Manual

01What ZER◎ is

ZER◎ is a web terminal for buying new tokens on Solana in the block they are created, and a weekly contest built on those buys. You connect your own wallet; the service builds each transaction, your wallet signs it, and the service relays it. ◎UT, the exit engine, watches every position you arm and sells it by rules you set. Every sale is checked on chain, and the week's best results share a prize pool fed by 0.5% of every buy.

02Words you will see

Auto

A mode where a shooting key in your browser buys what passes your rules and ◎UT sells, with no popups, while the tab is open.

Blacklist

Words and tickers that get a launch skipped. Block on a card adds its ticker. NAME_BLACKLIST.

Block Zero

The Pulse view's left column: every new launch, in the block it was created, with its verdict and a Shoot button.

Bundle

Several transactions landing together in one slot. A bundled create already carries buys from wallets other than the creator's.

Cleared the rules

The Pulse view's middle column: the launches that passed every rule in Settings.

Contest / round

The weekly competition. A round runs Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59 UTC and is named by ISO week: 2026-W41.

Creator (dev) buy

The SOL the creator spends on their own token inside the create transaction.

Curve (pump.fun bonding curve)

The pool a new pump.fun token trades on before it migrates. Its price follows a fixed formula, so a sell's payout is known before it is sent.

Dev buy

The creator buy, shown on a card as "dev ◎0.50". MIN_DEV_BUY_SOL and MAX_DEV_BUY_SOL bound it.

Exposure

The SOL at entry of all open positions together. MAX_EXPOSURE_SOL caps it.

FDV

Fully diluted value: one token's price times every token that exists. The Calls view shows it at the call.

Fee payer

The account that pays a transaction's network fee. Every build names your wallet or key, so nothing sends without that signature.

Handle

Your name on the leaderboard: 2 to 24 letters, digits, _ . or -. One wallet, one handle.

Hold fire

A demo button that pauses the demo's buying. Hidden in live mode; Auto has Stop instead.

Jito / tip

Jito carries a transaction to the block builder. The tip, 0.0001 SOL, pays it inside the transaction.

Jupiter route

A swap through Jupiter's router, used for any token that is not on a live pump.fun curve.

Ladder

◎UT's exit rules on one position: first target and the share sold there, trailing stop, stop loss, stale exit, timeout, breakeven.

Launch

A new token being created on pump.fun. Also called a create.

Memo

A short text inside a transaction. A strategy purchase carries zero:strategy:<id>:v<version>.

Migrated token

A pump.fun token whose curve sold out and moved to an open market. It trades through a Jupiter route.

◎UT

The exit engine, said "out". It values a position at what the curve pays now and sells by the ladder. 1% of each sell it makes.

Position / the Book

A position is the tokens from one shot. The Book lists them: entry, value, realised, P&L, peak, stage, age.

Prize pool

A wallet fed by 0.5% of every buy. Paid to the top three when a round closes.

Quote

What a buy is expected to do before it is built: venue, SOL in, tokens expected and at least, price impact, total with fees.

Realisable now

What ◎UT would bank selling the whole position this second, after impact and fees, plus what is already realised.

Realised

SOL that has come back from sells. Open P&L is not realised.

Record

The view with the demo tape's counts; demo-only on the web terminal. A strategy's record is its verified sales.

Serial creator

A creator who launched another token within CREATOR_COOLDOWN_MIN minutes.

Shooting key

A keypair made in your browser and kept in its storage. Auto signs with it. ZER◎ never sees it.

Shot

One buy: built by the service, signed by your wallet or key, relayed by the service.

Signature

A transaction's id, a long base58 string. Each one links to Solscan; the board verifies sales by them.

Slippage

How much worse than quoted a fill may be. SLIPPAGE_BPS for buys (2500 = 25%), SELL_SLIPPAGE_BPS for sells (3000 = 30%).

Stale exit

Sell a losing position that has made no new peak for STALE_EXIT_SEC seconds.

