Shade Intel
Brief 00311 Sept 2026Solana · StonkFunEcosystem breakdown

Get paid to hold.

Hold a meme, get paid in another token just for holding. The whole meta runs on StonkFun with a potential Pumpfun rival emerging. The ticker to watch is $STONK. Here is how the payouts work, why it lives or dies on trading volume, which coins should outperform, how to buy and what a top looks like. All backed by on-chain data & incentive analysis.

Updates live

Every number here is live. Prices, yields, flows and holders update on their own from the chain and the venue, so you are reading the meta as it is right now, not a snapshot from when this was written.

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Do the "dividends" hold up?

Real yield.

Shade Intel's read: the yield is real and paying holders right now, straight from live trading volume. The headline APYs oversell it, so size to the volume, but the early edge is real.

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The case for it. The yield is real and landing in wallets now, the stock-on-chain trend it rides is large and still growing, and the sharpest names hold real, verifiable positions, not a shill and a screenshot. Early money in a live, paying meta has an edge. This brief exists to show you where that edge is real and where it is already priced, so you can size it with your eyes open.

What are the incentives?
The houseStonkFun + coin teams
Earns the launch and trade fees, and for $STONK a buyback and burn. Wins on volume, whichever coin is hot this week.
The holdersactive traders
Earn the trade-tax payout in another token, plus any price rise. Paid to hold, as long as everyone else keeps trading.
Not yet inthe next buyer
Pulled in by the yield, the payout token's own upside, and the meme lottery. The pitch is passive income on a memecoin.
Where it conflicts: your payout is a cut of other people's trading, but the pitch is to sit and hold. The payout flows while a crowd keeps trading the coin, so volume is both the fuel and the tell. When volume slows the payout eases first, which is your early warning to act before the chart moves. That makes volume the cleanest edge here: watch it, not the yield, and you stay ahead of the turn.
Live · the name leading the meta

StonkFun's own token, the biggest name in the meta and the recognizable way in: stock-paired with a buyback and burn, not a dividend coin.

Price
$2.3k+1568061.0%
via venue · as of 29 Oct 2026, 06:00 UTC
Market cap
$2343B
Share of meta
100%
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How it actually works

Your payout is a cut of everyone else's trading volume. Here is how that works.

You buy one of these coins and hold it. StonkFun on Solana is the venue nearly all of this runs on.

Every trade of the coin is taxed, usually 1 to 3%, and that tax is auto-converted into a named payout token and sent to holders. No claim button. So the payout is funded entirely by trading: heavy volume, fat payout; thin volume, it dries up.

The payout token is the part that matters. ZCAT pays in ZEC, RAYCAT in RAY, Buy The Cat in wrapped Bitcoin. Holding one is two bets: the coin's volume, and the price of the token it pays you in.

Two things people mix up
The coin you holda meme, no floor
The stock it namesyou never own it
What reaches youa token, not a share
Live · the honest yield

The number that means something is the fee yield, the trade tax a coin actually earned over its market cap, modelled from live fees, not the compounded APY the dashboards print.

ZCAT fee yield · modelled
0%/yr
via venue · as of 29 Oct 2026, 06:00 UTC
Advertised APY · est.
0%/yr
Median fee yield
33%/yr
How the yield is set
The number24h trade tax over market cap, annualized
What lifts itmore volume, more tax to pay out
What drops ita bigger market cap spreads the yield and lowers it
Real vs advertisedreal is what holders were actually paid, not a yearly projection

APR vs APY, the one distinction that matters. The board shows both. APR is the real fee yield: the trade tax the coin actually paid out over a year at today's pace. APY takes that same number and compounds it daily, assuming you reinvest every payout perfectly, forever, into a much bigger headline. A 150% APR becomes a 350%+ APY on the same coin. The boards lead with APY because it looks huge; we track APR because it is what actually lands in your wallet.

So the yield moves with trading, not with the coin. Two coins can post the same headline APY while one is fed by heavy real volume and the other is a big number the dashboard compounds out of almost nothing. Watch the volume, and the token it pays you in.

What is it?A trade tax

Hold the coin, a small tax on every trade of it gets sent to you in another token. That is the whole "dividend".

Is the yield real?Real, volume-fed

The payout is real and landing now. It is fed by live trading, so it grows when volume heats up and eases when it cools.

Which coins?ZCAT leads

ZCAT is the proven one. $STONK is the platform bet. Favour a coin that pays in an asset you would hold anyway.

