How the arena works
Anyone can ship now. Launch your AI project as a coin paired with e/acc, let the community back what's real, and the best builder wins every prize fee the pad made. Here's every rule, how it's enforced, and why it's hard to game.
A hackathon where the market is the judge
Limitless is a never-ending AI hackathon on pump.fun. Launching a coin is how you submit your project: every entry is a real pump.fun coin paired with e/acc, and the prize fee on every trade of every coin fills one shared prize pool.
Launch = submit
Launch your AI project as a coin. The form is your hackathon submission: pitch, what the AI does, repo, demo and team. The coin goes live on pump.fun at an address ending in …eacc.
Every trade feeds the prize
Every coin trades against e/acc, and the arena's prize wallet is its pump.fun creator. So the 1% creator fee on every buy and sell of every coin (old ones too, even after graduation) flows into one shared prize pool.
Sustain, don't spike
Entries are ranked by Sustained Market Cap: the average market cap over the final 24h, measured so that short pumps barely count.
Winner takes all
When the round ends, the #1 entry takes the whole e/acc prize pool, paid out automatically: 70% to the team, 20% to buy back and burn, 10% to holders.
Every coin trades against e/acc
Arena coins are quoted in e/acc, not SOL: every coin launches on pump.fun's e/acc bonding curve as a $COIN / e/acc pair and keeps that pair on PumpSwap after graduation.
Limitless is an e/acc arena: every entry is paired with e/acc (Effective Accelerationism), not SOL. Prices, market caps, volume, the prize pool and every payout are counted in e/acc, so every trade on the pad is an e/acc trade.
- Every pair is $COIN / e/acc
Buys are paid in e/acc and sells pay out e/acc, on pump.fun's bonding curve and on PumpSwap.
- 1.95% fee, in e/acc
1% of every trade is the prize fee and 0.95% goes to pump.fun. With the 250 e/acc launch fee, the prize pool fills in e/acc, and the winner is paid in e/acc.
- Launch with SOL
SOL covers network fees and rent, and can pay for your launch: it buys the e/acc the launch needs on e/acc's own pool.
Rounds run back to back, forever
A round lasts 7 days by default. Coins launched during a round are its cohort, and only that cohort can win it. The final 24 hours are the scoring window. The moment a round ends, the next one begins.
- 01Launch period6d
Launches are open, coins trade and the leaderboard shows each entry's projected score.
- 02Scoring windowfinal 24h
The time-weighted average that decides the round is recorded. Coins launched now still trade but can't win this round.
- 03Settle delay30m
Integrity reviews wrap up and the final scores are checked. The round settles when the delay ends.
- 04Settledautomatically
The winner is paid from the prize wallet, or the prize rolls over. The next round has been running since the last one ended.
Sustained Market Cap: spikes barely count
Entries are ranked by Sustained Market Cap (SMC): the geometric, time-weighted average of each coin's market cap over the scoring window. Raw market cap at one moment is easy to fake with a last-minute pump. A sustained average is not.
For every stretch of time Δt in the scoring window T, take the log of the market cap, weight it by how long it lasted, then convert the average back. That's the geometric mean, weighted by time. Market cap is price × the fixed 1B supply.
A coin holds 1M e/acc of market cap for 23 hours, then gets pumped 100× to 100M e/acc for the final hour of the 24h window.
- Market cap
- Geometric average (the score)
- Simple average
Market cap in e/acc, log scale
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Start from a steady 1M e/acc market cap and pump it during a 24h window.
Short pumps barely register. The only reliable way to climb is to hold a higher market cap for most of the window: doubling your market cap for the full 24h doubles your score.
Before the window opens: the trailing window-length average, i.e. the score if the window started now.
During the window: the average from the window start until now.
After the round ends: the average over the whole window. This decides the winner.
Each entry's live score, and exactly how it's calculated, is one click away on the leaderboard.
Who can win
Only entries that pass every check below can take the prize. Hard gates are checked automatically from the indexed trades. Wallet-graph checks need deeper analysis, so they feed a public review queue, and confirmed cases are disqualified before the settle deadline.
- Automatic01
Launched before the window opens
older than the final 24hA coin created inside the scoring window has no full window to measure, so it can't win this round. It still trades and still feeds the prize pool.
- Automatic02
Minimum round volume
≥ 100K e/accGross buy and sell volume during the round. A coin nobody trades can't win on a price nobody paid.
- Integrity review03
Real, distinct holders
≥ 25 unique holdersAnd the top 10 wallets may not hold more than 95% of the circulating supply.
- Integrity review04
Clean trading
no wash tradingSelf-trades, circular token flows and clusters of fresh wallets funded from one source are flagged for admin review.
- Automatic05
Screened and not disqualified
passed AI screeningEvery launch is screened before its coin exists. Confirmed integrity or originality problems lead to a public disqualification.
- Open the leaderboardSee every check, live
Each entry's score breakdown on the leaderboard shows which checks it passes right now, and what it still needs.
Every trade feeds the prize
Every arena coin's pump.fun creator is the arena's prize wallet, so the creator fee on every buy and sell (1%) goes to the prize, on the bonding curve and on PumpSwap. pump.fun charges its own 0.95% on top, 1.95% in all. The 250 e/acc launch fee goes to the prize too.
