TICK

Connecting to Solana

The coin that buys itself every 5 seconds.

Creator fees from $TICK are claimed every minute and spent in 12 equal buys, one every 5 seconds, all day. Every token those buys get is burned.

The rules
Each ✓ is one Solana slot, as it happens.
Slot newest, processed 000,000,000
Slot time measured 000ms
Finality (slot − root) × slot time 000ms
Last 60 s slot intervals

01The rules

1 minute of fees
→ 12 buys
→ burned.

These are the published rules of $TICK, in plain words. Nothing else happens to the fees.

  1. 0160s

    Claim

    The creator fees from $TICK are claimed every minute.

  2. 02÷12

    Split

    That minute of fees is split into 12 equal buys.

  3. 035s

    Buy

    One buy of $TICK every 5 seconds, all day.

  4. 04100%

    Burn

    Every token those buys get is burned.

buy next buy
5 s between buys≈ 0.2 s per Solana block · ≈ 25 blocks in the gap

Buys are 5 s apart while Solana blocks are about 0.2 s, so every buy lands on its own and you can watch each one arrive. A tick is one confirmed transaction ✓, and the tick of a clock.

02One minute of $TICK

300 blocks.
12 buys.

Each row is a 5-second window of this real minute (UTC clock). The squares are the real Solana slots arriving on this page. Under the rules, each window holds exactly one $TICK buy.

—blocks this minute —this 5 s window —avg per full window --:--:--

real slot one buy per window, by the rules

05Alpenglow

12.8 seconds
became a blink.

On Oct 21 2026 Solana's Alpenglow upgrade went live on mainnet. Votor replaces TowerBFT, the finality target drops from about 12.8 s to about 150 ms, and blocks were already cut from 400 ms to 200 ms this month.

TowerBFTpublished ≈ 12,800 ms to finality
0.0 s
Nowfinalized slots seen live on this page

While one TowerBFT finality runs, count the slots Solana finalizes on this page’s live feed.

Finality≈ 12,800 ms→—measured now
Block time400 ms→—measured now
Speed-up1×→—12.8 s ÷ measured finality