Buys the root.Never the copy.
When a meme runs, fifty contracts show up wearing its name. ROOT dates every one of them and finds the first. That's the only one it buys.
Every copy is an echo of the root.
Time after the root, on a log scale. Solid rings are copies on Solana. Dashed rings carry the name on other chains.
The engine buys one contract per name.
Runners get copied within minutes. Same name, same picture, sometimes bigger numbers. Snipers buy whichever contract shows up first in their feed.
ROOT works the other way round. When a name starts to run, the engine dates every contract wearing it, locks the root and buys it with creator fees from $ROOT. Every copy is skipped.
Below: the Solana runners with the most DexScreener boosts right now, each one checked live.
RunnerVerdict
- Checking the boosted runners…
How the root is dated
- Every contract with the name
ROOT searches DexScreener and Jupiter for the name and the ticker. That covers coins still on the pump.fun curve and fresh mints that haven't opened a pool yet.
- Every pool it ever opened
For each contract it takes the earliest moment either source saw it: the mint itself or its first pool. That's the contract's birth.
- Oldest that ran wins
Sorted by birth, the first contract that actually got holders is the root. Older ones that used the name and never ran are listed, not counted. Everything after the root is a copy, however big its market cap looks.
- Same picture gets flagged
Each copy's picture is compared with the root's, pixel by pixel at thumbnail size. A near-identical picture marks it as a straight clone.
Only Solana counts. Contracts with the same name on other chains are listed and never bought. Data comes from the public DexScreener and Jupiter APIs, no keys.