How the machine works
A Solana address is the public half of a key. To get one that spells a word, a grinder makes keys until one fits. This page says what that costs, who holds the key and how you use it.
1. PatternA start, an ending or both, in base58. The price shows at once.
2. Sign and payYour wallet signs “CAM order <id>”, then one transfer with the memo cam <id>.
3. GrindThe GPU tries keys in the order of payment. The hit is sealed to your wallet.
4. Open and launchSign again to open it, launch on pump.fun or download the key.The price
Every key the grinder makes has a random address. The price follows how many keys it has to try, on average, before one fits: E.
An ending
The last n characters of an address are spread evenly over the 58 characters of base58, so an exact-case ending of n characters takes 58n tries on average: pump in exact case is 11,316,496. With any case, each letter that exists in both cases counts twice, so E halves per such letter. Base58 has no 0, O, I or l, so o, i and L have one form only.
A start
Starts are not even. 94% of Solana addresses are 44 characters long, and a 44-character address can only begin with 2 to H. So a start with 5 takes about 17 tries, and a start with z about a thousand. The machine counts this exactly for every start you type, which is why two starts of the same length can cost very different amounts.
The formula
price = max(0.01 SOL, E ÷ keys per second × SOL per GPU second). The speed is measured on the machine's GPU when it is switched on; the page, the server and the keeper compute the same number to the lamport. The expected time on the page is a hint, not a promise.
Free patterns and limits
Up to 3 characters in total grinds for free in your own browser (WebAssembly in Web Workers): no wallet, no server, the key never leaves your tab. Paid patterns: an ending up to 6 characters with any case or 5 in exact case, a start up to 5, both together up to 6, shortened if the machine's GPU is slower than expected. Insults are not cut.
The key is sealed to your wallet
Before you pay, your wallet signs the text CAM order <id>. A wallet always makes the same signature for the same text, and nobody else can make it. Your browser turns that signature into a lock (HKDF-SHA256, then an X25519 key) and sends the machine only the lock, never the signature.
When the grinder finds your key, it seals it inside that lock (NaCl box) and wipes its own copy. To open it, you sign the same text again: your browser rebuilds the same key to the lock and opens it, right in the page. Another wallet makes another signature and opens nothing.
What you have to trust
Be clear on this: the key existed, once, in the memory of the grinder on the machine's computer before it was sealed. The machine is built to wipe it at once and keeps only the sealed copy, but it is a service, not a trustless scheme. If that matters for your launch, grind a short pattern for free in your own browser, where the key is made and kept on your side only.
Your coin is yours: you launch it from your own wallet, you are its creator, and this machine has nothing to do with its fees.
Queue, refunds, cancels
Paid orders queue in the order their payments land. A payment below the price, from another wallet than the one that ordered, or for an unknown order goes back in full with the memo cam refund <id>. If a pattern is not found within 3 × E tries, the whole price comes back. While an order still waits in the queue, its wallet can cancel it from the order page for a 100% refund. If the machine's computer is off, orders wait in the queue and nothing is lost.
Using the key
Launch here
The order page opens a launch form: name, ticker, picture, links and an optional first buy. It builds one pump.fun transaction (create_v2 plus your buy), signed by the opened key as the mint and by your wallet as the creator. Your wallet pays the launch fees.
Anywhere else
Download key saves the Solana CLI keypair file ([64 numbers]). solana-keygen pubkey file.json prints its address. Any pad or bot that lets you bring your own mint keypair takes it. Keep it private: whoever holds it can create a coin at this address first.
Where the SOL goes
Of every finished order, 70% buys $CAM and burns it (memo cam burn <id> <SOL> <tokens>); 30% pays for the work and the electricity. The creator fees of $CAM are forwarded by its creator to the keeper: for every whole 1 SOL, 0.9 buys and burns $CAM and 0.1 goes to the work. Every buy and burn is on chain with its memo.
Nothing here is financial advice: $CAM is a memecoin, its price can go to zero, and you can lose everything you put in.