HOW TREE WORKS
One coin grows a family tree. Every coin funds its own children, and every coin pays everyone above it. The original gets a cut of everything that ever grows beneath it.
- 01PLANT A ROOT
You launch a coin on pump.fun through TREE. It becomes the trunk of a new tree.
- 02IT GROWS
Half of its creator fees fill its vault. When the vault hits the launch threshold, it launches a child coin.
- 03FEES CLIMB
The other half climbs: parent 50%, grandparent 25%, and halving on up. The root catches the rest.
- 04BRANCHES BRANCH
Every child does the same thing. A depth-10 coin pays nine ancestors on every trade. It never stops growing.
1. THE VAULT
Every coin launched through TREE has a vault: a wallet that is the pump.fun creator of that coin's children. Half of each coin's creator fees land in its vault. When the vault reaches the launch threshold (pump.fun launch cost 0.02 SOL + reserve 0.03 SOL = 0.05 SOL), the vault launches a child coin. The child's image is its parent's image with a depth badge in the corner.
2. THE CLIMB
The other half climbs. Your parent gets 50% of the climb, your grandparent 25%, your great-grandparent 12.5%, halving every step, and the root takes whatever remains. So a depth-10 coin pays nine ancestors on every single trade.
| PAYER DEPTH | ANCESTORS PAID | PARENT | GRANDPARENT | ROOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEPTH-2 | 1 | 50% | — | 50% |
| DEPTH-3 | 2 | 25% | — | 25% |
| DEPTH-4 | 3 | 25% | 12.5% | 12.5% |
| DEPTH-5 | 4 | 25% | 12.5% | 6.25% |
| DEPTH-6 | 5 | 25% | 12.5% | 3.13% |
| DEPTH-8 | 7 | 25% | 12.5% | 0.78% |
| DEPTH-10 | 9 | 25% | 12.5% | 0.39% |
Two refinements. The split stops after 8 hops: deeper than that, the remainder skips straight to the root instead of scattering dust. And 20% of whatever an ancestor receives from below tops up its vault, so big trees sprout faster than lonely ones.
2b. THE SPROUT BONUS
For its first hour, a new coin keeps 75% of its fees in its vault instead of 50%. Fresh sprouts (the pink leaves) are the fastest way to grow a tree, which is why they're worth trading.
3. THE WATERFALL
Every coin page shows this split for that exact coin, with the real names of its ancestors and the SOL each one received.
FEE WATERFALL
every trade, every coin4. LIFE AND DEATH
Leaves are pink for the first hour, green after that and gold after a day. A coin with an empty vault and no trades for 24 hours goes dormant: its last sap climbs, its leaves fall, and the bare branch stays on the tree. Trade a dormant coin and it revives: the leaves grow back. The palette shifts with the season.
5. WHAT YOU EARN
Plant a root and every coin that ever grows below it sends you a cut. A root has no ancestors, so its own climbing half goes to you too. Claim it on your page.
Phase 1: this site runs a simulator in your browser so you can watch the mechanic work. Launches and claims are mocked. Every number links to the events behind it.
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