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Most tokens that put up a 121% monthly candle do it on a headline and give it back within a week, but Raydium (RAY) is showing a completely different pattern right now because you can go verify almost every part of the story yourself, on-chain, using addresses the protocol itself publishes in its own documentation. This isn’t a project that suddenly discovered marketing. It’s Solana’s largest DEX quietly shipping real infrastructure for months while the token sat under a dollar for most of that stretch, and the chart is only now catching up. Look at where the numbers actually stand. RAY is at $1.42, market cap $383.36 million, up another 31.45% just today. 24-hour volume is $121.58 million, itself up 39.53% from the day before, pushing the vol/mkt-cap ratio to nearly 31%, the kind of number you get when real capital is rotating in rather than a handful of wallets pushing a thin order book around. Total value locked across Raydium’s pools sits above $1.13 billion, and circulating supply is 269.53 million RAY out of a fixed 555 million hard cap, a cap that, notably, can only ever go down from real demand, never up from a surprise unlock, because there isn’t one scheduled. The Buyback Number That Actually Checks Out Here’s the catalyst that’s easiest to verify and hardest to wave away. Raydium routes 12% of every trading fee, across its CLMM, CPMM, and Standard AMM v4 pools, straight into open-market RAY purchases. That isn’t a claim from a press release, it’s documented mechanically on Raydium’s own buybacks page, down to the exact fee split (84% to LPs, 12% to buybacks, 4% to treasury on CLMM and CPMM pools) and the public holding wallet where every bought-back token sits. Anyone can pull up DdHDoz94o2WJmD9myRobHCwtx1bESpHTd4SSPe6VEZaz on Solscan right now and…