How Fold works.

The loop

1. Launch. Your coin is created on pump.fun with its own Fold account as the creator. Creator fees from the curve and from PumpSwap after migration land there.
2. Split. Anyone can call collect: 90 / 5 / 5 goes to GPU time / the dev / Fold. The GPU part stays inside the coin's account as its GPU budget.
3. Team. When the budget first reaches 0.004 SOL, Fold's attestor creates the coin's Folding@home team (its homepage is the coin's page here) and writes the team number on chain once. A team number can never move to another coin.
4. Slot. When the budget covers one 2-hour slot on a whitelisted Nosana market, anyone can buy the NOS for it on the reference Orca pool and list the job. The job file is public and runs Folding@home for this team only.
5. Work. Nosana holds the deposit in escrow, pays the GPU node for time worked and refunds the rest to the same coin. Work units turn into points on the coin's team.
6. Race. The board places every Fold team inside the real monthly table, next to university, company and hardware-forum teams.

Parameters

Read live from the program's config account.

Who can move money

• Nobody takes GPU money. SOL leaves a coin for GPUs only into the reference pool (for NOS, output checked against a median price) or as Nosana job rent that comes back to the coin. NOS leaves only into a Nosana job or, for a dead coin, to the Fold House team.
• The dev claims the dev share. Nothing else.
• The attestor binds a coin's team number once and proposes job files. A new job file waits 3 days; the coin's dev can veto it, and the guardian can revoke the attestor instantly.
• The guardian can disable a GPU market or revoke the attestor. It never moves money.
• The admin whitelists GPU markets (price cap, 24 h delay), changes future parameters (24 h delay, coins keep their copy) and can pause new launches and donations. It never touches a coin's GPU budget, NOS, dev share or team.
• The keeper runs the permissionless steps on a timer. Anyone can run them instead.

Honest limits

• A job file is public, so the team's passkey is public. Someone can dump work under the coin's user name and break its quick-return bonus; the fix is a new passkey through a job-file change.
• Nosana supply is thin. A job may wait in the queue; after 24 h it is delisted with the deposit back (Nosana keeps its 10% network fee).
• A GPU node may take a slot and not fold. It is paid for time only, and the coin's page flags it when points per GPU-hour fall below half of the expected band.
• Folding@home may rename or delete a team. The number never rebinds; the coin shows "team lost".
• A coin quiet for 90 days with less than one slot left sends its dust to the Fold House team, never to a person.

Program

Program id FLDCzCcu24Lvx7Z5TUnTuPC1t372RZCMKDcTksgzLqci

Not affiliated with Fold Holdings or Folding@home. Folding@home points and team pages are theirs: foldingathome.org.