Pump.fun 

PUMP Price

What is the Pump.fun memecoin launchpad?

Pump.fun is a Solana-based token launchpad that lets anyone create and trade a token in minutes. Launched on 19 January 2024 by Noah Tweedale, Alon Cohen, and Dylan Kerler, the platform mints tokens at once in a fair launch with no presale and prices them through a bonding curve until each token graduates to open trading at roughly a $90,000 market cap. Pump.fun also operates PumpSwap, its own decentralized exchange, and has earned nearly $800 million in cumulative protocol fees. Its native token is PUMP.

How does the Pump.fun bonding curve work?

Creating a token on Pump.fun costs under $2 — only the Solana network fee, with no separate creation charge. New tokens trade immediately on a bonding curve, a pricing mechanism that raises the price as buyers enter. When a token reaches roughly a $90,000 market cap, it graduates from the bonding curve to decentralized trading, with liquidity migrating to PumpSwap or Raydium. Pump.fun earns a swap fee of about 1% on trades. By January 2025, more than 6 million tokens had launched on the platform.

What is PUMP's total supply?

PUMP has a fixed maximum supply of 1 trillion tokens. Per DropsTab data, total supply stands at roughly 83% of that maximum as of September 2026 — the figure drifts downward as tokens are burned. Allocation across 16 line items is led by the Initial Coin Offering at 33%, Community & Ecosystem Initiatives at 24%, Team at 20%, and Existing Investors at 13%. Team plus Existing Investors together hold 33% of supply — a high insider share that concentrates future unlock risk.

How does PUMP's unlock schedule affect sell pressure?

DropsTab vesting data shows a sustained unlock overhang running to roughly July 2029. PUMP's TGE took place on 12 July 2025, and about 57% of supply entered circulation within weeks because the 33% ICO allocation unlocked in full. The key insider cliff passed on 12 July 2026, when 82.5 billion PUMP — 50 billion Team plus 32.5 billion Existing Investors — unlocked at once. Monthly unlocks of 4.167 billion Team tokens and 2.708 billion Existing Investor tokens continue into 2029, creating recurring sell pressure from concentrated holders.

Who backed Pump.fun and how much did Pump.fun raise?

DropsTab fundraising data shows roughly $1.32 billion raised across two rounds. The Private Sale raised $720 million at a $4 billion valuation — 18% of supply at $0.004, placed with institutional purchasers. The Initial Coin Offering on 12 July 2025 raised $600 million in about 12 minutes, selling 150 billion PUMP at $0.004 through Bybit, Kraken, Bitget, MEXC, KuCoin, and Gate, with US and UK buyers excluded. No individual investors are publicly confirmed in DropsTab data — press coverage describes only institutional purchasers.

Does Pump.fun have an airdrop?

Pump.fun has no live airdrop documented on DropsTab. The "Potential Airdrop" campaign — a unique pump.fun username claim — ended on 9 June 2025. Around the token launch, distribution ran through other channels instead: the $600 million ICO on 12 July 2025, and a Bitget Launchpool from 15 to 18 July 2025 in which users locked BGB for a share of 123,594,000 PUMP. The platform distributes value through its roughly 1% protocol swap fee rather than token airdrops.

Where can you buy the PUMP coin?

PUMP trades across a deep market structure split between centralized and on-chain venues. Spot markets number 50+, including Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, Upbit, Gate, and KuCoin, spanning US, Korean, Turkish, and Indonesian regional exchanges. Perpetual futures trade on 10+ venues including Binance Futures, Hyperliquid, Deribit, and Kraken Futures. On-chain, PUMP trades on PumpSwap — Pump.fun's own decentralized exchange — plus Raydium and Meteora. Tier-1 centralized exchange depth keeps liquidity risk low, though price discovery is split between centralized pairs and on-chain pools.

Has Pump.fun faced regulatory action?

Pump.fun has faced two documented regulatory actions. The platform banned UK users in December 2024 following an FCA warning. In January 2025, a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleged that Pump.fun operated as an unregistered securities exchange. The legal exposure sits with the platform, not with the PUMP token's holders directly — but it is a material risk factor for the launchpad behind PUMP.