Pump.fun coins close to graduating: how to track bonding-curve graduation on ripr

Pump.fun coins close to graduating are the ones whose bonding curve is nearly bought out, and on ripr you find them in three moves: filter Explore to the Pump.fun bonding curve, sort that list by activity, then read the Bonding Curve percentage on each coin page. That percentage is the number you are looking for, and it updates live as the coin trades, so the order of your shortlist changes through the day.

Where to find Pump.fun coins close to graduating

To find Pump.fun coins close to graduating on ripr, start in the Explore screener, which filters Solana coins by trading venue and by launchpad. The Pump.fun bonding curve sits in that venue list as its own entry, separate from the pool a coin trades in once it has graduated, so choosing it narrows the list to coins still climbing a curve.

A bonding curve is the pricing path a coin follows as people buy and sell it: buying pushes the price up the curve, and the coin graduates when the curve reaches its target. The help centre covers what a bonding curve is in simple terms.

Two other routes reach the same coins. Explore's newest-coins list is where fresh Pump.fun launches land, so you can pick one up early and watch it climb. And if somebody sends you a coin to look at, ripr's search takes a name, a ticker or a full contract address — the long string of letters and numbers that identifies a coin on Solana.

Sort the curve list so the coins actually moving come first

Sorting ripr's curve list by activity separates a curve that is filling from one that stalled months ago. The screener sorts by Volume 24h, Txns 24h and Holders as well as Trending and Market cap, and it carries range filters for market cap, liquidity and age, so you can pin the size band you trade.

The Market cap sort has a helpful habit built in: it hides coins with under $5,000 of liquidity or fewer than 100 holders unless you set those limits yourself. That saves you a scroll through coins nobody is actually trading.

Trending is worth its own look. ripr ranks it on how fast a coin's trades, volume and distinct buyers are growing, and it lowers coins whose activity looks manipulated — and broad, sustained buying is what carries a curve toward its target. Our post on meme coin market cap strategy goes further into reading a coin by its stage.

How to read how close a coin is to graduating

How close a coin is to graduating is a number on its ripr coin page. Open the coin, go to the About section and find Bonding Curve progress: below 100% the curve is still being bought, and at 100% the coin has reached its target and moved on to a pool. ripr's help centre sets out what "about to graduate" and "graduated" mean for you at each stage.

Because it is a percentage, you can order a shortlist by it. Two Pump.fun coins read out of ripr's market data show the spread: one sat at about 95% of its curve, with only a sliver left to be bought, the other at about 80%, with a fifth of the way still to go. The figure moves as the coin trades, so a shortlist built in the morning will have reshuffled by the evening.

What the percentage does not do is promise a coin will finish. It measures how much of the curve has been bought so far — where the coin is, not where it is going.

Keep a shortlist of near-graduation coins and get notified

Keep your near-graduation shortlist on a watchlist in ripr's Explore, because a live list only helps if you are looking at it when something happens. Explore holds watchlists on web, iOS and Android next to its trending, newest and upcoming lists, so one screen carries the whole shortlist.

ripr's notifications cover dozens of event types, from replies and follows to price and launch alerts, and they are capped at eight pushes an hour and 25 a day, so a long watchlist will not flood your phone.

When you open a coin, prices, charts and the trade list update over a persistent streaming connection instead of waiting for you to refresh the page. That matters most on a coin whose curve is nearly full, because activity around a stage change can pick up quickly and the price with it.

What to check before you buy a coin near graduation

Close to graduating is a stage, not a verdict, so run the same checks on ripr that you would run on any new coin. The help centre is direct about what the about-to-graduate phase is like: activity can increase quickly, price can move faster, and estimates can change more between the preview and the confirmation. Five things worth doing before you commit:

1. Read the warnings first. Before you buy, ripr shows warnings for known rug patterns — a creator who holds unlocked liquidity, liquidity that has already been pulled, a coordinated launch — and it says plainly that not seeing a warning never means a coin is safe. The same warnings show up in the buy flow, because every prepared trade is checked.
2. Look at who holds the coin. ripr shows how much of the supply the top 10 and top 50 holders hold, and how much the creator holds, with pools and vaults left out. A curve that has been bought mostly by a handful of wallets reads very differently from one bought by hundreds.
3. Read the coin page's own labels. On iOS and Android, a coin page tells you when a coin is under review, has low liquidity, has paused prices or is still being checked. Explore also has a Hide warnings filter you can switch on to keep flagged coins out of your lists.
4. Set slippage before the busy part. Auto slippage sets your maximum from how much the coin moved in the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, or you can set it yourself. The help centre explains what slippage is and how to set it.
5. Check the address and start small. Paste the full contract address into ripr's search so you land on the exact coin rather than a lookalike with the same ticker, and look the mint up on Solana's block explorer if you want a second read. Then size the first trade as money you can lose.

Two further reads help here: how to spot a risky meme coin before you buy and when to buy a meme coin: entry timing on ripr.

Frequently asked questions

How can I tell if a Pump.fun coin is close to graduating?

Open the coin on ripr, go to the About section and read Bonding Curve progress. A figure below 100% means the curve is still being bought, and the closer it is to 100%, the less of the curve is left. The number updates live as the coin trades.

Does ripr show Pump.fun coins that are still on the bonding curve?

Yes. ripr discovers and trades Pump.fun coins, and its Explore screener filters coins by trading venue and by launchpad, so you can narrow a list to coins still on the Pump.fun bonding curve. Whether a particular coin is tradable depends on its pool.

What happens when a Pump.fun coin graduates?

At 100% bonding-curve progress the coin has reached its target and moves to the post-graduation stage, where its liquidity sits in a decentralized exchange pool. ripr trades Pump.fun coins both on the curve and in pools, so a coin you were watching stays on the same coin page.

Can ripr alert me about a coin I am watching?

ripr's notifications cover dozens of event types, including price and launch alerts, and you can keep coins on a watchlist in Explore on web, iOS and Android. Pushes are capped at eight an hour and 25 a day.

Where to start with near-graduation coins

Open the Explore screener, filter the venue to the Pump.fun bonding curve, sort by Volume 24h, then open the top two or three coins and read Bonding Curve in the About section. Put the ones you like on a watchlist and follow one for a day before you trade it — a curve at 95% draws very different attention from a quiet one, and that is easier to learn by watching than by reading.

When you are ready to trade one, the help centre walks through how to buy a coin on ripr step by step.

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Last verified 3 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.