How fast does a pump.fun coin get its first buyer?
In under half a second, if it gets one at all. On the 763,495 coins launched on pump.fun from 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-21 that got an outside buyer, the first buy by any wallet but the dev landed a median 0.4 seconds after launch, and within 5 seconds on 83% of them. The other 267,133 launches, 26%, never got one in 8 days or more. The median coin gets 3 outside buyers in its whole life.
How fast the first buy lands
How many buyers a coin gets
Outside buyers across a coin's whole life, on all launches.
| Outside buyers | Launches | Share |
|---|---|---|
| None | 267,133 | 26% |
| 1 or fewer | 408,118 | 40% |
| 2 or fewer | 505,038 | 49% |
| 5 or fewer | 665,940 | 65% |
| 10 or fewer | 766,981 | 74% |
| 20 or fewer | 854,789 | 83% |
The median coin that graduated through trading had 370 outside buyers. The median coin that never graduated had 2.
What it means for you
- Nobody reads a ticker and clicks buy in 0.4 seconds. The first wallets into a coin are software watching for new launches.
- A launch with no buyers is normal. 49% of launches get 2 outside buyers or fewer, so a new coin's existence says nothing about demand.
- An outside buyer isn't always a stranger. This counts wallets, and a dev's other wallets look just like anyone else's.
How we measured it
- Every pump.fun launch from 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-21, each followed on pump.fun and PumpSwap through 2026-10-29.
- The dev is the wallet that signed the coin's creation. An outside buyer is any other wallet with a buy.
- Times are from the moment the bonding curve was created to the wallet's first buy. Bought in the launch block, that can be a few milliseconds.
What it doesn't tell you
- Wallets aren't people. Linked wallets count as outside buyers here, so the real crowd is smaller. Linked groups have their own page.
- It says how fast the first buy lands, not how much it buys or who sent it.
The data
pump.fun first buys and buyer counts, launches from 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-21. Free to use and share under CC BY 4.0: just say it came from Hidden Hand.
Cite this
Hidden Hand Research. "How fast does a pump.fun coin get its first buyer?" Measured 2026-10-30. https://hiddenhand.trade/research/pump-fun-first-buyer
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