PYRE — Burn to Be Seen

Live Burn Leaderboard

Ranked by heat · burns decay Re-ranks every 30s

      heat is each burn divided by (hours_since_burn + 2)1.5, summed per wallet — Hacker News / Reddit "hot" ranking, applied to fire. Old burns fade. Fresh burns climb. Feed the pyre to stay on top.
    

How it works

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Buy $PYRE on pump.fun

Grab some $PYRE tokens. The more you hold, the more you can burn. Scarcity rises with every burn — your tokens get more expensive to acquire and more powerful to spend.

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Send a burn transaction

Send $PYRE to the Solana null address 1111...1111 with a memo containing your URL and message. Any Solana wallet works. The blockchain is the receipt.

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Heat ranks you, not raw burn

Each burn is an upvote with a timestamp. Heat = amount ÷ (hours_since + 2)^1.5, summed across your burns. Reddit-style decay. Old whales fade. Fresh burns climb. Quid pro quo, in flame.

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Hold rank by feeding the fire

A 100K burn at the top decays past a fresh 10K burn in roughly a day. To stay in the top slot you must keep burning — or accept being passed by someone who is. The pyre does not coast.

A Field Guide to the Word "Pyre"

For the literate degen · est. ca. 7000 BCE

pyre noun /ˈpaɪ.ər/

UK /paɪə/ US /paɪr/ rhymes with fire, dire, "your retirement plan"

n. A heap of combustible material — typically wood — assembled for the ceremonial burning of a body. "They built a pyre of cedar and laid him upon it."

n. A sacred altar-fire; a hearth dedicated to a deity; any place where fire is deliberately and meaningfully kindled. "The pyre at the temple burned for a hundred and forty-seven years."

n. (figurative) Any structure — physical, financial, or otherwise — onto which one places things of value, knowing they will not return. "The 401(k), the marriage, the dogcoin bag — each its own modest pyre."

n. (crypto, 2026−) A leaderboard mechanic by which Solana memecoin holders convert tokens into permanent on-chain attention. "He threw forty thousand $PYRE on the pyre and ranked seventh by Tuesday."

derived forms · pyric adj. · pyromantic adj. · pyrelike adv. · see also · fire, hearth, conflagration, "your portfolio Q1 2026"

Etymology, in descending order

PIE root

*péh₂wr̥ "fire" (the inanimate, substance kind — distinct from *h₁n̥gʷnis, fire-as-living-force, which gave us Latin ignis)

Anc. Greek

πῦρ (pŷr) "fire" — and its derivative πυρά (purá), "funeral pyre, altar-fire, watch-fire, hearth"

Latin

pyra a learned borrowing of the Greek; "funeral pile"

Mid 17c.

pyre enters English; the doublet of fire, but reserved for the ceremonial and the inevitable

2026 CE

$PYRE SPL token, Solana mainnet; doublet of "we knew what we were doing and we did it anyway"

cognates across the family

OE fyr → fire

Ger Feuer → fire

Hittite paḫḫur → fire

Czech pýř → hot ashes

Arm hur → fire, torch

Umbrian pir → fire

PYRE

cremation · sacrifice · attention economy

The pyre (Anc. Gr. πυρά, romanized purá; from πῦρ pûr, "fire") is the oldest piece of human infrastructure that still performs its original function. Archaeological evidence of cremation pyres in the Levant dates to roughly 7000 BCE, predating the wheel, the alphabet, and the limited liability company by several thousand years.

In Bronze Age Europe, pyre flame-height conferred social status; charcoal residues at the Salorno-Dos de la Forca site in the Adige Valley (1150–950 BCE) yielded over 64 kg of cremated remains across eight generations of one family — a literal intergenerational burn schedule.

In the Vedic tradition, the Antyesti rite — "the last sacrifice" — formalized the pyre as one of the sixteen samskaras, the body returned to its five elements via mango-wood and ghee. A traditional Hindu pyre burns 500–600 kg of wood across six hours; an estimated 50–60 million trees are pyred annually in India alone.

In Greek religion, πυρά referred equally to the funeral pyre and to the altar-fire on which portions of an animal sacrifice were burnt as an offering. The semantic distance between these uses was, to the Greek mind, zero. Something was given to the fire; the fire took it. The accounting ended there.

In Roman and Germanic custom, pyres were public, vertical, and theatrical — a final post by which a life was measured. Open-air cremation has since been outlawed in most of the West (UK, Cremation Act 1902), and the rite has migrated indoors, into furnaces, into spreadsheets, and — most recently — onto the Solana mainnet, where the pyre takes the form of a transfer to address 11111…1111 with a memo attached.

Across every recorded culture that has lit one, the pyre has carried a single, stable meaning: this thing is over, and I want everyone to see that it is over. The combustible has always varied. The point has not.

addendum · contemporary usage · 2026

obs. The persistent assumption that "burning money" is unusual, foolish, or exceptional behavior — held by a dwindling number of holdouts, mostly ETF guys and certain uncles — has been quietly retired. By the spring of 2026 the question is no longer whether you are burning money but onto which pyre, and with what aesthetic.

Your S&P 500 fund, real return adjusted for the cost of staying alive in a coastal city, is a slow pyre with very tasteful carved-oak finishings. Your rent is a monthly pyre on which you place a third of your post-tax income and receive, in return, the right to keep your books somewhere. Your streaming subscriptions are seventeen tea-light pyres burning quietly in a side room you have not entered since 2023. Your "high-yield" savings account is a pyre someone built out of damp leaves and is charging you to look at.

$PYRE proposes only one modest reform: name the pyre. Make it explicit. Put it on the leaderboard. Get a clickable link out of it. The fire was always going to take it. At least this way the receipt is on-chain and someone, somewhere, has to scroll past your URL on the way to theirs.

— πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ καίεται —
"all things flow, and burn"

The Rules

Simple. Fair. Human-reviewed.

✓ What flies

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Any legal product, project, or community — crypto, SaaS, art, music, memes, whatever. If it's legal, it's burnable.

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Burn as many times as you want. Each burn is its own upvote with its own timestamp. They sum into your heat, decaying like a Reddit "hot" feed: amount ÷ (hours_since + 2)^1.5.

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One URL + one message per wallet. Subsequent burns from the same wallet add to your wallet's heat — they don't spawn a new slot.

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Change your message anytime by burning more. Your latest memo overwrites your displayed message; old burns still count toward heat (until they decay).

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Fresh burns climb fast. A 10K burn from the last hour can outrank a 100K burn from yesterday. The pyre rewards recency — that's the quid pro quo.

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Links open in a new tab. Your URL is live, clickable, and in front of every degen watching the leaderboard.

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The more you burn, the bigger your slot. Rank 1 gets a full hero card. Ranks 2–6 get medium cards. Ranks 7–16 get compact rows.

✗ What gets pulled

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Hate speech, slurs, or anything targeting people based on race, religion, gender, sexuality, or nationality. No dog whistles. No exceptions. Burn refunded? No — the burn is gone. That's on you.

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Illegal content of any kind — scams, fraud, counterfeit goods, anything prohibited by law. We cooperate fully with any lawful request.

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NSFW or adult content. Keep it safe for all audiences. This is a public leaderboard.

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Impersonation of other projects, people, or brands without clear permission or obvious parody context.

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Burn stuffing / wash transactions. If we see circular wallet activity inflating burn amounts, the slot is removed and flagged publicly.

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Final say is human. The GitHub maintainers are the last word. We're chill — but we're not neutral. The culture of this leaderboard matters to us.

Disclaimer (please read; we're serious about not being serious)