Docs & FAQ
Exactly how Landpad works, in plain words. These rules are the same ones the payout engine runs.
1. Where the money comes from
pump.fun charges a creator fee on every trade of a coin (currently 0.3% of volume before graduation; pump.fun sets this rate and can change it). For coins launched on Landpad, that creator fee is split like this:
- 100%Pad pool
Paid in SOL to this coin's holders who are in loss.
Percentages of each coin's creator fees. The creator fee rate itself is set by pump.fun (currently 0.3% of volume before graduation) and can change.
Landpad payouts come only from the pad pool part of creator fees. If a coin has little trading, its pool is small and so are its payouts.
2. Your pad clock
- Your clock starts when you buy a coin.
- Selling any amount, or transferring tokens out, resets your clock to zero for that coin. After a partial sell, your average entry price stays the same and your token count goes down.
- Tokens you receive by transfer (not bought) don't count toward your loss.
- Money already owed to you (pending) is kept when your clock resets.
3. Who qualifies in a round
Every 15 minutes, for each coin, a wallet qualifies if all of these are true:
- It bought at least 0.2 SOL of the coin (counted on the tokens it still holds, at its entry price).
- Its pad clock has run for at least 1 hour. This stops people buying right before a round just to farm it.
- The current price is below its average entry price (it is in loss).
- It is not excluded: dev wallets, platform wallets, the bonding curve, pool accounts and wallets funded by the dev.
4. How much each wallet gets
Then the safety caps apply:
- No wallet gets more than 10% of a single round.
- No wallet ever receives more than 50% of its loss on a coin. Landpad softens the fall; it never makes anyone a profit.
- Anything left over stays in the pool for the next round.
- Amounts below 0.001 SOL are kept as your pending balance and sent once they add up to that amount.
- If your wallet is completely empty, Solana requires at least 0.00089088 SOL to arrive at once. Smaller amounts wait in pending until they are large enough.
5. Worked example
A coin's pool holds 1.00SOL. The price is 0.0₆5 SOL per token. Six wallets hold the coin:
| Wallet | Tokens | Avg entry | Loss | Multiplier | Weight | Gets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alice Bought 20M tokens 48 hours ago | 20.00M | 0.0₆8 | 0.60 | ×3.00 | 1.800 | 0.10SOL capped at 10% of round |
Bob Bought 5M tokens 6 hours ago, near the top | 5.00M | 0.0₅12 | 0.35 | ×1.25 | 0.438 | 0.0626SOL |
Chen Bought 50M tokens 12 hours ago | 50.00M | 0.0₆6 | 0.50 | ×1.50 | 0.750 | 0.10SOL capped at 10% of round |
Dana Has already received 0.95 SOL on this coin | 40.00M | 0.0₆1 | 2.00 | ×2.00 | 4.000 | 0.05SOL capped at 50% of loss |
Eli Bought 30 minutes ago | 10.00M | 0.0₆9 | 0.40 | ×1.02 | — | Pad clock has run for less than 1 hour. |
Fay Bought early, now in profit | 30.00M | 0.0₆4 | 0 | ×3.00 | — | Not in loss: the current price is at or above your average entry. |
Total weight of qualifying wallets: 6.987. Each share is the pool × weight ÷ total weight, then capped. What isn't handed out, 0.6874SOL, carries over to the next round. With only a few wallets in loss, the 10% cap means most of a pool waits for later rounds.
6. Rounds, retries and transparency
- Before each round, Landpad claims the creator fees that have built up.
- Every round and every payout is recorded and shown on the Payouts page with its transaction link.
- A round can never be paid twice. If something fails halfway, the next run finishes what's missing.
- Payouts can be paused (for all coins or for one coin) if something looks wrong. Hard limits stop payouts automatically if amounts look unusual.
- During a dry run, rounds are calculated but no SOL moves. The site then says "would pay" instead of "paid".
FAQ
Are payouts guaranteed?
No. Payouts are partial, come only from creator fees, and are never guaranteed. A coin with little trading will have small payouts or none.
Do I need to connect my wallet?
No. Payouts are sent to the wallets that hold the coin. To see yours, paste your address on the Check my pad page.
Why didn't I get anything this round?
You might have bought less than 0.2 SOL of the coin, your clock may have run for less than 1 hour, you may not be in loss, or your share may be below 0.001 SOL and waiting in pending.
I sold part of my bag. What happens?
Your clock resets to zero, so your time multiplier starts again from 1×. Your average entry stays the same and your pending balance is kept.
Can I earn a profit from Landpad payouts?
No. Lifetime payouts on a coin are capped at 50% of your loss on it.
Does the dev get creator fees?
No. At launch the coin's creator fees are pointed on-chain to its pad pool and locked, so the dev cannot redirect them. pump.fun itself keeps admin powers it can use in community takeovers.
Is Landpad part of pump.fun?
No. Landpad is an independent site that launches coins through pump.fun's public programs.
What is $LANDPAD?
The platform coin. It launched through Landpad like any other coin, so all of its creator fees go to its holders in loss.