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Memecoin glossary: 148 terms, A to Z

Every memecoin, Solana, and trading term you'll meet — defined in plain English. 148 entries covering liquidity, safety, on-chain mechanics, metrics, and slang. Tap any term for the full explanation, why it matters, and the mistakes to avoid.

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A

  • Airdrop — An airdrop is a free distribution of tokens to wallets, used for…
  • AMM — An AMM (automated market maker) is the smart-contract design that…
  • Ape — To ape (or "ape in") is to buy a token impulsively and often…
  • ATH — ATH is the all-time high — the highest price (or market cap) a token…

B

  • Back-running — Back-running is placing a transaction immediately after a known one…
  • Bagholder — A bagholder is someone stuck holding a token that has crashed and…
  • Bagholding — Bagholding is continuing to hold a token that has crashed and shows…
  • Basis points — A basis point (bp) is one hundredth of a percent (0.01%). 100 bps…
  • Bonding curve — A bonding curve is a pricing formula where the token price rises…
  • Breakout — A breakout is when price pushes decisively through a resistance…
  • Bundle buy — A bundle buy is when a launcher uses a transaction bundle to…
  • Bundling — Bundling is grouping several transactions so they execute together…
  • Burn — A burn permanently removes tokens (or LP tokens) from circulation by…
  • Buy pressure — Buy pressure is the aggregate force of buyers entering — best gauged…
  • Buy tax — A buy/sell tax is a fee skimmed by the token contract on each trade…

C

  • Cabal — A cabal is slang for a coordinated group of insiders or traders who…
  • Candlestick — A candlestick shows the open, high, low, and close for a time…
  • Catalyst — A catalyst is an event or narrative that sparks demand for a token —…
  • Chad — Chad is memecoin slang for a confident, bold trader (or a winning,…
  • Chart pattern — Chart patterns are recurring shapes in price action (flags, wedges,…
  • Circulating supply — Circulating supply is the number of tokens currently available and…
  • Compute units — Compute units measure the work a Solana transaction does. You can…
  • Cooldown — A cooldown is a deliberate waiting period between trades (or alerts)…
  • Cope — Cope (or "copium") is slang for the rationalizations traders use to…
  • Copy trading — Copy trading automatically mirrors another wallet's trades into your…

D

  • Degen — Degen (degenerate) describes a high-risk, fast-paced trading style —…
  • Deployer — The deployer is the wallet that created (deployed) the token. Its…
  • Dev wallet — The dev wallet is the address controlled by the token's creator. How…
  • Dexscreener — DEX Screener is a popular charting and discovery site that…
  • Diamond hands — Diamond hands describes holding a position through heavy volatility…
  • Dip — A dip is a temporary drop in price within a larger move. "Buying the…
  • Drainer — A drainer is malicious software or a scam flow designed to empty…
  • Drawdown — Drawdown is the peak-to-trough decline of your account (or a…
  • Dump — A dump is a fast, heavy wave of selling that crashes a token's price…
  • DYOR — DYOR — "do your own research" — is the reminder to verify a token…

E

  • Exit liquidity — Exit liquidity is the buyers who purchase late, providing the demand…
  • Expectancy — Expectancy is the average profit or loss you can expect per trade…

F

  • Fair launch — A fair launch is a token release with no presale or privileged…
  • FDV — Fully Diluted Valuation is the token price multiplied by the total…
  • Floor — A floor is a price level where buying repeatedly steps in, putting a…
  • Floor price — In NFT contexts, the floor price is the lowest listed price in a…
  • FOMO — FOMO — fear of missing out — is the urge to buy because a coin is…
  • Freeze authority — Freeze authority is the Solana permission to freeze any holder's…
  • Front-running — Front-running is placing a transaction ahead of a known pending one…
  • FUD — FUD — fear, uncertainty, and doubt — is negative sentiment or…

G

  • Gas — Gas (network fee) is the cost paid to the blockchain to process a…
  • GM — GM ("good morning") is a ubiquitous crypto-community greeting…
  • Graduation — Graduation is when a pump.fun coin fills its bonding curve (reaching…

