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How it works

Everything, on one page. If a rule is not here, it does not exist.

What TRENDS is

A coin launched on StonkFun trades against a tokenized stock and earns its creator a fee on every trade, paid in that stock. A coin launched through TRENDS sends that fee to a pool instead. The pool pays anyone who holds the coin and posts about it on X, tagging @useTrendsFun: a fixed share of the pool per verified post, in the stock, straight to their wallet, 30 minutes after they paste the link.

Holding alone pays nothing. Posting without holding pays nothing. The creator gives up fee income and gets a crowd that makes the coin trend. That is the whole product.

How a post gets paid

1. Connect your wallet (top right). You sign one message. It costs nothing and moves nothing.

2. Open the coin's page and press “Share on X”. The post comes pre-filled with an opening line, $TICKER, @useTrendsFun (and #ad if the coin requires it), the link to the coin, and, the first time, a short ref:CODE that ties your X account to your wallet. Make the opening line your own, then post.

3. Paste the link to your post on the coin page. TRENDS reads the post from X, checks the rules below and reserves the coin's reward share of the pool at that moment (at least 1%) for you. 30 minutes later it reads the post again and, if it is still up, sends the reserved amount to your wallet in one Solana transaction. The pool shrinks by that amount; trading refills it. The payout appears on the coin page and on Payouts with its transaction.

The rules

Each coin sets its reward, minimum holding, time between paid posts, daily cap and whether #ad is required at launch; its page shows them and they do not change, except that TRENDS can raise the reward (never lower it). The rest applies to every coin.

  • The post tags @useTrendsFun and names $TICKER (plus #ad when the coin requires it), with at least a few words of your own. It must be public, less than 24 hours old and newer than the coin. A post without @useTrendsFun is never paid; the database itself refuses to record such a payout.
  • Your own post. Not a repost, and not a reply under someone else's post: replies are how reply spam starts. A reply in your own thread, or to @useTrendsFun, is fine.
  • A real account. The X account must be at least 30 days old and have at least 20 followers.
  • Holding. The wallet that claims must hold at least the coin's minimum (default 10,000 tokens) when it claims.
  • One account, one wallet. Your first paid post carries your ref code; from then on that X account and that wallet belong together. TRENDS keeps the account's permanent X id, so renaming your @handle keeps the link. Another wallet cannot claim for your account, and your account cannot claim from another wallet.
  • How often. After a paid post about a coin, the next one about the same coin is paid once the coin's wait between paid posts has passed (1 hour unless its launcher set more). At most 3 paid posts about one coin and 10 in all per account in any 24 hours. Posting more does not pay more.
  • Once. A post pays once, for one coin, and the same text is not paid twice.
  • The hold. The payout is sent 30 minutes after the claim, if the post is still up then. A post deleted before that is not paid.
  • Daily cap. At most 25% of a pool (default) leaves it in any 24 hours. When it is reached, claims wait; your post stays valid for its 24 hours.
  • Reward. The coin's percentage (at least 1%, 1% by default) of the pool at the moment of the claim. Because every payout shrinks the pool, posting cannot empty it.
  • Minimum payout what is worth 0.002 SOL of the stock. Below that the network fee and a new stock account's rent would eat it, so the claim waits for the pool to grow.
  • Deleting a paid post pauses rewards for that wallet for 7 days, including anything still reserved for it. Your latest paid post is checked every time you claim again.

Launching a coin

Name, ticker, image, a few words, the stock it trades against, and the reward rules. StonkFun is a launchpad on Raydium LaunchLab where a coin trades against a tokenized stock instead of SOL: NVDAx, TSLAx, SPYx and the other xStocks, or Backpack's stocks. TRENDS builds the launch the way StonkFun documents for its own launches, with StonkFun's numbers for that stock and the coin's pool wallet as its creator, simulates it against the live program, and hands it to your wallet for one signature.

