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# Trenches Overview

Trenches is onchain.cc's token-launch product — a live scanner and trading surface for new Solana tokens, from the first block of a launch through graduation and beyond. If your game is catching runners early, this is where you live.

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## What Trenches Covers

Trenches tracks launches across **three launchpads**:

| Launchpad     | What it is                                                                  |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **PumpFun**   | The highest-volume Solana memecoin launchpad. Tokens graduate to PumpSwap.  |
| **LaunchLab** | Raydium's launchpad. Tokens graduate to Raydium pools.                      |
| **Meteora**   | Meteora's dynamic bonding curve launches. Tokens graduate to Meteora pools. |

Every token shows a launchpad badge on its logo, and you can filter any view to the launchpads you care about. Trading works the same way across all three — Trenches handles each venue's mechanics under the hood, both before and after graduation.

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Trenches is currently **Solana-only** — that's where the launchpad market lives.
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## The Tabs

| Tab           | What it does                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Live**      | The real-time scanner: three columns — **New**, **Bonding**, **Graduated** — streaming launches as they happen.                                                                        |
| **Explorer**  | The filtered browser: Pumping / All / New / Gainers / Watchlist views with deep filters.                                                                                               |
| **Positions** | Your Trenches bags — value, open positions, unrealized PnL, quick sell.                                                                                                                |
| **Tracker**   | Wallet tracking: follow up to 50 wallets and get live alerts on their moves.                                                                                                           |
| **Alerts**    | The live feed of signals — graduations, whale buys, dev exits, volume spikes, and your tracked wallets' activity. On desktop this lives in the right rail; on mobile it's its own tab. |

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## The Typical Flow

1. **Spot it** — a token appears in the Live scanner or Explorer, or one of your tracked wallets buys in.
2. **Vet it** — check the holder-analysis chips (dev / sniper / bundler / insider), bonding progress, volume, and socials. See [Finding Tokens](/onchain-docs/trenches/discovery.md).
3. **Buy it** — one tap on **SNIPE** with your saved preset: amount, slippage, and priority settings pre-configured. See [Trading on Trenches](/onchain-docs/trenches/trading.md).
4. **Manage it** — watch the position in the Positions tab, track the chart, and sell in one tap when it's time.

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## Fees

Trenches trades pay the same platform fee as [Swap](/onchain-docs/swap/fees.md) — **0.50%**, with **25–50% of it returned as** [**cashback**](/onchain-docs/colosseum/cashback.md) by Colosseum rank. Trenches also earns rank points at the highest rate on the terminal (0.75 per $1 traded). Launchpads charge their own protocol fees on bonding-curve trades, which are part of the quoted price, and standard Solana gas and priority fees apply.

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Launchpad tokens are the highest-risk corner of crypto. Most launches never graduate, and many lose most of their value within hours. Trade only with capital you are willing to lose entirely.
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