// The pot
Every coin launched through Allocator sends all of its creator fees to one account owned by the program. There is no per coin treasury and no dev share. The pot is one number, and it is on the page above.
Fees are collected by a keeper that anyone can watch: it calls pump.fun's own permissionless payout for each coin, then sweeps what arrived into the pot.
// The hour
A round runs from the top of one hour to the top of the next, UTC. For every coin the round measures net SOL in: the SOL that went into buys, minus the SOL that came out of sells.
The coin with the highest net SOL in takes the hour. A coin that ends the hour flat or down cannot take it.
A coin that bonds leaves the bench. Its fees keep arriving at the pot, but its curve has emptied into the pool, so there is nothing honest left to measure and the program refuses it as a winner.
// The payout
At the close the keeper publishes the table and its hash, and the program spends the pot: 85 per cent buys the winning coin on the market and burns every token it bought, 15 per cent buys $ALLOC and burns that. Nobody can take the money out instead: the buy and the burn are the only thing the program can do with a settled round, and anyone can send that transaction.
If no coin is in the green, or the pot is under 0.05 SOL, nothing is spent and the pot carries into the next hour.
// The risk
You can push your own coin to win an hour. It is not free: pump.fun takes a fee on the way in and on the way out, so buying an hour costs more than the pot pays unless the pot is already bigger than what you have to spend. That is the whole defence, and it is arithmetic, not a promise.
Allocator is a pump.fun launchpad, not an investment. A coin here can go to zero like any other, the pot can sit at zero for hours, and nothing about the hour you win is guaranteed to be worth what you paid for it.