01 — How it works
Paste a link. Trade it. Graduate it.
Gumlink is a live market for internet attention. Here's the whole loop, start to finish — what each action does, how the score works, and how a link goes from a paste to a graduation badge.
- 01
Drop a link
Connect a Solana wallet with Privy, paste any URL, give it a ticker tag like $CANS, and launch it into the live market. Every drop gets a permanent, unique gum address.
- Browsing the feed and drop pages is open to everyone. Launching a link, gumming, commenting, following and trading all require a connected wallet — sign in with Privy and your Solana address becomes your identity across the platform.
- Your ticker tag ($CANS, $RICK, $WHO) is unique and shows on every card. But the real identity of a drop is its gum address — a 44-character base58 string that always ends in "gum", generated automatically and guaranteed unique.
- The moment you drop, your link enters the live feed and starts competing for attention against every other active link, and a live event fires in the homepage ticker.
- Right after launch you're offered an optional buy-in modal — back your own drop with any amount of SOL to seed its bonding curve.
- Each drop gets a dedicated, permanent page at /l/<gum-address> where all its stats, activity, buys, comments and trades live forever.
- 02
Gum what you love
Gumming is one-tap appreciation. Recent, unique gums carry the most weight — so fresh attention matters more than raw volume.
- A "gum" is a single tap of appreciation — think of it as a like that actually moves the needle. You need a connected wallet to gum.
- Each gum is worth 10 points toward the link's Gum Score.
- Only unique gums count. Spam-clicking gum a hundred times won't help — the system deduplicates by visitor.
- Because momentum weights recent activity heavily, a gum from someone who just arrived matters more than one from an hour ago.
- 03
Trade the curve
Every drop launches with its own bonding curve. Buy shares with SOL, the price rises as supply grows, and you can sell back at any time.
- Each link gets a constant-product curve seeded with 30 virtual SOL against 1,000,000,000 virtual shares — so the first buyers get the cheapest price.
- Buying sends SOL to the treasury, gets verified on-chain, then mints you shares at the live curve price. Your position and cost basis are tracked per link, per wallet.
- Selling burns your shares back into the curve and pays SOL out to your wallet from the treasury. You sign a message to prove wallet ownership before any payout is sent.
- A 1% fee is taken on both buys and sells. Every trade is logged with its status and Solana signature, viewable on Solscan.
- Your holdings, unrealized P&L and full trade history live on the Deposit page linked from your profile.
- 04
Climb the rankings
Links rise on momentum, not total clicks. Gums, clicks, comments and shares all feed a rolling score that decays over time.
- The Gum Score is the sum of all engagement: gums (×10), unique clicks (×2), shares (×4), and comments (×5).
- Momentum is what actually determines ranking. It's calculated as: recent engagement × 4 + total score ÷ (age in hours + 2).
- This means a link dropped 20 minutes ago with fresh activity can outrank a link that's been quietly accumulating clicks for two days.
- As a link ages, its momentum naturally decays unless it keeps earning fresh engagement — so the feed stays dynamic and new links always have a shot.
- The four public feeds — Trending (highest momentum), New (most recent), Graduating (progress toward graduation), and Graduated (past graduation) — let you slice the market however you want. Sign in and a fifth "Following" feed appears, showing drops only from creators you follow with infinite scroll.
- The King of the Hill spotlight on the homepage shows the single highest-momentum link in the market right now.
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Share & deep-link
Every drop has a permanent gum address and a short deep-link you can share anywhere — on social, in a QR, or straight to a friend.
- Each drop's deep link lives at gumlink.fun/a/<gum-address>. It always resolves to the right drop page, even if the ticker tag is hard to remember.
- On any drop page you can copy the deep link, open it in a new tab, or trigger native device sharing with one tap.
- Every drop has a downloadable QR code pointing at its deep link — scan to open instantly on mobile.
- Sharing a deep link also counts toward the link's share metric, which feeds its Gum Score.
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Follow creators
Every wallet is also a creator profile. Follow the ones you like and get a personalized feed of their drops.
- Each wallet has a public profile at /u/<address> showing their launched links, total gums, follower count, and quick links to their latest and graduated drops.
- Follow a creator from their profile with one tap — the Follow button disables on your own profile so you can't follow yourself.
- Profiles include paginated Followers and Following panels so you can browse who's connected to a wallet.
- Once you follow creators, the homepage "Following" tab surfaces their drops, ranked by momentum, with infinite scroll so you never have to refresh.
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Graduate
The curve decides graduation. Once a drop's bonding curve holds 50 SOL of real liquidity, it graduates — permanently.
- A link graduates the moment its curve reaches 50 SOL of real buy-in liquidity. That milestone is permanent and earns the 🎓 badge.
- The graduation meter on each card (0–100%) tracks progress toward 1000 Gum Score as a quick visibility signal, but actual graduation is driven purely by SOL raised on the curve.
- Graduated links keep their page, curve, stats and history forever — trading doesn't stop after graduation.
- The Graduated feed ranks all graduated drops by total Gum Score, so the most culturally important links float to the top.