Do you own stock?No

No shares, no rights, no company dividend. The SEC said so in January. "Stock dividend" is branding.

How the money actually moves

Every trade of one of these coins sets off two flows at once. You are on the receiving end of one. $STONK is on the receiving end of the other. Both are running live right now:

$STONK burned by StonkFun
218M
tokens bought back and destroyed, on-chain
Paid out to holders
$46M
across the whole meta, all-time
Your dividend
You trade the coinbuy or sell on StonkFun
1 to 3% tax takenautomatically, on that trade
Swapped to the payout tokenZEC, wBTC, a stock, whatever it pays
Sent to holderssplit by holdings, no claim button
The $STONK burn
Every coin's trade feescollected across the whole platform
Most of it buys $STONKon the open market
Burned foreversupply only falls, never mints

So volume is the fuel for both: it pays the holders and it shrinks $STONK. When trading slows, both taps slow with it.

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The whole meta, live

Every dividend coin in the meta, on one board: sort it, filter it, or put two coins side by side.

Live · the whole meta

The board lists every coin with its state, fee yield and the token it pays you in.

Meta cap · est. delta
$260M~-5.4%
whole meta · est. delta · as of 29 Oct 2026, 06:00 UTC
Coins
99
24h volume
$41Mleader: GTA6 46%
Paid to holders
$46M
# Coin State 24h Fee yield Mkt cap 24h vol Vol share Base Holders 3d Trade
2ZCATdown, vol down-16%0%/yr0% APY$43M$524k1.3%ZECn/aTrade
3MASKdown, vol down-16%21%/yr23% APY$31M$559k1.4%ZECn/aTrade
4GTA6up, vol up+149%0%/yr0% APY$13M$6.2M15%TTWOn/aTrade
5SIdown, vol down-15%0%/yr0% APY$12M$2.3M5.6%NVDAXn/aTrade
6BANKROLLdown, vol down-1%21%/yr23% APY$7.1M$79k0.2%USDCn/aTrade
7KNOTSdown, vol down-7%45%/yr57% APY$5.5M$217k0.5%STONKn/aTrade
8ALLINUup, vol up+5%27%/yr31% APY$3.5M$242k0.6%DKNGn/aTrade
9NEARKATdown, vol down-12%40%/yr50% APY$2.1M$74k0.2%NEARn/aTrade
10SNDKdown, vol down-16%22%/yr24% APY$2.0M$38k0.1%SNDKn/aTrade
11FEELSGOODup, vol up+35%120%/yr230% APY$1.7M$182k0.4%PEPEn/aTrade
12NINJACATdown, vol down-8%36%/yr43% APY$1.6M$139k0.3%INJn/aTrade
13PURRdown, vol down-12%72%/yr106% APY$1.5M$94k0.2%HYPEn/aTrade
whole meta · 99 coins · as of 29 Oct 2026, 06:00 UTC
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Last 72 hours · equal-weight basket of the top coins vs SOL

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It all runs through StonkFun

The payout is real, but a coin only starts paying once it graduates. Here is the venue that runs it, and the token that leads it.

StonkFun is a launchpad on Solana. Anyone mints a coin and pairs it with a quote asset: another crypto like ZEC or wrapped Bitcoin, a tokenized stock like AAPLx, or $STONK itself. The coin opens on a bonding curve. Once enough is bought it graduates to a normal Raydium pool and trades freely.

Only a graduated coin pays a real dividend. The tax that funds your payout needs real trading to exist, so a coin still on its curve is a promise, not income. The live board in this brief only lists graduated coins.

Pick the payout, not just the meme. That quote token is half of what you hold, so favour a coin paid in something with a life of its own, ZEC or wrapped Bitcoin, over one paid in a token that only trades inside the meta.

The hub: $STONK

A slice of every fee on the whole platform buys $STONK on the open market and burns it. The busier the venue, the more supply comes off.

So holding it is a bet on the venue, not any one coin. The closest thing here to owning the casino instead of a seat at a table. That is why it leads the meta.

6GmAFSYs4gk3FDao5FzzySQpPZaWsa4rUJHacpMpUNgx

The real $STONK mint on Solana. A separate project shares the ticker, so take the address from here or stonkfun.xyz, never from a screener.

04

Which coins should outperform

A dividend coin is two bets: the meme's trading volume, and the token it pays you in. That second one is the tell. When a base token runs, the coin that pays it usually follows, and getting in before it does is the edge.

