Terminology

New to launching or trading tokens? This page explains the words you will meet in the app and in these docs. Pages link here the first time they use a word, so you can jump in and back.

Basics#

Burn#

To destroy tokens for good. Burned tokens leave the supply and never come back.

Chain#

The blockchain a wallet or token lives on. VortexDeployer works on Solana and Robinhood Chain.

Contract address#

The address that names one token on the chain. Also called the CA or mint.

Dead address#

An address on Robinhood Chain that no one controls. It ends in dEaD. Tokens sent there can never move again.

Dry run#

A test run that shows what would happen without sending anything. It spends no money. The app's screens no longer offer one, but the API still does, and old test runs still show as Simulated.

Explorer#

A public website that shows every transaction and wallet on a chain, such as Solscan for Solana.

Holder#

A wallet that holds some of a token. Explorers count holders to show how widely a token is spread.

Lock#

To put tokens where nobody can move or sell them until a date you set. A hard lock cannot be opened early, not even by its owner.

Mint address#

The address that names one token on Solana. Paste it to pick that token.

Preset#

A saved setup you can reuse with one click. Quick deploy keeps three launch presets (PRESET 1, 2 and 3). The terminal keeps three sets of buy amounts and sell sizes for its quick-trade buttons.

Robinhood Chain#

A separate blockchain that uses ETH for fees. The app launches tokens there on pons.

Streamflow#

An outside Solana app that holds locked tokens until their unlock date. The app's Lock button uses it.

Supply#

The total number of a token's coins. "% of supply" means that share of all the coins.

Telegram bot#

The VortexDeployer bot on Telegram, @DeployOnVortexBot. It gives you the button you use to sign in.

Terminal#

The screen where you watch and trade one token.

Token#

A coin you create or trade, such as a new pump.fun coin.

Transaction#

One action recorded on the chain, such as a buy, a sell or a transfer. Once it lands, it cannot be undone.

Transaction signature#

The id of one transaction on the chain. Paste it into a block explorer to see the transaction.

XID#

The app's live feed of posts and activity from chosen X accounts.

Wallets & money#

Aged wallet#

A wallet that is weeks or months old and already has real trades. It looks like a normal trader's wallet.

Attached wallet#

A wallet you added to a token, so it shows in that token's terminal and can trade it.

Base58#

The way Solana writes keys and addresses: a long string of letters and digits. Phantom shows private keys this way.

CEX#

A central exchange, like Binance or Coinbase. A company holds the funds for you.

Deposit address#

An address made for one order. You send money to it, and the service on the other side pays it out.

Dev wallet#

The wallet that creates your token, also called the creator wallet. It pays for the launch and makes the dev buy. Wallets with the role Dev are meant for this job, but the role alone does not make a wallet the dev wallet of a token.

ETH#

The coin you pay with on Robinhood Chain. Network fees there are paid in ETH.

Folder#

A named list you sort pool wallets into, on the Wallets page. A wallet is in one folder at most.

Funding source#

The exchange or wallet that first sent money to a wallet. Wallets with the same funding source can look related.

Gas#

The small amount of SOL or ETH a wallet needs to pay the network fee for a transaction.

Global pool#

Another name for your wallet pool: the wallets under Global wallets that belong to no single project. Any project can borrow them.

Husher#

The outside exchange service the Mixer uses. It pays your wallets from the exchange, and takes its own fee.

Mixer#

A way to fund or collect through an outside exchange, so your wallets are not linked by direct transfers.

Payment address#

The address made for one Wallet Marketplace order. You send the order's exact amount to it before the order runs out.

Private key#

The secret that controls a wallet. Anyone who has it can take everything in the wallet.

Project wallet#

A wallet that belongs to one project. It shows under that project on the Wallets page.

Rent#

A small amount of SOL that must stay in a Solana account to keep it open. You get it back when the account is closed.

Role#

A label on a wallet, such as Dev, Bundle or Trading, that tells tasks which wallets to use.

SOL#

The coin you pay with on Solana. Network fees on Solana are paid in SOL.

Stablecoin#

A token meant to stay worth one US dollar, like USDC or USD1.

Temporary wallet#

A wallet the app makes for one short job and then empties. It is not saved on your Wallets page.

Token account#

The small account a wallet needs to hold one kind of token. Opening it costs a little rent.

