Trenches on Padre: Catching Launches Early
Trenches is the part of Padre aimed at the launch window — tokens on a bonding curve, before and just after they graduate. It is the highest-variance thing in the product, and the filters are what separate scanning from gambling.
Three columns, one curve
Trenches tracks launches from Pump.fun on Solana and Four.Meme on BSC, switchable at the top of the view, and splits them by position on the bonding curve:
| Column | Stage | What you are betting on |
|---|---|---|
| New | Just launched, early on the curve | That anything happens at all — most of these go nowhere |
| Almost Bonded | Nearing the end of the curve | That it graduates; this is where activity concentrates |
| Recently Bonded | Finished bonding, trading on a DEX | That momentum survives the transition |
Filter first, then look
An unfiltered feed of new launches is noise with a refresh rate. The filter panel on each column is the actual product, and it is unusually complete — toggles for Dex paid,Has social and Dev still holding, symbol search, and min/max ranges on:
- Market cap and volume in dollars
- Top 10 holders % and top insider holding %
- Bonding curve progress %
- Buys and sells, dev bonded, total holders, dev holding %
- Token age in minutes
Filter sets can be saved and recalled from the Saved tab. That matters more than it sounds: a written filter is a risk profile you decided in advance, which is the only kind that survives a fast market. Build one that encodes what you will not touch — dev still holding above some percentage, top 10 concentration above some share — and the feed stops being a temptation engine.
Dev blacklist and alerts
You can block up to 200 developer addresses from appearing at all: the people-plus icon in the header, paste the address. On a platform where the same wallets launch repeatedly, a growing blacklist is one of the few edges that compounds.
Custom sound alerts fire when new tokens hit a column, which is designed for having the tab open alongside others rather than staring at it. Card density, metric size and avatar shape are all adjustable, saved per session.
Trending is a different stage
The Trending tab is often confused with Trenches. It ranks tokens already trading by price change and volume over timeframes from 1M to 1H, showing asset, chain, age, 1-hour price change, price, trade count with a buy/sell balance bar, volume and FDV. Clicking any row opens the trading dashboard for that token. Default view covers Solana, Ethereum, Base and BNB.
Trenches is the launch window; Trending is momentum after it. Entering a Trending token with the mental model of a Trenches play — or the reverse — is a reliable way to size a position wrongly. Either way the exit matters more than the entry, which is covered separately, and the execution speed these situations need comes from your preset. Terms like insider, bundle and dev bonded are defined in the glossary.
Trenches is the sharp end; the rest of Padre Terminal is on the main guide.
Trenches — questions
What is Trenches on Padre?
A terminal for tokens launched on bonding-curve platforms — Pump.fun on Solana and Four.Meme on BSC. It shows launches in three columns by where they sit on the curve, with live metrics, dev signals and filtering on each column.
What do the three columns mean?
New is tokens that just launched and are early on the curve. Almost Bonded is tokens nearing the end of the curve, which is where activity concentrates. Recently Bonded is tokens that finished bonding. The column tells you which risk you are taking, not how good the token is.
Can I filter out tokens the developer still holds?
Yes. Each column has manual filters including toggles for Dex paid, Has social and Dev still holding, plus min/max ranges on market cap, volume, top 10 holders, insider holding, bonding curve progress, buys and sells, dev bonded, token age in minutes, total holders and dev holding percentage. Filter sets can be saved and reused.
Can I block specific developers?
Yes — the Dev Blacklist. Click the people-plus icon in the header and paste a dev address, up to 200 addresses. Tokens from those developers stop appearing in your feed.
What is the difference between Trenches and Trending?
Trenches watches tokens still on, or just off, a bonding curve — the launch window. Trending ranks tokens already trading by price change and volume over timeframes from one minute to one hour. Different stages, different risk.
Does Trenches tell me which tokens are safe?
No, and treating it that way is how people lose money with it. It surfaces measurable facts — holder concentration, dev behaviour, age, volume — faster than you could gather them. What those facts mean is still your judgement, and most tokens in this category go to zero regardless of how the card looked.
Column names, filter fields, the 200-address blacklist limit and the Trending columns are as published in Padre’s own app guide — archived copies of trenches andtrending (27 April 2025), since that documentation site went offline in September 2026. Nothing here is trading advice; tokens in this category commonly go to zero.