How back works
The curve, the pot, and why the numbers underneath are real.
The metric
Every listed account's earnings are indexed from Solana itself — not self-reported, not scraped from a dashboard.
- pump.fun callout rewards — pump.fun pays callers from a fixed daily USDC pot, split pro-rata by callout rank. It lands as one on-chain batch per day (16:00–18:00 UTC), one transfer per recipient. The pot has stepped $15k → $30k → $60k → $300k/day since launch.
- FOMO referral income — when someone a caller referred trades on Solana, the referrer's cut is paid inside the buy transaction itself, whatever route the trade took (FOMO's router, Jupiter, Raydium, pump AMM). A referral cut is a slice of somebody else's trade, so we require exactly that: FOMO's own infrastructure signed it, the account didn't, and the credit is a fraction of the money moving through that transaction — never its own trades, and never a plain transfer that happens to land in the same wallet.
- FOMO creator rewards — paid on Base rather than Solana, and for some accounts they are the larger half. We count them only where the money arrives from FOMO's own payer and the account did not send it to itself, so a personal top-up cannot be dressed up as income.
Both venues are summed, in raw dollars. One person is one market however many wallets or platforms they earn on: $5k on FOMO and $10k on pump.fun is a $15k day. A dollar counts the same wherever it was earned.
How accounts get listed
Two pipelines, and neither is a leaderboard we run.
- pump.fun is automatic — whoever appears on pump.fun's own published earnings leaderboard is eligible. We index what they were paid; we do not decide who is on it.
- FOMO is curated — FOMO publishes no leaderboard, so accounts are added by hand. We add FOMO profiles that users request, on demand.
The curve
Each account has its own bonding curve. A share is a position in that curve — no order book, no counterparty. Shares divide, so any amount can back any market at any size: price rises with supply, and a fixed budget simply buys a smaller slice further up.
| Shares outstanding | Next share costs |
|---|---|
| 100 | $0.0005 |
| 1000 | $0.0501 |
| 5000 | $1.253 |
| 10000 | $5.012 |
| 25000 | $31.32 |
| 50000 | $125.30 |
Every share costs more than the one before it, so a multi-share order pays a different price for each share: the chart is a staircase, not a line. The bottom of the curve is deliberately cheap.
Dividends — the whole point
Trading fees fill a daily pot, and the pot flows to share holders weighted by what their accounts actually earned that day:
The division by shares outstanding is the underdog engine. Worked example, $1,000 pot: account A earns 80% of the day's metric with 400 shares out — $2.00 per share. Account B earns 20% with only 20 shares out — $10.00 per share. Spotting a riser early pays twice: fat dividends while the crowd is elsewhere, then the staircase up as they arrive.
Dividends accrue continuously against each day's indexed earnings — there is no snapshot to game. A day's pot is not dropped in one instant either; it streams out over the following hour, so buying moments before a payout buys you almost none of it.
Only the top 10 earn
Every listed account is tradeable, every day. But on any given day, weight goes only to the ten highest earners across both venues. A curve outside the top ten earns nothing that day, however many shares it has out.
That is the mechanic, not a limitation. You can back someone cheaply while nobody wants them, and hold a large slice of a small curve on the day they break in. The top ten turns over by roughly 46% a day.
When it happens
The clock is pump.fun's, not ours. All times UTC.
| from 16:00 | pump.fun starts paying its daily pot. It is not one moment — the batch has taken until 20:44 on a measured day. |
| +30 min | once the batch has been quiet for half an hour, the day counts as finished |
| next hour | weights go on chain and every curve takes its share — checked hourly, so this follows the batch rather than a fixed clock |
| +1 hour | each curve's share streams to its holders |
The 30-minute wait is deliberate: a batch that is still landing would weight a half-finished day, and whoever was paid early in it would be worth more than they should be. Most days that puts the payout in the early evening UTC — but it chases pump.fun's batch rather than a fixed time, so a slow batch means a later payout, not a wrong one.
FOMO referral income and creator rewards do not follow this clock — they arrive continuously and settle when they settle. They count toward the same daily figure; they just are not what sets the timing.
Paid in stock
Dividends arrive as tokenized stock — NVDA, AAPL, TSLA and GOOGL — not as dollars. Trading fees are collected in USDG and converted on the way to you, so a position in a caller pays out as a small, growing basket of equities.
Share dividends are claimed, not sent. They accrue to your position and wait; nothing expires, and claiming costs a transaction, so most people leave them to build. Your portfolio page shows what is claimable.
Fees
Every buy and sell pays a 5% fee, split two ways:
- 3.5% → the dividend pot
- 1.5% → the platform
Fees from every curve flow into one pot, and that pot is split by earnings across the accounts carrying weight that day — pump.fun and FOMO alike. An account is measured against the whole board, not just its own venue.
Which means a quiet curve is funded by a busy one. The market you trade does not decide where your fees go; the day's earnings do.
$BACK
The platform has its own token. It is not required to trade shares, and holding it is not a claim on the platform — it is a second way to be paid out of the same fee flow.
$BACK trades on Pons, which charges a 1% base fee, and we add a 2.5% creator tax on top. A trader pays 3.5%; Pons keeps 30% of its base fee, so 3.2% reaches us. That is split three ways:
- 48% → the dividend pot, alongside share trading fees
- 40% → $BACK holders, paid in the same stock basket
- 12% → the platform
So share traders and $BACK holders are paid out of each other's activity, in the same four stocks. Unlike share dividends, $BACK payouts are pushed to holders rather than claimed — hold enough of the supply and the stock arrives on its own.