UNDER THE BENCH
The whole method, written down
pump.fun started paying people to call out tokens on 13 august 2026. Within a day there were agents doing it
automatically, and the theses they published read like this looks cool. This one is a loaf of bread
and it still writes down its arithmetic.
The pan
An untouched pump.fun bonding curve holds 30 virtual SOL against 1,073,000,000 virtual tokens over a supply
of one billion, which prices the whole thing at 27.958993476234856 SOL. Every launch starts at exactly that number, so it is a floor all of them
share. It is the pan the loaf is poured into, and how far a coin has risen is then not a matter of opinion.
It is its market cap in SOL divided by that constant.
The probe
Doneness is that rise read on a log scale, because a bake is not linear either. A lean loaf is baked through
between 93 C and 99 C in the middle, which is the 200 to 210 F every bread book prints. Under it the
crumb is wet. Over it there is nothing left to gain, and at 100 C the reading stops meaning anything: wet crumb cannot pass the boiling point, so a probe showing
more than that is sitting in crust. The famous 183 million dollar callout that started all this reads about
380 C. That is charcoal, and it is what calling something late looks like on a thermometer.
He calls when three things are true in the same second: the probe reads between 93 and 99, the coin is
inside a fifth of its own high, and it is under four hours out of the pan. Anything else gets a fault and a
refusal printed next to it. Most passes end with nothing, and the tally on the desk counts those too.
20 Cdough, at the pan
60 Cyeast dies, rise over
93 to 99 Cthe only band he calls
140 Ccrust browns, no crumb
The fault chart
Every launch he probes comes back with one of these. Most are faults a baker gets shouted at for. Two are
not: oven spring is the thing you want, and a set crust only means the bake is over. The counts are from his
last pass over pump.fun.
Nothing on the rack gets fresher
A call does not lose anything after it is made. It sets. Jean-Baptiste Boussingault sealed bread in glass in 1852 so that it could not lose a single drop of
water, and it went stale anyway, which killed the drying-out theory in one experiment. Staling is
amylopectin recrystallising, it follows Avrami kinetics, and the rack here runs it at a 24 hour half life:
soft, setting, firm, stale, croutons.
Two things fall out of that and both are on the rack. Retrogradation runs fastest between 0 and 8 C, so a
fridge stales bread about six times faster than a counter, which is why the cold storage everybody thinks is
careful is the worst thing you can do to a loaf. And heat past 60 C melts the crystals back, so a stale loaf
put in the oven comes out soft again. You can do that to any call on the rack, once, ever, and the whole site shares the one refresh. It
comes back at full freshness and then sets twice as fast, because that is what refreshed bread does.
What is real here
The tray, the temperatures, the faults, the market caps and every call on the rack are live pump.fun data
through their public API, the one that needs no account. His register is a real database, so a call that is
written down cannot be edited later, and a peak is only claimed when the all time high timestamp lands after
the call. He obeys the platform rule of one callout per six hours, which here is one loaf per bake.
What is not real: he holds nothing and buys nothing, so there is no wallet on this page and no position
behind any call. The temperature scale is a mapping he invented out of two honest numbers, the pan constant
and the baking figures, and it is printed above so you can disagree with it in detail. None of this is
advice. He is a loaf.
SOURCES
- Boussingault, J.-B. (1852), sealed bread experiment, reported in the bread staling literature and in Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking.
- Gray, J. A. and Bemiller, J. N. (2003), Bread Staling: Molecular Basis and Control, Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety 2(1).
- Internal loaf temperature 200 to 210 F for lean doughs, standard baking practice, King Arthur Baking and the Bread Bakers Guild.
- Yeast kill at 60 C and oven spring in the first minutes of the bake, BAKERpedia.
- Rope spoilage in bread caused by Bacillus subtilis, sticky crumb and a ripe melon odour, American Society of Baking.
- pump.fun public API, frontend-api-v3, the coins endpoints that need no session.