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After months of speculation and buildup, Pump.fun, the leading token launchpad, has announced the successful launch of PumpSwap, a native Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) built to enhance the entire token launchpad ecosystem.

Pump.fun has faced financial struggles in recent months, which makes the launch of PumpSwap even more crucial. Reports show a 60% reduction in monthly revenue, which has led the platform to search for new growth and sustainable paths. This decline is largely due to a slowdown in the memecoin ecosystem alongside scandals such as the LIBRA memecoin scandal.

The fallout from the LIBRA debacle, where the token’s price dropped 95% after reaching a $4.5 billion market cap and raising concerns about insider benefits, significantly impacted the memecoin space. Alon, the founder of the Blockchain service provider Pump.fun, has condemned the project and called for ethics in the crypto space. Following the incident, worries of insider trading spread and investor confidence was shaken. As a result, trading volumes dropped significantly.

Data shows a sharp drop in the monthly memecoin trading volume — down from about $206 billion in January to $99.5 billion in February.

Pump.fun launched PumpSwap as part of its strategy to address declining trading volumes and restructure its revenue stream. Pump.fun launched PumpSwap to counter revenue decline and rising competition, aiming for renewed growth in the token launch space.

Pump.fun Daily Revenue. Source: DefiLlama (03/21/2025)

Pump.fun designed PumpSwap to streamline coin trading by eliminating migration complexities and enhancing user experience. PumpSwap provides a new way of launching a token without the traditional creation of a liquidity pool on Raydium. Instead, tokens will launch immediately after completing their bonding curve, enabling instant and free migrations. This removes the prior 6 SOL migration fee to Pump.fun, which they noted was a major friction point for users.

PumpSwap V1 operates as an automated market maker (AMM), similar to Raydium V4 and Uniswap V2. The platform enables users to build, own and manage liquidity pools for free, fund pools, and trade any tokens available on the platform. It uses the same fee structure as other DEXs with a 0.25% fee per trade. From the 0.25% fee, 0.20% is distributed to liquidity providers and 0.05% to the protocol.

Pump.fun also plans to introduce a creator revenue sharing model in which protocol revenue will be split with coin creators. The revenue share model will incentivize quality projects and ensure the creator and the community stay aligned.

Prioritizing security, Pump.fun has conducted extensive testing and audits of PumpSwap. The platform has undergone nine independent audits from well-recognized security firms. In the long term, Pump.fun also plans to open-source the PumpSwap Program to improve security and transparency.

Although PumpSwap started as a memecoin platform, the platform has diversified with time, now supporting all kinds of tokens. Along with Pudgy Penguins (PENGU), users can now trade tokens belonging to verified partners like Aptos (APT), Tron (TRX), cbBTC by Coinbase and USDe by Ethena.

PumpSwap is also launching at a time of growing competition from other platforms, most notably Raydium, which is developing a memecoin launchpad of its own dubbed LaunchLab.

With Instant Migrations, no migration fees, and revenue-sharing for creators of tokens, Pump.fun is positioning PumpSwap to be a strong competitor to Raydium and others in the decentralized economy. Such shifts seek to preserve liquidity in its ecosystem.

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