How pay-to-rank works
One number: how much SOL hit the treasury. That's the list. No volume weight. No intern picking winners.
Pay-to-rank means the list is sorted on money. Not volume. Not votes. Not a curator who liked your pfp. Highest cumulative bid is #1 until someone pays more. Ties go to whoever got there first.
outbid.lol proved people will pay for that on the internet. This site is that mechanic for Solana memecoins, with a published buy-and-burn on the crown so #1 is a faucet instead of a jpeg of a throne. The walkthrough for actually parking a mint is how to list a Solana memecoin. The live price to beat the current #1 is how much SOL to rank #1.
The sort key is the treasury
One number: how much SOL hit the treasury with a memo that matches a bid. That is the list. We do not weight 24h volume. We do not hide a "quality score" under the rank. If you want an algorithm, DexScreener trending is down the street and they do not sell it to you anyway.
Floor here is 0.05 SOL. Once someone is sitting, the next bid has to clear max(0.01 SOL, 1% of their stake). The 1% is anti-bot. A one-lamport ladder is how a script farms a human until they rage-quit.
A number, not a vibe
Floor is 0.05 SOL. That takes an empty #1. If #1 sits at 2 SOL, you need 2.02 to take it from nothing (1% of 2). If you already put 1 SOL on that mint, you pay 1.02. #2 and #3 get a public row and whatever clicks they earn. They do not get the crown burn. The faucet is 100% on rank 1. That is on purpose. The clip is the steal, not a podium spreadsheet.
You keep the stake
Dethroned is not wiped. Every confirmed bid still counts. Climbing back is the difference, not buying the whole seat again. That is the thing most first-timers miss. They think getting dumped means the SOL vanished from the row. It vanished from your wallet. It is still on the board under your mint.
Worked numbers, including the empty-board case, live on how it works. No refunds. Confirmed bid is already split. Someone can knock you off in the same block. Both of you paid. That is the sport.
What #1 actually pays you
While you sit on the crown, 10% of every bid on this board buys your coin on the open market and burns it. 15% of those same bids buys $BEST and burns that. The rest is platform. Hold #1 and the rest of the board is a drip into your mint. Lose #1 and the drip moves.
A live freeze or a transfer hook makes you ineligible for that crown burn. You can still sit #1. You just will not get bought. We will not route a keeper into a trap and call it yield. How we tell a real burn from a caption: what is buy and burn.
Control of the row
Highest cumulative payer on a mint owns the destination link, the pitch, the image, the socials. You do not need to hold the token. Someone listed your ticker with a scam URL? Pay more. It is yours until the next wallet does the same to you.
The clip is the product
A steal produces a share card. People post it. That is the distribution. Alerts exist so you find out you got dumped without refreshing. Neither of those changes the sort. The sort is still the treasury.
This list is a database
Bids are real Solana transfers. Burns are real burns. The order of the rows is our database. There is no on-chain program deciding #1. If that trust model is a dealbreaker, do not bid. The treasury address is in the footer. Receipts are on /burns. We would rather say that once than dress it up as a smart contract we did not ship.
Scanner cadence is about every two minutes. A bid can confirm on-chain and sit uncredited for that window. A prepared bid you never sign dies in 15 minutes and the nonce is freed. Same-block snipes: both pay, nobody gets a refund, the higher cumulative stake wins once both are credited. The board can be wrong for a minute. It cannot invent SOL that did not land.
What you are not buying
A DexScreener boost. Trending. An audit. A CoinGecko ticket. Those have other prices and other promises. Boosts vs this, side by side: what DexScreener boosts actually buy.
You are buying a public rank and a link, and if you hold #1, a faucet funded by other people's bids. The badge on the row is a bot. A listing is not a blessing. Scan first if you care: Solana token rug check.
RANK IS BOUGHT. FEELINGS AREN'T. MEMECOINS GO TO ZERO.
QUESTIONS
Here, no. Anyone can park any mint. Highest payer controls the destination link and the pitch.
On this board: max(0.01 SOL, 1% of the incumbent). One-lamport snipes are how bots eat a list.
No. Trending is their algorithm. Boosts are a paid highlight. Pay-to-rank is a public bid. Different products.
Both pay. No refunds. Whoever the scanner credits first with the higher cumulative stake sits higher. You keep what you put in.
No. The crown share is 100% on #1. #2 keeps their stake and can climb for the difference.
Transfers and burns are. The sort is our database. We publish the treasury and the receipts instead of pretending we shipped a program we did not.
We scan the treasury about every two minutes. On-chain confirm is not the same second as the row updating.