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Watching a coin: the Picture

The Picture is a film cut live from one coin's trades. Every scene stands for something that really happened on chain. Here's how to read it.

The page

A coin's page while its film plays.
A coin's page while its film plays.
  1. Copy the contract, share the page
  2. The tools
  3. The Picture: the film, cut from live trades
  4. Market cap, price, room, Family
  5. What just happened
  6. The Family: holder ranks

The film plays for a pump.fun coin's first half hour, the window Mob records every trade. Older coins and coins from other launchpads get a case file instead.

The rooms

The film's setting follows the market cap. The coin's chart plays on the screen in the room, behind the action, so you're never far from the price.

  1. The store roomunder $12K
  2. Her apartment$12K–$28K
  3. His own place$28K–$55K
  4. The back office$55K–$200K
  5. The penthouse$200K and up
The rooms, by market cap. A coin moves up when it crosses a line, and is evicted back down only when it falls 15% below the line it crossed, so a coin hovering at a threshold doesn't flicker between rooms.

What each scene means

Every scene is chosen by a trade. Big moments cut in; small trades show only as a caption at the bottom when the film is busy.

When this happensYou seeCaption
A buy under 2 SOLSomeone walks inA new face walks in.
A buy of 2–5 SOLAn envelope slides across the tableAn envelope hits the table.
A buy of 5–50 SOLA coat goes on the rackA heavy hitter checks his coat.
A sell under 0.7 SOLA figure leaves through the backOne walks out the back.
A sell of 0.7–2 SOLA coat comes off the rackA coat comes off the rack.
A sell of 2 SOL or moreA phone slammed downSomebody hung up hard.
A buy in the launch's very first slotSomeone watching from across the street (once)A plant. Bought in the first second.
The coin's creator sellsThe Boss leaves; the lights go outThe Boss skipped town.
The Family reaches 25, 50, 100, 200 holdersThe Family in the room50 in the Family now.
The market cap crosses into a new roomMoving day: boxes into a carMoving day. Her apartment.
It falls 15% below its room's lineMoving back downEvicted. Back to the store room.
The launch curve completesThe Family, togetherGraduated. The Family made it.
An envelope hits the table
Somebody hung up hard
The Boss skipped town
Moving day

Rare scenes

A handful of scenes only play when something unusual happens. They interrupt anything else on screen.

SceneWhen
The whaleA single buy of 50 SOL or more.
The bustTen or more plants: wallets that bought in the launch's first slot.
BurnedThe creator sold more than half their bag in the first two minutes.
The comebackA coin evicted from a room climbs back higher than it was before.
A made manThe coin graduates and its creator never sold.
The whale
The bust
Burned
A made man

Recaps: arriving late

You rarely arrive at the start. When you open a coin that's already trading, Mob catches up in the background and then plays a short recap of the biggest moments so far, one shot of each, under the title Tonight so far. Come back later and it recaps only what happened While you were out. If nothing big happened, it says so and carries on.

Controls

On a live coin the film keeps pace with the chain, so there's nothing to control. On a replay (an opening Mob recorded), From the top restarts it and the speed buttons play it at 1×, 4× or 16×.