H

  • Holder distribution — Holder distribution describes how a token's supply is spread across…
  • Honeypot — A honeypot is a token whose contract lets you buy but secretly…

I

  • Impermanent loss — Impermanent loss is the value a liquidity provider gives up versus…
  • Insider — Insiders are the people with privileged early access or control —…

J

  • Jeet — Jeet is memecoin slang for someone who panic-sells at the first dip…
  • Jito — Jito provides Solana infrastructure including a block engine and…
  • Jupiter — Jupiter is Solana's leading swap aggregator. It routes your trade…

L

  • Lamports — A lamport is the smallest unit of SOL — one SOL equals one billion…
  • Liquidity — Liquidity is the pool of paired tokens (for example SOL and a…
  • Liquidity backstop — A liquidity backstop is buying (often by a team or market maker)…
  • Liquidity bootstrapping — Liquidity bootstrapping is a launch mechanism (often an LBP)…
  • Liquidity bootstrapping pool — A liquidity bootstrapping pool (LBP) is a launch pool design, often…
  • Liquidity depth — Liquidity depth is how much can be traded near the current price…
  • Liquidity drain — A liquidity drain is liquidity leaving the pool — whether pulled by…
  • Liquidity event — A liquidity event is any significant change to a pool's liquidity —…
  • Liquidity fragmentation — Liquidity fragmentation is a token's liquidity being spread across…
  • Liquidity lock — A liquidity lock places LP tokens in a time-locked contract so the…
  • Liquidity locker — A liquidity locker is a smart contract that holds LP tokens for a…
  • Liquidity migration — Liquidity migration is moving a token's liquidity from one pool or…
  • Liquidity mining — Liquidity mining rewards users with extra tokens for providing…
  • Liquidity pool — A liquidity pool is a smart contract holding a pair of tokens (e.g.…
  • Liquidity provider fee — The LP (swap) fee is the small percentage taken from each trade and…
  • Liquidity provision — Liquidity provision (LPing) is depositing a token pair into a pool…
  • Liquidity pull — A liquidity pull is the act of withdrawing the LP from a pool. When…
  • Liquidity pull rug — A liquidity-pull rug is the classic hard rug: the team withdraws the…
  • Liquidity ratio — The liquidity ratio compares a token's pool liquidity to its market…
  • Liquidity rug pull — A liquidity rug pull is the removal of a pool's liquidity by the…
  • Liquidity sniff test — A liquidity sniff test is a quick gut-check of a pool: is liquidity…
  • Liquidity sniffer — A liquidity sniffer is a tool or habit for quickly assessing a pool:…
  • Liquidity sniping — Liquidity sniping is bots buying the instant liquidity is added to a…
  • Liquidity sweep — A liquidity sweep (stop hunt) is a sharp move that pushes price to…
  • Liquidity to volume ratio — The volume-to-liquidity ratio compares trading volume to pool depth.…
  • Liquidity wall — On order-book venues, a wall is a large resting buy or sell order.…
  • LP — LP stands for liquidity provider (and the LP tokens they receive).…

M

  • Maker — On charting tools, "makers" counts the unique wallets that have…
  • Market cap — Market cap is the circulating supply of a token multiplied by its…
  • Market maker — A market maker continuously quotes buy and sell prices to provide…
  • Meteora — Meteora is a Solana DEX known for dynamic and concentrated liquidity…
  • MEV — MEV is the profit specialized bots extract by reordering, inserting,…
  • Mint authority — Mint authority is the on-chain permission to create new units of a…
  • Moonshot — A moonshot is a low-odds, high-payoff bet that a coin will rise…

N

  • Narrative — A narrative (or "meta") is the theme money is rotating into — e.g.…

O

  • Orca — Orca is a major Solana DEX with a user-friendly AMM (including…
  • Order block — An order block is a price zone where significant buying or selling…

P

  • Paper hands — Paper hands describes a trader who sells quickly under pressure — at…
  • Position sizing — Position sizing is deciding how much capital to put into a single…
  • Presale — A presale sells tokens to buyers before public trading begins, often…
  • Price impact — Price impact is how much your own trade moves the pool price, purely…
  • Priority fee — A priority fee is extra SOL you attach to a transaction to bid for…
  • Pump — A pump is a rapid, sharp rise in a token's price, often driven by…
  • Pump.fun — Pump.fun is a Solana platform where anyone can launch a memecoin in…

