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This timeline collects the most talked about moments in the history of [[pump.fun]], the [[Solana]] meme coin launchpad that opened on January 19, 2024 and became the center of gravity of [[the trenches]]. Because so much of trench culture happened on or around the platform (its record days, its exploits, its celebrity summers, its AI coins, its scandals, its winters), a dated list of pump.fun moments doubles as a short history of the meme coin era itself. Fuller accounts of most entries live in the linked articles.

## 2024

**January 19**: pump.fun goes live on Solana, letting anyone deploy a token on a [[bonding curve]] for about two dollars. The site that would industrialize the trenches starts the year almost unnoticed.

**Late February to March**: The first growth explosion. Cumulative launches go from under 1,500 at the end of February to more than 75,000 by the end of March amid the spring meme coin mania (see [[pump.fun 2024 growth records]]).

**April 4**: Solana congestion peaks with 75.3 percent of nonvote transactions failing, driven largely by meme coin and bot traffic from launchpads including pump.fun; a validator update shipped on April 15 begins to relieve the jam (see [[Solana congestion crisis]]).

**Spring**: [[michi]] graduates and becomes the archetypal early pump.fun community cat coin, proof that the platform could mint organic winners.

**May 16**: Former employee Jarett Dunn drains about 12,300 SOL (roughly 1.9 million dollars) from pump.fun bonding curves using insider access and flash loans, sourced from marginfi per most post mortems, announcing the robbery live on X as it happens (see [[pump.fun insider exploit]]).

**May 18**: Dunn is arrested at a Covent Garden hotel in London and posts about custody and bail from a new X account. pump.fun restores liquidity to affected coins and runs zero fees for a week.

**May 29**: Iggy Azalea launches [[MOTHER]] on pump.fun, the flagship of the celebrity coin summer, reaching about 240 million dollars within two weeks (see [[Celebrity coin wave]]).

**June 9**: Andrew Tate's [[DADDY]] launches as a rival to MOTHER and hits about 240 million dollars in three days, with [[Bubblemaps]] flagging heavy insider accumulation.

**July**: The platform passes 1 million tokens created, with roughly 60 million dollars in fees earned in its first half year.

**Late July**: After the FLOG team rugs its own coin, crashing it 91 percent in a minute, [[Crypto Twitter]] relaunches the unpaid artist's frog as [[Fwog]], the cycle's great redemption arc.

**August**: pump.fun becomes the fastest crypto app ever to reach 100 million dollars in cumulative revenue, hitting the milestone in 217 days.

**September 10**: [[Moo Deng|MOODENG]] launches on pump.fun, tokenizing the viral Thai baby hippo. It clears 100 million dollars by September 26 with a boost from Vitalik Buterin and anchors the animal meta.

**October 10**: An anonymous deployer launches GOAT on pump.fun and seeds the wallet of Andy Ayrey's AI bot Truth Terminal; the bot's endorsement ignites the AI meme coin era (see [[Goatseus Maximus]] and [[AI agent meta]]).

**October 18**: [[Fartcoin]] is created on pump.fun out of Truth Terminal's conversation lore, beginning a slow climb toward becoming the biggest AI meme coin of all.

**October 28**: Hours after the Vatican unveils its Jubilee 2025 anime mascot, [[LUCE]] launches on pump.fun and hits about 53 million dollars in six hours, peaking above 300 million in mid November.

**November 1**: [[Peanut the Squirrel|PNUT]] launches after authorities euthanize Peanut the squirrel, riding election week outrage to become the fastest meme coin ever to 1 billion dollars, in under 10 days.

**November 11**: Binance lists PNUT and [[ACT]] on the same day, the moment major exchanges openly embraced pump.fun coins and turbocharged the fourth quarter mania.

**November 13**: GOAT becomes the first pump.fun launched token to reach a 1 billion dollar market capitalization.

**November 14**: Fwog prints its all time high around 0.74 dollars, a market capitalization of roughly 700 million dollars.

**November 15**: [[Chill Guy|CHILLGUY]] is created on pump.fun from the viral TikTok meme and reaches a 500 million dollar market capitalization within five days, while artist Phillip Banks disavows it.

**November 17**: pump.fun sets its 2024 record with 45,465 tokens launched in a single day, over 31 per minute, after breaking the record twice earlier that week.

**November 19 to 20**: A 13 year old rugs QUANT and two more coins live on stream for about 50,000 dollars; the crowd revenge pumps QUANT to about 85 million dollars and doxxes his family (see [[Quant kid incident]]).

**Mid to late November**: The livestream incident wave. Streamers threaten self harm, animals, and worse against market cap targets as the shock meta spirals out of control (see [[pump.fun livestream incident wave]]).

**November 25**: pump.fun suspends [[pump.fun livestreaming|livestreaming]] indefinitely amid the backlash; the feature stays down until a moderated return in April 2025.

