Same rules for everyone.

Joining

• Hold the coin's minimum

  Every coin sets a minimum hold when it goes live on Yell. Once you've joined, the minimum you need to keep never goes up, whatever the price does.

• Paste your wallet address and your X handle

  You never connect or sign with your wallet. We read its balance on chain, and payouts only ever go to that address.

• Post your one-time code

  We give you a post with a code and the coin's contract address. Posting it links your X account to your wallet, and it counts as your first post.

• pump.fun callouts count once you've joined

  Post them from the wallet you joined with.

• One wallet per X account, and one X account per wallet. Lost one of them? Ask Yell to unlink them, then join again with the new one.

• Posts you made in the 24 hours before joining count too.

What counts

A post counts if it:

1. 1

   is a post or a quote post on X, or a callout on pump.fun;

2. 2

   names the coin by its $TICKER or its contract address (callouts sit on the coin's own page, so they don't have to);

3. 3

   has at least 4 real words besides the ticker, the contract address and links;

4. 4

   isn't a near-copy of one of your own posts from the 24 hours before it.

Replies, reposts and updates under a callout never count. A thread counts once, as its first post. A post that names more than one of your coins counts once, for the first one it names.

Points

Post points, once for each callout and for each of your first 3 counted posts on X in any 24 hours:

Engagement points, as they come in:

• A post earns engagement points for 48 hours after you post it. Each payday pays what your posts gained since the last payday.

• Each post's engagement points stop at a tenth of your follower count when you posted it, with a floor of 25 and a ceiling of 500. With 1,000 followers a post can earn up to 100 engagement points; with 250 or fewer, up to 25.

• A callout earns its post points only. Likes and replies on pump.fun don't count: they're too easy to fake.

Multipliers

Your points for each payday are then multiplied:

• Burn

  Burn the coin from the wallet you joined with. It has to be a real burn; coins sent to another wallet don't count. Everything you burn adds up, and the boost never ends.

• Lock

  Lock the coin with Jupiter Lock, to the wallet you joined with, for at least 30 days, with cancelling turned off. Only coins that are still locked count.

• You can do either on your Yell page

  It's the only time Yell asks your wallet to sign: we build one transaction (the burn, or a lock nobody can cancel) and your wallet shows it to you before you approve. We never see your keys. Burns and locks made elsewhere, for example on Sol Incinerator or Jupiter Lock, count the same.

• Early yeller

  For the 48 hours after Yell's launch-day post on X, follow @useyell, repost the post, quote it, and join $YELL on Yell with the same X account. You get ×1.5 on $YELL for good, and the Early yeller badge. It's on $YELL only, so no other coin's yellers pay for it, and it's a boost like the others: burn 10 times the minimum and your best boost becomes ×2. Likes aren't a step, because X doesn't show who liked a post. A join started in the 48 hours counts once it's verified, up to an hour later. The boost shows on your score sheets as a change on your account, with the reason "Early yeller".

Paydays

• Every coin has a fixed payday: every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, hour, 6 hours, 12 hours or 24 hours.

• At each payday Yell collects the coin's creator fees and swaps them to USDC. Yell takes 10%; the rest is the payday's pot.

• Yell's 10% is split in two

  Half buys $YELL, Yell's own coin, and burns it: on $YELL that's the coin itself. It stays in the coin's own fee wallet until it's spent, at random times, about twice a day once at least $5 is waiting. Every burn is on chain and shows on $YELL's page. Half goes to Yell's treasury for development and running costs like the X API and servers; the treasury wallet is public on the tokenomics page.

• Base share: 15% of the pot is split equally between everyone whose posts earned at least 10 engagement points in the payday, so small accounts with a real audience earn too. Bot-check risk and near-copies cut your part the way they cut your points, and what they cut goes to everyone else.

• The rest of the pot is split by score

  Your part of it is your score divided by everyone's. If nobody qualifies for the base share, the whole pot is split by score.

• Yell's 10% is taken once, when the money arrives. Money carried over from an earlier payday is never charged again.

• Nobody receives more than 20% of a payday's pot, however few people score. With more than 15 people scoring, the limit is three equal shares, and never below 10%: with 20 people scoring, for example, it's 15%. It covers both parts together.

• Without real engagement, the limit is 5%

  Your counted posts from the last 48 hours need at least 10 engagement points between them to go above it. That's counted over 48 hours, not just the payday, so it works the same on every payday length.

• What a cap stops goes to everyone else, by score, but nobody gets more than twice their own share that way. What's still left buys back the coin itself and burns it, from its own fee wallet, at random times about twice a day once at least $5 is waiting, or sooner when Yell starts one by hand (after a price drop, say). So a payday pays out in full once at least 5 people with real engagement share it. One person alone gets 20% of it, and the other 80% is burned.