Strategy

A named set of Settings published on the Strategies view. Others buy, claim or use it.

Trailing stop

After the first target: sell the rest when its value falls TRAILING_STOP_PCT below its peak since.

Verified

A sale the board checked on chain: both transactions exist, succeeded and name the wallet. Only verified sales rank.

Wallet (Phantom, Solflare, Backpack)

A browser extension that holds your keys and signs what you approve.

03Your first shot, step by step

A shot is one buy. Without a wallet the page runs a demo: made-up launches and prices, and a demo shot sends nothing.

1. Connect. Click Connect wallet. Pick Phantom, Solflare or Backpack and approve in the wallet. The pill changes from Demo to Live with your short address, and the strip reads "Live. Your wallet signs every buy and sell. Nothing is held for you."
2. Pick a size. The buttons beside the pill are the SOL per shot: 0.02, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, or your own in the ◎ box. For a first shot type 0.01.
3. Choose the token. Paste a contract address in the top-left box, or click a card in Block Zero. Live, the box's button reads Quote, and the line under it shows venue, tokens, impact and fees.
4. Read the quote. The side panel opens with The quote: Venue, You pay, Tokens expected, Tokens at least (the fewest the transaction accepts, by your slippage), Price impact, Total with fees. The build prices the buy again; what you sign is final.
5. Shoot. Under The shot, click Shoot ◎ with your size and approve the popup. The log says: building the buy, waiting for your wallet to sign, sent, landed. The page checks the signature every 1.5 s for up to 60 s.
6. The position appears in On the book, in the Book view, and as a ◎UT card in the side panel, newest first. Positions refresh every 3 seconds.
7. ◎UT asks. A popup offers the exit engine for that position: Arm ◎UT on this one, or I'll exit myself. Tick Do this for every shot to stop being asked; OUT_ARM_DEFAULT set to always does the same.
8. Sell. On the ◎UT card: Sell 25%, Sell 50%, Sell all, each one transaction your wallet signs. Arm ◎UT (1% of sells) turns the ladder on; Disarm ◎UT leaves the exit to you. Sell all also closes the token account and returns its rent.

04Auto mode, step by step

Auto is a mode where a key in your browser signs instead of your wallet, so there are no popups. The feed runs for everyone who is live; Auto decides whether that key buys what passes your rules. "Show me how auto mode works" in the strip is a seven-step tour of these controls.

1. The warning. The first time you tick Auto, this covers the page:

   PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME THAT THE DEFAULT SETTINGS ARE GOING TO BE PROFITABLE. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

   PICK YOUR OWN WINNING STRATEGY, OR JUST PICK YOUR OWN WINNERS MANUALLY.

   It means: Auto buys every launch that passes Settings with real SOL from your key until you stop it, and the shipped settings are a starting point, not a result. I understand. Switch Auto on continues; Not now leaves it off.
2. Make a key. Click Shooting key in the header, then Create key. The page makes a keypair and keeps it in this browser's storage; the header shows key with its address and balance.
3. Fund it. Enter an amount in SOL and click Fund. Your wallet signs one plain transfer to the key. The box says what one buy needs: at ◎0.05 about ◎0.053 with fees. The balance is read every 10 seconds.
4. Export it. Click Export key; the secret appears as text. Copy it somewhere safe, then Hide key. The key lives in this browser only: clearing site data, another browser or a lost device loses it and what it holds, and ZER◎ cannot recover it. Forget key removes it.
5. The switch. The first time, tick Auto and read the warning. After that, whenever the key is funded, Auto switches on by itself when you open the terminal, until you turn it off. The pill reads Auto with the key's address. The switch turns it off; it stays off until you tick it again.
6. Stop is not the switch. Stop halts new buys; ◎UT keeps running on what the key holds, and the button reads Resume. The switch turns Auto off entirely. Both are remembered. Neither cancels a transaction in flight.
7. What turns Auto off by itself. The key's balance falls below one buy ("the key holds ◎x, a ◎y buy needs ◎z with fees"); today's realised loss reaches the Daily loss limit; or no launch arrives for 2 minutes. The strip names the reason. ◎UT keeps running on what the key holds, and the key stays the signer until that is closed.
8. The tab. The key signs only while this tab is open. Closed, nothing is bought or sold; the positions still exist on chain.
9. Getting SOL out. Export the key and import it into Phantom. The SOL and tokens are then in a wallet you control.

