The Manipulation Playbook: what a detector that watches every pump.fun launch from the first block actually sees. Education only. No signals, no calls, no financial advice.

The headline number, refreshed September 2026: of 26,646 pump.fun-native tokens tracked from creation to graduation since 31 May 2026, 53.1% were bundled, a coordinated group of wallets buying in the same instant to fake early demand. The share is rising month by month: 43% in June, 52% in July, 59% in August.

Inside the PDF:

• The six bots running the board: wash, trending farm, bundle/sniper, ladder, fake support, comment spam. How to spot each on a chart or wallet list, no code required.
• The concentration check to run before you buy anything.
• The fill-tax truth: why sniping graduations does not work, with the numbers.
• A quick-reference checklist.

Built on eight to ten months of continuously monitoring every coin, every moon and every rug. Every claim is an on-chain action or structural pattern, never a claim about anyone’s intent. Free updates through 2027 as the detector keeps running.