The daily wire: the winners, losers, and the rest of us
Sat, Oct 17, 2026
SOL taken out by traders up on the day came in at 447,840 SOL on Sat, Oct 17, 2026, 43% over the average of the 4 days before. 43,709 launched, 1,001 graduated (2.29%), 5,377,752 SOL ($559.3M) traded by 431,259 wallets.
What stood out
Flying Tesla Roadster🔥, $FTR🔥 (72xNDka3KZQdJw2QLC2NMnkxoTPZFunhWXvxVp6Spump), was bought out in its launch block and went on to a peak market cap of $109.9M, the biggest of any launch on the day. That peak still sits 18% under the 4-day average for the figure. It traded 13,252 SOL, and the data carry no closing market cap for it.
On pumpCmXqMfrsAkQ5r49WcJnRayYRqmXz6ae8H7H9Dfn, one wallet's loss sat opposite three wallets' gains. 99mRw3EzdJZWEUjgp1nrU4WeHsukUBjbh7gYE7pm4F3c put 1,950 SOL into the coin over 2,288 trades and took out 0.00 SOL. On the other side, 9nXDunV8eNvYSVys7JSBkm2hz9Q79Q3EYeko19srVeMC, in the wire again, realized 1,769 SOL after selling a bag it did not buy that day (1,990 SOL out against 183 SOL in), while FkaLnX17cXZGyeu3kZGdHCNdFMJJzBrPPYVvd18B3MZp took 1,061 SOL and MfDuWeqSHEqTFVYZ7LoexgAK9dxk7cy4DFJWjWMGVWa, also again, took 919 SOL.
Three wallets each sold a bag of rAYj8HzA7K6d7SWuQTTA5N7swd1EZCEWNst3ehDpump they did not buy that day, with 0.01 SOL in apiece. 4QioZWw5HrdgEVUSzZn53URg1iQwZ3pcwejbkRqui16N took out 3,974 SOL. GFenRnGzB8HM5TgV95XW5j5jv9aKApWHDpbTGLUrcScx took 2,010 SOL and GC8hA3GUebtXHAzFXsyTgHPSXqWwSwirkVKLMUDCXPVm took 1,214 SOL, the three of them ranking among the day's five largest winners.
The day in numbers
- Launched: 43,709 (2% under the 4-day average)
- Graduated: 1,001, 2.29% of launches (7% under the 4-day average)
- Traded: 5,377,752 SOL, $559.3M: 1,007,924 SOL on the bonding curve, 4,369,828 SOL on PumpSwap (16% under the 4-day average)
- Trades: 11,155,087 by 431,259 wallets (30% under the 4-day average)
- Failed transactions: 16,324,538, 283 SOL in fees for nothing
- Wallets down on the day: 28% (115,397 down, 300,772 up) (2% under the 4-day average)
- Best hour to launch: 07:00 UTC, 2.96% of 1,317 graduated within the hour; worst 13:00 UTC, 1.08% of 2,221
- Coins that first traded in the $15-28K market-cap band: 1,816; within three hours 34.2% reached 2x, 4.5% 10x. Any band, any window: https://pumpdata.fun/baserate
Sources
The tables (top coins, wallets, hours, deployers): https://pumpdata.fun/stats/2026-10-17, with every definition, and in JSON at https://pumpdata.fun/stats/2026-10-17.json. Incomplete day: the recorder caught 98.2% of its blocks; the day is recomputed from the archive once the archive reaches it. Data: pump.fun bonding-curve and PumpSwap trades from our own live Solana recorder (as of 2026-10-18T02:59:59Z). Wallets and coins are named with their numbers, never with verdicts. Not affiliated with pump.fun.
The "What stood out" section was written by a model from the day's figures and checked: every number and address in it is one the day's data carries. The day's page: /stats/2026-10-17. JSON: /report/2026-10-17.json; markdown: /report/2026-10-17.md. Written 2026-10-18T06:46:43Z.
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