Once CROWDED is live, launching a clan takes an X account, a Solana wallet and one signed transaction. A clan is a pump.fun coin registered through the CROWDED site and paired with the CROWDED coin, the currency every clan coin is quoted in. When 20 wallets each hold at least $5 of the coin, the clan enters the Arena and joins the daily contest.
What you need and what it costs
An X account. One X account owns one clan.
A Solana wallet with SOL. One wallet is tied to one X account for good, and the clan belongs to the wallet that created it.
You pay once, from your wallet:
pump.fun's coin creation cost
about $1.6 of account rent
0.1 SOL into the gas tank
Keep enough SOL for all three. The gas tank covers the clan's service transactions: fee collection, finishes and buybacks. None of it goes to the team. Buying your own coin is optional.
Before CROWDED goes live
The site never asks you to sign a transaction before CROWDED goes live. There is no pre-sale, whitelist or airdrop.
What you can prepare:
the X account that will own the clan
a Solana wallet with some SOL
a name (up to 24 characters), a ticker (3–6 capitals, unique), a picture and an emoji, which must be unique across CROWDED
one link, either your X or the coin's X (it can be changed later)
The CROWDED coin's contract address will be published only on the official site and in the pinned post of @Crowdedfun on X on launch day. There is one domain and no mirrors.
After CROWDED goes live: step by step
On the official site, press Create clan and sign in with X. The form is pre-filled from your profile.
Connect your wallet and sign one transaction. It creates the coin on pump.fun paired with the CROWDED coin and registers the clan. If it fails, nothing is created.
The coin is created. You get the clan link, an invite link and a share card.
Check that your wallet has a token account for the CROWDED coin. The owner share accumulates in the CROWDED coin, and without this account it goes to the Vault. The site does not create one for you.
The Arena, the Vault and the Debut
Until 20 wallets each hold $5 or more, the clan page shows the count of qualifying holders. Buys move the clan to that mark but do not count in the contest yet.
When the 20th holder is in, the clan joins the contest already running. Each contest ends at 00:00 UTC, and the task changes daily. A clan that later drops below the line sits out from the next day until it is back.
The Vault is a shared fund that receives 1.2 % of every clan trade. On a day with at least three clans on the Arena, after Ladder milestones, it buys back and burns the coins of the top three clans that scored at the finish.
A clan that enters the Arena today and brings the most people gets the Debut, a buyback from what is left after the three places, once per clan. A person here is a wallet that bought $20 or more by swap that day and still holds $20 or more at the finish.
The owner share
The owner share is 0.6 % of trade volume, part of the clan fee, which is currently 2 %. Its size depends on how much the coin trades. It accumulates in the CROWDED coin on the clan account and can be claimed at any time.
It goes to the Vault if you sign no CROWDED action, such as Claim or Ping, for 14 days. Buying on pump.fun does not count as an action. Once you sign again, the share resumes from the next collection, but what was missed does not come back. The owner tab shows a warning from day 10.
Holders see on the clan page how much of the supply you and your known wallets hold, how much was bought in the first block, an Owner sold marker, and when you last sold.
Official X: https://x.com/Crowdedfun
This is a description of the mechanics, not financial advice.