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Pump.fun Burns $370 Million in PUMP, Launches Yearlong 50% Buyback-and-Burn Plan

The Solana token-launch platform is adopting a split-revenue model to fund growth.

Overview

  • Pump.fun, which burned about $370 million in PUMP on Tuesday, removed roughly 36% of the circulating supply across two on-chain transactions.
  • A new one-year plan will spend 50% of net revenue to automatically buy PUMP on the open market and burn it.
  • The platform is shifting from nine months of using 100% of revenue for buybacks to keeping the other half for operations, hiring, marketing, acquisitions, and new products.
  • The token jumped more than 10% after the news before settling near $0.00184 for a roughly 3% daily gain.
  • The company, a Solana-based launchpad for new coins, says it has handled hundreds of billions in volume and surpassed $1 billion in revenue since January 2024.