Pump.fun King of the Hill: How the Crown Works and How Coins Get It

Pump.fun King of the Hill is a homepage spot for a coin that's still on the bonding curve and has passed a market cap threshold set by Pump.fun. The threshold changes over time, so any fixed number you read online may be stale. Coins get there through net buying, which raises market cap, and they lose it when another coin climbs higher.

What is King of the Hill on Pump.fun?

It's the featured slot. When someone opens Pump.fun, the King of the Hill coin sits where the eye lands first, above the scroll of new launches. For a coin that was minted twenty minutes ago, that's the biggest audience it will ever see on the curve.

People shorten it to KOTH. Same thing.

The rule behind it is simple on the surface. A coin on the bonding curve passes a market cap threshold, and among the coins that qualify, the one Pump.fun picks for the slot gets the crown. Once a coin fills the curve and graduates to PumpSwap, it's out of the running, because King of the Hill is a bonding-curve feature. If you want the curve mechanics in more depth, our bonding curve guide walks through them.

What is the King of the Hill market cap?

You'll see exact numbers quoted in Telegram groups and old blog posts. We won't give you one. Pump.fun sets the threshold and has changed it before, and the SOL price moves the dollar figure every day anyway, so a number that was right last month can be wrong this afternoon.

Check it yourself. Open the current King of the Hill coin, look at its market cap, and then look at the coins just below it. That tells you more than any forum post.

What doesn't change is the direction. On a bonding curve the price is set by how much SOL has gone in versus come out, which means market cap climbs when net buying is positive and falls when sellers win, and nothing else on the page, not bumps or replies or favorites, moves that number directly.

How do you get King of the Hill on Pump.fun?

More SOL has to come in than goes out. Everything else supports that.

In practice, coins that reach the crown usually have three things going on. There's a real reason to buy, whether that's a joke that lands or a community that showed up. There's broad buying from many wallets instead of one whale. And there's momentum, because once a coin is close, curious traders pile in hoping to catch the crown moment.

Can you buy your way there as the dev? Technically, sometimes. But a single wallet holding a big chunk of supply is the first thing people check, and a coin that reaches King of the Hill with the creator as top holder tends to lose the spot fast when visitors see it and sell into the curve.

So spread matters. Twenty wallets buying 0.5 SOL each look very different from one wallet buying 10 SOL.

Is there a King of the Hill bot?

You'll find scripts sold as a "King of the Hill bot". Most are bump loops or buy scripts pointed at one wallet. They don't know anything special about the slot. They just buy.

A Pump.fun volume bot is a better frame for it. What moves a coin toward King of the Hill is buying pressure spread across many traders, and that's what a session produces. In our console you pick 500 to 10,000 fresh wallets, an order range from 0.1 SOL, and a duration between 15 minutes and 10 hours. Orders go out through Jito bundles. Between 20% and 80% of wallets can keep a small balance, so part of the buying stays on the curve instead of cycling straight back out.

Be honest with yourself about that last part. A session trades both ways to build volume. How much it lifts market cap depends on how many wallets hold and what the rest of the market does while it runs.

What does it cost to push toward King of the Hill?

Our fee is a flat 1% of the target volume. The minimum target is 100 SOL, which costs 1 SOL. A 300 SOL session costs 3 SOL. Replies in 8 languages or your own .txt file, favorites and 2 to 20 feed bumps per minute are included; creator follows add 4% to 40% of the fee if you want them.

That fee is the whole bill: network fees, tips, rent, wallet funding and Pump.fun's own trading fees on session orders all come out of it, and the cost guide breaks those down. The fee isn't refundable. If you want to stop early, you email support.

How long does King of the Hill last?

Until someone passes you. Or until you graduate.

Some coins hold the crown for a few minutes during a busy afternoon. Others sit there much longer on a quiet night when nothing else is climbing. There's no fixed timer. What matters is what you do with the attention while you have it. Get the page, the thread and the holder list ready before you arrive, not after.

And if the coin keeps climbing? It fills the curve and graduates to PumpSwap. The crown doesn't follow, but our sessions do: they move from the bonding curve to PumpSwap automatically, so the activity continues without a restart. The PumpSwap volume guide covers that stage.

Should every coin aim for King of the Hill?

Not always. If your coin is a quick meme with no plan past tonight, the crown brings a crowd you can't hold, and the chart shows it an hour later. If you've got a community waiting, a thread that's already busy and a reason for people to stay, the crown is worth pushing for.

Ask yourself one question first. What happens in the ten minutes after a stranger clicks? If the answer is "they see 9 holders and no replies", fix that before you spend a single SOL chasing the slot. A smaller session that builds 800 wallets of activity over 4 hours often does more for the coin than a rushed 30 minute push at the crown.

Timing counts as well. A quiet window means less competition.

Why do coins lose King of the Hill?

1. Chasing a stale threshold number instead of checking the current King of the Hill coin.
2. Buying from the dev wallet and becoming the obvious top holder.
3. Running heavy bumps and expecting them to move market cap. They won't.
4. Reaching the crown with an empty reply thread and a thin holder list.
5. Starting a session at 3 a.m. and not watching it. You can't adjust what you don't see.

Want the full list of feed signals, not only King of the Hill? Read how to get trending on Pump.fun. When you're ready, the console is one paste away.

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We run the sessions behind this console every day and update these guides when Pump.fun changes how the curve, the feed or PumpSwap work. Spotted something out of date? Write to support@pumpfunvolumebot.us.