Pick a politician, party, group or state
Your coin
Pick. Pair.
Launch.
Pick
Click a state on the map to open every senator and representative from it, or open a party, chamber or caucus.
Pair
Hit Pair on any card. Their portrait becomes the coin's face, or upload your own image. You name the coin.
Launch
Approve once in your wallet and the coin goes live on pump.fun, trading immediately.
Polpad docs
Overview
Polpad is a Solana launchpad for pairing memecoins to US politics. You can pair a coin to any current member of Congress, the President, the Vice President, the mayor of the largest city in every state, a political party, a chamber, a caucus or a state.
Every coin launches on pump.fun. Polpad builds the coin's details and the launch transaction; you approve it in your own wallet.
Pairing
Pairing means the coin is created around a subject. A politician's portrait becomes the coin's image. You name the coin and pick its ticker yourself; the ticker box suggests one.
| Subject | Where to find it | Suggested ticker |
|---|---|---|
| Senator / Rep | Click their state on the map, or search on the Launch page | Last name, e.g. $SMITH |
| Mayor | Open a state; the mayor of its largest city is first. Or search a city on the Launch page | Last name |
| President / VP | Overview rail on the Map page | Last name |
| Party | Party chips above the map | $DEM, $GOP, $LIB, $GRN, $IND |
| Chamber / caucus | Overview rail → Chambers & caucuses | Short name, e.g. $HFC |
| State | Open a state → Pair a coin to the state | State name, e.g. $TEXAS |
The coin name starts empty so you can call it whatever you like.
Launching
- Pick a subject and set the name, ticker, optional description and dev buy: pick 0.01, 0.5, 1 or 5 SOL, or type any amount up to 85 SOL (0 for no dev buy).
- Press Launch coin. Polpad stores the coin's image and details on IPFS through Pinata.
- PumpPortal builds the pump.fun creation transaction, which includes your dev buy.
- You approve it once in your wallet (Phantom, Solflare or Backpack). The transaction is sent to Solana through Helius.
- When it lands, Polpad shows the coin's contract address with links to pump.fun and the transaction.
What goes in a coin
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | The coin name you set (32 characters max) |
| symbol | The ticker you set (2 to 10 letters or numbers) |
| image | Your own upload, or by default the politician's portrait (official congressional portrait, or the Wikipedia/Wikimedia photo for the President, VP and mayors). Parties and groups get their colour and short name; states get their outline. Stored on IPFS. |
| description | Your description, followed by the pairing line: "Memecoin paired to … Not affiliated with or endorsed by …" |
| website | The Polpad site the coin was launched from |
Rules
- Every coin's description includes a line saying it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the person, party, group or state it's paired to. This line can't be removed.
- Coin names and tickers can't contain the word "official".
- Polpad doesn't stop more than one coin being paired to the same subject.
The map
The map has three colour modes:
- 2024 result: each state's presidential margin, from D+30 to R+30.
- Senate: each state's two senators: two Democrats, two Republicans, a Democrat and an Independent, or split.
- House: how Democratic or Republican each state's House delegation is.
- Gold dots: battleground states, decided by under 3 points in 2024 (shown in the 2024 result mode).
Opening a party recolours the map by that party's share of each state's members of Congress.
Data sources
| Data | Source |
|---|---|
| Members of Congress | The public-domain congress-legislators dataset, loaded live when the page opens |
| Mayors | The mayor of each state's largest city (and DC), checked against city and news sources on 2 Nov 2026 |
| Portraits | Official congressional portraits (US government works, public domain); Wikipedia/Wikimedia photos for the executive branch and mayors |
| 2024 results | State tallies from The Green Papers; Utah from the certified state canvass |
| State shapes | US Census state boundaries, built into the page |
| Electoral votes | 2020 census apportionment (used for 2024 and 2028) |
The member list updates when the dataset does, so a new Congress appears once its members are sworn in.
Fees
Polpad adds no fee of its own. You pay pump.fun's standard fees on the dev buy and Solana network fees. Creator fees from trading go to the wallet that launched the coin, under pump.fun's rules.