About Pump Metrics Desk
Pump Metrics Desk is an English-language editorial project about metric literacy on Solana. One figure per page: what it counts, what it hides, and how to check it against the chain.
What this desk covers
The subject is narrow on purpose. We write about the figures that appear on token dashboards and about the procedures for reproducing them from primary chain data. That includes supply and valuation figures, flow figures such as volume and transaction count, and distribution figures such as holder count, concentration and liquidity.
The recurring question on every page is the same: what does this number count, what does it leave out, and what would it take to check it yourself. Where a figure cannot be checked, we say so rather than substituting a proxy and hoping the difference does not matter.
Who writes it
Pages are published by The Pump Metrics Desk, which is the editorial name for the people producing this site. We do not attach individual bylines, invent author biographies, or claim credentials we cannot evidence. If a page contains a claim, the support for that claim is either a protocol fact you can look up, an arithmetic derivation shown in full, or a named public source you can read yourself.
That is a deliberate trade. An anonymous desk cannot borrow authority from a name, so every page has to carry its own reasoning. We think that is the right constraint for a site whose whole argument is that you should check things rather than accept them.
How a page gets built
Each page starts from one metric. We write down the definition first, then the formula, then the inputs the formula inherits. Only after that do we look at how the figure behaves when an input is soft or moved. Worked examples come last and are constructed by us to make a mechanism visible, never lifted from a live token.
Every article carries at least one of a definition table, a classification key, a step procedure or a worked calculation, and usually several. The intention is that a reader can act on a page rather than only agree with it.
Numbers on this site
Only three kinds of number appear here. Protocol facts, such as the nine decimals on native SOL or the field layout of an SPL mint account, are stated as facts because they are checkable. Arithmetic examples are labelled illustrative and use figures we chose ourselves. Figures attributed to a named public source carry the link to that source.
We publish no live market data. No prices, no market capitalisations for named tokens, no volume figures, no holder counts, no rankings. This is not modesty about capability; it is that a number of that kind is stale before you read it and we have no way to stand behind it afterwards.
What this desk does not publish
- Ratings, star scores, aggregate review counts or testimonials, because we have no defensible method for producing any of them.
- Price predictions, targets, or any statement about what a token will do.
- Named-token analysis presented as a verdict. The methods here are meant to be applied by you to tokens you care about.
- Sponsored coverage disguised as editorial. Where a commercial product is referenced, the reference is visible as such and explained in the editorial policy.
Commercial references
Some pages link to a third-party volume console. Those links exist because the site's subject includes activity that is deliberately produced, and looking at software that produces it is genuinely instructive when you are trying to recognise its signature from the outside. We do not audit that product, we do not verify its claims, and nothing on this site should be read as a recommendation to use it. The arrangement is set out plainly in the editorial policy.
Corrections
If a page is wrong, we want to know specifically how. A message identifying the page, the claim and the reason it fails is more useful than a general objection, and it is the kind of message that gets a page changed. Corrections are handled as described in the editorial policy, and the contact page has the address.
Where to start
If you are new to the site, the metric index defines the standard dashboard set and gives a reading order. From there, metrics holds the per-figure definitions, signals covers what patterns can and cannot support, and verification contains the two procedural pages.