PUMP briefly rallied today on news that the platform has burned ~36% of the token’s circulating supply from previous buybacks.
Solana memecoin launchpad pumpfun announced Monday evening on X that it has burned approximately $370 million worth of previously bought-back PUMP tokens — roughly 36% of the circulating supply — and is pivoting to a programmatic buyback-and-burn policy funded by 50% of all future revenue for one year.
PUMP briefly rallied 5% on the news today, before retracing and is now flat over the past 24 hours.
The move marks a significant structural shift for the platform. Since launching, pumpfun had been directing 100% of revenue toward PUMP buybacks, but the approach drew persistent community criticism over a lack of transparency — specifically around what would happen to repurchased tokens and whether buybacks would continue long-term.
Now, rather than accumulating bought-back tokens in a treasury, pumpfun will burn 100% of all future buyback purchases immediately upon acquisition, the company explained. The 50% buyback allocation covers net revenue from its Bonding Curve, PumpSwap, and Terminal products. The remaining 50% will fund operations, hiring, and strategic investments, pumpfun said in the X post.
In a separate post on X, co-founder Alon framed the change as essential for long-term sustainability, explaining the need to cut the buyback rate in half to 50% to leave revenue for the project to invest in growth, stating: “I am extremely confident that 50% of the business we’re building toward will dwarf 100% of the business we have today.”
Pumpfun has generated over $1 billion in gross protocol revenue since launching in early 2024 and remains one of DeFi’s top fee-generating protocols.
The platform raised $500 million in its July ICO in just 12 minutes, and another $400 million in private token sales.
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