DexScreener Trending for Pump.fun Coins: Factors, Boosts and Makers

DexScreener trending ranks pairs using factors DexScreener lists publicly: volume, liquidity, transactions, unique makers, holders, page visitors, community reactions, Enhanced Token Info and security audits. The exact formula is private. For a Pump.fun coin that means broad activity from many wallets, a filled-in token profile and real visitors.

Boosts sit on top of all that. They multiply a score you already earned rather than creating one, so they help most once the underlying activity is in place.

What does DexScreener say about trending?

DexScreener has a short trending page in its docs. It names the inputs, says strong trading and community engagement are what get a token to the top, and openly states that the precise blend stays secret. That's more than most platforms give you, and it's enough to plan around.

Notice how many of those you can't buy. Visitors and reactions come from people. Holders grow when wallets keep tokens. Liquidity on a Pump.fun coin is whatever the curve or pool holds at that moment.

How do boosts work on DexScreener?

Boosts are DexScreener's paid visibility product, described on its boosting page. You buy a pack from the yellow Boost button on the token's web page (not the mobile app), and depending on the pack it stays active for 12 to 24 hours. Collect 500 or more active boosts and the token gets the Golden Ticker, which shows its symbol in gold across the site.

The important line is the one about scoring. DexScreener says boosts apply a multiplier to an existing trending score and don't replace the on-chain and off-chain metrics behind it. Multiply a small score and you still get a small score.

Boosts can't be refunded, and DexScreener may remove them if its moderators or auditors judge a token to be malicious. Tokens that have been inactive for 24 hours or more, or that carry security risks, can't be boosted at all. So the order matters: activity first, boosts on top if you want them, never the other way round.

Is a boost worth buying for a Pump.fun coin?

A boost is worth buying for a Pump.fun coin only once the pair has something to multiply. Is yours there yet? If the pair already has a few hundred makers, steady trades across several hours and a complete profile, a multiplier on that score can tip it into a visible spot, and the Golden Ticker can be a nice bit of social proof for a community that's already engaged. If the pair is thin, you're paying to multiply close to nothing, and the boost clock runs out after a day either way. We'd spend on trading breadth and a proper profile first, then look at boosts with a clear head once you can see where the pair actually sits.

How does a Pump.fun coin appear before and after graduation?

In our experience DexScreener picks up Pump.fun coins while they're still on the bonding curve and shows them as a Pump.fun pair. Liquidity there reflects the curve's reserves, which start from 30 virtual SOL and grow as buyers come in, per the Pump.fun curve docs. Working from the published constants, our own arithmetic puts curve completion close to 85 SOL of net buying, near 410 SOL of market cap.

Graduation changes the picture. Liquidity migrates automatically to PumpSwap, and DexScreener shows the new pool as its own pair with its own address, its own chart and its own makers count starting from zero. The curve pair's history doesn't carry over into the new numbers.

Why does a coin look empty right after graduation?

That split catches creators out all the time. A coin can show 2,000 makers on the curve pair at 3 p.m., graduate at 3:40, and look almost empty on the PumpSwap pair ten minutes later. If you want to show up in DexScreener's trending list after graduation, the activity has to keep going in the new pool. Our PumpSwap volume bot guide covers what changes once the coin lives there.

One practical tip: when you share a link after graduation, check that it points to the PumpSwap pair and not the old curve pair. We've seen communities keep posting the stale link for hours, sending visitors to a chart that stopped moving at migration.

Makers vs volume: which matters more?

Makers usually matter more than volume, because makers count the distinct wallets that traded while volume only counts SOL. Open any pair page and you'll see trading split into short and long windows, with separate counts for txns, buys, sells, volume and makers. They tell very different stories. Want proof? Take 100 SOL and split it three ways.

Since unique makers are a named factor, the third row is plainly the one you want. It's also what visitors respond to. A trader who opens the pair page and sees 1,000 makers next to 100 SOL of volume reads it as interest; 1 maker next to the same volume reads as one person and they move on.

Holders are related but not the same. A maker who buys and sells everything is gone from the holder list a minute later, and that's the reason our holder bot guide treats holders as a goal of their own.

Which time window should you aim at?

The safest window to aim at is all of them at once, because DexScreener keeps secret which window feeds the trending score. Five minutes? An hour? A day? We don't know, and we'd be suspicious of anyone who claims to.

