Rules

Before the bench

What the filter checks

• The repository is public, alive and not archived.
• It was created more than 30 days ago.
• It has 20 commits or more.
• Its history spans at least 30 days, so a single dump of somebody else's code does not pass.
• A fork has to be 20 commits ahead of the repository it came from.
• No single day holds more than 40 percent of its stars, sampled across the star history.
• It carries a license.
• One submission per repository per 7 days.

The checks run against GitHub when you paste the link, and again when the submission is taken, because the browser's answer proves nothing.

Who gets the 60 percent

The receiver

If the repository belongs to a person, that person is the receiver. If it belongs to an organisation, the receiver is the human who committed most to it in the last 12 months, bots excluded.

The share goes to a pump.fun social fee PDA keyed to that GitHub account id. Only pump.fun can pay it out, and only to whoever signs in there with that same GitHub account. We never hold it, we cannot move it, and we cannot redirect it.

An organisation id cannot own one of those accounts, which is why an organisation's coin pays its top committer instead.

The receiver is shown before anything is submitted. Authors who want nothing to do with it can say so and the repository stops being accepted.

The review

What the two readers do

Both reviewers get the same material: the README, the file tree, the main files picked by size, imports and how often they change, the commit history, the tests and CI, and the issues. They read separately and never see each other's notes.

Every comment points at a real line and links to it on the exact commit. Comments are tagged the way a human reviewer tags them: nit, blocking, praise.

Each reviewer scores five things from 0 to 10: does it work, code quality, is the idea its own, is the project alive, documentation.

The verdict

Three ways it can end

LGTM

Both averages are 7.0 or more and no comment is tagged blocking. The pad launches the coin.

Changes

Anything else. No coin. The repository can come back in 7 days and the second review reads only what changed.

Reject

Spam, bought stars, or a repository written to farm a coin. It does not come back.

The verdict and a hash of the whole review are written on chain in a memo, so the text behind a coin cannot be edited afterwards.

60 percent

The author

Their own pump.fun social fee PDA, locked in the launch transaction and never editable afterwards.

25 percent

The review fund

The models and the first buy on the next coins. An empty fund means approved repos wait instead of launching.

15 percent

Buy back and burn

The keeper spends it on $LGTM and burns what it buys. Every burn has a signature.

The stake

0.1 / 0.25 / 0.5

The first buy, by score: 0.1 SOL at an average of 7, 0.25 at 8, 0.5 at 9 or more. It is never sold by us.