On this page
- How long do memecoins last, in one chart
- Most of a coin's life is its first hour
- The first ten minutes
- What are the odds from here?
- About one in ten lasts a day
- The day before this was published
- How this compares
- What this means when you look at a new coin
- See it on the next launch
- Questions people ask
- How we counted
How long do memecoins last, in one chart
Every new coin promises to be the next big one. The honest question for a coin that is minutes old is a smaller one: will anyone still be trading it in an hour? Anceta reads every trade of every pump.fun coin from Solana as it happens and keeps the totals by the hour, so for each coin it can tell when the last trade came. This page follows the 57,168 pump.fun coins launched from October 31 to November 2, 2026 that found buyers (at least three holders within ten minutes, the same bar as the October report) and asks, hour after hour, how many are still being traded.
Most of a coin's life is its first hour
An hour after launch, 39% of the coins that found buyers were still being traded. Two hours after launch, 32%. Of the coins that were done by the end of their first day, most were done inside their first hour: that is where the life of a memecoin goes.
- still being traded (midpoint)
- strict count (a full clock hour at or after the moment)
Source: Anceta, from its own reading of Solana. pump.fun coins launched October 31 to November 2, 2026 (UTC) that found buyers.
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| Time since launch | Still being traded | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | 38.9% | 33.1% to 44.7% |
| 2 hours | 31.5% | 29.9% to 33.1% |
| 3 hours | 29.0% | 28.1% to 29.9% |
| 6 hours | 25.0% | 24.2% to 25.7% |
| 12 hours | 18.3% | 18.0% to 18.5% |
| 1 day | 10.6% | 9.2% to 12.0% |
| 2 days | 6.6% | 6.3% to 6.9% |
Read the other way round: 61% of the coins that found buyers were no longer being traded an hour after they launched. Not rugged, necessarily, and not dead for good: a few get picked up again later. Simply, nobody was trading them.
The first ten minutes
Anceta also reads each launch minute by minute for its first ten minutes. In those reads, 33.9% of the coins that found buyers had a trade between their fifth and tenth minute. Counted with the hours after, between 44% and 51% of them showed no trading at all from their fifth minute on: for about half of the coins that found buyers, the whole life fits in the first five minutes.
That matches what the October report found about rugs: most are over within a minute, and the launch window is where the people behind a coin sell. A coin's first minutes are both its riskiest and, usually, its only ones.
What are the odds from here?
The odds are not the same for every coin at every moment. A coin that has been traded for twelve hours has already outlived most of the coins it launched with, and the curve from there on is far flatter than from launch. Pick a moment to read the curve from that point onward.
Pick a moment
A coin at launch, just found by its first buyers…
11%
…was still being traded a day after launch.
Of every 100 coins that found buyers, 100 were still being traded at launch; 11 were a day after launch.
Of the coins still being traded a day after launch, about half (48.7% to 54.2%, by the rounding) were still being traded a day after that. That is the shape of the whole curve: steep for an hour, then flatter and flatter. The coins still being traded after a week are a question for a later page, once Anceta's hourly records are old enough to answer it.
About one in ten lasts a day
A day after launch, 11% of the coins that found buyers were still being traded (9.2% to 12.0%, by how the hour is rounded). After two days, 7%, counted on the 36,575 coins launched early enough to be followed for two full days.
The share moves with the day. Of the coins launched on Oct 31, a Saturday, 16.2% were still being traded a day later; of those launched on the Monday, 6.7%. The same gap shows at one hour and at six, so it is the day's coins that differ, not the counting.
- Oct 31, Saturday16.2%
- Nov 1, Sunday9.7%
- Nov 2, Monday6.7%
Source: Anceta, from its own reading of Solana. pump.fun coins launched October 31 to November 2, 2026 (UTC) that found buyers.
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| Launch day | Launched | Found buyers | Still traded after 1 h | After 6 h | After 1 day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31 | 37,200 | 17,782 | 44.7% | 32.0% | 16.2% |
| Nov 1 | 36,809 | 18,793 | 35.7% | 22.2% | 9.7% |
| Nov 2 | 41,195 | 20,593 | 36.7% | 21.4% | 6.7% |
The day before this was published
For a sense of what one day looks like, here is Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (UTC), the day before this page went up, as Anceta recorded it on pump.fun.