What we do see is how the pair page reads to a human. A coin with a huge 5-minute column and an empty 6-hour column looks like a pump that already happened, while a coin whose 1-hour, 6-hour and 24-hour numbers all grow in step looks like something people keep coming back to, and in our runs the second shape is also the one that tends to stay visible longer. So we pace for consistency. If you have 200 SOL of target volume, spreading it over four or five hours usually reads better than dumping it in 20 minutes.

Spikes fade fast. Steady lines don't.

How do you trend on DexScreener, step by step?

1. Fill in the token profile

   Fill in the token profile before anything else, because Enhanced Token Info and security audits are two of the factors DexScreener lists for trending. A pair page with a logo, a banner, working links and a short description also keeps visitors around longer, and page visitors are a named factor too. It's one of the few inputs you control directly.

2. Spread activity across wallets

   Spread activity across many wallets rather than a few big trades. The same 100 SOL of volume can show 1 maker or 1,000, and unique makers sit on DexScreener's list beside volume and transactions. Hundreds of small trades from different wallets cover all three factors at once and read like a crowd to a visitor.

3. Keep going through graduation

   Keep trading going through graduation and plan for the new PumpSwap pair from the start. Graduation follows roughly 85 SOL of net buying on the curve, and the new pair opens with makers, volume and transactions at zero. Activity that stops at migration leaves the PumpSwap pair looking dead just as new traders arrive from DexScreener.

4. Send real people to the page

   Send real people to the DexScreener page, because page visitors and community reactions are both on DexScreener's published list of trending factors. Share the DexScreener link with your community, not only the Pump.fun one, and post it again after graduation so it points at the PumpSwap pair. No tool can produce those visits, so this step is yours.

5. Boost last, if at all

   Boost last, if at all. DexScreener describes a boost as a multiplier on an existing trending score that lasts 12 to 24 hours and can't be refunded, so it only helps once a decent score exists. Decide after you see how the pair is doing across several hours, not before the first trade lands.

Where does a volume run fit?

Our volume runs sized for DexScreener cover the on-chain half of the table. Each run hands its trades to somewhere between 500 and 10,000 newly made wallets, so makers and trade counts climb with the volume instead of lagging behind it. Trading begins on the curve, then switches by itself into the canonical PumpSwap pool at graduation, which keeps the new pair from going quiet at the worst moment.

You can stretch a run anywhere between 15 minutes and 10 hours. For DexScreener we'd usually go longer rather than shorter, because a pair with steady makers across several hours looks very different from one with a single spike. Holder retention, from 20 to 80% of wallets keeping a small balance, helps the holders factor.

What a run can't touch is the off-chain half. Visitors, reactions and the profile are yours to handle. And nobody can promise a trending slot; DexScreener says itself that weak tokens won't rank high no matter what they spend. For the Pump.fun side of the same problem, see how to trend on Pump.fun.

What does it cost in SOL?

A run sized for DexScreener costs one flat fee in SOL, and that fee covers every per-swap charge underneath it. Pump.fun takes a platform charge on curve trades, PumpSwap takes one in the pool after graduation, and the run wallets also pay Solana network fees, priority fees and Jito tips to land their swaps. If you tried to generate the same activity yourself, you'd be adding those up trade by trade across hundreds of wallets. In a run you don't have to think about any of it.

Our fee stays flat regardless: 1% of target volume, so 1 SOL for a 100 SOL run or 5 SOL for 500 SOL. What Pump.fun and PumpSwap charge per swap, the network fees and the Jito tips all get paid out of that figure, and nothing is added afterwards. The console shows the full amount before you send anything. You fund it by sending SOL to the address the console displays, or by scanning the Solana Pay QR.

What about local rules and keeping funds safe?

How token promotion is regulated depends on the country, and this page isn't legal advice; when in doubt, ask someone local. Each swap in a run is an ordinary Solana transaction, and the trades come from many wallets at different sizes and moments, so the pair looks like a varied group of buyers and sellers. Neither Pump.fun nor DexScreener is affiliated with us.

Your funds stay on your side the whole time. Nobody from our team will request your seed words, your keys, a wallet signature or access to your wallet. Orders are paid by sending SOL to the address that appears inside the console for that order, and that's the only one you should ever use.

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Mitchel Davis

Mitchel Davis writes and maintains the Softatjeh guides and revises them whenever Pump.fun changes its curve, feed or PumpSwap rules. Found a stale number? Tell us at support@softatjeh.com.