05The rules a launch must pass

Every launch runs through these rules in this order; the first that fails is the verdict on its card. In Auto only a launch that passes them all is bought. Shoot on a card works regardless.

1. stopped. You pressed Stop. Nothing is bought until Resume.
2. already seen. The same launch arrived twice (the feed replays the last 50 on connect). Counted once.
3. heard too late. Older than Max launch age (MAX_LAUNCH_AGE_MS, 2,500 ms) on arrival. Example: a create reaches you 4 s late; the first buyers are in, and the card says "heard too late (4.0 s)".
4. name blacklist. Name or ticker contains a word from Blacklist words / tickers (NAME_BLACKLIST, "test, rug, scam"), any case. Example: TESTCOIN is skipped. Block on a card adds its ticker.
5. dev buy below min. The creator bought less than Min dev buy (MIN_DEV_BUY_SOL, 0 = off). Example: set 0.5 to skip creators who put in nothing of their own.
6. dev buy above max. More than Max dev buy (MAX_DEV_BUY_SOL, 5). Example: a creator holding 8 SOL of the curve can empty it with one sell.
7. bundled create. The create transaction carries more outside buys than Max bundled buys (MAX_BUNDLED_BUYS, 0). Example: "bundle ×3" means three insider buys landed with the create.
8. serial creator. The creator launched another token within Creator cooldown (CREATOR_COOLDOWN_MIN, 60 min; 0 = off). Example: a wallet launching every ten minutes is launching to sell.
9. max open. You hold Max open positions (MAX_OPEN_POSITIONS, 2); a buy in flight counts. Example: with two open, a third launch is passed.
10. exposure cap. Entry SOL of open positions plus this buy would pass Max exposure (MAX_EXPOSURE_SOL, 1; 0 = no cap). Example: 0.4 + 0.4 + a 0.3 buy = 1.1, passed.
11. cooldown. Less than Cooldown (COOLDOWN_MS, 3,000 ms) since the last buy. Example: two creates in one second; the second waits.
12. daily loss limit. Today's realised loss (UTC) reached Daily loss limit (DAILY_LOSS_LIMIT_SOL, 0 = off); Auto also switches off. Example: at 0.2, a bad morning stops 0.2 SOL down.
13. balance too low. The key holds less than one buy needs: size, the 1.5% fee, the 0.0001 SOL tip and about 0.0021 SOL for rent and network fee. Auto also switches off. Example: ◎0.05 cannot make a ◎0.05 buy.

06The ◎UT exit ladder

The ladder is what ◎UT checks on an armed position at every price refresh, about every 3 seconds. A position is either waiting for the first target or past it and trailing. The examples use one position bought for ◎0.1 at the defaults.

• Timeout (TIMEOUT_SEC, 600 s). Checked first. 600 seconds after the buy, sell everything at any price.
• First target (TAKE_PROFIT_MULT, 2×) and Sell at target (TAKE_PROFIT_SELL_PCT, 50%). At ◎0.2, sell 50%: ◎0.1 back, ◎0.099 after ◎UT's 1%. The stage turns to trailing and the peak restarts.
• Stop loss (STOP_LOSS_PCT, 35%). Before the target, at ◎0.065 sell everything. 0 = off.
• Stale exit (STALE_EXIT_SEC, 180 s). Below entry with no new peak for 180 s: sell. Example: drifted to ◎0.08 and sat there three minutes; sold rather than held to the timeout. 0 = off.
• Trailing stop (TRAILING_STOP_PCT, 30%). After the target, sell the rest when it falls 30% from its peak since. Example: the half climbs to ◎0.15, then falls to ◎0.105; sold. 0 = off.
• Breakeven after target (BREAKEVEN_AFTER_TP, on). After the target, also sell the rest if value plus realised falls to ◎0.1. The first half is never given back.
• Creator sells → out (DEV_SELL_EXIT) is for the self-hosted engine, which watches the creator's wallet. The web terminal does not, so the row is in Settings but does not fire here.