Token approval#

On Robinhood, a transaction that allows a contract to move your tokens, so it can sell them for you.

Vortex Disperse#

A way to fund many wallets: your deposit is passed through short-lived in-between wallets, so your wallets are not paid straight from one shared wallet.

Wallet#

An address on a chain that holds coins and tokens. VortexDeployer creates and runs wallets for you.

Wallet Marketplace#

The page where you buy ready-made wallets: funded ones, aged ones with trades, and dev wallets. You pay on-chain, and the wallets join your wallet pool.

Wallet pool#

All the wallets you own in the app, under Global wallets. Projects borrow wallets from it.

Wallet role#

A short tag that says what a wallet is for, like Dev, Bundle or Sniper.

Warm-up#

Small real trades that give a new wallet a history, so it does not look brand new.

Wrapped SOL#

SOL held as a token (wSOL), so it can be traded like other tokens. You can turn it back into plain SOL.

Launching#

Bonding curve#

The pool a new token trades in right after launch. Its price rises as people buy and falls as they sell.

Creator fees#

A small share of every trade in your token that the launchpad pays to the creator. Some launchpads let you send it to holders instead.

Creator wallet#

The wallet that creates your token on the launchpad. It pays the launch costs and makes the dev buy.

Dev buy#

The first buy of your token, made by the creator wallet in the same moment it creates the token.

Draft#

A project that is saved but not launched yet. Its token does not exist until it is minted.

Graduation#

The moment a token's bonding curve fills up. Trading then moves to a normal trading pool.

Launch batch#

Several launches of the same token setup in a row, from one press of Create. Up to 10.

Launch wizard#

The step-by-step window where you set up and create a new token.

Launchpad#

The site and program a token starts on, such as Pump.fun or Bonk.

Lookup table#

A small list of addresses saved on Solana, so one transaction can fit more buyers. Making one costs rent, which comes back when it is closed.

Metadata URI#

The web link to a small file with your token's name, symbol, picture and description. Wallets and sites read it to show your token.

Migration#

The moment a token fills its bonding curve and moves to a full trading pool.

Mint#

To create a token on the chain. A launch mints the token, then makes the first buys.

OTC Desks#

A separate site, otcdesks.cash. A Pump.fun token paired with it sends its creator fees there, to pay holders a reward.

Pair token#

The coin your token is priced in and bought with, such as SOL, USDC or a tokenized stock. It is set at launch.

pons#

A token launchpad on Robinhood Chain.

Project#

One token launch in the app, with its own wallets and tasks.

Pump coin#

Any token that was launched on pump.fun. You can use one as the pair token for a new Pump.fun launch.

pump.fun#

A Solana launchpad where new tokens start on a bonding curve.

Quick deploy#

A short form that launches a token in one go, using the defaults you saved in Settings.

Quote token#

The kind of coin a new token's price is counted in at launch, such as SOL, USDC or a tokenized stock. Some kinds also need the exact coin: the pair token.

Scheduled launch#

A launch you set to run at a later time. The app sends it for you at that time.

Snipe tax#

An extra fee pons charges buyers in the first moments after a launch. Snipe wallets on your own pons launch do not pay it.

Sniper#

Someone who buys a new token in its first seconds, often with a bot, hoping to sell to later buyers.

Tokenized stock#

A token that follows the price of a real company's stock. Some launchpads let you price a new token in one.

Vanity address#

A token address you choose to have a pattern, such as ending in "pump". You make it yourself with a key tool.

Trading#

Bag#

The tokens you still hold of a token. Its value is what they would bring if you sold them now.

Basis points#

Hundredths of a percent. 100 basis points is 1 %.

bps#

Short for basis points. 100 bps is 1 %, so 300 bps is 3 %.

Bundle#

Several transactions sent together so they land in the same block, in order, or not at all.

Cashback#

Part of the trading fee paid back to the trader on some coins. You claim it from the Wallets page.

Jito bundle#

Up to 5 transactions sent together through Jito. They land in the same block, in order, or none of them land.

Jito tip#

A small extra payment that asks the network to put your bundle in a block quickly.

KOL#

A well-known trader whose wallet people watch. In the app, any wallet on your Tracker list.

Limit order#

An order that waits until the price reaches a number you pick, then buys or sells.

Liquidity#

The money in a token's pool that buyers and sellers trade against. More liquidity means prices move less per trade.

