Pump.fun announced a major move to remain the dominant memecoin launchpad, giving 50% of its revenues to creators.
The competition among memecoin launchpads is heating up. On Monday, May 12, memecoin launchpad Pump.fun announced a new revenue-sharing model. Starting today, token creators will earn 50% of all trading fees for their tokens on the platform.
Token creators on the Solana-based (SOL) memecoin launchpad will earn 0.05% in SOL every time someone trades their coins. This means that if a token achieves $10 million in volume, its creators will earn $5,000. Traders will be able to redeem their earnings instantly, on-chain, using their Pump.fun profile.
Users are eligible for revenue sharing if their token is new, if it is still on the bonding curve, or if it graduated to PumpSwap, Pump.fun’s decentralized exchange.
Can Pump.fun revenue sharing fix token dumps?
So far, memecoin creators on Pump.fun and similar platforms have only earned revenue when they sold their tokens. This incentivized creators to dump their tokens as soon as they gained any traction, leading to frequent rug pulls.
This is a particular concern for Pump.fun, which has faced an epidemic of token rug pulls. A part of the issue is that the platform makes token launches so easy that anyone can do it. Notably, one 13-year-old rugged two pump.fun projects.
With revenue sharing, creators can earn throughout the token’s lifecycle—even into maturity. This incentivizes them to stick around longer and take actions that actively boost the token’s price and trading volume.
Pump.fun remains the biggest memecoin launchpad, as well as one of the most popular protocols on Solana. As of May 7, Pump.fun had achieved $22.3 billion in volume in 2025, accounting for 2.8% of all protocol volume on Solana. However, in terms of transaction count, the project dominates Solana. In November 2024, Pump.fun accounted for 62% of all Solana transactions.
