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# Max Buy — distribution control

### Why this matters

Without distribution control, every launch looks like this:

* Sniper bots scoop 20–50% of supply in the first seconds
* 60 seconds later they dump on retail buyers
* Holder distribution: a few whales + a crowd of small bag-holders
* Part of the curve dies not from broken demand, but from supply concentrated in a few hands

This is the reason the average hold time on Solana memecoins is 58 seconds.

### How Max Buy works on bread.hot v.1

**Parameters:**

* Configurable by the developer (the token creator picks the value for their launch)
* Step — 0.1%
* Cap — **2% of total supply** per wallet
* Enforced at the contract level — cannot be bypassed through third-party programs

This means a hard cap of 20M tokens (2% of 1B total supply) per wallet.

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**In Bonding Curve Launch** — Max Buy = 2% of supply per wallet (configurable by the developer in steps of 0.1%).

**In Presale Launch** — Max Buy = 2 SOL per wallet (a fixed SOL amount, equal terms for everyone).

### What it gives you

* Top holder caps at 2% of supply (vs 5–15% on other launchpads)
* Top-10 holders: up to 20% combined, not 40–60%
* Wider middle-tier holder base — more people with a meaningful position
* Harder for a single wallet to kill the price

### When Max Buy lifts

* During the **curve phase** Max Buy is active
* At the moment of **graduation** — it lifts
* After migration into **Meteora** it's regular DEX trading without limits

### What Max Buy does not cover

* **Sybil attacks** — an actor splits buys across 100+ wallets
* **Coordinated buying** — a group of insiders respects the per-wallet limit but acts in sync
* **Post-graduation manipulation** — after Meteora, the cap is gone

More on protection — see Anti-sniper architecture.

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