- Coins launched
- 44,418
- In 24 hours, UTC
- Found buyers
- 47.3%
- 21,014 reached three holders in ten minutes
- Of those, rugged so far
- 29.4%
- 6,185 coins by the time of writing; the share grows for a few days
- Creator wallets
- 16,395
- 253 of them launched 20 coins or more
The day had 44,418 new pump.fun coins, about 1,851 an hour, from 16,395 creator wallets. As in October, a few wallets did most of the launching: 253 wallets with twenty launches or more in the day made 20,480 coins between them, 46% of the day. The busiest single wallet launched 718 coins, one every two minutes, all day.
- 00:00 to 16:00
- 16:00 to midnight
Source: Anceta, from its own reading of Solana. pump.fun launches, November 3, 2026 (UTC).
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| Hour (UTC) | Launches |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 1,809 |
| 01:00 | 1,529 |
| 02:00 | 1,683 |
| 03:00 | 1,558 |
| 04:00 | 1,586 |
| 05:00 | 1,482 |
| 06:00 | 1,373 |
| 07:00 | 1,309 |
| 08:00 | 1,155 |
| 09:00 | 1,391 |
| 10:00 | 1,304 |
| 11:00 | 1,441 |
| 12:00 | 1,440 |
| 13:00 | 1,726 |
| 14:00 | 2,006 |
| 15:00 | 1,704 |
| 16:00 | 2,408 |
| 17:00 | 2,547 |
| 18:00 | 2,336 |
| 19:00 | 2,705 |
| 20:00 | 2,333 |
| 21:00 | 2,520 |
| 22:00 | 2,428 |
| 23:00 | 2,645 |
Launches follow the clock. The quietest hour was 08:00 UTC with 1,155 coins, the busiest 19:00 with 2,705; the eight hours from 16:00 to midnight carried 45% of the day's launches, a third of the day.
- binance hack723
- pepe wif sword372
- laughing monkey coin305
- pump farm230
- do it all for dmeg215
- pepe wif swort204
- dice157
- solana queen130
Source: Anceta, from its own reading of Solana. pump.fun launches, November 3, 2026 (UTC).
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| Name | Launched | Found buyers | Rugged so far |
|---|---|---|---|
| binance hack | 723 | 291 | 135 |
| pepe wif sword | 372 | 124 | 69 |
| laughing monkey coin | 305 | 97 | 68 |
| pump farm | 230 | 132 | 77 |
| do it all for dmeg | 215 | 81 | 47 |
| pepe wif swort | 204 | 67 | 35 |
| dice | 157 | 59 | 29 |
| solana queen | 130 | 83 | 54 |
One name, “binance hack”, was launched 723 times in the day: 291 of those coins found buyers and 135 had rugged by the time of writing. A name launched again and again is the pattern behind Anceta's families: a new coin that looks like the last one, and ends like it. The same recipe, over and over, is also why a coin's first hour is the one that counts.
How this compares
CoinGecko's study of pump.fun tokens launched from January 2024 to June 2026 found that 68.67% recorded their last trade on the day they were created, and 80% within a day of it1. It counts calendar days from creation to the last trade on the launch curve, over every token that ever traded. This page counts hours, only among coins that found buyers, and follows them onto their pool after the curve. The two agree on the shape: most of a memecoin's life is its first day, and this page shows that most of that day is its first hour.
Older figures, such as an average lifespan of about a year for memecoins, come from studies of coins that had already reached an exchange listing or a market-cap ranking2. They describe the survivors. Counted from the launchpad, where almost every memecoin starts, the typical life is minutes, not years.
What this means when you look at a new coin
When a coin is minutes old, the useful question is not whether it will be the next big one but whether it will still be traded in an hour. Most will not be. The signs that a coin's launch is highly similar to coins that rugged are visible in those first minutes (what each one is worth is in the tested checklist), and the people behind a rug act in that window too.
Anceta records the first minutes of every launch so that a coin's pattern can be checked before its first hour is over, on its coin pages and in RugUAV. Pattern analysis, not financial advice. Similar coins can behave differently.
See it on the next launch, before its first hour is over
RugUAV is Anceta's browser extension. On the platform you trade on, every coin on your screen is rated from Anceta's cloud as it appears: the same records this page is built on, read live. It shows the rug-risk estimate, whether the coin's website and X account name its contract, and the launch bundle trace, which wallets bought in the launch window, who funded them and how much they have already sold. Coins over the risk line you set disappear from the list the moment they are rated. Here it is on one coin, as it reads it.
