Pump.fun suffers steep crash after explosive launch
PUMP, the native token of Solana (SOL)-based meme coin launchpad Pump.fun, has suffered a sharp reversal following its high-profile debut. At press time, PUMP was trading at $0.00570, down 15% over the past 24 hours, making it the largest loser among the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. The token initially surged to a peak of $0.00968 but has since dropped 41%. PUMP one-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap Launched on July 12 through a public token sale, the PUMP ICO raised $500 million in just 12 minutes, selling 150 billion tokens at $0.004 each. While a broader market pullback, driven by Bitcoin (BTC) losing the $120,000 support level, has added to the sell-off, several PUMP-specific factors have accelerated the decline. For instance, on-chain data reveals that roughly 340 wallets controlled more than 60% of the presale allocation. Many of these wallets began selling their tokens as they unlocked on July 14, increasing selling pressur...