$baton 🦮 A cheap way to get paid for holding a meme.
Holder-reward coins on https://t.co/geao8j9gLH can charge up to 3% per trade. baton takes 1%, and all of it goes straight back to holders, in $PUMP. Here's why 🧵
The lore:
Before https://t.co/geao8j9gLH was https://t.co/geao8j9gLH, it was called Baton. The community took the name back on Sept 9 and paired it directly against PUMP.
The fees, side by side:
• Holder-reward coins on https://t.co/geao8j9gLH: up to 3%
• Standard pump coin: 0.30%, holders get nothing
• baton: 1.25% total → 1% to holders, 0% to a dev
Why it matters:
• ~$1.24M traded on the main pool in 24h → ~$12K of PUMP to holders in a day
• 11,695 holders on-chain, and growing
• No staking, no claiming: PUMP lands in your wallet automatically
• Paid in PUMP, which Pump keeps buying back and burning
• Wallet transfers are free; the fee only applies on the pool
• Mint & freeze revoked, metadata locked
The upside:
~$3.45M mcap, ~$610K liquidity, ~$2M daily volume. The ATH was $18.7M: a return there is ~5.4x.
No sugarcoating:
• Rewards follow volume: quiet market, quiet rewards
• Paid in PUMP: if PUMP drops, rewards shrink
• Round trip on the main pool ≈ 2.5%, not for hyper-scalping
• CTO: no company, no treasury
I'm holding and collecting PUMP. Not financial advice. DYOR 🦮
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$baton 🦮 Before it was Pump, it was Baton.
The community thesis
This page is for anyone who just found baton and wants to understand what it is, where it comes from, and why a community decided to carry it. No promises, no hype numbers. Just the story, what baton stands for, and where we think it can go.
1. The name that came first
Every trader on Solana knows https://t.co/geao8j9gLH. Very few know what it was called before.
The company behind https://t.co/geao8j9gLH is Baton Corporation. It is not a rumor or a community legend: it is the legal entity, and it appears in public court filings as "Baton Corporation Ltd. d/b/a https://t.co/ixn6ddToeB". Before the pill, before the bonding curve, before millions of tokens were launched on the platform, the project was called Baton, and its account went by @batonfinance.
Then came the rebrand. https://t.co/90KYk8VQPm made launching a coin fun, the bonding curve started an entire meta, and the platform became one of the biggest businesses in crypto. The name Baton stayed on the paperwork and disappeared from everyone's memory.
baton is that name, brought back to life.
2. How the community took it back
On September 9, 2026, baton launched paired directly against $PUMP, the platform's own token. It was one of the very first coins of what became the Pump-pair meta. The original developer did not stay, so the holders did what strong communities do: they took it over. The community takeover happened at a $1.6M market cap.
Three days later, on September 12, baton reached an $18.7M high. Then came the part that decides whether a coin is a story or just a candle: the long cooldown. The price gave back most of its gains. Many left. The ones who stayed kept building: memes, videos, explainers, raids, a mascot, all made by holders, for free, because they believed in it.
As of September 30, 2026, baton is held by 11,695 wallets, counted on-chain. The price went down and the number of holders kept going up. That is the clearest sign of what this community is.
3. What baton stands for
A fair coin. The mint and freeze authorities are revoked and the metadata is locked. Nobody can create more baton, nobody can freeze your tokens, nobody can change what the coin is. There is no team allocation waiting to be sold on the community. These are not promises; anyone can check them on-chain.
A coin that pays the people who hold it. baton runs https://t.co/geao8j9gLH's Holder Rewards. On its main pool, baton against PUMP, 1% of every trade goes back to holders instead of to a developer, paid in PUMP, sent to their wallets automatically. No staking, no claiming, no lock. The more baton is traded, the more its holders receive.