R

  • Raydium — Raydium is one of Solana's largest AMM DEXes and the default home…
  • Relisting — A listing (or relisting) is a token being added to a centralized…
  • Renounce — Renouncing means giving up control of a token's authorities (mint,…
  • Resistance — Resistance is a price level where selling tends to overwhelm buying,…
  • Risk management — Risk management is the set of rules that limit how much you can lose…
  • Rotation — Rotation is capital moving from one narrative, coin, or sector into…
  • Round trip — A round trip is a full buy-and-sell cycle. "Round-tripping" a…
  • Rug pull — A rug pull is when the people behind a token suddenly remove the…
  • Rug score — A rug score is an automated risk rating a tool assigns a token based…
  • Rugcheck — A rugcheck is a fast safety scan of a token — authorities, liquidity…
  • Rugger — A rugger is a person who pulls rugs — often repeatedly across many…

S

  • Sandwich attack — A sandwich attack is when a bot sees your pending swap, buys right…
  • Sell pressure — Sell pressure is the aggregate force of holders looking to sell —…
  • Shill — A shill is someone promoting a token (often for personal gain), and…
  • Slip — To "slip" is to get a fill noticeably worse than quoted — a casual…
  • Slippage — Slippage is the gap between the price you expected and the price you…
  • Slippage tolerance — Slippage tolerance is the maximum price movement you will accept on…
  • Slow bleed — A slow bleed is a gradual, grinding decline in price over time,…
  • Slow rug — A slow rug (soft rug) is when a team quietly abandons a project and…
  • Smart money — Smart money refers to wallets with a track record of profitable,…
  • Snipe — A snipe is a single very-early buy into a launch, aiming to enter…
  • Snipe bot — A snipe bot is automated software that buys (and sometimes sells)…
  • Snipe protection — Snipe protection (anti-snipe) refers to launch measures that blunt…
  • Snipe tax — A snipe tax is a temporary, elevated tax applied at launch to…
  • Sniping — Sniping is buying a token in the very first block(s) of its launch —…
  • Snowball — A snowball (reflexive move) is when rising price attracts more…
  • Solana — Solana is a high-throughput, low-fee blockchain that hosts the bulk…
  • Solscan — Solscan is a popular Solana block explorer that lets you inspect…
  • SPL token — SPL is the Solana Program Library token standard — the format nearly…
  • Spoofing — Spoofing is placing large orders with no intent to fill them, to…
  • Spread — Spread is the gap between the best buy price and the best sell…
  • Stop loss — A stop loss (SL) is a pre-decided price at which you exit a losing…
  • Support — Support is a price level where buying tends to step in and slow or…

T

  • Take profit — Taking profit (TP) is selling some or all of a position to lock in…
  • Timeframe — A timeframe is the period each candle represents (1m, 5m, 1h). Lower…
  • Token approval — A token approval grants a contract permission to move your tokens.…
  • Tokenomics — Tokenomics is the design of a token's supply and incentives — total…
  • Top 10 holders — The "top 10 holders" figure shows what share of supply the ten…
  • Total supply — Total supply is every token that exists for a project (minus any…
  • Trending — Trending lists rank tokens by recent activity (volume, transactions,…

U

  • Unique buyers — Unique buyers is the number of distinct wallets that have bought a…

V

  • Validator — A validator is a node that produces and confirms blocks on Solana.…
  • Vesting — Vesting is the gradual release of locked tokens (team, investors)…
  • Volatility — Volatility is how sharply and quickly a price moves. Memecoins are…
  • Volume — Volume is the total value traded in a token over a window (5m, 1h,…
  • Volume bot — A volume bot artificially inflates a token's trading volume by…

W

  • WAGMI — WAGMI — "we're all gonna make it" — is an optimistic crypto rallying…
  • Wash trading — Wash trading is fake volume created by the same actor buying and…
  • Whale — A whale is a wallet holding a large amount of a token (or of SOL) —…

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