Pump.fun Revamps Creator Fees to Address ‘Dangerous’ Low-Risk Activities – Discover the New Model

Pump.fun has announced significant changes to its creator fee system, indicating a new approach to how the Solana-based memecoin launchpad operates.

Key Takeaways

Pump.fun has revamped its creator fee model to increase transparency and address low-risk incentives.
The new fee-sharing tool allows creators to distribute fees across up to 10 wallets.
Recently, the platform achieved $6.6 billion in weekly trading volume, demonstrating record activity.
Despite a high volume of tokens created, graduation rates remain low, with less than 1% of tokens succeeding.
The native token, PUMP, has seen a recent increase in value, trading at around $0.0024.

Pump.fun Revamps Creator Fees

This update is aimed at reducing what the team calls "dangerous" incentives that have promoted low-risk coin creation over high-risk trading. According to Pump.fun, this imbalance was becoming detrimental to the platform's functionality.

New Fee-Sharing Tools for Token Creators

In an announcement on X, Pump.fun stated that creator fees "needed a change" and introduced a new fee-sharing model that enables creators to distribute fees across up to 10 different wallets.

Now, creators and CTO admins can easily assign percentages through the Pump.fun app or web interface following a launch.

The platform's objective is to enhance trust and transparency, as many teams had difficulty sharing fees properly and often relied on informal agreements.

Co-founder Alon provided insight into this change, referencing the rollout of Dynamic Fees V1 earlier in 2025.

This system, part of an update called Project Ascend, linked creator fees to market capitalization.

Smaller tokens could earn higher fees, capping at 0.95% per trade for market caps between approximately 420 SOL and 1,470 SOL, with fees tapering off to as low as 0.05% as projects approached $20 million valuations.

Notably, protocol and liquidity provider fees have remained unchanged.

This model quickly increased the platform's activity, with Pump.fun experiencing more than double bonding curve volumes, partly due to a trend of streaming-led launches that attracted new crypto users.

However, Alon indicated that these incentives did not effectively influence the behavior of most memecoin deployers.

Instead, creator fees ended up rewarding the act of coin creation itself, which is seen as low risk, detrimental to trading — which, while risky, drives liquidity and volume.

The team emphasized that traders are critical to the platform’s health, and misaligned incentives could undermine the market.

The newly introduced fee-sharing tools aim to fix another drawback of the previous system.

Pump.fun found that creator fees lacked practical utility, even though they had the potential to be useful.

Projects often aimed to send fees to individuals integral to a token's narrative or multiple contributors, but the previous process was cumbersome and sometimes required community interventions or off-platform trust.

With the new model, fee claims are now synchronized across different recipients, and any unclaimed fees will stay permanently available for their designated wallets.

Moreover, Alon mentioned that future changes are on the horizon and reaffirmed that no one from the Pump.fun or Terminal team will accept creator fees.

Record Activity Despite Challenges: Pump.fun's Weekly Volume

These changes come as Pump.fun continues to experience exceptional activity.

This week alone, the platform achieved a staggering $6.6 billion in trading volume, marking its highest weekly total ever.

Creator earnings remain solid, with data from Adamtec revealing that over $1.1 million in fees were claimed in the past 24 hours, contributing to nearly $7.9 million claimed within the last week.

Pump.fun Weekly Volume

However, metrics surrounding token creation and graduation indicate that activity is focusing on a limited number of successful tokens.

In the last day, over 27,000 tokens were launched, yet fewer than 200 graduated, resulting in daily graduation rates keeping below 1%.

Token Graduation Rates

Pump.fun's native token, PUMP, has also gained short-term traction.

Currently trading at approximately $0.0024, PUMP is up around 10% over the last 24 hours, with daily trading volume approaching $175 million. Despite this uptrend, PUMP remains more than 70% down from its all-time high.

Pump Token Performance

Since August 2025, the protocol has utilized roughly 1.36 million SOL (approximately $236 million) for buybacks, absorbing nearly 18% of the circulating supply.