{"day":"2026-10-18","title":"The daily wire: the winners, losers, and the rest of us","date_label":"Sun, Oct 18, 2026","headline":"The biggest launch's peak market cap came in at $1.23B on Sun, Oct 18, 2026, 773% over the average of the 5 days before.","lede":"The biggest launch's peak market cap came in at $1.23B on Sun, Oct 18, 2026, 773% over the average of the 5 days before. 41,217 launched, 961 graduated (2.33%), 5,803,965 SOL ($597.1M) traded by 364,994 wallets.","markdown":"# The daily wire: the winners, losers, and the rest of us\n\n## Sun, Oct 18, 2026\n\nThe biggest launch's peak market cap came in at $1.23B on Sun, Oct 18, 2026, 773% over the average of the 5 days before. 41,217 launched, 961 graduated (2.33%), 5,803,965 SOL ($597.1M) traded by 364,994 wallets.\n\n### The day in numbers\n\n- Launched: 41,217 (9% under the 5-day average)\n- Graduated: 961, 2.33% of launches (11% under the 5-day average)\n- Traded: 5,803,965 SOL, $597.1M: 1,182,581 SOL on the bonding curve, 4,621,385 SOL on PumpSwap (7% under the 5-day average)\n- Trades: 10,547,077 by 364,994 wallets (37% under the 5-day average)\n- Failed transactions: 15,573,526, 284 SOL in fees for nothing\n- Wallets down on the day: 37% (130,024 down, 225,011 up) (30% over the 5-day average)\n- Best hour to launch: 07:00 UTC, 3.10% of 1,163 graduated within the hour; worst 18:00 UTC, 1.43% of 2,309\n\n### Sources\n\nThe tables (top coins, wallets, hours, deployers): https://pumpdata.fun/stats/2026-10-18, with every definition, and in JSON at https://pumpdata.fun/stats/2026-10-18.json. Incomplete day: the recorder caught 95.7% 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 2026-10-19T02:11:50Z). Wallets and coins are named with their numbers, never with verdicts. Not affiliated with pump.fun.\n","x_text":"Sun, Oct 18, 2026\n\nThe biggest launch's peak market cap came in at $1.23B on Sun, Oct 18, 2026, 773% over the average of the 5 days before. 41,217 launched, 961 graduated (2.33%), 5,803,965 SOL ($597.1M) traded by 364,994 wallets.\n\nThe numbers and the tables: https://pumpdata.fun/report/2026-10-18?utm_source=x&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=open","x_thread":["pump.fun, Sun, Oct 18, 2026: The biggest launch's peak market cap came in at $1.23B on Sun, Oct 18, 2026, 773% over the average of the 5 days before. 41,217 launched, 961 graduated (2.33%), 5,803,965 SOL ($597.1M) traded by 364,994 wallets.\n\nhttps://pumpdata.fun/report/2026-10-18?utm_source=x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=open"],"stood_out":null,"checked":false,"check_failures":["unverified: 1,272","unverified: 1,266"],"mover":{"label":"The biggest launch's peak market cap","value":"$1.23B","change":7.7285},"sources":{"stats":"https://pumpdata.fun/stats/2026-10-18.json","today":false,"record":false,"stats_source":"recorder","stats_generated_at":"2026-10-19T02:18:13Z","baseline_days":["2026-10-13","2026-10-14","2026-10-15","2026-10-16","2026-10-17"]},"generated_at":"2026-10-19T02:42:29Z"}