A coin tied to the platform it comes from. Because rewards are paid in PUMP, baton holders share in the success of https://t.co/geao8j9gLH itself. Pump has bought back and burned more than $466M of its own token, close to 30% of the circulating supply. When the platform grows, baton grows with it.
A story nobody can copy. Anyone can fork a smart contract or clone a reward mechanism. Nobody can fork an origin. baton is the only coin that carries https://t.co/geao8j9gLH's first name, and in a market driven by culture, that is an asset no chart can take away.
4. What baton can change
The face of https://t.co/geao8j9gLH. Every great platform ends up with a face people recognize: a logo becomes a character, a character becomes a culture. https://t.co/90KYk8VQPm has a pill, but it has never had a mascot. baton has everything a mascot needs: a real origin inside the company's own history, a character people remember, the dog with the baton, and a community already producing memes, videos and art every single day. No one had to invent a story for it; the story was already written in https://t.co/geao8j9gLH's past. We believe baton has what it takes to become the mascot of https://t.co/geao8j9gLH culture, the one the trenches reach for when they want to say "this is where it all started".
A base for new memes. baton launched as a pair against PUMP. Now new community coins are launching paired against baton, the same way baton launched against PUMP. Every one of those coins routes its trading through baton. If this grows, baton becomes a base currency for its own family of memes: PUMP at the foundation, baton in the middle, a new generation of coins on top, each one strengthening the layer below. That is how a meme becomes infrastructure.
A better model for community takeovers. Too many takeovers end with a small new group quietly replacing the old developer. baton shows another way: nobody skims, holders are paid directly, and the community does the work because it owns the result. If it works here, others will follow, and the trenches become a little less extractive for everyone.
A loop between the platform and its users. For years, launchpads collected the fees and traders carried the risk. baton turns part of that around: a coin born from https://t.co/geao8j9gLH's own history that sends https://t.co/geao8j9gLH's own token back to its holders. It is a small loop, but it points in the right direction.
5. What we are building
Culture first: the dog with the baton, the memes, the videos, the lore, everything that makes people remember a coin after the chart moves on. Education next: explaining clearly how baton works, so every new holder understands what they own. And an open door for builders: anyone launching a meme against baton is part of the story.
"Pass the baton" is not just a slogan. It is how this coin grows: one holder explaining it to the next.
6. Eyes open
We would rather you join with a clear head than on a promise. baton is a memecoin, and memecoins move fast, in both directions. That is also what makes an early story worth catching. Holder rewards grow with trading volume and with PUMP, so the more baton is traded and the more https://t.co/geao8j9gLH grows, the more holders earn. And a community takeover has no company behind it: its strength is the people who hold it and keep building. Every new holder who joins the story makes it stronger.
Stay safe. Fake baton websites and wallet drainers exist. There is no "eligibility check", no "wallet checker", no "airdrop claim" and no "CTO fee" to pay. Nobody from the community will ever ask you to connect your wallet or sign anything. Always verify the contract address below before you buy.
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Written by the community. Not financial advice.
Before it was Pump, it was Baton. 🦮
solana:Hg5Ja55T5wESq4vyFoiVCMeHXtGyVA69X2UHq8hgpump is up 5x since I called it out.
Easy money. I’m still holding.
Hope y’all made bank.
100m market cap? 🤔
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$baton 👀
Volume is starting to wake up, and this is exactly the kind of setup I’m watching for.
Still early. Still under the radar. One real wave of attention can change the entire chart.
I’m watching BATON closely. 🚀
Do your own research. #baton
$baton 👀
Volume is starting to wake up, and this is exactly the kind of setup I’m watching for.
Still early. Still under the radar. One real wave of attention can change the entire chart.
I’m watching BATON closely. 🚀
Do your own research. #baton
reflection tokens need a pull
the reflection should be the bonus, not the reason people buy
if the only thing pulling buyers in is the rewards, the moment the rewards slow down so does the token
the meme, lore and community have to create the demand first
the reflection just gives holders another reason to stay
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