Pump.fun's PUMP Token Launch: What's Behind the Loud Announcement
Date: 2025-07-10 Author: Gabriel Deangelo Categories: BUSINESS
Pump.fun will soon begin a pre-sale of its own token called PUMP — the start is scheduled for July 12. The sale will take place on several large crypto exchanges at once, including Kraken, Gate.io, Bybit, KuCoin, MEXC, and Bitget, which should provide the project with wide coverage.
A recent publication by Gate.io hinted at the upcoming launch — however, this post was quickly deleted without specifying the reasons. It later turned out that the exchange had simply rushed the dates, revealing the information ahead of time.
The total number of PUMP tokens is reported to be 1 trillion. The pre-sale will take 15% of this amount — about 150 billion coins. Additionally, the Pump.fun team will allocate 33% of tokens for the subsequent ICO, which may attract new investments. The rest will be distributed between the project team (20%), investors (13%) and the development of the community and ecosystem (24%). Some coins will be reserved to ensure liquidity and support trading on exchanges.
At the same time, the project's tokenomics is structured in such a way as to minimize concerns about excessive control by a narrow circle of people. Interestingly, this point has become a source of controversy: the founder of Pump.fun, known under the nickname alon, previously criticized presales for their closed nature and favorable conditions for "their own". Now the platform itself is organizing a centralized pre-sale round - and even with restrictions for users from the US and UK.
This turnaround looks quite unexpected, because earlier Pump.fun promoted the idea of decentralization and democratic access. The new scheme looks controversial for part of the community that is accustomed to the open format of memecoins.
In addition, the upcoming launch will be a kind of test for the entire Solana memecoin market. In the recent past, Pump.fun lost its status as the largest platform in this segment - then the company was accused of manipulation and mass use of trading bots. Now the success or failure of the pre-sale will show whether the platform can regain users' trust.
Whether PUMP will become another hype or grow into something more - time and investor reaction will tell. One thing is for sure: the launch will be closely watched not only by Pump.fun fans, but also by the entire crypto community, waiting to see whether the project will be able to live up to its promises of transparency and fair distribution of tokens.
