How burnbook works

1. 01

   Launch

   Anyone can launch the coin for any X handle. One coin per handle.

2. 02

   Burn to post

   Burn the coin to post on that handle. Your post shows a wallet, not a name.

3. 03

   Earn

   Fees go to the top 10 burners and to the handle owner once they claim.

One coin per X handle

Each X handle gets exactly one coin, forever. The coin is named after the handle (@jack) and trades on the pump.fun bonding curve, then on PumpSwap after it graduates. Anyone can launch it. You don't need to sign in with X, and the coin isn't affiliated with the account until the owner claims it.

Burn to post anonymously

To post on a handle, you burn some of its coin. Your post appears on the handle's page and in the global timeline, signed only with a truncated wallet address and an identicon. It's anonymous on burnbook but pseudonymous on-chain: anyone can see which wallet burned the tokens.

Boosts

Anyone can burn any amount onto any existing post. A boost adds to that post's burn badge and counts toward your own leaderboard total on the coin. Feeds are always newest first, so burning doesn't move a post up. It earns you a leaderboard spot, and with it a share of the rewards.

• Launching costs 0.1 SOL, paid to Burnbook ops. You can add an optional dev buy in the same transaction, with no cap.
• Before you sign, our backend checks that the handle exists on X and signs an attestation with its X account ID. The program verifies that signature on-chain and stores the account ID, which guards against recycled handles.
• One launch per handle, ever. Once a handle has a coin, it can't be launched again, even if the coin dies on the curve.
• The coin's name is the plain handle, without the @ (jack), and its image is the X avatar. You pick the ticker: 1–10 letters or digits, uppercased. Tickers don't have to be unique.
• You can write a short description (up to 280 characters, no links, emojis are fine). It's shown on pump.fun and on burnbook, marked as written by the deployer. It's permanent: it can't be edited after launch. Leave it empty and it reads “burnbook for @handle”.
• Supply is 1,000,000,000 tokens with 6 decimals, the pump.fun standard.
• At launch, 100% of the coin's pump.fun creator fees are pointed at the handle's fee vault, and that setting is locked for good. The deployer (the person who launched the coin) gets no fees.

• Each post burns at least 50,000 of the handle's tokens and costs a 0.02 SOL fee, paid to Burnbook ops. Burned tokens are destroyed, so the supply shrinks.
• Posts are plain text, up to 280 characters, with no links. URLs and domains are rejected.
• Each post has one tag: confession, rumor, secret or gossip. The default is confession.
• The text is stored off-chain. Only its sha256 hash and the tag are written on-chain, so anyone can check a post wasn't edited.
• Every post has a permalink and a share card, plus a “Share on X” button.

Hidden and removed posts

Once the owner of a handle has verified, they can hide any post on it. A hidden post shows as “Hidden by @handle” with its burn amount and wallet. Its text is removed from the API, but the burn still counts on the leaderboard. Separately, we can remove a post's text in response to a legal request (see Moderation).

At a glance

Every trade on a burnbook coin pays pump.fun's creator fee. All of it goes to the coin's fee vault, and the program splits it four ways. Here is where every SOL ends up:

The creator-fee split

• The deployer gets nothing. Launching a coin doesn't earn you any of its fees.
• The launch fee (0.1 SOL) and the post fee (0.02 SOL) go to Burnbook ops.
• Burnbook's whole share of creator fees is 20%, and half of it (10% of every fee) burns the flagship coin. See The $BURNBOOK flagship token.
• Harvesting: fees are swept from pump.fun into these accounts by our sweep every few minutes once at least 0.01 SOL is pending on a coin, and at least every 6h otherwise.
• pump.fun charges its own trading and protocol fees on top. Those aren't burnbook's.

$BURNBOOK is Burnbook's own coin. We launch it on Burnbook, on our own X handle, and claim it like any owner would. Its contract address is EsgJDp1y1GuMXLA1zDS4WWAtLaR2x883mijXbeY2VWcC (also in the footer, one click to copy). Only this one is official.

How it's fed

10% of every creator fee on the platform, on every coin including the flagship itself, goes to the burn reserve. That's half of Burnbook's 20% share; the rest (10%) runs Burnbook.

The burn reserve

• A program-owned account. There is no withdraw instruction: the only thing it can do is buy $BURNBOOK and burn it.
• When: daily, or as soon as it holds 2 SOL, whichever comes first. A daily burn needs at least 0.05 SOL.
• How much: at most about 5 SOL and about 1% price impact per burn. A bigger reserve is burned over several transactions.
• How: it buys $BURNBOOK on the bonding curve (or on PumpSwap after graduation), then burns 100% of what it bought through a public burn receipt post with a link to the transaction.
• Recycling: those receipts make the reserve a burner on the flagship's own leaderboard. Whatever it wins from that pool flows back into the reserve and is burned on the next run.
• Fail-safe: if our sweep stalls for 48h, anyone can trigger a due burn.

Our owner share

As the flagship's verified owner, Burnbook receives its owner vault (40% of the flagship's creator fees) like any other owner, and keeps it as revenue.

