# 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.

Measured 2026-10-30 by Hidden Hand Research from the Solana chain, each coin followed through 2026-10-29.

## How fast the first buy lands

| First outside buy within | Coins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Half a second | 389,675 | 51% |
| 1 second | 476,858 | 62% |
| 5 seconds | 633,321 | 83% |
| 1 minute | 724,748 | 95% |

## How many buyers a coin gets

| 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.

## How it was measured

The dev is the wallet that signed the coin's creation; an outside buyer is any other wallet with a buy. These are wallets, not people: linked wallets count as outside buyers.

## Data

- https://hiddenhand.trade/research/data/pump-fun-first-buyer.csv
- https://hiddenhand.trade/research/data/pump-fun-first-buyer.json
- License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Cite: 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