL on a fixed price curve: every buy moves the price up the curve, every sell moves it down. The curve keeps the SOL that came in.

Graduation

When the curve has taken in its target of SOL it is full: trading on the curve stops and the coin moves to its PumpSwap pool with the SOL the curve raised and the tokens set aside for the pool. It keeps trading there, in Sift's scope (the Graduated column) and on PumpSwap. The coin page's curve bar shows how far along it is.

Fees

The fee rates are shown here from Sift's live platform settings.

Solana's network fee and the rent of a new token account are paid by the wallet that sends the transaction, as on any Solana app.

The platform

Every Sift coin shares its pump.fun creator fee with Sift: a share to its creator and the rest to Sift's platform wallet, set by pump.fun's own fee sharing when the coin is launched and locked by pump.fun from then on, so nobody can change it. The platform page lists every coin launched on Sift with its market cap, volume, holders, curve and links to Solscan.

Charts

The charts in Sift are drawn with the charting library of TradingView.

The coin

Sift's own coin's contract address is posted in the app's header and here when it launches.