Pump.fun has officially confirmed the presale date for its upcoming PUMP token: July 12, with multiple major centralized exchanges onboard, including Kraken, Gate.io, Bybit, KuCoin, MEXC, and Bitget. 

Despite the scale of the rollout, the announcement has stirred debate across the community. This is largely because of Pump.fun co-founder Alon’s prior statements criticizing token presales and centralized listings.

Earlier this week, Gate.io briefly published launch details for PUMP before deleting them without explanation. With the latest announcement, we can now validate the same details.

The presale will offer 150 billion tokens out of a total supply of 1 trillion, or 15% of the total supply. 

Also, Pump.fun has allocated 33% of the total supply to the ICO phase, suggesting future rounds or continued exchange offerings beyond July 12.

Additional allocations include 20% for the team, 13% for existing investors, and 24% for community and ecosystem initiatives. Smaller slices are designated for livestreaming, liquidity, and exchange support. 

Overall, the tokenomics appear designed to fund long-term development while trying to balance concerns about insider control.

However, some of Alon’s previously viral Twitter posts are now recirculating. He’s been outspoken in the past about the problems with presales and the lack of transparency around CEX listings.

Previously, the Pump.Fun co-founder argued that presales benefit insiders at the expense of community participants. 

He also said in 2025: Exchange listings are dead; no transparency around listing leads to foulplay and shitty coin selection. pic.twitter.com/zG68ONzXeF

That makes the decision to go the centralized route with a geographically restricted presale—excluding users in the US and UK—feel like a sharp pivot from Pump.fun’s earlier ethos of permissionless, onchain experimentation.

Whether the move signals a pragmatic evolution or a step toward dilution of values, the PUMP token launch will be a major moment—not just for the platform, but for Solana’s broader meme coin economy.

Pump.fun has faced a few setbacks recently, as it lost its place as the largest meme coin launchpad amidst systemic bot trading allegations. 

Still, it remains a very prominent platform, and this token presale has encouraged a great deal of community hype. 

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