Meme coins, minus the hopium.
Honest guides to pump.fun, rug pulls and the bots, written for people who trade. Every number is sourced, every chart says when it was counted.
Start here: six tickets
Read them in order and you will know how a pump.fun coin is born, why it moves the way it does, and how people get rugged.
- Admit01What Are Meme Coins? Dogecoin, Solana, and the Risks7 min read · Basics
- Admit02Why Are Meme Coins So Volatile? Liquidity, Hype, and Bots7 min read · Basics
- Admit03What Is pump.fun? Bonding Curves, Fees, and Graduation7 min read · Basics
- Admit04What Does Graduation Mean on pump.fun?6 min read · Basics
- Admit05How Rug Pulls Work: Types, Warning Signs, and Checks7 min read · Safety
- Admit06Paper Trading Meme Coins: Test Before You Risk SOL7 min read · Strategies
The desk
8 AI Trading Agent Myths: A Source-Checked Guide
Check 8 AI trading agent myths against sources, from price prediction and backtests to prompt injection, token branding, wallet permissions, and paper trading.
What is Virtuals Protocol? AI Agents and Tokens Explained
Learn what Virtuals Protocol says it does, how agent tokens relate to software agents, and what to check before trusting an AI label or ownership claim.
Function Calling Explained: How AI Uses Trading Tools
Learn how AI proposes trading tool calls, how application code executes them, and why argument validation, wallet boundaries, and paper testing matter.
What Is ElizaOS? A Plain-English Guide for Traders
Learn what ElizaOS does, which integrations its docs list, what running an agent involves, and how to keep framework capabilities separate from token claims.
What is MCP? Model Context Protocol Explained for Traders
Learn how Model Context Protocol connects AI apps to trading data, what hosts, clients, and servers do, and how to check permissions before using MCP tools.
What Is an AI Trading Agent? Bots, Chatbots and Workflows
Learn what an AI trading agent is, how it differs from a bot or chatbot, and how to check its tools, autonomy, trading rules, and wallet permissions.
AI Agent Tokens Explained: ElizaOS, Virtuals and the Hype
Learn how AI agent tokens differ from trading software, what ElizaOS and Virtuals describe, and how to check AI claims against documentation and warnings.
What Does Graduation Mean on pump.fun?
Learn what pump.fun graduation means, how a bonding curve becomes a PumpSwap liquidity pool, what changes for traders, and how to read graduation counts.
What Is pump.fun? Bonding Curves, Fees, and Graduation
Learn how pump.fun launches work on Solana, how a bonding curve sets token prices, what fees apply, and what changes when a coin graduates to PumpSwap.
Why Are Meme Coins So Volatile? Liquidity, Hype, and Bots
Why meme coins swing so sharply: understand thin liquidity, small market caps, hype cycles, concentrated holders, bots, and what slippage means for trades.
What Are Meme Coins? Dogecoin, Solana, and the Risks
Learn what meme coins are, where Dogecoin fits, why people trade them, and how Solana launches work, with community appeal and risks explained clearly.
Prompt Injection Crypto Attacks: A Trader's Safety Guide
Learn how prompt injection can steer crypto agents through token metadata and websites, plus practical checks, wallet limits, and OWASP-based defenses.
pump.fun Creator Check: An AI Agent Guide to Dev History
Learn how an AI agent can read a pump.fun creator record, compare past launches and graduations, and use dev wallet history as a filter—not a verdict.
AI Seed Phrase Safety: How Agent Wallet Drains Happen
Learn why an AI seed phrase request is a red flag, how chats and connected tools can expose wallet secrets, and how to keep agents away from your keys.
AI Agent Wallet Safety: Keys, Limits, and Wallet Drains
A practical guide to AI agent wallet safety: protect signing keys, spot prompt injection, enforce spending limits, review permissions, and stop wallet drains.
Bundlers and Sniper Bots on Solana: How to Read the Signs
Learn how bundlers, sniper bots, and Jito bundles work on Solana, what launch-block buys reveal, and which warning signs deserve a closer inspection.
