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About pump.fun
pump.fun is a Solana memecoin launchpad and trading app run by Baton Corp. Coins start on a bonding curve and move to its PumpSwap exchange when they graduate. Its own app and website charge a 0.45% Platform Fee per trade (0.40% with a referral code) since 17 October 2026, on top of the 1.25% bonding-curve fee.
pump.fun app to add Elysium trading from November 9. pump.fun said on 28 October 2026 that trading on Elysium, a Layer 2 network built by Kinetiq on top of Hyperliquid's HyperEVM, starts in the pump.fun app on 9 November 2026, the date set for Elysium's mainnet. pump.fun has not published fees, supported assets or which countries can use it.
- Nov 4, 2026 pump.fun app to add Elysium trading from November 9pump.fun said on 28 October 2026 that trading on Elysium, a Layer 2 network built by Kinetiq on top of Hyperliquid's HyperEVM, starts in the pump.fun app on 9 November 2026, the date set for Elysium's mainnet.
- Nov 4, 2026 pump.fun app adds Avalanche token tradingpump.fun said on 4 November 2026 that new and existing Avalanche tokens can now be traded in its app, with no manual bridging.
- Nov 4, 2026 pump.fun's Terminal adds Lobbies for group tradingTerminal, the trading terminal pump.fun bought as Padre in 2025, announced a group feature called Lobbies on 4 November 2026.
- Nov 1, 2026 pump.fun ends 4x referral boost; referrers now get 37.5%pump.fun ended its limited-time 4x referral boost on 1 November 2026, two weeks after it began on 16 October.
- Nov 1, 2026 pump.fun fees hit a record $175.0M in October 2026pump.fun's products took a record $175.0 million in fees in October 2026, according to DefiLlama, up from $157.7 million in September and $66.2 million in June.
- Oct 28, 2026 pump.fun halves its perps builder fee cap to 0.05%pump.fun cut the builder fee it adds to perps orders from up to 0.10% to up to 0.05% of each order's notional value, according to its Fees page as archived on 19 and 31 October 2026.
- Oct 17, 2026 pump.fun adds a 0.45% Platform Fee to app and web tradesFrom 17 October 2026, every trade placed through the pump.fun web app or mobile app carries a Platform Fee of 0.45%, or 0.40% from a wallet that has applied a referral code.
- Oct 17, 2026 pump.fun Terms: fee rises no longer need 14 days' noticepump.fun's Terms of Use dated 17 October 2026 drop the 14 days' advance notice they used to require before a fee increase: fee changes now take effect when the Fees page is updated.
- Oct 16, 2026 pump.fun app adds Hyperliquid perps, closed to US, Ontariopump.fun added leveraged perpetual futures to its app around 16 October 2026, routing orders to Hyperliquid, and announced them officially on 28 October with more than 300 Hyperliquid markets across crypto, stocks and commodities.
- Oct 15, 2026 pump.fun RICO suit: answer filed after court narrows caseAn answer to the amended complaint was filed on 15 October 2026 in Aguilar v. Baton Corp. (S.D.N.Y. 1:25-cv-00880), the deadline the court set for pump.fun's operator Baton Corp. and founders Alon Cohen, Dylan Kerler and Noah Tweedale.