pump.fun Launch Day Timeline: Hour by Hour, From Prep to Exit

Launch day goes wrong in a predictable way. The dev wakes up, starts designing the image at noon, funds the wallets at three, notices the dev wallet is short at four, and launches at five while also writing the tweet. By six they cannot remember why buyer 4 holds more than buyer 1.

The fix is to move almost everything off the day itself. Here is a timeline that does that.

#The whole day at a glance

#A week before: the creative part

Everything that needs taste or thought happens here. Draft the name, ticker, image and description. Show them to someone. Sleep on them.

This is also when you do a practice run on devnet. It costs nothing, and it shows you every screen you will see on the day. Devnet sends the transactions one after another instead of as a Jito bundle, and its pump.fun curve is configured very differently, so ignore the percentages. The point is the steps. Test your launch on Solana devnet walks through it.

#Two or three days before: lock the plan

Write the exit rules down now. They are much easier to set while the coin does not exist yet. On launch day the chart will try to talk you out of them.

#The day before: wallets and SOL

Create and label the wallets, group them, and fund them. In DevBundler, distribute sends equal or custom amounts to the whole group from one wallet.

Fund each wallet with its buy plus about 0.003 SOL, and the dev wallet with roughly 0.03 SOL on top of that, plus the Jito tip and the platform fee. Then add a margin. If you raise the tip tomorrow, the dev wallet needs to cover it.

If this is the account's first launch, picking the dev wallet also prepares a reusable address lookup table, a one-time cost of about 0.005 SOL. Doing it the day before means it is ready in the morning.

#Two hours before: the words

Draft the post that will go out with the coin address: one tweet, one Telegram message, whatever your channels are. Leave a gap for the address. When the coin is live you will want to paste and post in seconds, not write.

Check the socials you are linking actually work and mention the coin.

#One hour before: network conditions

Solana gets busy at different times. When it is busy, transactions compete for space and a bundle with a low tip can sit unpicked until its blockhash expires.

1. 1

   Look at current conditions

   Check how congested the network is right now.

2. 2

   Set the Jito tip

   We suggest at least 0.005 SOL, higher when busy. Tip levels change, so judge on the day.

3. 3

   Set the priority fee

   A higher compute unit price helps transactions get scheduled when the network is busy.

4. 4

   Recheck the dev wallet

   It pays the tip. Make sure the table still shows it as funded.

Jito tips explained covers how to judge the tip.

#Five minutes before: read, do not change

#Launch: one press

Press launch once. DevBundler runs a quick check that pump.fun is reachable, the coin address is unused, every wallet has enough SOL and the buys will not sell out the curve. If anything fails, nothing is sent and the project page shows why, with "Launch again". If it passes, the bundle goes out and you land on the dashboard.

#The first hour

Confirm your wallets hold what the table predicted, post the coin address, then watch. Use the short candles on the chart. Follow the exit rules you wrote three days ago. The first minutes after a pump.fun launch has the details of what to look at.

Choose your launch time around this hour. Whatever hour you pick, you should be able to sit at the screen for it without interruptions.

#The evening: clean up

Whatever happened, finish the day tidy.

Launch wallets in DevBundler are hosted wallets, their keys stored encrypted on DevBundler's server so it can sign for you. Leave in them only what the next launch needs.