Vector

Vector.fun (often just "Vector") was a mobile-first social trading app for Solana memecoins, built by Tensor Labs, the team behind the Tensor TNSR$0.033+4.6% NFT marketplace. It combined a TikTok-style feed of trending tokens with public, onchain profit-and-loss records, so traders could broadcast positions and followers could check a caller's real track record. Vector is no longer operating. Coinbase announced it was acquiring Vector on 21 November 2025, completed the deal on 5 December 2025, and shut down the Vector mobile and desktop apps. The vector.fun domain now serves only a wallet key-export page for former users. Vector's routing technology lives on inside Coinbase cbBTC$82,073.04+0.6%'s Solana DEX trading.

What happened to Vector.fun? The Coinbase acquisition

Coinbase announced the deal on X on 21 November 2025, saying Vector's tech would "plug directly into Coinbase" to better serve the Solana ecosystem. Vector confirmed it was "joining Coinbase" the same day. It was Coinbase's ninth acquisition of 2025, and the price was not disclosed, according to The Block.

The Block reported the terms that matter to former users and TNSR holders:

• The Vector mobile and desktop apps were shut down.
• Co-founders Richard Wu and Ilja Moisejevs joined Coinbase with 11 Vector employees to work on its onchain strategy.
• The Tensor NFT marketplace, the Tensorians collection and the TNSR token were not part of the sale. They moved to the independent Tensor Foundation, which now takes 100% of marketplace fees into the TNSR treasury (previously 50%). The deal also burned 21.6% of unvested founder and Labs tokens, and the founders relocked their vested tokens for three more years.

The Vector account on X has not posted since the announcement.

Coinbase's Solana DEX aggregator: Vector's tech after the deal

Vector's infrastructure went into the Coinbase app's DEX trading. In December 2025 Coinbase opened in-app trading of Solana tokens, routed through Jupiter JUP$0.314+2.7% (The Block). On 14 August 2026, Richard Wu announced that Coinbase had fully rolled out its first production Solana smart contract. It is a lightweight DEX aggregator built by developers who came over in the Vector acquisition. Wu said it makes 99.9% of Solana DEX tokens routeable and has cut quote errors by 80%. We covered the launch in Coinbase Deploys First Solana Smart Contract, Vector Team Cuts DEX Quote Errors 80%.

So anyone looking for "the Vector app" today will find its descendant in the Coinbase app's DEX trading, not as a standalone product.

How do I get my funds out of Vector.fun?

Vector used Privy embedded wallets, which let users sign up without a seed phrase. Since the shutdown, vector.fun redirects to a Privy recovery page. Users sign in again with their Vector credentials and can then export their wallet's private key. Import that key into any Solana wallet to move the tokens it holds. Treat an exported private key like a seed phrase: anyone who has it controls the funds.

Only use the vector.fun domain itself for this. Vector has no support desk or token, so any site or DM offering "Vector migration", "Vector refunds" or a "Vector airdrop" should be treated as a scam.

How Vector.fun social trading worked

Vector described itself as a "stimulating crossover of Crypto Twitter, TikTok, and onchain markets." Instead of an order-book screen, users swiped through a feed of trending tokens, with charts, commentary and comments on each one.

Its main differentiator was transparency. Every trader's PnL history was public and drawn from onchain activity, so a caller's performance could be checked instead of trusted from screenshots. When a trader broadcast a position, the entry and exit points showed directly on the token's chart.

Incentives were tied to the quality of what people shared. If a follower copied a broadcast trade and made a profit, the original broadcaster earned extra rewards on the platform. Vector started on Solana and later added other networks, including Base.

Vector.fun app features

Broadcasts and leaderboards. The Broadcasts tab ranked traders by profitability, by dollar PnL or by percentage gain, and showed which tokens the top performers were trading. It worked as discovery for both people and tokens.

Tipping. Added in March 2025, tipping let users send tips from a trader's profile or from comment threads. An Earnings tab tracked incoming tips, and a separate leaderboard ranked the top recipients.

Holders tab. This showed a token's largest holders, whether they were active on Vector, and their trading history. It gave a quick read on whether supply was concentrated in a few wallets.

Price alerts and watchlists. Real-time price alerts and watchlists let users follow volatile tokens without watching the charts all day.

Contract-address search via X. Through an integration with the @FXNCTION account on X, users could look up a contract address and see recent X mentions of that token.

Does Vector.fun have a token or coin?

No. Vector never launched a token, and none was issued at the shutdown. TNSR is the governance token of the Tensor NFT marketplace, not of Vector, and it stayed with the Tensor Foundation rather than going to Coinbase. Vector made its money from trading fees.

Who built Vector.fun? The Tensor team and timeline

Tensor Labs co-founders Richard Wu and Ilja Moisejevs built Vector after taking Tensor to the top of Solana NFT trading. Vector was a deliberate move from NFTs into memecoin trading.

• September 2024: soft launch into private beta. In November 2024 Decrypt reported that the app had been in private beta "for the last few months", with a wider rollout due within weeks. Tensorians NFT holders could skip the waitlist by verifying ownership in Discord.
• End of 2024: public launch, by Vector's own account.
• March 2025: tipping added.
• 21 November 2025: Coinbase announces the acquisition. The deal closed on 5 December 2025, and the apps were shut down.
• 14 August 2026: the former Vector team ships Coinbase's first production Solana smart contract, a DEX aggregator.

The founders talked through their thinking on social trading on the Lightspeed podcast and Validated.

Who Vector.fun was for

Vector was built for phone-first memecoin traders who wanted to trade alongside friends and follow callers whose records they could verify. It was never a tool for long-term investing or larger, professional trading. It no longer serves anyone as a product. Today this page is mainly useful to former users recovering wallet keys and to anyone tracing where the team and technology ended up.

Is Vector.fun safe? Risks and limitations

• The service is closed. You cannot trade on Vector. The only remaining function is the Privy key-export page at vector.fun.
• Embedded wallet dependency. Funds sit in Privy embedded wallets, so getting them out depends on Privy's recovery flow and your original login still working. Export keys while that flow is available.
• No audits were published. We found no public security audit of Vector, and Compass lists no Vector programs. Vector was a trading app on top of existing Solana liquidity, not a protocol with its own deposit vaults.
• Impersonation. With no token and a dormant X account, fake "Vector" tokens, airdrops and support accounts are the main live risk.
• Memecoin risk. Trading on Vector meant trading highly volatile, often illiquid memecoins. Public PnL made callers accountable but did not stop losses from copying them.

Vector.fun alternatives

• Coinbase app DEX trading: the direct successor, now using Vector's team and aggregator. It gives in-app access to Solana tokens but has none of Vector's social feed or public trader PnL.
• Pump.fun: the memecoin launchpad Vector was pitched against at launch. It is focused on token creation and bonding-curve trading rather than social PnL.
• Jupiter: Solana's main DEX aggregator, for self-custodial swaps of the same long-tail tokens from your own wallet.
• Trading terminals such as Photon and BullX: named by Decrypt as Vector's competitors when it launched. They are aimed at faster, more advanced memecoin trading and have fewer social features.