The ramp
Raydium concentrated pool, devnetThe stairs' exact inventory as one smooth slope, no steps.
Pool price now
Below $27.11 this pool holds nothing to trade against, so a sell that tries to push under it is refused by the chain. The trade log shows the test.
Buyer money in the pool
We seeded none of it. It walked in through buys and walks out when people sell.
SHASH in the pool
Started at 4,602. Buys take tokens out, sells put them back.
Toll the token kept
Every SHASH transfer pays a 2.5% toll to the token itself (zero dollars seeded, the ladder's exact 4,720 SHASH as one band). It sits on the pool account, outside the market, until the weekly sweep collects it.
Where the liquidity sits
zero dollars seeded, the ladder's exact 4,720 SHASH as one bandGold is tokens for sale, green is standing buy money. Faded means the side has been traded through.
Bars are computed from the recorded size of each position plus the live pool price, the same math the chain uses.
How this shape works
The control experiment: exactly the stairs' inventory (4,720 SHASH), exactly the stairs' range ($27.11 to $35.09), even the same fee tier, but poured in as one continuous band instead of eight rungs. Zero dollars seeded.
Price rises smoothly through the slope instead of stepping rung to rung. Every buy in the series executed slightly cheaper than on the stairs: the 2,000-token buy cost $60,936 here against $61,313 on the stairs, because a smooth slope has no flat spots to jump across.
Buyer dollars still park where they bought, still become the bid side, and the bottom of the slope is still a wall.
Where it breaks
The floor test resolved identically to the stairs: the sell of 3,000 was refused at $27.11, the same floor, the same atomic revert. Smoothness changes execution quality, not protection.
The one honest difference: rungs make the shelf legible (you can see exactly what sits at each price), while a ramp is opaque without a chart. Marketing the floor is easier when people can see the steps.
What it proves for SHASH
Geometry twin of the stairs with marginally better execution on every trade measured. Stairs versus ramp is a presentation choice, not a protection choice; both refuse the same dump at the same floor with zero dollars spent.
Every trade, signed
What the model quoted before sending versus what the chain actually delivered, for every trade of the series, including any the chain refused.
| Trade | Expected | Got | Price | Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bought 100 Aug 11, 21:42 UTC | 100 SHASH for $2,794.83 | 100 SHASH | $27.00 → $27.25 | 5mkL…67zF |
| Bought 500 Aug 11, 21:42 UTC | 500 SHASH for $14,204.02 | 500 SHASH | $27.25 → $28.01 | td5B…qigQ |
| Bought 2,000 Aug 11, 21:42 UTC | 2,000 SHASH for $60,936.05 | 2,000 SHASH | $28.01 → $31.35 | 42xm…RrVD |
| Sold 300 Aug 11, 21:42 UTC | $9,072.40 for 300 SHASH | $9,072.40 | $31.35 → $30.84 | 2bog…ex79 |
| Tried to sell 3,000 Aug 11, 21:42 UTC | quote stopped at $27.11 | refused by the chain no room past $27.11, so nothing moved | $30.84 → $30.84 | no transaction |
| Sold 500 Aug 11, 21:43 UTC | $14,795.12 for 500 SHASH | $14,795.12 | $30.84 → $30.02 | LnuT…ybms |
| Bought 1,000 Aug 11, 21:43 UTC | 1,000 SHASH for $31,763.90 | 1,000 SHASH | $30.02 → $31.79 | 3jPc…gK4M |
The other shapes
How this page measures: price and pool balances are read straight from the devnet pool accounts every ten seconds where the venue allows raw reads, band bars use the recorded positions plus the live price, and the table replays the signed trade log. Practice network, practice dollars: the mechanics are real, the money is not. Pool NhtJ…LVF7 on Solana devnet, opened with zero dollars seeded and 4,602 SHASH placed.