Research
Measured studies of Solana launches, fees and trading from on-chain data, with the method and date for every number.
6 pages- What it costs to launch a memecoin on each launchpad (measured)Measured from 479 real launch transactions on 21 to 23 October 2026: a pump.fun launch costs about 0.007 SOL, a Raydium LaunchLab or LetsBonk launch about 0.021 SOL and a StonkFun launch about 0.009 SOL, almost all of it account rent. Your first buy and trading fees come on top.Updated 23 Oct 2026
- Trading bot and terminal fees compared (October 2026)Stated per-trade fees for 13 Solana trading terminals and Telegram bots, checked against each tool's own pages on 23 October 2026. Most charge 1% per trade; a few list 0.5% or less, and some rates depend on plan, volume or trade type.Updated 23 Oct 2026
- pump.fun statistics: launches, graduation rate and survival (Aug to Oct 2026)Measured on 2.9 million pump.fun launches from 1 August to 15 October 2026: about 2.4% to 3.4% graduated, half of graduations finished within a minute, and a third had five or fewer wallets on the curve. Under 1 in 10 launches still traded a week later.Updated 23 Oct 2026
- How many pump.fun launches are bundled? Measured (Sep to Oct 2026)Measured on 1.73 million pump.fun launches from 1 September to 15 October 2026: about 29% had another wallet buy in the launch block, 6% to 7% had five or more, and 11% to 12% had at least 10% of supply bought there. Launches with more launch-block buyers graduated more often.Updated 23 Oct 2026
- How profitable are Solana wallets? Realised PnL (Sep to Oct 2026)How profitable are Solana token traders? Of about 1.2 to 1.5 million active wallets a month in September and October 2026, 21% to 24% made money on closed trades, 2.5% to 2.8% made 10 SOL or more, and the median wallet lost a little. Busier wallets were less often profitable.Updated 23 Oct 2026
- Do profitable Solana wallets stay profitable? (copy trading data)Do profitable Solana wallets stay profitable? Of wallets in the top 10% by realised PnL that kept trading, 57% were profitable the next month in our August test and 48% in our September test, against 11% to 12% of wallets that had lost money. Survivorship bias flatters both.Updated 23 Oct 2026