BSector B · Glossarythe slang, decoded
Glossary
45 words you'll see in group chats, on terminals and on Crypto Twitter. Link to any term with its anchor, like /glossary#cto.
A
- Aping v.
- Buying fast, with little or no research. Usually right after launch or a big post.
- ATH n.
- All-time high. The highest market cap a coin has reached.
B
- Bag n.
- Your position in a coin. Holding bags usually means holding a loss.
- Bonded adj.
- A pump.fun coin that filled its bonding curve and moved to a real liquidity pool. See Bonding curve.
- Bonding curve n.
- The pricing formula a pump.fun coin trades on until it fills up and migrates to a real pool.
- Bubble map n.
- A visual of holders where connected wallets are drawn together. Good for spotting bundles.
- Bundle n.
- Several wallets buying in the same block as the launch, usually controlled by the dev.
C
- CA n.
- Contract address. The unique address of a token. Always copy it from a trusted source.
- Cabal n.
- A group of insiders who coordinate buys and sells. Often blamed, sometimes real.
- Copy trading n.
- Automatically mirroring another wallet's trades. Tracked wallets know this and sometimes exploit it.
- CT n.
- Crypto Twitter. Where most narratives start and most coins are shilled.
- CTO n.
- Community takeover. The dev left, holders took over the socials and kept the coin alive.
D
- Degen n.
- A trader who takes high-risk bets. In the trenches, everyone.
- Dev n.
- The wallet that created the coin. Not necessarily a developer of anything.
- Dev sold phr.
- The creator dumped their supply. Often the end of the chart.
- DEX n.
- Decentralized exchange. Where coins trade after they leave the bonding curve.
- DexScreener n.
- A popular site for charts and pair data across chains. Paid profile updates show up as a badge.
- Diamond hands n.
- Holding through big drops without selling. The opposite of paper hands.
E
- Exit liquidity n.
- The buyers that early holders sell into. If you are late, you might be it.
F
- FUD n.
- Fear, uncertainty and doubt. Negative talk about a coin, true or not.
G
- Graduated adj.
- Another word for bonded. See Bonded.
I
- Initials n.
- Your starting stake. "Take initials" means sell enough to get it back and ride the rest for free.
- Insiders n.
- Wallets that knew about a launch before the public. Terminals flag them in the holders tab.
J
- Jeet n.
- Someone who sells at the first sign of profit. Said with affection, usually.
- Jito tip n.
- A payment that sends your transaction through a block engine, often landing it faster.
K
- KOL n.
- Key opinion leader. An influencer whose posts move coins. Many are paid to post.
L
- Liquidity n.
- The SOL and tokens in a pool. More liquidity means each trade moves the price less.
M
- Market cap n.
- Price times total supply. The number trenchers use instead of price.
- MEV n.
- Value bots extract by reordering or wrapping your trades, for example with a sandwich.
- Migration n.
- The moment a bonded coin's liquidity moves from the curve to a DEX pool.
N
- Narrative n.
- The story a group of coins rides: AI agents, animals, a news event.
P
- Paper hands n.
- Selling at the first dip. The opposite of diamond hands.
- Priority fee n.
- An extra fee to get your Solana transaction processed sooner.
- PumpSwap n.
- pump.fun's own DEX, where most of its coins land after bonding.
R
- Rug n.
- When insiders dump or pull liquidity and the price collapses. Also used as a verb.
S
- Sandwich n.
- A bot buys right before you and sells right after you, taking the price difference.
- Send it phr.
- Hope that a coin pumps hard. Also: buy now.
- Serial launcher n.
- A dev wallet that creates many coins, often to farm early buys and dump.
- Slippage n.
- How far the price can move before your trade fails. Too low fails, too high costs you.
- Smart money n.
- Wallets with a strong track record. Followed closely, sometimes too closely.
- Sniper n.
- A bot or trader buying in the first seconds of a launch.
T
- Terminal n.
- A trading site like Axiom, Photon, GMGN or BullX with charts, holders and one-click trades.
- Trenches n.
- The world of fresh, high-risk memecoin launches. Mostly on Solana, mostly on pump.fun.
V
- Volume bot n.
- A tool that buys and sells the same coin to fake activity and get on trending lists.
W
- WAGMI phr.
- We're all gonna make it. Said most loudly right before a dump.