• Payouts are sent once you're owed at least $0.10

  Smaller amounts stay credited to you and go out with a later payout.

• First payout to a new wallet

  If your wallet has never held USDC, your first payout opens a USDC account for it. That one-time cost is set by Solana (at most about 0.002 SOL) and comes out of the payout, so your first payout waits until you're owed that cost plus $0.10.

• If nobody scores in a payday, its pot carries over to the next one, and the limits apply to it there.

Bot checks

At each payday we look at your posts during the payday and in the 24 hours before it, across every coin you've joined on Yell. Only posts that name one of those coins are seen. Each signal below adds to a risk score: your points are multiplied by (1 − risk), and at 0.7 or more you sit the payday out. Risk goes back down once the behaviour stops. Your wallet page shows which checks apply to you, why, and the payday each one clears from.

Only the higher of the two post-count signals counts, and only the higher of the two account-age signals.

We may add checks at any time to stop new kinds of abuse. A new check is listed here the day it goes live.

Changes by hand

Yell can change any account by hand: add a warning (one of the checks above, or one of its own) with the cut it chooses, remove a warning, stop the account's payouts, give a boost (at most ×2, the best tier) or remove one, or count the account as holding the minimum. A change covers one coin or every coin, for a set time or until Yell lifts it.

• Every change has a reason

  A change that cuts your points or stops your payouts shows on your wallet page with its reason and when it ends.

• Score sheets list them

  Each payday's score sheet lists the changes behind every entry, with their reasons, so anyone checking a payday sees them.

• A change moves money between yellers, never to Yell

  A boost for one yeller means smaller shares for the others that payday, and a ban leaves more for everyone else. Yell's 10% stays the same.

Checking a payday

Every payday publishes its full score sheet: every post, its points, every multiplier and every payout. The sheet's sha256 is written into the memo of the payout transaction on Solana, so anyone can re-hash the sheet and check that nobody was paid off the books.

For creators

• Choose how fees reach Yell

  Launch the coin through Yell on pump.fun or Meteora, which makes Yell's fee wallet the coin's creator (0.05 SOL plus any first buy). Or set an existing pump.fun coin's fee sharing to its Yell fee wallet. Or deposit a USDC budget as a campaign.

• SOL that the launch doesn't use goes back to you

  You paste your own wallet when you launch, and your first-buy coins go there too. Anything you send over the amount goes back to it before the coin is created. If the launch can't go ahead after 3 tries, or the full amount hasn't arrived within 24 hours, all of it goes back, and so does anything sent to that launch later. Each refund costs Solana's fee of a fraction of a cent, and less than 0.001 SOL isn't sent.

• Coins launched on Meteora pay a 1% fee on every trade

  For the first 5 minutes it starts at 50% and falls to 1%, so snipers pay into the pot. Meteora keeps 20% of each fee and the rest goes to the fee wallet, including after the coin graduates: its liquidity is locked to the fee wallet for good.

• Half of Yell's 10% buys $YELL

  5% of the fees buys $YELL and burns it, from your coin's fee wallet. The other 5% goes to Yell's treasury.

• While few people yell, your coin is bought back and burned

  Nobody gets more than 20% of a payday, so until at least 5 people with real engagement share one, what's left buys back your coin and burns it, from its own fee wallet. Short paydays split the fees between fewer people each time, so with few yellers they burn more.

• Choose a payday and, for a campaign, how long it runs (1, 3, 7, 14 or 30 days from going live). Both are fixed once the coin goes live.

• The minimum hold

  Every coin launched through Yell asks for 100,000 coins, a hundredth of a percent of its supply. When you bring a coin, you choose it: make it worth something, since every account has to hold it for the whole payday, which is what stops one person from earning with many accounts. We suggest at least $20 at today's price. Ask us to change it: down any time, up only before anyone has joined. It never goes up for anyone who has joined.

How these rules change

• The rules are numbered. Each payday's score sheet records the version it was scored under.

• Changes to points, limits, multipliers, the base share, caps or fees are announced here and on X at least 7 days before they apply. A payday is always scored under the rules in force when it started.

• A change that only lets more posts earn, or pays sooner, can apply at once. On 6 October 2026, 5 posts a day started to count, up from 3, with post points still on the first 3. On launch day the minimum payout went down to $0.10, from $1.

• Bot checks can be added or tightened at any time. They're listed above the day they go live.

• A coin's payday and campaign length never change. Once you've joined a coin, the minimum hold you need to keep never goes up.