How Rug Pulls Work: Types, Warning Signs, and Checks
Learn how rug pulls work, from liquidity pulls and developer dumps to mint authority abuse, frozen tokens, and honeypots, with a practical pre-buy checklist.
Automation Bias Trading Guide: How to Check AI Signals
Learn how automation bias affects trading decisions, why AI signals can feel authoritative, and how logs, independent checks, and paper trading help.
Instant Graduation Filter: A First Skip Rule for AI Agents
Build an instant graduation filter for pump.fun agents: define the skip rule, handle unknown labels, read the snapshot, and test on paper before wallet access.
Survivorship Bias Crypto Guide: Audit Meme Coin Backtests
Learn how survivorship bias and look-ahead bias distort meme coin backtests, why dead coins belong in the data, and how to audit your launch records.
Overfitting Backtest Results: How to Check AI Trading Rules
Learn why overfitting makes an AI backtest misleading, how repeated rule tweaks worsen it, and how holdout data and out-of-sample checks improve testing.
AI Copy Trading and Sentiment Bots: A Practical Guide
Learn how AI copy trading and sentiment bots use wallet and social signals, where they fail, and how to turn an interesting signal into a testable paper rule.
AI Agents and pump.fun: Screen New Launches With Rules
Build a pump.fun launch-screening workflow using creator records, graduation types, curve checks, explicit exit rules, and paper testing before wallet access.
Backtesting With AI: Test a Meme Coin Strategy Honestly
A practical guide to backtesting with AI: write clear meme coin rules, check recorded launches, account for costs, avoid bias, and move to paper trading.
How to Use AI Agents to Trade Meme Coins: Step by Step
Learn how to use AI agents to trade meme coins with clear rules, recorded-launch tests, paper trading, and wallet limits, plus a worked QuantBase example.
Take-Profit and Stop-Loss Orders for Meme Coins
Learn how take-profit and stop-loss orders work for meme coins, why slippage changes exits, and how partial sales and bot settings affect an exit plan.
Paper Trading Meme Coins: Test Before You Risk SOL
Learn how to paper trade Solana meme coins, define testable rules, account for fills and slippage, and practice with QuantBase's free paper trading plan.
Grok Crypto Sentiment: How to Research X Chatter
Use Grok to organize crypto chatter on X, check sources and timestamps, and understand the limits of sentiment before turning a narrative into a trading rule.
Claude for Crypto Trading: A Research Guide
Use Claude for crypto trading research: read docs, understand tool use and MCP connectors, draft clear rules, and check assumptions before paper testing.
AI Agent vs Telegram Bot: Decisions, Custody, and Fees
Compare an AI agent vs Telegram bot by who decides, who signs, custody, and documented fees, with a paper-first checklist for Solana meme-coin tools.
ChatGPT for Crypto Research: Sources, Docs, and Checklists
Use ChatGPT for crypto research with web search, source checks, document summaries, and reusable prompts. Keep price calls and wallet access out of the workflow.
MCP Server Crypto Trading: A Plain-English Guide
Learn how MCP servers connect AI to crypto tools, how read-only access differs from trading authority, and how to start with paper money and hard limits.
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini for Crypto Trading
Use ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini for crypto research and rule-writing. Learn what their docs support, what needs coin data, and how to test on paper.
Solana Meme-Coin Trading Bots: 7 Tools Compared for 2026
Compare seven meme-coin trading tools for 2026 using official sources: published fees, custody details, chain coverage, and paper versus live trading.
AI Sentiment Trading: What the Research Actually Tested
Learn what AI sentiment trading studies tested in stocks and simulations, why meme-coin chatter can mislead, and how to evaluate a signal on paper.
Instant vs Organic Graduations: Reading the pump.fun Split
Understand instant and organic pump.fun graduations, read the recorder's latest snapshot, and learn what launch speed reveals—and what it cannot prove.
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Counted by QuantBase's own recorder of pump.fun launches on Solana. This page refreshes hourly.
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