Transparency

The live panel below (also on the flagship's page) shows the reserve's balance, when the next burn is due, lifetime SOL spent and tokens burned, and every burn with its receipt post and transaction.

Every coin has its own leaderboard and its own reward pool. Rewards are paid per coin: burning on one coin earns nothing from another.

• Qualify: burn at least 50,000 tokens on the coin over time. Posts and boosts both count.
• Rank: the top 10 wallets by total burned. On a tie, whoever reached that total first ranks higher.
• Share: half of the pool is split by how many tokens you currently hold and half by how many you've burned, among the top 10 only.

Because half of the share follows your balance, the estimated share doesn't always follow rank order. Selling your tokens lowers your share; burning more raises your rank.

When payouts happen

• A coin pays out when its pool reaches 2 SOL, or daily, whichever comes first.
• If the pool holds less than 0.05 SOL on the daily payout, it's skipped and rolls over to the next day.
• At each payout we snapshot balances and burns, pay the top 10 on-chain, store the snapshot's Merkle root on-chain and publish the snapshot so anyone can check the maths.

See the current standings on Leaderboards.

If you own the X account, you can claim its coin's owner vault. Open /@yourhandle/claim, or press “Claim this handle” on the coin page.

1. Connect the wallet that should receive the fees.
2. Get a one-time code like burnbook-7KQ2XD. It's tied to that wallet and handle, and it expires after 30 min.
3. Prove you control the account, either way:
   • Bio: add the code to your X bio, then press Verify. We read your profile and look for it.
   • Post: post the code from the account and paste the post's URL. The post must be from the handle, contain the code and be less than 30 min old.
4. We sign an authorisation, and the program records your wallet as the owner. You can remove the code from your bio afterwards.

After you claim

• Your vault's balance and all future owner fees are yours. They become claimable 24h after you verify; from then on, withdraw any time with “Claim fees” in the owner panel on your coin page.
• Buyback burns on your vault stop permanently.
• You can hide and unhide posts on your handle.

Re-verifying

Lost the wallet, or want fees to go somewhere else? Run the claim again from the new wallet. A fresh verification for the same X account replaces the previous owner and restarts the 24h wait before fees can be claimed. Each authorisation works once: an older one can't take ownership back.

Until the owner claims, their 40% of the fees builds up in the vault. It doesn't sit there forever:

• A 7-day grace period starts with the first fee that reaches the vault.
• After that, every day we spend 50% of the unclaimed balance buying the coin back (on the curve, or PumpSwap once graduated) and burn everything we buy.
• It stops permanently the moment the owner verifies. Unclaimed fees never go to the deployer or to the top burners.

Worked example

Say the vault holds 1 SOL when the grace period ends:

• Day 8: 0.5 SOL buys the coin back and every token bought is burned. 0.5 SOL stays.
• Day 9: half of what's left (0.25 SOL) plus half of the owner fees that arrived since day 8 are burned the same way.
• Day 10: the owner claims. Burns stop for good, and 24h later the owner can withdraw the rest (about 0.25 SOL plus whatever arrived since day 9).

Each unclaimed coin shows a public countdown, for example @handle — 12 SOL burns in 3d unless claimed. You can find them on Explore → Unclaimed.

• There is no automated moderation and no ranking by burn. Feeds are newest first.
• Owner hide: a verified owner can hide or unhide any post on their handle. Hidden posts keep their burn credit.
• Coin descriptions: the deployer writes the description, not the person the handle belongs to. The verified owner can hide or unhide it from the owner panel; everyone then sees “Description hidden by @handle”. A takedown removes it for good (“Description removed by burnbook”). Copies already pinned to IPFS by pump.fun can't be unpinned.
• Profile pictures: when a coin launches, burnbook keeps its own copy of the X avatar and banner (re-encoded, with metadata stripped), so pages and share cards don't depend on X. The avatar is also the coin's token image. Changed your pictures on X? The verified owner can press “Refresh images” in the owner panel to copy the new ones. The token image pinned at launch can't change.
• Takedowns: for legal requests we can remove a post's text, a coin's description, or its avatar or banner (a generated placeholder shows instead). The burn, the hash and the wallet stay on-chain.

• Burns are final. Burned tokens and paid fees can't be refunded.
• Not affiliated with X or with the account a coin is named after, unless that account has claimed it.
• Pseudonymous, not private. Your wallet is public on-chain, and so is every burn it makes.
• Handles change hands. X handles can be recycled; burnbook stores the X account ID to limit this. A hacked X account could claim a vault.
• Snipers. Bots can buy in the same block as a launch.
• Smart contract risk. Bugs in burnbook, pump.fun or PumpSwap could lose funds.
• Not financial advice. Leaderboard rewards depend on trading volume and are not guaranteed. Rules for tokens that pay holders vary by country; check yours.

Using Burnbook means accepting the Terms of Service. What we collect, and what we can't delete because it's on-chain, is in the Privacy Policy. Both start with a plain-language summary.