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|3 min ReadSnowball: $10M in 96 Hours via Auto-Buyback
Jax Morales
Senior Analyst
Published
Jan 16, 2026
The crypto market is dead right now. On-chain volume is hibernating and the "supercycle" narrative looks exhausted. While traders argues over petty drama, the smart money on Solana is quietly bidding a new mechanic. They found Snowball on pump.fun. It launched on December 18 and blasted to a $10M market cap in under 96 hours.
This is not just another dog coin. It represents a shift in how retail investors demand "fairness" in the trenches. The narrative is simple. The token uses a mechanism to force the price up. It creates a self-reinforcing loop that does not rely on a developer's morality.
The Robot Eats the Supply
To understand the hype, you must understand the scam. Usually, a dev launches a coin on pump.fun and sets a "creator fee." They take 1% of every trade. They promise to use it for marketing. They lie. They take the SOL and buy a Porsche. Snowball kills this dynamic.
Snowball rejects the fee. Instead, 100% of creator fees go directly into an automated on-chain market maker bot. This robot has no feelings. It cannot rug you. It executes three brutal functions on a loop. First, it buys the token from the open market. Second, it pairs that token with SOL to deepen the liquidity pool. Third, it burns 0.1% of the supply.
The fee scales dynamically. When the market cap is low, the fee is high (0.95%) to build ammunition. When the cap is high, the fee drops (0.05%) to let the traders play. Every single transaction feeds the machine. The machine buys the bag. The price goes up.
The Data Proves the Narrative
The numbers look clean. Surf.ai data shows over 7,270 unique addresses holding the bag. The distribution is healthy. The top 10 holders control only 20% of the supply. No single whale can nuke the chart instantly. This is rare for a pump.fun launch.
Since launch, the protocol processed over 58,000 transactions. Buy volume sits at $4.4M and sell volume at $4.3M. The net flow is barely positive, yet the price holds. Bybit Alpha listed the token within 96 hours. That is speed. That is a signal that centralized exchanges are starving for volume and will list anything that moves.
The 2026 Narrative Shift: Algorithmic PvP
This isn't just about a snowball. This is a preview of the 2026 market structure. We are seeing a move away from "Community Takeovers" (CTO) towards "Algorithmic Takeovers" (ATO). Traders are tired of human error. They are tired of emotional devs panic-selling at the bottom.
We predict a wave of "Mechanism Coins" in Q1 2026. This mirrors the OlympusDAO (OHM) era of 2021, but faster and on Solana. The (3,3) game theory failed because it relied on staking. Snowball simplifies it. It relies on volume. If liquidity remains fragmented across L2s, these high-velocity automated games on Solana will act as the primary liquidity sink for retail speculation.
The dev, @bschizojew, plays the role perfectly. He posts his wallet addresses. He calls himself a "schizo." He feeds the degen culture while the code does the professional work.
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