Rates every coin as it appears
Each new pair gets its risk score, rug-risk estimate and flags from Anceta's cloud, right on the platform you trade on.
Hides coins over your line
Set your risk threshold once. Coins above it disappear from the list the moment they are rated, so you never have to scroll past them.
Checks the website and X
Whether the coin's website and X account actually name its contract address, and how quickly they answer.
Traces the launch bundle
Which wallets bought in the launch window, who funded them, and how much of it has already been sold.
Reading a coin from Anceta's cloud…
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GMGNQuestions people ask
How long do memecoins last?
Most do not last an hour. Of 57,168 pump.fun coins that found buyers, launched from October 31 to November 2, 2026, 39% were still being traded an hour after launch, 11% a day later and 7% after two days. Between 44% and 51% showed no trading at all from their fifth minute on.
What percentage of memecoins survive the first day?
About one in ten. 10.6% of the coins that found buyers were still being traded a day after launch (9.2% to 12.0%, depending on how the hour is rounded), and it varied from 6.7% to 16.2% by the day they launched.
How many memecoins launch on pump.fun per day?
Between 36,809 and 44,418 a day from October 31 to November 3, 2026, as Anceta recorded them from the chain. About half of them (50% over the first three days) reached three holders within ten minutes of launch; the rest never found buyers.
Does a memecoin's age change its odds?
Yes. A coin that is still being traded twelve hours after launch has about a 58% chance of still being traded a day after launch, against 11% for a brand-new coin, and about half of the coins still traded after a day were still traded a day after that. The curve is steep in the first hour and flatter and flatter after it.
How is “still being traded” counted?
Anceta reads every trade of every pump.fun coin from Solana and keeps the totals by the hour. A coin counts as still being traded at a moment when it has at least one trade in a clock hour at or after that moment. The page gives each figure with both ways of rounding the hour and prints the midpoint; the method section has the details.
How we counted
Coins. Every pump.fun coin Anceta recorded launching between October 31, 00:00 and November 3, 00:00 UTC (115,204 coins), read from Solana as each launched; the day-before section covers November 3. Other launchpads are left out: once their coins leave the launch curve they trade on pools Anceta does not follow in full, which would make them look shorter-lived than they are.
Found buyers. At least three holders within ten minutes of launch (57,168 coins, 49.6%), the same bar as the October report.
Still being traded. Anceta keeps each coin's trades as hourly totals. A coin counts as still being traded at a moment when it has a trade in a clock hour that starts at or after that moment (the strict count) or in the clock hour that contains it (the loose count). The truth is between the two; the page prints the midpoint and gives both. The bands are widest at one hour and nearly closed from six hours on.
Ten minutes. From Anceta's reads of each coin at 5 and 10 minutes after launch (trades counted at each). A coin is done by ten minutes when its trade count did not move between those reads and no trade followed in the hours after; the two roundings give the range.
Two days, and the odds from a day. Only the coins launched on October 31 and November 1 (36,575 coins) could be followed for two full days before the data was drawn on November 3, so the two-day figures, and the odds from one day to the next, are counted on them.
The day before. November 3's rug count is the coins Anceta had called rugged by the time of writing (its rule, the same the app uses); later rugs are still being counted, so the share grows for a few days. Names are compared in full, ignoring only capitals.
Limits. Coins that leave the pump.fun curve go on trading on a pool; Anceta follows those pools from the moment it sees a coin leave, and may miss some trading of a coin that left while it was restarting, so the later points are, if anything, slightly low. 31 coins had no hourly record at all and count as done at launch.
Rounding. Shares are rounded to one decimal in the tables and to whole numbers in the text; counts are exact. A published report is never rewritten: a correction, if one is needed, is added here with its date.
Download the numbers (CSV): the survival points with both roundings, and each launch day. Free to reuse with credit to Anceta (CC BY 4.0).
Sources
- 1.CoinGecko Research, The Average Lifespan of Pump.fun Memecoins Is Less Than a Day. June 2026; also reported by Crypto Briefing, “Only 5% of Pump.fun tokens survive past 90 days”
- 2.Fortune, Memecoins are the hottest sector in crypto, but 97% of them are already dead. August 2024, on Chainplay's State of Memecoin report
Pattern analysis, not financial advice. Similar coins can behave differently.