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Glossary
Every term used on this site, in plain words.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Creator fee | A cut of every trade of a pump.fun coin that goes to the coin's creator. |
| Vault | The account and the rules that hold a coin's creator fees until a wallet is bound. |
| Target | The account the fees are meant for: a repo, a channel, a stream. |
| Handle | The public name of an account. It can change; the id cannot. |
| Id | The platform's own permanent identifier for an account (numeric id, channel id, repo id). |
| Launcher | Whoever created the vault. Receives the launcher share and expired fees. |
| Owner | The person who controls the target account. |
| Code | The string up1-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX an owner pastes on their account, derived from their wallet. |
| Proof text | The part of an account only its owner can edit: bio, description, a repo file. |
| Attester | A key that reads a page and signs what it saw. |
| Attestation | The signed statement "I saw this code on this account for this wallet". |
| Threshold | How many distinct attesters must sign (k of n). |
| Epoch | How many times a wallet has been bound. Included in every attestation to stop replays. |
| Escrow | The state where fees are held and no wallet is bound. |
| Bound wallet | The wallet currently paid by the vault. |
| Rotation | A scheduled change of the bound wallet. |
| Veto | A signature from the current wallet that cancels a pending rotation. |
| Expiry | The time after which unclaimed fees are returned or burned. |
| Crank | An instruction anyone can send that measures new fees in the vault, splits them and applies anything that came due. |
| PDA | Program derived address: an address owned by a program, with no private key. The vault is one. |
| Precompile | A native Solana program, here Ed25519, that verifies signatures before any program runs. |
| Instruction introspection | A program reading the other instructions of its own transaction. The vault uses it to read the attesters' signatures. |
| Sharing config | pump.fun's list of shareholders for a coin's creator fees. Once set it cannot be changed. |
| Sweep | pump.fun's step that moves a coin's accrued creator fee out of the bonding curve into the creator's fee vault. |
| Basis point (bps) | One hundredth of a percent. 10000 bps is 100 percent. |
| Lamport | One billionth of a SOL, the smallest unit. |