How We Verify Figures

The problem: the source of truth is offline

Terminal is the Padre trading terminal, renamed after pump.fun acquired it in October 2025. Padre's documentation lived on a GitBook at docs.padre.gg. Wayback captures return a normal 200 response through 8 March 2026, then stop. Today every path on that host, including /sitemap.xml and /llms.txt, returns a 302 redirect to the app's sign-in screen, and it behaves the same way for Googlebot.

So there is no current official manual for the product. Every site writing about Terminal is either quoting documentation that no longer exists, or guessing. We do neither without saying which. More on why that shaped the whole site on the about page.

The three evidence tiers

Every factual claim on this site traces to one of three tiers, and pages label which one they are leaning on whenever it matters.

Below those three sit dated press reports, used for corporate events like acquisitions and token burns where no primary source is public, and always attributed to the outlet that ran them. Reddit and YouTube comments are quoted only as evidence that a user problem exists, never as evidence that a number is correct.

When the docs and the code disagree, the code wins

This is not a hypothetical. The archived documentation is wrong in ways that would actively mislead a reader, and here are the three clearest cases:

• Solana venue coverage. The docs list four Solana DEXes. The shipped app routes across sixteen, including Raydium and its CLMM and CP pools, Orca Whirlpool, four Meteora variants, pump.fun itself, PumpSwap, LaunchLab, Boop, Moonit, Heaven, Token Mill and Sugar. We publish sixteen.
• Chain count. The docs and the acquisition marketing both say four chains: Solana, Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain. The live chain selector ships five. The fifth is Robinhood Chain, fully wired with its own block explorer, Uniswap V3 and V4 support, a hood.fun launchpad integration and its own chain color. It appears in no official copy anywhere. We publish five and note that Robinhood has publicly denied involvement in the integration.
• Transaction presets. The docs call them P1, P2 and P3. The app renamed them Normal, Fast and Ultra, alongside Inferno mode. If a guide tells you to select P2, it was written from a capture of a dead page.

The reverse also happens: some features are live in the app and documented nowhere, including DCA orders, dev sell triggers, launch buys, price alerts and the Alpha Tracker. Those get written up from the code with that provenance stated.

Baseline figures we hold to source

These are the numbers every fee, cashback and comparison claim on the site is checked against, current as of 6 August 2026. Fee schedule figures come from pump.fun's published fee page; product behavior comes from the bundle.

Two of those deserve their caveats repeated. The 10% default cashback is the weakest number on the site: it is archived-only, and we have not re-confirmed it in the current app, so pages that use it say so. And pump.fun's own embedded fee data contains a bug in the SOL-denominated canonical PumpSwap table, where mid-tier market cap floors are written as literal single digits instead of millions. We read that schedule from the USDC table and the upper bounds instead, and we do not reproduce the broken lower bounds.

The fee calculator encodes exactly these figures and nothing else.

Claims we refuse to publish

Every one of these circulates widely, and some of them appear on sites that rank above us. Each is excluded for a specific reason, not a stylistic one.

A shorter list gets the same treatment: that Padre was hacked in early 2025 (no evidence found, and it looks like a conflation with two unrelated Solana bot drains), that Terminal tracks up to 10,000 wallets (a third-party number with no origin), that Terminal ships a native mobile app (it is a progressive web app), and that a public Terminal API exists (it does not, despite being a live autocomplete query). Where a claim is merely unverified rather than false, we say “unverified” on the page instead of dropping it silently.

Market data

The market pages pull prices, liquidity and volume from GeckoTerminal rather than from Terminal itself, because Terminal has no public API to read from. Those figures move constantly and are presented as live data, not as verified editorial claims. Treat them as a snapshot and confirm anything you are about to size a position on.

Review cadence

Every guide carries a Last Updated date in the byline. Pages built on time-sensitive figures, meaning fees, cashback, chain and venue coverage, and anything about the PUMP token, also carry a Last Verified date recording the last manual check against source.

Fee and referral pages are re-checked at least monthly. The production bundle is re-fetched and re-read whenever a fee, feature or chain claim is being updated, and the filename changes on every deploy, so a re-read is a real re-verification rather than a formality. Comparison and ecosystem pages are re-checked quarterly or when something material happens.

Limitations

Reading a minified bundle tells you what code shipped. It does not tell you what is enabled for your account, what is gated behind a flag, or what is half-built. Where a feature is present in code but we have not seen it working, the page says that rather than presenting it as available.

Archived documentation ages badly and this set already has. Press coverage of acquisitions and layoffs is reported secondhand and occasionally disagrees with itself on dates, in which case we give the range instead of picking a winner. And the whole pump.fun business moves fast enough that a figure verified today can be wrong next month. When accuracy matters for a decision you are about to make, follow the source link on the page.

Reporting something wrong

If a figure here looks out of date or wrong, tell us. The fastest route is a direct message to @Concept211 on X or an email via the contact page. Include the URL, the figure, and the source you are comparing against. Corrections are prioritized over new content.

Editorial independence and disclosure

Terminalpedia earns from referral and affiliate links, set out in full on the about page. That does not decide which figures get published or how a comparison lands. Terminal charges a flat 1% with no volume tiers, which is higher than several competitors charge, and we say that on the fees page and in the Axiom comparison rather than around it. Where the platform has done something users are angry about, such as switching off PADRE token utility, that gets covered too.