Coin of the Week #83 – PUMP

August 4, 2025 - 4 min. read

By Richard Nasr

Coin of the Week #83 – PUMP

In a cycle dominated by memes, virality, and community-driven hype, one platform has emerged as the undisputed launchpad of the Solana memecoin era: Pump.fun. This week, we explore PUMP — the native token of a platform that made launching tokens as easy as posting a tweet, and in doing so, transformed Solana into the most active meme economy in crypto.

Launched in early 2024, Pump.fun is a no-code token launch platform on Solana that lets anyone mint a token in seconds — no developer, no liquidity, no problem.

Today, we will cover the following topics:
– About Pump.fun
– How does Pump.fun work?
– Key Features
– Technical Analysis
– Why is PUMP The Coin of the Week?

About Pump.fun (PUMP)

What is Pump.fun?

Pump.fun is more than just a memecoin generator — it’s a frictionless ecosystem for launching, trading, and discovering tokens. It removes technical and financial barriers, using a bonding curve model to fairly price new tokens.

Once the market cap reaches a threshold, liquidity is auto-deployed and locked, making rug pulls nearly impossible and turning meme speculation into an on-chain game of social momentum.

Pump.fun front page showing trending projects.
Pump.fun Website – Front Page

With millions of tokens launched and a cult-like community driving constant experimentation, Pump.fun has become the foundation of Solana’s speculative layer.

PUMP Token

PUMP is the newly launched native token that powers the governance and incentive layer of the Pump.fun protocol. With a total supply of one trillion tokens, it is designed to align users, creators, and the platform’s future direction.

PUMP tokenomics showing token distribution like Team 20%, Investors 13%, Community 24% and so on...
PUMP Tokenomics

Holders of PUMP can:

– Vote on upcoming platform changes and features.

– Earn a share of platform revenues through staking or future reward programs.

– Unlock exclusive rights, early access, or premium launch tools.

– Participate in the buyback and burn mechanics designed to support the token economy.

How does Pump.fun work?

Create a Token

Users submit a name, ticker, and logo, then pay a small minting fee. The token launches instantly via a bonding curve, where each new buyer pays slightly more.

Fair Launch Curve

There’s no team allocation, no pre-sale, no bots — just pure price discovery as the market organically grows.

Automatic Liquidity

Once a token reaches a specific market cap (typically around 1 SOL), liquidity is automatically created and locked forever on a DEX. This removes the threat of liquidity rugs and builds trust for early entrants.

A screenshot from the website showing how Pump.fun works.
Pump.fun – How it works

Gamified Experience

Live charts, top performers, real-time token feeds, and trading leaderboards make Pump.fun feel like a social platform as much as a launchpad.

Ecosystem Expansion via PUMP

The PUMP token introduces governance, revenue sharing, and future staking features — allowing holders to capture upside from the platform’s explosive activity.

Key Features and Use Cases

Instant, No-Code Token Launching

Anyone can mint and launch a tradable token in seconds — no coding, no liquidity, just viral potential.

Bonding Curve Model

Tokens start cheap and get progressively more expensive, creating early incentives and price momentum.

Auto-Liquidity & Rug Protection

Liquidity is added and locked once the token reaches its market threshold, protecting traders from liquidity-based exploits.

Massive Network Effect

Pump.fun has become a cultural phenomenon on Solana, driving millions of token launches and onboarding thousands of new users into DeFi and memecoin trading.

one of Pump.fun features: Swap
Pump.fun Features

PUMP Token Utility

With buybacks, governance power, and upcoming fee-sharing programs, PUMP ties the protocol’s success to its holders.

Social Layer

Tokens often go viral not for their utility, but for their memes, themes, or influencers. Pump.fun turns that energy into tradable assets within minutes.

Revenue Flywheel

A portion of platform fees is earmarked for buybacks, staking rewards, or treasury expansion — creating long-term value beyond speculation.

Technical Analysis

As per our latest market outlook, most altcoins have been rejecting major weekly support levels.

PUMP has also been bullish, trading within a flat rising channel (marked in blue), which represents a broad accumulation phase.

As PUMP retests the lower bound of this blue channel, we’ll be looking for new short-term long opportunities.

For the bulls to take over in the long term and initiate the major markup phase, a break above the last significant high marked in orange at $0.0033 is needed.

PUMP 4h chart hovering within a range between $0.002 and $0.0035 as a big accumulation phase.
PUMP Chart – 4H Timeframe

Why is PUMP The Coin of the Week?

Pump.fun didn’t just ride the memecoin wave — it created the surfboard. By democratizing token launches and gamifying the experience, it turned thousands of crypto users into meme creators and traders.

PUMP now gives the community a voice — and a stake — in the very protocol they helped make viral.

From a technical perspective, PUMP has been in an accumulation phase, which is the ideal time to capitalize on the upcoming markup phase.

This week, we explored PUMP, the native token of Pump.fun — a viral Solana-based launchpad that democratizes memecoin creation through instant, no-code token launches. By combining bonding curve mechanics, automated liquidity, and social gamification, Pump.fun empowers anyone to create, trade, and discover tokens in seconds, fueling an explosive memecoin ecosystem and giving PUMP holders a stake in its rapidly growing platform economy.

Thanks for tuning in to this week’s coin of the week! We appreciate your readership and enthusiasm for exploring the crypto landscape with us.

See you next week for another coin of the week! 🚀

Buy range: $0.00239 - $0.00267
TP targets: $0.00318 - $0.00393 - $0.00479
SL price: $0.00212
PUMP token

PUMP Price Targets

Richard Nasr

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