Blog · 23 October 2026

Kimchi coin ($KIMCHI): what the on-chain data shows

$KIMCHI is a pump.fun memecoin launched on 20 October 2026 at 23:00 UTC, the night pump.fun announced the trader Kimchi as a partner. A wallet created three hours earlier bought 79 % of the supply in the first transaction, sent 75 % on to a wallet that pump.fun labels "Kimchi", and made that wallet the receiver of every creator fee. The coin peaked near a $44 million market cap and traded at about $12 million two days later, with less than $1 million of liquidity across all its pools.

Several coins use the KIMCHI ticker, so start with the address. The one this page is about is:

CSocnzcRpgSCr1naKcNTieWZUxb6rABe45j844m7pump

Key facts

Launched	20 October 2026, 23:00:15 UTC, on pump.fun
Supply	1 billion tokens
First buy	793 million tokens (79.3 %) for about 86 SOL, roughly $9,300, by the wallet that created the coin. Its first activity on chain was about three hours earlier.
Wallet labelled Kimchi	`Gs5FHwYLrDBmCmiv5VhBLCvyiBmBYfcPedZDqR88GYeX` received 750 million tokens (75 %) 57 seconds after launch and still held all of them on 22 October at 23:40 UTC.
Creator fees	100 % to the same wallet, set once at launch and impossible to change. 164 SOL arrived in the first 80 minutes.
Peak market cap	About $44 million by DEX Screener's pool data, $48.3 million on pump.fun's coin page, both on launch night
22 October, 23:40 UTC	About $12.2 million market cap, down 53 % in 24 hours, about $805,000 of liquidity across 30 pools

Launch night, minute by minute

All times UTC, from Solana block times and X post IDs as reconstructed by The Defiant:

20 Oct, 19:54	The creator wallet becomes active for the first time.
22:30 to 23:04	A Binance hot wallet sends $PUMP to the wallet labelled Kimchi, about 1.35 billion tokens in total.
23:00:15	The coin is created, the creator buys 79 % of the supply, and in the same second the fee split names the Kimchi wallet.
23:00:21	Kimchi posts "october 2026 / vlog in bio", six seconds after the coin exists and his first post in five days.
23:01:12	750 million tokens move to the wallet labelled Kimchi.
23:01:33	Pump.fun posts its Kimchi ad, 78 seconds after the coin exists.
23:18 to 00:23	Four creator fee payouts, 164 SOL in total, reach the Kimchi wallet.
23:19:36	Alon Cohen posts the written announcement, 19 minutes after trading began.

The creator kept 4.3 % of the supply, sold it and closed the token account. Crypto Briefing reports that the same wallet had launched similar tokens before and estimates its profit at about $26,000, and that early sniper wallets made more than that.

Market cap is not money

A memecoin's market cap is its last price times its supply. The price comes from the last trade in a pool, and a pool pays out of what it holds. Selling into it moves the price against the seller.

$KIMCHI shows the gap clearly. On 22 October at 23:40 UTC its largest pool, on PumpSwap, held about 15.5 million $KIMCHI against 1,830 SOL. In a pool like that the two sides multiply to a constant, so selling another 15.5 million tokens, just 1.55 % of the supply, would bring back about 915 SOL and leave the pool's price at a quarter of where it started. All 30 pools together held about 4,360 SOL and $16,000 in USDC.

The wallet labelled Kimchi holds 750 million tokens. At the quoted price that is about $9.1 million. No sale could take out more than the SOL in the pools, about $450,000 at the time, and a real sale would get much less. That is why the "$32 million made in 30 minutes" figure was paper value.

Where the creator fees go

Every $KIMCHI trade pays a creator fee: 0.30 % of the volume while a coin is on the bonding curve, and 0.05 % to 0.95 % in its PumpSwap pool after graduation, depending on the market cap. All of it goes to the wallet labelled Kimchi. On 21 October $KIMCHI traded $57.9 million in 24 hours, about 44 times the depth of its pools. A fee receiver earns from volume whether the price rises or falls.

Who controls $KIMCHI?

75 % of the supply and all creator fees sit in one wallet. Pump.fun's profile page and Solscan label that wallet "Kimchi". The coin itself was created by a different, newly made wallet. Nothing on chain shows who holds the keys to either, and the funding of the 86 SOL first buy has not been traced. What the chain does show is the timing: the coin, Kimchi's post and pump.fun's ad within 78 seconds of each other.