Shade Intel's read: ZCAT is the proven one, $STONK is the platform bet, and a coin that pays in an asset you would hold anyway beats one that pays in a token that only trades inside the meta. Sort the board by fee yield for the numbers on every name.

The edge

A rising base makes your yield worth more, and the coin usually follows it up. ZCAT became the flagship exactly this way, paying holders about $2.8M in ZEC as ZEC itself ran. So a base breaking out before its meme is the earliest signal here, and one of the cleaner ways to get in front of a move. The live base-strength read ranks every base by how it moved today.

Live · base token strength

The tokens these coins pay you in, ranked by today's move: a rising base makes the yield worth more, and a base breaking out before its coin is the earliest signal here.

Strongest base
n/a
connecting

Base-token strength not measured yet.

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Is the money still here?

The trend is real and it is paying holders right now. The read that sets your entry is simple: is money still flowing in, so you are early, or is it starting to leave.

Live · money in, out and resting

Money bought into the meta versus money sold out of it over the last 24h, and how much is still resting in the pools, so you can read whether the eco is filling up or draining.

Bought in 24h
n/a
connecting
Sold out 24h
n/a
Net 24h
n/a
Resting in pools
n/a
Live · who is in the meta

The traders and wallets with the most riding on the meta right now, biggest position first and read on-chain, with what each put in, their paper gain, the liquidity behind their bag and what they have already taken out.

Who Put in UPNL in eco Total liq Taken out Read Coins
The FOMO traders load live.
via FOMO + on-chain
Who Put in UPNL in eco Total liq Taken out Read Coins
3Tmi..9jMo 412d oldn/an/an/anonestill holding
BTCBUTTZCAT
Beqv..qeit active oldn/an/an/anonestill holding
RAYCATSTONKZCAT
2E1g..KsPs 3d oldn/an/an/anonestill holding
BTCRAYCAT
5Mfu..c6Tz 32d+ oldn/an/an/anonestill holding
RAYCATSTONK
8tws..wQuS 93d oldn/an/an/anonestill holding
NEARKATRAYCAT
AVHR..PkzA 136d+ oldn/an/an/anonestill holding
BTCNEARKAT
via chain + on-chain PnL
06

What a top looks like

The meta is real and money is flowing in. Timing your buys with the base coin's strength is the edge. But the volume that pays your dividend is the same volume that tops the market when it dries up. Steady volume means steady payouts. When it slows, payouts shrink, holders leave, and the slide feeds itself. These are the tells to watch.

Live · the top check

The five signs that converge at a top, scored live: when several flash at once, the meta is late and you are the exit.

How late are you
earlymidlatetop

Getting late

About 9 weeks old. Watching where the volume flows to gauge how much longer it runs.

Top signals
Signals flashing
n/a
connecting
Price vs supportn/aeuphoria
Volume enginen/ayield dies
Liquidityn/alast leg
Exchangesn/aexit liquidity
Top holdersn/athe tell

Shade Intel's read: this meta is early to mid, not late. It is about two weeks old against the three months the 2024 AI meta ran, and the volume engine is still running.

No single number calls a top. A convergence does. These five, moving together, are the honest read, and the live check above scores them for you.

Euphoria, or earned? A price climbing on rising volume and real yield is earned. A price climbing while volume and yield fade is the crowd, not the cash.

Is the engine still running? The dividend is volume. If trading is fading, the yield is already shrinking under the headline, whatever the dashboard says.

Is liquidity crowding into a few winners? Early on, money spreads across the meta. Late, it piles into one or two names. That narrowing is the last leg, not the start.

Is $STONK getting listed, and are the top holders selling? $STONK is the concentrated bet and the one coin big enough to reach a real exchange, so a listing is where the size actually exits. The tell is quieter than it looks: the biggest holders tend to sit tight on-chain and wait for that listing, then sell side wallets into it on the exchange, so watch the listing news, not just the DEX tape. The reflection-token wave before this one (SafeMoon, in the risks below) ended exactly there.

07

The risks, ranked

The real risks, worst first, next to the honest case for the other side. Size around these and the opportunity is still yours, and the early warnings here are what keep you on the right side of it.

The real dangers
Volume is the whole engine

No trading, no yield. It is reflexive: high yield pulls buyers, which lifts volume and yield, until it reverses just as fast. The dividend dies before the chart does.