Realisable now is what ◎UT banks if it sells the whole position this second: the curve's payout for all your tokens after your impact and the fees, plus what is realised. "Exactly what the position holds", not the last trade's price. If the first target prints is the least ◎UT banks once the target hits: entry × target × (sell share + the rest × (1 − trail)) less 1%, plus realised. At ◎0.1: 0.1 × 2 × (0.5 + 0.5 × 0.7) × 0.99 = ◎0.1683. "At least this; the remainder keeps trailing": the rest may sell higher.

07Settings, every row

Every row of the Settings view, in the page's own groups, generated from its list. A row marked set by ZER◎ is fixed at provisioning. Apply saves; changes drive the demo and Auto and persist in this browser. Reset to defaults clears everything, a loaded strategy included. Show .env, Copy .env and Download .env export the values for the self-hosted engine; rows about wallet files, RPC URLs, the dashboard, Jito and recording belong to that engine, and the web terminal does not act on them.

Mode and send path 3 variables

Following calls 9 variables

Leaderboard 19 variables

Entry rules 14 variables

Sizing and wallets 21 variables

◎UT exits 9 variables

Risk caps 4 variables

Recording 4 variables

08Fees, exactly

Example: a ◎0.1 buy carries ◎0.0015: ◎0.0005 to the prize pool, ◎0.001 to the platform. The fee is a transfer inside the buy, so it is paid only when the buy lands. A pass costs nothing; a buy that fails pays nothing. Nothing recurs.

A buy also opens a token account; its rent, about 0.00204 SOL, comes back when you sell all. The page budgets about 0.0021 SOL per buy for rent and network fee.

The platform fee wallet is 5L4wzzzncTsCyjWZXTdu9fyDzuGS6M4n8dhrSKy2uQ3j. The prize pool wallet is 36MNo2Bdyp3tYtEfBCQUpiRvcy5npu6BtcmF8fqLp7Ft. Both are public; the board reads the pool's inflows from the chain. The quote shows the exact fee and tip before you shoot.

09The contest

• Rounds. Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59 UTC, named by ISO week (2026-W41). Ranking is by return: the verified profit of your sales in the round divided by the SOL those sales put in, both read from the chain. +2% on 0.5 SOL ranks above +1% on 50 SOL. Ties go to the larger profit in SOL, then the earlier last sale.
• Special rounds. Sometimes ZER◎ runs a one-off round with its own dates and a sponsored pool, shown at the top of the leaderboard. It runs alongside the weekly round under the same rules, and the same sale counts in both. Its pool can be set in SOL or in dollars; a dollar pool is paid in SOL at that day's price, from the prize wallet, when it closes.
• Verification. When a sell lands the terminal reports your wallet, your handle, the buy signatures behind the position and the sell signature. The board fetches each transaction, confirms it exists and succeeded with your wallet among its accounts, and adds up your wallet's SOL movement across them. A sale counts once, by its sell signature. Unverified sales never rank. Ties go to the earlier last sale.
• Why the figures differ. The terminal shows the sell's quoted SOL against the entry it knows. The chain figure is the SOL that moved, with the 1.5% buy fee, the 1% sell fee, the tip, the network fee and the rent all inside the two transactions. The board's figure ranks.
• The prize pool. 0.5% of every buy goes to the pool wallet inside the buy transaction. When a round closes: 50% to first, 30% to second, 20% to third. Fewer entrants than ranks: the ranks that exist, same proportions.
• The handle. After your first sell the terminal asks once. Your wallet signs one message a day, zero:handle:wallet:date, and the sale goes to the board. No handle, no entry. One wallet, one handle; a taken one is refused. In Auto the key signs, so it needs its own; the Leaderboard handle setting fills it in.
• Nothing is self-typed. You never enter a result. The board reads both transactions from the chain; anyone can check the pool wallet and every signature on Solscan.

