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Callouts is a feature of the [[pump fun mobile app]] that turns the oldest behavior in [[the trenches]], telling people to buy your coin, into a native product. Launched January 15, 2026, it lets any account push a notification about a chosen token to all of its followers, with each account limited to one call every six hours and ranked on a global leaderboard by how its calls perform.

## Launch

pump.fun shipped callouts in mid January 2026, and cofounder [[alon]] announced he would test the feature himself by calling a token with roughly a $14,000 market capitalization, a stunt covered by Cryptonews and others as a live demonstration that a single in app call could move a microcap. The feature formalized what [[kol]] culture had run through Telegram channels and [[alpha group]] chats for years: the [[shill]], now with an audit trail, a cooldown timer, and a scoreboard.

## Callout Rewards

In August 2026 the platform added Callout Rewards, paying users when their callouts generate trading volume. Rather than adding another fee on traders, the rewards are funded from internal liquidity pools, and coverage tied the launch to a run in [[PUMP]], which climbed roughly 26 percent over the week to around $0.0029 by August 14, 2026 as markets priced in another driver of volume behind the token's buyback program.

The rewards produced a visible payout chain. On August 24, 2026 the trader @FerreWeb3 posted, self reported and not independently verified against onchain payout data, that "Pumpfun paid me exactly $12800 in one day just for my callouts," a claim the official @Pumpfun account quote tweeted into a company wide "$4,600,000 in annualized earnings just callout coins on the Pumpfun app it is that simple," an unaudited, self reported figure given with no stated methodology. Cofounder [[alon|Alon Cohen]] quote tweeted that post in turn, defending the payouts against X's paid partnership disclosure rule: "if getting paid 5 figures DAILY from the Pumpfun app means the entirety of CT has to apply the paid partnership tag so be it. the people will get paid. Sent from my Pumpfun App." Fuller context on the discourse this triggered is covered in [[pump fun mobile app]].

## The callout meta

Paying for calls immediately created coins designed to farm them. The clearest case is $CATCALL, a Solana token launched in early August 2026 whose entire pitch was gaming the leaderboard: accounts like @thememeshunterx offered airdrops "to whoever makes a call on Pumpfun," instructing followers to "make a call about $catcall" while holding as little as one dollar of it, with the stated goal of becoming the most called coin on the app. As of mid August 2026 the coin itself remains a microcap, but the tactic it pioneered, recruiting holders as a notification botnet, is now a recognized play.

## Reception

Supporters frame callouts as transparent, incentive aligned discovery; skeptics note it pays users to do what paid promoters were long criticized for, with the platform clipping the flow. Both readings agree on the facts: as of mid August 2026, shilling on pump.fun is a scored, rewarded, first party feature.

## References

- BingX: https://bingx.com/en/news/post/pump-fun-rolls-out-callouts-on-january-ceo-to-test-with-k-token
- Cryptonews: https://cryptonews.com/news/pump-fun-callouts-low-cap-gem-100x/
- Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pump-fun-ceo-call-low-222639209.html
- invezz.com: https://invezz.com/news/2026/08/14/pump-surges-as-pump-fun-pays-users-to-call-tokens-can-0-003-break-next/
- Phemex Academy: https://phemex.com/news/article/pump-rises-11-as-pumpfun-launches-creator-callout-feature-53980
- X post by @thememeshunterx: https://x.com/thememeshunterx/status/2083908135735959970
- X post by @FerreWeb3 ($12,800 in a day, self reported): https://x.com/FerreWeb3/status/2091913732221792601
- X post by @Pumpfun ($4.6 million annualized callout earnings): https://x.com/Pumpfun/status/2091923224888050146
- X post by @a1lon9 (5 figures DAILY, paid partnership tag): https://x.com/a1lon9/status/2091925259335221302

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