How awarded works

Anyone can launch a coin on pump.fun through awarded and name a redditor. The coin is a normal pump.fun coin; the only difference is who the creator fees are for. Every trade pays a creator fee, and awarded converts that fee into Reddit Gold awarded to one of the named redditor’s posts. Gold is real money inside Reddit: the Contributor Program pays it out to a bank account.

The creator never connects a wallet, never logs into awarded, and never holds a token. If they do nothing, the Gold still lands.

1. Type a Reddit username or paste a profile link. It is normalised to u/name.
2. Name the coin, pick a ticker, add an image (resized in your browser to keep the upload small).
3. Optionally add a first buy of up to 10 SOL so you are the first holder.
4. Sign. The image and metadata are pinned through pump.fun’s IPFS endpoint, then create_v2 runs with the awarded fee account written in as the curve creator. A first buy is a second, separate transaction.

The server verifies your signed bytes before relaying them — fee payer, mint, program and signer set must match what it built — and only lists the coin once the create has confirmed on-chain.

pump.fun stores exactly one creator per bonding curve and pays creator fees into that address’s vault. awarded sets it to its own fee account and records which redditor each coin is for. The route is on-chain and immutable from the first trade; the mapping from mint to username lives in awarded’s database and is shown on every coin page.

Fee account

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Set by

create_v2 · creator

Verified how

The coin page reads the curve’s creator from chain and compares it to the fee account.

Can it change?

No. Neither the launcher nor the redditor can move it after creation.

Hourly, awarded collects what settled in the fee account, prices it in USD at that moment and credits the redditor’s balance. Once a balance reaches $1.99 — the price of one Gold — an award is queued and sent to one of their recent posts from the u/awardedapp account.

Reddit has no gifting API, so awards are sent by hand and each one is marked on its receipt with the post it landed on. The Gold then sits in the redditor’s Contributor balance; Reddit pays it out once it passes $10.00.

Price of 1 Gold

$1.99 on reddit.com

Paid to a Top Contributor

$1.00 per Gold (5,000+ karma in the last 12 months)

Paid to a Contributor

$0.90 per Gold (100–4,999 karma)

Reddit’s cut

about 50% at the payout step

Minimum award

$1.99 in fees (1 Gold); remainders carry over

Reddit payout threshold

$10.00

Every figure on the site is quoted at the Top Contributor rate and every receipt prints Reddit’s cut plainly. We do not round Gold up.

Two kinds print. A Gold receipt for every award (Gold count, what the creator keeps, Reddit’s cut, the post it landed on). A milestone receipt every $20.00 of creator fees a redditor has generated, so the lifetime figure has a paper trail even between awards.

pump.fun creator fee

100% forwarded to the named redditor as Gold

awarded’s cut of creator fees

None

Network fees + first buy

Paid by the launcher

Reddit’s cut

Taken by Reddit when Gold converts to cash — see Gold math

awarded token

There is none. Anything claiming to be one is not ours.