**December 3 to 6**: The UK Financial Conduct Authority warns that pump.fun is operating without permission; the platform updates its terms and blocks UK users days later.

**Mid December**: Ron Branstetter, a 54 year old gold and silver YouTuber, launches [[Unicorn Fart Dust]] to mock crypto. It runs past 200 million dollars (peak figures vary by tracker) and turns "Basement Ron" into a trenches folk hero.

**December 19**: Fartcoin crosses a 1 billion dollar market capitalization, overtaking GOAT and closing the year as the flagship of the AI meme coin meta.

## 2025

**January 17 to 19**: The TRUMP launch weekend floods Solana with new wallets and copycat launches, and pump.fun activity spikes to record levels even though [[Official Trump|TRUMP]] itself used bespoke contracts (see [[Official Trump coin launch]]).

**January 24**: Days after its first anniversary, pump.fun posts its all time single day revenue record of 15.38 million dollars in fees, with the VINE launch by Vine cofounder Rus Yusupov as the proximate catalyst (see [[pump.fun January 2025 revenue record]]).

**January**: The month closes as the platform's best ever: about 137 million dollars in revenue, about 600,000 token launches, and daily active users above 250,000, the high water mark of the [[Memecoin supercycle]] on the platform.

**January to February**: Class action lawsuits are filed against pump.fun alleging unregistered securities sales, opening the platform's long legal front (see [[pump.fun lawsuits]]).

**February 14**: The [[LIBRA scandal]] detonates trust in [[PolitiFi meta|politifi]] and craters Solana meme coin activity; pump.fun volumes fall hard in the following weeks.

**February 15**: pump.fun announces its [[pump.fun mobile app|mobile app]] as token launches hit records, doubling down at the top.

**February 26**: The platform's official X account is hacked to promote a fake PUMP governance token that reaches a 5 million dollar market cap before collapsing; ZachXBT links the attacker onchain to the Jupiter DAO and DogWifCoin hacks (see [[pump.fun X account hack]]).

**Spring**: The [[graduation rate]] collapses below one percent as disillusionment sets in after LIBRA, becoming the statistic critics quote for the rest of the year.

**March 20**: [[PumpSwap]] launches. pump.fun cuts [[Raydium]] out of the graduation pipeline and keeps the whole fee stack in house.

**April**: Livestreaming quietly returns with moderation after the November 2024 shutdown, at first for a small percentage of users.

**May**: Creator fee sharing goes live. Decrypt reports the top coin creator earned 93,000 dollars in three weeks, the seed of the creator capital markets pitch.

**June 16**: X mass suspends pump.fun, cofounder [[alon|Alon]], GMGN, BullX, Bloom Trading and ElizaOS with no stated reason, weeks before the platform's planned billion dollar token sale (see [[pump.fun X ban wave]]).

**July**: [[LetsBonk.fun|LetsBonk]] overtakes pump.fun in daily launches and graduations, the first time the king loses the crown (see [[LetsBonk flippening]]).

**July 10**: pump.fun acquires the wallet tracker [[Kolscan]], its first acquisition, positioning for social trading ahead of the ICO.

**July 12**: The [[PUMP token ICO]] sells 600 million dollars of PUMP in about 12 minutes, 1.32 billion dollars in total with the private round, the third largest ICO in history.

**July 15 to 16**: Buybacks funded by platform revenue begin, with 187,770 SOL (about 30.6 million dollars) allocated; PUMP jumps nearly 20 percent to a then all time high (see [[PUMP buyback program]]).

**August**: [[Project Ascend]]'s dynamic fee model hands creators 2 million dollars in its first 24 hours, and pump.fun retakes launchpad market share from LetsBonk.

**September 13 to 15**: The [[creator rewards gold rush]] peaks with about 20 million dollars claimed in a week. BunnyFuFuu earns 217,000 dollars in two days as the first mainstream creator, and the teenage duo Bagwork earns 83,410 dollars leaking unreleased Drake and Future songs.

**September**: PUMP prints its all time high near 0.0088 dollars as daily revenue tops Hyperliquid during the streaming revival (see [[Streamer meta]]).

**November 12**: [[Mayhem Mode launch|Mayhem Mode]] arrives with no announcement: the AI agent Pumpy trades the first 24 hours of every coin that opts in, traders line up to challenge the bot, and critics call it wash trading sponsored by the house.

**December 10**: CoinDesk names pump.fun to its Most Influential list for 2025, the mainstream press canonization of the launchpad era.

## 2026

**Late January**: A brief rebound. Daily launches near 39,000 on January 27, the highest since April 2025, alongside 300,000 daily active addresses, and PUMP recovers about 60 percent.

**First quarter**: The [[2026 memecoin winter]] sets in, with volumes and launches grinding down across every launchpad.

**March**: pump.fun crosses 1 billion dollars in lifetime revenue, the first Solana application ever to do so; trackers put the crossing in mid March, with no outlet reporting an exact day. Expansion hints point toward Ethereum, Base, BSC and Monad (see [[pump.fun billion revenue milestone]]).