Too many coins, one bid

Making a coin here costs almost nothing, so new ones never stop arriving. Each launch splits the same attention and money thinner. Spread across hundreds of memes, no single coin holds a sustained buyer, and without steady volume the yield cannot hold either. The meta only pays if the market picks a few winners. If it stays fragmented, most of these bleed out and the dividends go with them. The real reward is getting into a winner early, not holding the field.

SafeMoon did this first

A nearly identical tax-and-payout model ended in SEC fraud charges in November 2023. The structure has been treated as a security once already.

In its defence
The payouts are real

ZCAT has genuinely streamed millions in ZEC to holders. This is not a pure vapour promise like most yield pitches.

It rides a real wave

Stocks on-chain is a large, growing trend, not a one-week fad. The sub-trend has a real current under it.

The payout token can carry you

When the token a coin pays in rallies, your yield is worth more before the meme even moves. A strong base is a real tailwind, and an early one. The live edge read above tracks it.

You are paid in real assets

Many of these pay in ZEC, wrapped Bitcoin or SOL. Your yield lands as a liquid asset you can hold or sell, not another meme with no floor.

No public rug, yet

As of 11 September 2026, no confirmed rug or exploit had surfaced across the main names in the prior 60 days. Absence of evidence, not a clean bill, so keep checking.

And the legal line. The SEC said in January 2026 that calling a tokenized-stock structure a "dividend" does not make it one, and confers no shareholder rights. That is not a prediction of enforcement, it is a caution that the marketing language here is exactly the language regulators flagged.

The Read · is the meta healthy?reading the meta

Each bar runs bearish on the left to bullish on the right, and the marker is where the meta sits now.

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How to buy it

The steps
  1. Start on StonkFun itself. Go to stonkfun.xyz and find the coin there, so you have the real mint from the source. Ticker collisions and copycats are everywhere, and one project even shares the $STONK ticker, so never trust a screener link.
  2. Buy on JTX. These coins trade on JTX, so take the verified mint to app.jtx.com and swap into it, or use Jupiter on Solana directly. Then hold: the payout usually needs a small minimum balance to qualify.
  3. Know your two bets. You are long the meme and long the token it pays you in. Pick a payout you would be happy holding on its own.
The quiet costs

Reinvesting the payout can trigger tax and slippage every time, and on a thin coin that can eat most of what you earned. The advertised yield ignores all of it. Size to the liquidity, not to the APY, because the exit is where thin coins punish you.

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The rotation and the whales, tracked live

The Vault watches where the money moves across this meta and flags the payout coins as they heat up and cool off, before the chart tells you. Free Discord.

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The calls I am putting down

Dated and public, so they can be marked later. This is how the track record grows.

The callWhyMark
Early to mid, not lateThe meta is weeks old and the volume engine is still running. Room left, but the risk is stacked in the top names.Pending
Payout-asset quality decides the winnersA dividend coin is two bets. The ones paying in an asset you would hold anyway should outperform the ones paying in a dying token.Pending
The top comes as a convergencePrice outrunning support, volume stalling, liquidity crowding, listings, and top holders selling, together, not any one alone.Pending
$STONK lands a major exchange listing$STONK is the concentrated platform bet and the one name here big enough to reach a major exchange. A listing is the milestone the biggest holders are positioned for.Pending
A $STONK-paying coin hits $100M market capThe payout token pulls the coin behind it. As $STONK grows, a coin paying dividends in it should follow, and at least one clears a nine-figure cap.Pending
$STONK reaches a $500M market capFees from every launch buy and burn $STONK, so a busier platform compounds into the hub. $500M is the next line if the meta holds.Pending
The APY is fantasy, the fee yield is the truthThis one is settled today. The compounded APYs are a maths artefact; the modelled fee APR is the honest number.Standing
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Coin watch

Pick a coin. The top holders, who they are, and a live tape, re-read from the chain every minute, with an alert the moment a big holder starts selling.