Market cap#

What all of a token's coins are worth together at the current price, in US dollars.

P&L#

Profit and loss: how much you made or lost.

PnL#

Profit and loss: what your trades made or lost. Often written P&L.

Pool#

The place on the chain where a token is traded against SOL or another coin. Its price comes from what is in it.

Position return#

What you sold, plus what your remaining tokens would sell for now, minus what you spent.

Price impact#

How much your own trade moves the price. Big trades in small pools get a worse price.

Priority fee#

An extra fee you add to a transaction so it gets into a block sooner.

PumpSwap#

pump.fun's trading pools, where tokens trade after they leave the bonding curve.

Slippage#

How far the price may move between your click and your trade. If it moves more, the trade is refused.

Stock token#

A Solana token that follows the price of a real company's stock, such as NVDAx or TSLAx.

Stop-loss#

A rule that sells early when a token drops a set percent below what you paid.

Take profit#

A sell that happens when the price rises to a goal you set, to lock in a gain.

Volume#

The total value of a token's buys and sells over a period, such as 24 hours.

Tasks & automation#

DCA#

Dollar-cost averaging: buying or selling the same amount on a timer, so you get an average price over time.

Ladder#

A row of limit orders at evenly spread levels, so you buy or sell a part at each level.

Launch task#

A task added in the Create Project wizard. It can start the moment your token exists.

Mirror#

A task that answers other people's trades on your token: it sells when they buy, or buys when they sell.

Supply plan#

A saved list of how much of a token's supply each wallet should buy, in %.

Task#

A job the app runs for you, such as buying, selling or making volume, over many wallets or over time. It keeps running on our servers after you close the window, until it finishes or you stop it.

Task preset#

A saved set of task settings. Load it in the New task form to reuse the same settings.

Trailing stop#

A sell level that follows the price up and sells when the price drops a set percent from its highest point.

Account & fees#

Fee tier#

Your level for platform fees. The more fees you have paid in total, the higher your tier and the lower your rate.

Network fee#

The small fee the chain charges for every transaction. It goes to the network, not to us.

Platform fee#

The fee VortexDeployer takes on each buy and sell made in the app. Its rate depends on your fee tier and gets smaller on higher tiers.

Referral code#

Your own short code for inviting people. It is the last part of your invite link.

Tier#

Your account level. Higher tiers unlock more features and pay a lower platform fee.

API#

Access token#

A short-lived code an OAuth app sends instead of an API key. On VortexDeployer it starts with vdo_, lasts 1 hour and acts as the API key it was tied to.

API key#

A secret code that lets your own program use your account through the API. Treat it like a password.

Base units#

The smallest unit of a coin or token, as a whole number. 1 SOL is 1,000,000,000 lamports; a token with 6 decimals has 1,000,000 base units per token.

Bearer token#

A secret sent in the Authorization header as "Bearer <token>". Whoever holds it can use it, so keep it hidden.

Idempotency key#

A name you choose for one operation and send with it. If you send the same call again with the same name, the API returns the first answer instead of doing it twice.

MCP#

Model Context Protocol: a standard way for AI assistants such as Claude to call outside tools. VortexDeployer's MCP server turns each API call into a tool.

OAuth#

A standard way for an app to get access to your account without seeing your password. You approve it once, and it gets a token.

OpenAPI#

A standard file format that describes every call of an API, its fields and its answers. Tools can read it to build a client for you.

PKCE#

Proof Key for Code Exchange: an OAuth step where the app proves, with a secret it made, that it is the same app that asked for access.

Rate limit#

A cap on how many calls you may make in a set time, such as 300 a minute. Go over it and you must wait.

Refresh token#

A longer-lived OAuth code that gets a new access token when the old one runs out. On VortexDeployer it starts with vdr_ and works once.

Request key#

A UUID you make for one Wallet Marketplace order made through the API. Send the same one again and you get the same order back, not a second one.

Restricted key#

An API key with limits on it: a max per buy, a daily cap, a wallet list or sandbox mode. Some actions need a key with no limits.

Scope#

A permission on an API key, such as read, trade, launch or stream. A key can only make the calls its scopes allow.

Trace id#

A code that names one API call in our logs. Send it to support when you ask about a call.

WebSocket#

A connection that stays open, so the server can send you news the moment it happens.