The launch costs about 0.03 SOL: about 0.009 SOL of rent for the coin's accounts on LaunchLab, fees, and 0.02 SOL that stays in the pool wallet to pay its payouts' network fees. Your wallet sends that SOL to the pool wallet, and the pool wallet signs the coin's creation as its creator, in one transaction. That is permanent: the creator fees never come to you. There is no first buy at launch: buy on StonkFun right after.

The coin's image and metadata are served by TRENDS, and their address goes on chain with the coin.

Where the money is

Each coin has its own pool wallet, derived from a master key held on the TRENDS server. StonkFun charges 1% on every trade and sends half of it, 0.5% of the trade, to the coin's creator, in the stock, every few minutes, before and after graduation. That creator is the pool wallet, so the pool fills with the stock and posts are paid in the stock. Totals and the ranking count a stock payout at its SOL value when it was made.

TRENDS takes no cut: everything the coin earns goes to its pool, and from there to the people who post about it.

A first payout to a wallet that has never held the stock opens its account for it, about 0.0016 SOL of rent the pool wallet pays. When the pool wallet's SOL runs low, TRENDS swaps a little of the pool's stock to SOL through Jupiter: about 0.02 SOL, never more than 10% of the pool at a time and never what is reserved for posts already verified, so payouts keep flowing without anyone topping it up.

Tokenized stocks are issued by third parties (Backed for xStocks, Backpack for its own) and they keep control of them: an issuer can pause transfers, and then payouts in that stock wait. TRENDS only pays in stocks whose transfers need nothing but a signature: no transfer fee, no transfer hook, no frozen accounts.

That means TRENDS is custodial for the pool: the server key can move it. It is not custodial for you: rewards go to your own wallet and nothing ever asks you to sign a transaction. Every payout transaction is linked on the payouts page, so anyone can check that the pool paid what the page says.

Disclosure

Every paid post tags @useTrendsFun, and by default carries #ad too. The mention is how TRENDS recognises a post; it does not tell a reader that the poster was paid. #ad does, and that matters: paying people to promote a financial asset without telling their audience is what regulators pursue. In 2022 the U.S. SEC charged Kim Kardashian under Section 17(b) of the Securities Act for promoting EthereumMax without disclosing a $250,000 payment; she settled for about $1.26 million even though her post carried #AD. The FTC's endorsement guides call for a disclosure that is “clear and conspicuous”, and say an unfamiliar hashtag on its own is not; “#ad” at the start of a post is.

The tags are a floor, not legal cover. They do not make a post legal where you live and they do not disclose the amount you were paid. You are responsible for your posts. X's own paid-partnership policy also applies, and it lists crypto as ineligible for paid partnerships in the EU, the UK and Australia.

Risks

  • X can cut TRENDS off. In January 2026 X said it will not allow apps that reward users for posting, and revoked the API access of several. TRENDS reads public posts the way X's own embeds do, which needs no key, and falls back to other sources when it has them; X can change any of that at any time. Then claims stop until posts can be read again, and reserved payouts wait. Pools keep filling; nothing already paid is affected. Because every paid post tags @useTrendsFun, X can also find them all at once, and could limit how far they reach.
  • A payout can stall. Solana can be congested. A claim that was sent but not confirmed shows as “confirming” and is settled from the chain within minutes: paid if it landed, otherwise released so the post can be claimed again. Nothing is paid twice: a post is reserved the moment it is verified.
  • Pools depend on trading. No trades, no fees, no rewards. A pool can be empty for days.
  • StonkFun can change. TRENDS builds launches against the live LaunchLab program with StonkFun's published numbers and simulates before every launch, so a change breaks launches loudly rather than quietly. StonkFun forwarding the creator's fee share is how StonkFun works today, not a guarantee written on chain.
  • Server custody. The pool master key is on the server. If it leaks, the pools can be drained. Rewards already in your wallet are yours.

What TRENDS does not do

No APY, no projections, no “estimated earnings”. The coin page shows what one post earns right now and what was paid before; the next minute can be different. No hidden rules: what you see on the coin page is the entire rule set. No invented numbers: every pool is read from chain when the page loads, and coins marked “dry run” say so on every card.