Coin watch$KNOWERvia chain · holders every minute · page every 10s · as of 29 Oct 2026, 06:13 UTC
Price$3e-4 +9.9%
Market cap$291k
Vol 24h$4.2k
Liquidity$60k
Holders811
Top 2030.4%
Pool25.2% flat
DORMANT WAKE: 4oUe..VPHX moved after 761h asleep.1.4d ago · 0 in 24h
20.9% dormant launch (8)55.1% pool1.8% platform (1)6.5% rotators (2)
#WalletHoldsEntry capPnL
14DPF..gLbSpool25.2%$73kn/an/a
2GpMZ..xFbLpool10.4%$30kn/an/a
3CFrU..DGhZdorm 12d3.7%$11k$197k+$283unr +$3.4k
42E1g..KsPsrot 53.0%$8.7k$56k$0unr +$14k
5+8 dormant launch walletsasleep 1.2d to 19d3 moved14.1%$41k
8HpsR..gDNfdorm 5dnew1.9%$5.4k$415k$0unr -$2.3k
932bE..mrqopoolnew1.7%$5.0kn/an/a
12Hr9b..bwVWnew1.6%$4.5k$228k-$896unr +$1.2k
Live tape · fills ≥ $1k
28mMOVE$46GpMZ..xFbL$291k
33mMOVE$20GpMZ..xFbL$291k
37mMOVE$70GpMZ..xFbL$291k
9hMOVE$7Bqak..dXQXNEW$311k
9hMOVE$7GpMZ..xFbL$320k
Armed · any top-20 reduce · ≥10% holder any tx · dormant wake · whale buy ≥$5k · new whale · fill ≥$10k · posts to The Vault Discord
holders re-read from the chain every minute, page refreshes every 10s · whale = wealth outside this coin in SOL, stables or ≥$50M-cap assets · KOL = wallet linked on FOMO, exact match only · pool = the vault, it moves on every trade
Low cap scanvia chain · board · as of 29 Oct 2026, 06:12 UTC
$LinkedInu$126k2 whales
$BUTTHOLE$201k2 whales1 rotator
$GRAMS$544k3 whales1 rotator
$MASKCAT$129k1 whale
$DEX$196k1 whale
$CLANKER$175k2 whales2 rotators
Newest and lowest-cap eco coins where the meta's whales are showing up. Not a call, a place to look.
FAQ

What people ask about Stock-meme dividends

Direct answers to the questions traders and search engines ask most.

Are StonkFun stock-meme coins a scam?

Not inherently, but the model is fragile and the marketing oversells it. The 'dividend' is real: coins like ZCAT skim a roughly 3% tax on every trade and stream it to holders in another token. But it is funded entirely by trading volume, so it dries up when attention fades, and the giant APY figures are fantasy. The nearly identical reflection model that SafeMoon used ended in SEC fraud charges in 2023.

How do the dividends actually work?

You hold the coin, and a small tax on every trade of it (about 1 to 3% on newer launches) is auto-converted into a named payout token and sent to holders pro-rata, with no claim button. Hold ZCAT, get ZEC. Hold RAYCAT, get RAY. The rate is not fixed; it floats with how much the coin is being traded.

Do you get a real stock dividend?

No. Some payout tokens are tokenized stocks, but holding the meme gives you no shares, no shareholder rights and no company dividend. The SEC said plainly in January 2026 that a tokenized-stock structure like this confers none of the rights of the real stock. The 'dividend' is a trade-tax payout, not a dividend from any company.

Which stock-meme coin is best?

There is no single best, and this is education not advice. The honest read: a dividend coin is two bets stacked, the coin's trading volume and the price of the token it pays in, so favour coins that pay in an asset you would want to hold anyway and that hold real liquidity. ZCAT is the proven flagship; $STONK is the platform hub and a bet on the whole venue. Verify every contract address before trading.

Is it too late to buy the stock-meme meta?

As of mid-September 2026 the trend is roughly two weeks old, against the three-month run the comparable 2024 AI-coin meta had before it peaked, so on that clock it is early to mid rather than late. The risk is concentration: a large share of the money sits in the top two names, the same top-heavy shape the 2024 AI meta had right before it rolled over.

What is StonkFun and $STONK?

StonkFun is a Solana launchpad where coins are paired against stocks, currencies and other tokens instead of just SOL, and many pay holders a trade-tax dividend. $STONK is its hub token, contract 6GmAFSYs4gk3FDao5FzzySQpPZaWsa4rUJHacpMpUNgx, which runs a buyback and burn on a slice of platform fees. There is a separate, unrelated project called StonkPad, so verify the mint.

Are the big KNOWER holders selling?

The Coin watch element at the bottom of this brief re-reads the 20 largest holder wallets from the Solana chain every minute, tags the pool vault and the platform wallets so they are never mistaken for sellers, and posts an alert to The Vault Discord the minute a top-20 wallet reduces its balance. The dated figures in the element are the last read the build saw; the live ones refresh in the browser.

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