Questions

A launchpad where every one of the 449 stars with an IAU-approved proper name can become exactly one pump.fun coin, first come, first served. You claim a star, launch its coin from your own wallet, and become the coin's creator.

Your dev buy (the SOL you choose to buy your own coin with, minimum 0.01 SOL), plus about 0.025 SOL in Solana network fees, a 0.0005 SOL priority fee and account rent. pump.fun's own trading fee applies to the dev buy. Starclaim adds nothing to your transaction.

pump.fun pays a creator fee on every trade of your coin. Starclaim sets up pump.fun's own fee sharing in the same approval as the launch, so those fees are split on-chain: 70% to you, 20% to the Starlight Fund and 10% to Starclaim. The split is locked once it's set, and our server checks it on-chain before a coin is registered. You claim your share on pump.fun.

A public wallet that receives 20% of every Starclaim coin's creator fees. 70% of what it spends books time on remote robotic telescopes to photograph claimed stars; 30% goes to dark-sky protection and astronomy for schools. Every booking and donation is in the public ledger with a receipt, and there's a monthly report.

The fund never pays coin holders, never runs a lottery or prize draw, and never ranks stars by trading volume.

A claimed star joins the observation queue once its coin is 7 days old and has 50 or more holders. Stars are photographed in the order they were claimed, but only when the star is up at night (at least 30° above the horizon, with the Sun well below it) at one of the telescope sites. A star that isn't visible this season waits and keeps its place. After an observation it can be photographed again after 90 days.

Yes. Every observation is a real frame from a real telescope, uploaded by the fund operators with its date, site, telescope, filter, exposure and cost. Starclaim never posts generated or stock images as observations.

Tiers describe how bright a star looks from Earth. That's all.

• LegendaryOne of the 10 brightest stars in the night sky
• EpicA first-magnitude star, among the ~21 brightest
• RareEasy to see from a city
• CommonNeeds darker skies to spot

A tier says nothing about what a coin is worth or how it will trade. It doesn't change the price, fees, limits or claim order. Many faint stars are enormous; they look faint because they're far away.

Approximate. Sizes are estimated from each star's brightness, distance and colour (or a published measurement where one exists), and can be off by a lot for distant giants.

If a $STARCLAIM coin exists, it's launched from the project wallet like any other coin and linked in the header. The platform wallet never buys users' coins: no bundling, no side wallets, no fake volume, no hidden fees.

Once a star is claimed through Starclaim, it can never be claimed again. Anyone can make a "SIRIUS" coin directly on pump.fun, but only coins confirmed through Starclaim, with the fee split set, appear in our catalog, which is the registry.

Claiming locks a star to your wallet for 5 minutes. In that time you choose the ticker and dev buy and approve the launch in your wallet. If you don't launch, the lock expires and the star opens up for everyone again. Each wallet can hold one lock at a time.

No. You sign in by signing a short text message in your wallet, and you approve the launch in your wallet. Starclaim never asks for, stores or sees a private key or seed phrase, and our server never signs or sends transactions for you.

The only key the app creates is the new coin's mint key. It's generated in your browser, co-signs the create transaction, and is thrown away. Only its public address is sent to our server.

Memecoins are extremely risky and most go to zero. Your dev buy can lose all its value. Transactions on Solana are final. Nothing on Starclaim is financial advice. Only use what you can afford to lose.

When a launch is confirmed on-chain or a new telescope photo is published, every open Starclaim tab updates the chart, counters and feed, and shows a small notification in the corner ("Rigel ignited", "Polaris observed"). If the tab is in the background, its title changes too.

Use the Alerts button in the top bar to turn notifications and title changes off. The setting is saved in this browser. The feed and chart keep updating either way.

Names come from the IAU Working Group on Star Names catalog. Positions, magnitudes, spectral classes and distances come from the HYG database (CC BY-SA 4.0). Constellation figures come from d3-celestial (BSD). Two named pulsars without optical magnitudes aren't plotted.