**April 29**: pump.fun burns about 370 million dollars of repurchased PUMP and commits 50 percent of revenue to ongoing buybacks, in place of the airdrop users had expected (see [[PUMP buyback program]]).

**June**: [[pump.fun GO]], the bounty marketplace, draws criticism after listings paying for dangerous and self destructive acts appear.

**July 12**: The one year PUMP unlock arrives, the supply overhang date watched since the ICO.

**August**: pump.fun posts a record week by 2026 standards, contributing about 492 million dollars of roughly 1.18 billion dollars in daily Solana DEX volume, still far below the days above 2 billion dollars seen at the start of the year.

## References

* Wikipedia, Pump.fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump.fun
* NFT Evening, pump.fun deep dive: https://nftevening.com/pump-fun-deep-dive/
* Cointelegraph, Solana transaction failures peak amid meme coin mania: https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-struggling-record-seventy-five-percent-trasnactions-fail-memecoin-mania
* The Block, pump.fun exploit post mortem: https://www.theblock.co/post/295029/pump-fun-post-mortem
* Blockworks, pump.fun exploiter arrested in London: https://blockworks.co/news/pump-dot-fun-exploiter-arrest-london
* CoinDesk, Moo Deng coin zooms to 100 million dollars: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/09/26/crypto-inspired-by-moo-deng-zooms-to-100m-as-hippo-meme-takes-over-internet
* CoinGecko Learn, What is Goatseus Maximus: https://www.coingecko.com/learn/what-is-goatseus-maximus-goat-memecoin-crypto
* CoinGecko Learn, What is Fartcoin: https://www.coingecko.com/learn/what-is-fartcoin-ai-memecoin-crypto
* BanklessTimes, GOAT hits 1 billion dollars, first pump.fun token to do so: https://www.banklesstimes.com/articles/2024/11/13/goatseus-maximus-hits-1b-first-pump-fun-token-to-do-so-whats-next-for-goat/
* SolanaFloor, 31.5 tokens launched per minute in new pump.fun record: https://dev.solanafloor.com/news/315-tokens-launched-per-minute-in-new-pump-fun-record
* crypto.news, Traders doxx 13 year old who rugged a pump.fun token: https://crypto.news/crypto-traders-doxx-13-year-old-boy-who-rugged-a-pump-fun-token/
* Blockhead, pump.fun suspends livestreams indefinitely: https://www.blockhead.co/2024/11/26/pump-fun-suspends-livestreams-indefinitely-amid-escalating-content-concerns/
* Decrypt, pump.fun bans UK users after regulator warning: https://decrypt.co/295355/solana-pump-fun-bans-uk-users-regulator
* Fortune, Fartcoin hits 1 billion dollar market cap: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/12/19/fartcoin-1-billion-market-cap-memecoin-market-explodes/
* The Block, pump.fun sets single day revenue record of 15.38 million dollars: https://www.theblock.co/post/337065/pump-fun-set-single-day-revenue-record-raking-in-15-5-million-in-fees-following-anniversary
* DL News, How scandals and lawsuits shaped memecoins in 2025: https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/how-scandals-and-lawsuits-shaped-memecoins-in-2025/
* The Block, pump.fun X account hacked to promote fraudulent tokens: https://www.theblock.co/post/343515/pump-funs-x-account-hacked-to-promote-fraudulent-tokens
* The Block, pump.fun and founder Alon banned on X: https://www.theblock.co/post/358461/pump-fun-and-founder-alons-accounts-banned-on-x
* Unchained, pump.fun becomes third largest ICO, raises 600 million dollars in 12 minutes: https://unchainedcrypto.com/pump-fun-becomes-third-largest-ico-raises-600m-in-12-minutes/
* Decrypt, New fee model hands out 2 million dollars to creators in first 24 hours: https://decrypt.co/337872/pump-funs-new-fee-model-hands-out-2m-to-creators-in-first-24-hours
* Decrypt, pump.fun streamers leak Drake and Future songs: https://decrypt.co/339446/pump-fun-streamers-leaking-drake-future-songs
* Cryptopolitan, pump.fun launches Mayhem Mode: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/pump-fun-launches-mayhem-mode-letting-ai-agents-loose-in-the-trenches/
* CoinDesk, Most Influential 2025, pump.fun: https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-news/2025/12/10/most-influential-pump-fun
* SolanaFloor, pump.fun first platform on Solana to surpass 1 billion dollars in revenue: https://solanafloor.com/news/pump-fun-becomes-first-platform-on-solana-to-surpass-1-billion-in-revenue
* Bitcoin.com News, pump.fun burns 370 million dollars of PUMP: https://news.bitcoin.com/pump-fun-burns-370-million-pump-tokens-revenue-buyback/

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