Kimchi coin price prediction

Nobody can tell you where $KIMCHI goes next, and we do not try. Three numbers decide most of it, and you can watch all of them on DEX Screener and Solscan:

The 75 % wallet. As long as it does not sell, the supply in other hands is small. Any sale meets pools that hold under $1 million.
Liquidity. The deeper the pools, the less each sale moves the price.
Volume. It fell with the price after launch night. Coins tied to a person usually lose interest once the news is old. SolanaFloor names $ANSEM as one of the few that held some of its early traction.

Not to be confused with

Aura Final Boss (KIMCHI), launched on 27 July by an outside holder. Kimchi's wallet holds none of it; it fell 95 % in a day.
Project Kimchi, the coin behind the QR code posted from Kimchi's account on 22 October 2026. It reached about $15.2 million and fell by more than 98 %. What happened.
KIMCHI CTO, a community takeover coin named after Kimchi, the Shiba Inu from the Dogecoin community.

Copies with the same name appear within minutes of any news. Only the contract address tells them apart.

How to check a creator coin before you buy

Top holders. Open the holder list. One wallet with most of the supply decides the price for everyone else.
The first transaction. Who bought in the same block as the launch, and how much?
The fee receiver. Pump.fun shows who gets the creator fees. Ask whether that wallet also holds the supply.
Liquidity against market cap. A coin with a $30 million market cap and $1 million in its pools cannot be exited at $30 million by anyone large.
The timing. If the coin existed before the announcement about it, someone knew about the announcement first. Ask who.
Your own size. Look at how much your buy moves the pool before you place it.

Could you trade $KIMCHI at Bonded Capital?

Not on launch night. Our challenge accounts trade graduated pump.fun coins only once they are at least 10 minutes old and between $100K and $20M in market cap, with at least 50 SOL in the PumpSwap pool and 50 different traders in the last hour, none of whom made more than 30 % of the buying. At its $44 million peak $KIMCHI was above that cap, and in its first 10 minutes it was too young. At $12 million it is inside the range, and whether it is open in a given hour depends on who bought in that hour; the app shows it live.

A run like launch night's would not count anyway. When at least 40 new wallets pile into a coin within a minute and its market cap jumps 30 %, the profit from that wave does not count toward a pass or a payout. That is what a sponsored post 78 seconds after launch produces. Why callout profits don't count explains the rule, and rule 3 lists every coin condition.

Every order fills at the coin's next real trade with its real fee and your price impact, so the liquidity problem above applies to you too. How fills work.

See the accounts

Frequently asked questions

What is the $KIMCHI contract address?

The $KIMCHI coin launched on pump.fun on 20 October 2026 has the contract address CSocnzcRpgSCr1naKcNTieWZUxb6rABe45j844m7pump. Other coins use the same ticker, so always check the address.

Who owns $KIMCHI?

One wallet, Gs5FHwYLrDBmCmiv5VhBLCvyiBmBYfcPedZDqR88GYeX, holds 750 million tokens, 75 % of the supply, and receives all creator fees. Pump.fun and Solscan label it Kimchi; nothing on chain shows who holds its keys.

What is the Kimchi coin's market cap?

About $12.2 million on 22 October 2026 at 23:40 UTC, after a launch-night peak of about $44 million by DEX Screener's data or $48.3 million on pump.fun's coin page.

How much liquidity does $KIMCHI have?

About $805,000 across 30 pools on 22 October 2026, of which about 4,360 SOL and $16,000 in USDC on the paying side.

Who gets the $KIMCHI creator fees?

All of them go to the wallet labelled Kimchi. The split was set once at launch and cannot be changed. 164 SOL arrived in the first 80 minutes.

Is $KIMCHI the same as Project Kimchi?

No. Project Kimchi is a separate coin promoted by a post on Kimchi's X account on 22 October 2026. It reached about $15.2 million and fell by more than 98 %.

Is $KIMCHI a good investment?

We do not give investment advice. The data shows a coin where one wallet holds 75 % of the supply against less than $1 million of liquidity, which means a single seller can move the price a lot.

Sources

Bonded Capital is not affiliated with pump.fun or with Kimchi. Facts as reported up to 23 October 2026; market data from DEX Screener and a public Solana node on 22 October 2026 at 23:40 UTC. Nothing here is investment advice.