Padre Terminal Migration: What Changed for Your Account, and What Did Not

If you had a Padre account, there is nothing for you to migrate. Padre became Terminal when pump.fun acquired it in October 2025, and the rename was exactly that: a new name on an application that kept running. No new signup, no transfer step, no window you missed. If you opened your trading terminal one morning to find it called something else, nothing is wrong with your account.

The rename was announced, then executed unevenly, and nine months later the loose ends are still visible. One domain says Padre, another says Terminal, the documentation redirects to a login wall, and the app's own share cards still print the old address. That is what makes a routine rebrand read as something worth worrying about.

This page is the migration side of it: what changed for someone who was already using Padre, what carried over untouched, what a returning user has to redo, and which of the four live domains to sign in at. For what the product is today, the chains it trades, the fee it charges and the order types it ships, what Terminal actually is covers the product itself.

What happened to Padre?

On 24 October 2025, pump.fun announced it had acquired Padre, a multi-chain trading terminal that had been running since 2023. The announcement framed it as an expansion into pro trading tools rather than an absorption. Padre's team joined pump.fun and posted that they were "proud to join @pumpdotfun for the next chapter of Padre."

The product was renamed Terminal. It was not rewritten, replaced, or migrated. The clearest proof is technical: as of 6 August 2026, terminal.pump.fun and trade.padre.gg serve the same JavaScript bundle, down to the filename. Two front doors, one application.

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Which Padre or Terminal domain should you use?

All four of these are live and serve official product. None of them forwards to a single canonical address.

Use terminal.pump.fun. It is the address pump.fun is standing behind, and it is the one that will survive whenever the domain consolidation finally happens.

Note that none of these are pump.fun itself, which is the launchpad and a separate product with its own fees. The pump.fun app versus Terminal explains how the two relate.

Is Terminal the same app as Padre?

This is the part worth being specific about, because "nothing changed" is easy to say and hard to trust.

The custody model deserves emphasis because it is the single most common worry. Padre's own documentation stated it plainly: "Padre never stores or has access to your password. Your assets stay safe, even from us." Keys are encrypted with a password the platform says it does not hold, and the app still has no password reset route. What that means for you in a dispute is a question for a lawyer, not for a guide site. The practical step is the same one it always was: export your private keys and store them offline, so your access does not depend on the app continuing to exist.

If you want the longer version of how that works and why Terminal asks for a private key when you import an external wallet, read our guide to Terminal wallets and custody.

If your question is the one behind the question, whether padre.gg was safe to use works through the scanner scores that disagree with each other and what the real risks turn out to be.

What actually changed in the rename?

The PADRE token was discarded

This is the real controversy, and it is the reason some of the search results for "Padre" are hostile.

When the acquisition was announced, the PADRE token lost its platform utility with no replacement, and it fell roughly 80 percent within about an hour, as reported at the time. Holders publicly called it a rug pull. That is their characterization, not a finding by anyone, and we are repeating it because it is a large part of what a search for "Padre" now returns. The underlying complaint is straightforward: people had bought a token whose value rested on a revenue-share and utility model that a corporate transaction switched off.

Pump.fun's remediation was a snapshot taken on 24 October 2025, letting PADRE holders submit a Solana wallet address and claim PUMP as compensation. That window closed on 30 December 2025. If you held PADRE and did not claim, there is no remaining route.

Worth stating fairly: this compensation is the closest thing pump.fun has delivered to a token distribution. The much-discussed pump.fun airdrop, promised in July 2025, still had not arrived a year later. We cover that honestly on our PUMP token page.

The documentation went dark

We recovered it. 149 pages, pulled from Wayback captures running to March 2026, are catalogued in the documentation archive, including the official FAQ.

docs.padre.gg used to host a full GitBook: FAQ, security model, transaction settings, wallet guides, an app tour. Sometime between March and May 2026 it was taken offline. Every path now returns a 302 redirect to the app's sign-in screen, including /sitemap.xml and /llms.txt. Googlebot gets the same redirect, so it does not behave like a bot challenge. Why it is configured this way, we do not know.

The result is a bad experience that is nobody's fault in particular: Google still ranks those doc pages under their original titles, so searching for "Padre transaction settings" gets you a top result that dumps you on a login form.

Features were added that nobody documented

The gap runs both ways. Since the documentation went offline the app has gained a voice chat client, group lobbies, trade callouts and a feature called Mayhem Mode, and none of it has an official write-up because there is no longer anywhere to publish one. We read what the shipped code shows in Terminal's undocumented features.

Some features were removed

Comparing the 2025 documentation against the build we examined on 6 August 2026, several things are no longer there:

• Automations and copy trading. The Automations documentation page was deleted. Only order-tagging remains in the app, so copy trading should be treated as legacy rather than a feature you can rely on.
• Jeet Grid, the color-coded early-buyer behavior panel, does not appear in the current navigation or in the bundle we searched.
• The entire $PADRE token documentation group: tokenomics, utility, revenue sharing. That follows directly from the token being discarded.
• Passkeys. Padre had supported them, then retreated: "passkeys provide a robust layer of protection, [but] we found that they introduced too much friction."

The company kept buying

In February 2026, pump.fun announced it had acquired Vyper, another trading terminal, and would fold its team and technology into Terminal. Reporting at the time said Vyper's own app would begin winding down on 10 February 2026, four days after the announcement, that migrating users were offered up to 90 percent fee cashback as a limited-time incentive, and that the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Does the rename affect your fees or cashback?

No. Terminal charges a 1% trading fee, the same as it did as Padre, and we found no volume tiers. No discount table appears in the bundle we searched on 6 August 2026 or in any archived version of the documentation.

What does vary is the cashback rate, and it is worth knowing about because the difference is large:

Cashback is paid in SOL and accrues per trade, claimable from the Rewards page. The rate is set at signup by whether a referral code was stored, which means it is not something you can change later. Our fees guide breaks down how the 1% interacts with pump.fun's separate 1.25% bonding-curve fee, and the referral page covers the cashback mechanics in detail.

What does a returning Padre user have to redo?

Almost nothing, and that is the honest answer. But three things are worth checking on your first sign-in under the new name, because each one is a setting rather than a migration.

Your slippage. It survived the rename along with everything else, which is the problem if it was never right in the first place. The default sits at 20% in the normal interface and 50% in the Inferno presets, and that setting costs small traders more than every fee on the platform combined. Why small trades lose money on Terminal is the single most useful thing we found while writing this site.

Your bookmark. If yours points at app.padre.gg, you are on Padre V1, a genuinely older build. Repoint it at terminal.pump.fun.

Your cashback rate. This is the one thing the rename could not fix for you. The rate was set at whatever it was when the account was first created and cannot be changed on an existing account, which is covered in the fees section above.

Whether the product is worth staying on is a separate question from whether the rename broke anything, and it is answered on the product page rather than here: what Terminal actually is weighs the custody model, the order engine and the execution-speed criticism, and Terminal vs Axiom puts cited fee numbers next to each other.

The bottom line

Padre became Terminal, the app did not change, and your account came with it. The messy part is not the product. It is that the rename was left half-finished across four domains while the documentation was taken down, which makes an ordinary corporate rebrand look like something worth worrying about.

Use terminal.pump.fun, ignore the lookalikes, and if you are signing up fresh, sign up through a referral link, because 35% cashback versus 10% is decided at that moment and cannot be changed afterwards.