10Strategies

A strategy is a named set of Settings a wallet publishes on the Strategies view: every row except the locked ones and the local ones (handle, RPC URLs, fee rows, feed key). Browsing needs nothing; buying, claiming, using and selling need a connected wallet.

• Publish. On Mine, under Sell yours: a name (3 to 40 characters), a price in SOL (0 = free, else at least 0.001), a blurb (up to 280). Your wallet signs one message a day. The same name updates it; a settings change is a new version. Up to 20 per wallet.
• The card shows name, version, the seller's handle, buyers, variables, and its record: the board's verified sales made under it. Preview shows six headline settings.
• Buy. One transaction your wallet signs: 90% to the seller, 10% to the platform fee wallet, the strategy's id in a memo. The split is on the card. Access is permanent.
• Claim. A free strategy needs no transaction; the signed daily message writes the row.
• Use. Loads the settings into Settings and marks STRATEGY_ID, so every sale you report adds to that record. Reset to defaults clears it.
• Unlist. Removes the listing. Buyers keep access.

11Safety

• What never leaves your browser. Your wallet's keys (the extension signs) and the shooting key (made and kept here, shown only on Export key).
• What the service does. Quotes, builds an unsigned transaction with your wallet or key as fee payer, relays the signed one, follows the signature, lists positions, forwards your report to the board.
• What it never does. Hold or load a key, sign anything, or relay a transaction it did not build. Every instruction it built must be present, in order and unchanged, or it refuses.
• Builds expire in two minutes. Sign when the popup opens; otherwise "The build expired before it was signed. Shoot again." and nothing was sent.
• Test with 0.01 SOL first. Shoot one launch by hand; watch the log, the Book and the sell. Then decide on size, then on Auto.
• The defaults are not a promise. The owner's words: "PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME THAT THE DEFAULT SETTINGS ARE GOING TO BE PROFITABLE." Change them, check a strategy's record, or pick launches by hand.
• A shot can lose all of it. A launch can go to nothing in seconds; the stop and stale exits sell at whatever the curve pays then. Shoot with SOL you can lose.

12Troubleshooting

• "No Solana wallet found in this browser." Install Phantom, Solflare or Backpack and connect again.
• "The live service is not reachable from here yet." The page stays a demo, shows nothing fake as live, and retries every 15 seconds. "Did not answer in 6 seconds" is the same on a slow connection.
• "Access forbidden" on Fund. An early version read the key's balance from a public RPC, which refuses browsers. Fixed: the reads go through the service. Reload.
• "Not confirmed yet. Check the signature." or "The buy failed on chain." Sent but not landed in 60 s, or landed and failed. Usual cause: not enough SOL for size plus fees (1.5%, the 0.0001 tip, about 0.0021 for rent and network fee). The signature's link shows the error on Solscan. A failed buy pays no fee.
• "That is not a contract address." or "Paste the token's mint: 32 to 44 base58 characters." The box takes a token's mint only, never a pump.fun link or a wallet address.
• "You declined in the wallet." Nothing was sent. A declined ◎UT sell disarms that position.
• "Storage is blocked in this browser; the key was not kept." A private window cannot keep a key. Use a normal window.
• A stale page. After a release an old script may sit in the cache: Connect does nothing, a button is missing. Reload; the scripts are versioned.
• Where to see a transaction. Every signature in the shot log and the closed rows links to solscan.io. The pool wallet is linked on the leaderboard and above.