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What Trenches is
Trenches turns an X post into a Solana token in one tap. We call that cooking.
You scroll a feed of live posts. Each one has a suggested name and ticker. Tap Cook and a token exists on Solana a second later, with an Opening Round where everybody pays the same price, a bonding curve it trades on, and a target market cap at which it graduates into an ordinary pool with the liquidity locked.
Trenches and pump.fun, side by side(link to this section)
A trade on the curve
Trenches0%
pump.fun1.25% on the curve as their docs read on 2026-10-01; check their fee page
A swap on a graduated coin's pool
Trenches1%, on Meteora or a Raydium fallback
pump.funTiered by market cap on PumpSwap
When the house gets paid
TrenchesStarting at graduation, then from the pool
pump.funOn every curve trade, from the first one
Sold to funds or insiders
TrenchesNothing
pump.funAbout a third of PUMP supply in July 2025, part of it privately to institutions
| Trenches | pump.fun | |
|---|---|---|
| A trade on the curve | 0% | 1.25% on the curve as their docs read on 2026-10-01; check their fee page |
| A swap on a graduated coin's pool | 1%, on Meteora or a Raydium fallback | Tiered by market cap on PumpSwap |
| When the house gets paid | Starting at graduation, then from the pool | On every curve trade, from the first one |
| Sold to funds or insiders | Nothing | About a third of PUMP supply in July 2025, part of it privately to institutions |
pump.fun's PUMP sale as reported by The Block and Unchained, July 2025.
And what only Trenches does:
- Cook from X. Cook a coin straight from an X post, from any account we watch, in one tap. The chain allows one coin per post. Names and tickers can repeat.
- One price for the Opening Round. Everyone who buys in the Opening Round pays one price, set when the round closes. Being first in the block, paying for priority or being the chef buys nothing.
- No allocation for anyone. Nothing was sold to funds or insiders. No coin here sets tokens aside for anyone, the chef and us included: every token is sold on the curve, goes into the pool, or is burned.
- Volume is not the game. Curve volume earns no rewards here. We charge nothing on it and pay no rebates or points for it, Scouts earn only on pool volume, and Trending counts different buyers, not volume.
- Crews. Crews are standing groups started by an X-verified founder. They cook coins together, and a crew with a Squads multisig of three or more voters renames its coins by vote. Words we use.
- Liquidity locked at graduation. The SOL leaves our program into an ordinary pool, and nobody can pull that liquidity, the chef and us included. Graduation.
A coin's life, in one list(link to this section)
- Cook. The first tap brings the coin into existence on chain and opens its first window.
- The Opening Round, a fixed number of blocks. Everyone who buys in it clears at one price. Fair Open.
- The Ramp, the blocks after the round. Tokens you buy in this window are delivered to you gradually on one schedule that belongs to the coin, so everybody unlocks at the same moment whenever they bought. The Ramp.
- The curve. Ordinary buying and selling against a bonding curve, no window, no caps after the Ramp ends.
- Graduation, if the curve ever sells out. The SOL leaves our program into an AMM pool, the LP is locked permanently, and from then on you are trading a normal pool on a normal DEX. Graduation.
Is this live?(link to this section)
The program is live on Solana mainnet. Its id is on the security page.