Here’s the latest buzz: Pump.fun, the Solana-based memecoin launchpad, is planning to raise a massive $1 billion through a token sale that would push its fully diluted valuation to a cool $4 billion. Yeah, you read that right. According to Blockworks on June 3, sources familiar with the matter spilled the tea on the sale, though they weren’t quite clear about whether the token would launch on Pump.fun’s platform or what the sale’s exact structure will look like.
🚨 BREAKING: PumpFun plans $1B token sale at $4B FDV: Sources
— HodlFM Team (@Hodl_fm) June 3, 2025
This is gonna the BIGGESET pre-sale ever
What about the Airdrop? $PUMP 🔥 pic.twitter.com/1Ay2E8sV84
As of now, Pump.fun hasn’t made a formal statement. Classic.
$732 Million in Fees and Growing
Now, let’s talk about the numbers. Pump.fun allows anyone to launch a token on Solana (SOL) instantly and for free. And get this: nearly 11 million tokens have been launched on the platform. Yep, 11 million. Sounds like a lot of tokens, right?
When a token “graduates” from Pump.fun’s bonding curve and heads to PumpSwap for trading, a 0.015 SOL fee gets slapped on. Plus, any trades on PumpSwap, the decentralized exchange tied to the platform, get hit with a 0.3% fee. Those fees really add up, Pump.fun has already racked up over $732 million in fees since it went live in January 2024. Talk about making moves!
Expanding Fast Despite the Competition
But Pump.fun isn’t slowing down. They’ve got a lot more tricks up their sleeves. On March 22, the platform launched PumpSwap to capture some of the trading activity that was flowing out of the launchpad and into Raydium, another Solana-based decentralized exchange. The move seems to have worked—within just two months, PumpSwap surpassed $100 million in total value locked. Not too shabby.
And on May 12, they introduced a reward program for token creators. Creators now get 0.05% of the trading volume on both Pump.fun and PumpSwap, paid in SOL. Let’s do some quick math: if that program had been running for the entire month of May (when both platforms hit nearly $18 billion in volume, according to DefiLlama), creators could’ve pocketed a sweet $9 million in rewards. Pretty nice incentive, right?
Looks like Pump.fun is playing the long game here, and with all these moves, it’s going to be interesting to see where they go next!
Gunel Ismayilova
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