Launched in January 2024, Pump.fun is a Solana-based platform that lets anyone launch a memecoin in 30 seconds for less than $2. The user picks a name, uploads an image, and clicks deploy. The platform handles the smart contract, liquidity pool, and bonding curve mathematics automatically. By mid-2024, Pump.fun was launching tens of thousands of memecoins per day.
Most of these tokens died within hours. A handful achieved viral success. A small few — like POPCAT and MOG — became billion-dollar tokens. Pump.fun became the central hub of the memecoin economy, processing more transactions than most major DEXs and generating millions in fees daily for its creators. It compressed the memecoin lifecycle from months to minutes. The platform was either liberating — anyone could now launch a token — or terrifying, depending on which side of the trade you were on.
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