Buys and sells of every arena coin against e/acc, on pump.fun's bonding curve and on PumpSwap, old entries included.
pump.fun keeps its 0.95%. The other 1% is the coin's creator fee: the prize fee.
Every arena coin's pump.fun creator, so every creator fee accrues to it. Launch fees land here directly.
Each fee counts toward the round its trade happened in. The pool is public and counts up live.
Paid automatically: 70% team · 20% buyback & burn · 10% holders.
Winner takes all
When the round settles, the #1 eligible entry takes the entire prize pool. It's split three ways and paid automatically from the prize wallet: nobody has to claim anything.
Sent from the prize wallet to the winning entry's team treasury as soon as the round settles. The builder sets the treasury in the launch form (their wallet by default).
The keeper buys the winning coin on pump.fun (or PumpSwap once it graduated) in chunks, at most 2% price impact each and 1 minute apart, and burns every token it buys. Small, spaced chunks leave nothing worth sandwiching.
Split pro rata by each wallet's balance when the round ended (capped at what it still holds at payout time) and sent to every holder automatically. Dust-sized shares are dropped and the rest re-weighted.
From pump.fun's curve to PumpSwap
Every coin starts on pump.fun's bonding curve priced in e/acc: fixed 1B supply, no presale, no team allocation. When the curve sells out, at about 874K e/acc raised, pump.fun moves the coin to PumpSwap, its AMM, still paired with e/acc.
Move across the chart, or focus it and use the arrow keys, to read any point.
- At launch
- 288K e/acc
- market cap
- Raised to graduate
- ≈ 874K e/acc
- into the curve
- At graduation
- ≈ 4.23M e/acc
- market cap
- Sold on the curve
- 793.1M
- of 1B tokens
The curve's e/acc and the tokens left for the pool move into the coin's canonical PumpSwap pool. pump.fun runs the migration; the arena's keeper only nudges a completed curve that's waiting.
The prize wallet stays the coin's creator on PumpSwap, so every trade there still pays the prize fee into the pool.
Charts, scores and the leaderboard carry on through graduation without a gap.
No presale and no team tokens: pump.fun mints the fixed 1B supply at launch, and the curve sells it.
Only AI projects get in
Every entry must be genuinely AI-related. Before your coin exists, Claude reviews the submission for AI relevance, spam, copycats and low effort, and returns a structured verdict.
- Pass
The arena prepares your launch transaction and your coin goes live on pump.fun right away.
- Borderline
It launches, but waits in the admin review queue. It can be removed from the competition.
- Fail
No launch transaction is prepared: no coin, nothing charged. You see the reasons and can resubmit.
{
"is_ai_related": true,
"confidence": 0.93,
"category": "agents",
"flags": [],
"reason": "Autonomous agent that plans and executes on-chain tasks. Clear AI component, public repo and a working demo."
}Every address ends in …eacc
pump.fun lets a coin's creator bring the mint key. The arena grinds keys whose address ends in "eacc" ahead of time (about 11 million tries each), keeps a pool of them, and launches every coin with a fresh one. Checking an address takes no trust: its last four base58 digits are its 32 bytes, read as a number N, mod 58⁴.
Each check decodes the address and computes its last four base58 digits, right in your browser.
Paste a mint address. It ends in “eacc” exactly when its 32 bytes, read as a number N, satisfy N mod 58⁴ = 7,332,221.
- 1Base58-decode the address into its 32 bytes.
- 2Read the bytes as one big-endian number N.
- 3N mod 58⁴ gives the last four base58 digits. For “eacc” they are e, a, c, c = 7,332,221.
- 4Anyone could grind such an address, so a real arena coin also has the arena's prize wallet as its pump.fun creator and appears on the leaderboard.
Don't trust. Verify.
The arena is built from public parts: pump.fun coins, one public prize wallet and a public API. Anyone can check every trade, score and payout. Admin powers are narrow and logged.
- 1
pump.fun tradespublic on SolanaEvery trade of an arena coin is a pump.fun or PumpSwap transaction. The arena indexes them and serves every trade and market-cap sample from its public API.
- 2
scoresanyone can recomputeEach entry's score is the time-weighted geometric mean of its market cap over the scoring window. The leaderboard shows every entry's breakdown and eligibility checks.
- 3
settlement30 minutes after the endThe keeper settles automatically: the top eligible entry wins, or the prize rolls over. Reviews can only disqualify an entry before the settle deadline.
- 4
payoutsbuyback & burnon-chain transfersThe team prize, holder shares and buybacks are e/acc transactions from the prize wallet, each listed with its signature. Prize fees on new coins stay within pump.fun's 0.01%–3% range.
Every arena coin's pump.fun creator. It collects the prize fee on every trade and every launch fee, then pays each round's prize out.
- Set parameters for future rounds: length, scoring window, payout split, minimum volume
- Set the prize fee for new coins (their pump.fun creator fee) and the launch fee (≤ 100,000 e/acc)
- Pause new launches in an emergency
- Work the AI screening review queue
- Disqualify an entry until its round's settle deadline (public and logged)
- Move prize funds: the admin panel has no way to touch the prize wallet
- Pause trading: coins trade on pump.fun and PumpSwap
- Pause settlement, payouts or the buyback
- Change the parameters of a round that is already running
- Pick or override the winner
- Change pump.fun's own fee or curve, or mint more of a coin: the supply is fixed at 1B
Frequently asked questions
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