Terminal Guides and Tutorials

Why This Library Exists

Pump.fun bought the Padre trading terminal on 24 October 2025 and renamed it Terminal. The app itself carried on unchanged, but the documentation did not. As of August 2026 every path on docs.padre.gg returns a 302 redirect to the sign-in screen, including its sitemap, and it does so for Googlebot as well as for people. Google still ranks those pages under their original titles, so anyone searching for the Padre FAQ, the transaction settings reference or the wallets guide clicks a top result and lands on a login form. These guides exist because that documentation is the only public description of how the product works, and it is currently unreadable. Our reconciliation of the two names, Terminal, formerly Padre, is the page to read first if you arrived here confused about which app you are using.

The Seven Clusters

Getting Started covers signup, wallet creation, funding and your first trade, including the two things that catch new users out: there is no password recovery, and the default slippage setting is 20%. Trading Features documents the real order-type list, exit strategies and the Trenches discovery feed. Fees and Cashback shows how Terminal's flat 1% stacks with pump.fun's separate bonding-curve fee, and what the 10% versus 35% cashback split actually pays. Comparisons is one honest head-to-head against Axiom rather than a wall of thin versus pages. Ecosystem handles the PUMP token, the April 2026 burn and the airdrop that never came. Security and Safety explains the non-custodial key model and the lookalike domains. Troubleshooting decodes the in-app error catalog and the slippage trap behind most of the "my money disappeared" posts.

Where the Facts Come From

Three sources, and we label which is which whenever it matters. Archived captures of the old GitBook, dated January to March 2026, recovered from the Wayback Machine. Terminal's live production JavaScript bundle, read directly on 6 August 2026. And pump.fun's own published fee page, which is still live and still maintained. Where the archived docs and the shipped code disagree, we trust the code and say so on the page.

They disagree more often than you would expect. The docs describe execution presets named P1, P2 and P3; the live app renamed them Normal, Fast and Ultra. The marketing copy claims four chains; the chain selector in the shipped bundle lists five, with Robinhood Chain fully wired and mentioned in no official material at all. Third-party reviews list TWAP orders as a Terminal feature; the string does not exist in the bundle and it is absent from the order-type enum. Several features documented in 2025, including the Automations page and the Jeet Grid panel, have simply been deleted.

What Terminal Costs, in One Paragraph

Terminal charges 1% per trade. There are no volume tiers and no discount ladder; the rate is a single constant in the code, and volume only affects rewards. If the token you are buying is still on a pump.fun bonding curve, pump.fun's own 1.25% applies separately on top, per its published fee page. What the referral link changes is not the fee but the rebate: cashback on your own fees is 10% by default and 35% if a referral code was stored when you signed up, paid in SOL. The full arithmetic is in Terminal fees explained.

Who These Guides Are For

Padre-era users who woke up to a differently named app and want to know what changed should read the rename explainer and nothing else. New traders should work through how to trade on Terminal before funding anything, because two of its steps prevent real money loss. Anyone comparing venues wants Terminal vs Axiom, which is the only comparison with genuine search demand behind it and the only one we have built. And anyone already trading who hit a wall should go straight to the error message catalog, which is transcribed from the app itself because nobody else has published it.